German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll
19/192, pp. 24300-24301.
Every
third day in Germany a woman is murdered and in fact for one, single reason:
Because she is a woman. Femicide is the name for this crime and Germany has
become one of the focal points of this purposeful killing of women. Now it
could naturally be wondered what are the reasons for this contempt of women.
Clearly it could concern, as the Linke continually and in the presented motion
assert, a hierarchical relationship of the sexes, a patriarchal dominance.
This leads to an oppression of women and not seldom to directly applied
violence and many times to death.
There
are societies in which women are respected. Germany was once such a society.
And there are societies in which women are treated like dirt, like disposable
slaves, like second class people, who in childhood can be compelled to marry,
who may be murdered for reasons of honor.
Steffi Lemke (Greens): You should read the criminal statistics before you speak here!
These are societies which can be come across in North Africa and in the Near and Middle East. Germany is well on the way to become such a society. You make Berlin into Baghdad.
Marianne Schieder (SPD): Let’s be aware it lasts only for a brief time!
Steffi Lemke (Greens): That is a pure agitation speech!
That is
straightaway the consequence of your policy of unchecked migration. You rightly
complain of patriarchal dominance, yet at the same time import masses of aggressive
machos, for the most part from patriarchal societies. How, please, does that
go together?
Many
migrants from these societies, who have been merkeled into Germany, do not at
all wish to integrate into our society, let alone in that case assimilate.
Why?
Because, due to your policy, they certainly do not have to. Because they, due
to our lack of identity,
Vice-president Hans-Peter Friedrich: Frau colleague, do you consent to an interim question?
– no – lack of self-esteem, and lack of
strength, do not respect us or see us as a model worthy of emulation. And so
these machos hold onto their imported picture of women and continue to treat
women as second class people, people who can be molested, beaten and murdered
at will.
Simply
look for once at the numbers. The number of victims of crimes of domestic
violence steadily increases since 2015. Over 140,000 people meanwhile are each
year victims of domestic violence, 80 percent of them women. What is striking:
With a foreign portion of 12 percent of the total population, 33 percent of the
perpetrators of domestic violence are migrants. And yet German citizens with a
migrant background are not even included in that.
The women's homes burst at the seams. Almost 70 percent of the residents of women's
homes besides have a migration background. Seven years ago, it was not even
half.
Who, for reasons of devout cultural sensibility, political correctness or plain ideological cowardice, ignores entire groups of perpetrators and shields their cultural and religious background, promotes a culture of violence against women.
Steffi Lemke (Greens): You promote racism! You promote pure racism!
So finally stop with your mendacious multicultural romance!
Certainly some on the left side of the house, who so readily designate themselves as women's rights advocates, pursue a policy which, millions of times, summons up archaic prejudices and the oppression of women in Germany. Yet there is no talk of that in the motion, not a word on multiculturalism, nil.
Ulle Schauws (Greens): Because every woman has a right to be protected from violence, regardless of origin!
Ja, ladies and gentlemen, you
close your eyes to that. You ultimately wish to be sufficiently
cultural-sensitive merely not to irritate. Yet who here does not name horse and
rider, he conducts at last a phantom debate, he does not seriously mean it, he
does really want to help women. It is the consequences of the drunken utopia of
your multicultural policy which for many women become a real nightmare.
Inquire
into the circumstances which lead to femicides. Yet do that, please, completely
and, before all, honestly. Who wishes to protect women must himself analyze,
free from ideology, the origins
of the increasing violence against women in Germany. Who does not want to see
evident connections makes himself an accessory, an accessory to the oppression
of women, an accessory to the battering of women, an accessory to the murder of
women, an accessory to femicide.
Steffi Lemke (Greens): Write that on the mirror!
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