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German cabaret artist Hagen Rether talking about Islamophobia in German media & public discourse.

Aired on ARD television, December 29th, 2007.

Some explanations on the allusions made in the video:

• "a guest of friends" was the motto of the 2006 football world championship in Germany
• Henryk M. Broder is a German journalist who wrote a book on what he perceives to be the Islamisation of Europe called "Hooray, we're capitulating!"
• A "Hauptschule" is a secondary school which mostly students with bad grades in elementary school go to afterwards.
• Ralph Giordano is a Jewish Holocaust survivor and well-known writer who recently started to speak out (among other Islam-related topics) against the construction of a mosque in Cologne.
• (Wolfgang) Schäuble is the German minister of the interior
• "grabbing one's own nose" is a German proverb meaning that you have to deal with your own mistakes before you can criticise others