Random Anger

Some students at all Universities in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) now have to fill in a questionnaire asking for their relation to terrorism, Al-Qaida and fundamentalism. A decree forces Unis now to ask their ‘Muslim’ students to do that. Apart from the fact that only students with an islamic background are forced to do that (well they are not forced, this is a voluntary thing, but mandatory to get a stay permit), which makes the whole undertaking discriminatory to the core, does the Ministry of the Interior really think, they tick the YES-box behind the question: ‘Are you a member of terrorist organisation?’?
Just because the form says ‘answer truthfully!’? Are these people kidding? They threaten these people with severe consequences in case of dishonesty. Really? Think about the dilemma: If they say ‘yes’ they go to prison, if they say ‘no’ and police knows better, they go to prison. But if police knows better, why bother asking them in the first place? What a waste of paper!

This is the best example that red tape has won. What is the whole thing good for? I tell you: In 2001 a few of the 9/11-Pilots came from Germany, they have been students at German Unis. A lot of questions where asked afterwards about why we didn’t notice it before. Now, government can say: Oh we asked them but they lied! It’s not our fault. We tried to identify them, but surprisingly they didn’t cooperate.