Turks with low IQs and poor child-rearing practices are "conquering Germany" by breeding two or three times as fast, Dr Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the executive board and head of the bank's risk control operations, told Europe's culture magazine 'Lettre International', the Telegraph reported on Monday.
"A large number of Arabs and Turks in this city, whose number has grown through bad policies, have no productive function other than as fruit and vegetable vendors," he said. "Forty percent of all births occur in the lower classes. Our educated population is becoming stupider from generation to generation. What's more, they cultivate an aggressive and atavistic mentality. It's a scandal that Turkish boys won't listen to female teachers because that is what their culture tells them", he said. "I'd rather have East European Jews with an IQ that is 15 percent higher than the German population," he added. Sarrazin has since apologised but his comments may have breached Germany's anti-racism laws. The Bundesbank's staff union said over the weekend that his position had become "untenable". |