Very good quality indeed. But are the major East-German towns muslim-free?
I am a country person, and I haven't really been to the big cities in all those months I am living here. To Chemnitz only twice for a business meeting and to Leipzig only to pick up resp.to take somebody to the railway station and never to Dresden. The next biggest city I know is
Zwickau with a population of roughly 100,000. But no, I have never seen anywhere any discernable Muslims and certainly not in the suffocating numbers one sees them in certain West German cities.
Edited to add:Light dawns: In West Germany, railway stations are one of their favourite gathering places, the bigger the worse. (Should you ever visit Munich, beware!) The relevance of the fact that there weren't any at Leipzig railway station is only just occurring to me.
I was born in the Fifties and brought up by Socialist (more of the ethical than the Marxist variety) parents, who were politically correct in the current sense before anybody else was. No racism, everybody is born equal, who are we to judge others, never stereotype, never disrespect anybody, never judge somebody by their looks, always be on the side of the weak, we can't tell whether there is a God, the lot. My father was a leading member (on a regional basis) of the Socialdemocratic Party. I was so fed up with politics, that I plainly refused to have any part in it. I can't tell anymore how exactly I became politicised. The advent of the Internet and the fact that I couldn't afford horses anymore may have had something to do with it, but whatever the reason was, it started 1998 or 1999. The "Second Intifadah" then made me a full-blown partisan for Israel and, if possible, 9/11 reinforced that. But the real awakening came with the two years I lived in the slums of a West German town in the
Ruhrgebiet, one of the regions with the biggest Muslim population and WAS it an eye-opener! Every politically correct bleeding-heart do-gooder ought to live there, even if only for a couple of months.
