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In Germany, he's being called the German Geert Wilders. He is Social Democratic Party (SPD) politician and bank director Thilo Sarrazin, and in a new book he argues that Muslim immigration is threatening German culture. Germany's response: uproar.
Thilo Sarrazin, member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, released his new book Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany Is Abolishing Itself) on Monday. In it, in addition to his anti-Islam message, he also put forward a controversial genetic theory.
Outside the hall where he appeared to talk about his book, hundreds of people gathered to demonstrate. Inside, it was crammed with journalists. Cups, plates and saucers crashed to the floor as photographers and cameramen clambered onto chairs and tables to get a good shot of him. Then Mr Sarrazin stood up to speak.