I read the report and, at first, it seemed plausible that it was a stunt; that, just as the lib-left tries to push everything 'not lib-left' into a far-right corner, somebody wanted to portray the migrant artist who designed Dresden's new refugee monument as a radical jihadist.
But then I visited the website which the report spoke of, with the maps drawn by the migrant artist, and discovered two things. First, the site actually belonged to the migrant artist who had designed the new refugee monument. Second, the migrant artist really did spend time drafting maps of Islamicized Europe, including 'the fight for Warsaw' and 'Arabic Sachsen'.
The artist is also active against Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against Europe's Islamicization) and designed "protest art" making fun of the Germans from Sachsen, the area in Germany where the artist lives. The "protest art" suggests that Germans from Sachsen would take a case of beer, garden gnomes and a sun umbrella if they had to take refuge in another country:
I understand that artists tend to be provocative, because they think being "edgy" is creative. But I wonder: does this man realize that a number of Germans in Sachsen are descendants of families from East Prussia and, thus, the progeny of those who migrated across modern-day Russia, Eastern Europe and onward, all the way to Germany, carrying nothing but basic possessions and braving the wintry elements to evade an army that was following them? Millions were raped, murdered or killed by that very army, even after reaching their destination. Still others froze to death. Nobody is making a monument to commemorate their peril. Instead, we commemorate people like this artist and others who are not content with taking the free money, transportation and instant accommodation they have received from the state. They want to agitate against their caretakers and, if the jihadists have their way, displace their hosts - by their own admission.
But then I visited the website which the report spoke of, with the maps drawn by the migrant artist, and discovered two things. First, the site actually belonged to the migrant artist who had designed the new refugee monument. Second, the migrant artist really did spend time drafting maps of Islamicized Europe, including 'the fight for Warsaw' and 'Arabic Sachsen'.
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| Map of Islamicized Europe on monument designer's website |
The artist is also active against Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against Europe's Islamicization) and designed "protest art" making fun of the Germans from Sachsen, the area in Germany where the artist lives. The "protest art" suggests that Germans from Sachsen would take a case of beer, garden gnomes and a sun umbrella if they had to take refuge in another country:
I understand that artists tend to be provocative, because they think being "edgy" is creative. But I wonder: does this man realize that a number of Germans in Sachsen are descendants of families from East Prussia and, thus, the progeny of those who migrated across modern-day Russia, Eastern Europe and onward, all the way to Germany, carrying nothing but basic possessions and braving the wintry elements to evade an army that was following them? Millions were raped, murdered or killed by that very army, even after reaching their destination. Still others froze to death. Nobody is making a monument to commemorate their peril. Instead, we commemorate people like this artist and others who are not content with taking the free money, transportation and instant accommodation they have received from the state. They want to agitate against their caretakers and, if the jihadists have their way, displace their hosts - by their own admission.
