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Politically Incorrect (commonly abbreviatedPI) is a mainly German-languagecounter-jihad[2]political blog which focuses on topics related toimmigration,multiculturalism, andIslam in Germany and Western societies. A condensed version of the weblog is available in English.[3] The blog is one of Germany's oldest far-right sites.[4] Much of its content isIslamophobic.[5][6]
PI's self-declared goal is to bring news to a wider public attention which it perceives to be ignored or suppressed in what PI declared as "the mainstream media" due to a pervading "leftistpolitical correctness".[7] The site has no imprint or legal details; the editors and authors are disguised.
Politically Incorrect was founded in 2004, soon after the re-election ofGeorge W. Bush, by a German teacher named Stefan Herre "to do something againstAnti-Americanism"; its popularity surged in the wake of theMuhammad cartoons controversy the following year.[5] Herre participated in a 2007 international counter-jihad conference in Brussels,[9] and has been on the board of advisors ofStop Islamization of Nations (SION).[10] It is one of the most successful German blogs,[5][6] receiving several tens of thousand visitors each day and ranking among the thousand biggest German websites in terms of traffic.[11] The site ranked ninth in March 2013 among German blogs in terms of public resonance invirtual social networks.[12] The blog is interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments within a certain time limit.
The blog has been widely criticized by German media for incitingIslamophobia and equating Islam as a whole withIslamic extremism.[5][6] The blog's internet shop sells items with the slogan "Islamophobic and proud of it".[5] Herre says his Islamophobia is without shame: "Phobia is fear, and I'm afraid of Islam."[5]
TheSPD politicianSebastian Edathy, a spokesman for the party on interior affairs, viewsPolitically Incorrect as a vehicle ofright-wing populist agitation.[13] It is not observed, however, by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution which sees it as differing from right-wing extremism in its support of a democratic order and basic rights, as well as its pro-Israel stance.[5][14] Even so, theMunich local group which cooperates with theGerman Freedom Party is monitored by theBavarian branch of the office since April 2013.[8]
^Edathy, Sebastian; Sommer, Bernd (2009): "Die zwei Gesichter des Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland. Themen, Machtpotentiale und Mobilisierungsressourcen der extremen Rechten", in: Braun, Stephan; Geisler, Alexander; Gerster, Martin (eds.):Strategien der extremen Rechten. Hintergründe, Analysen, Antworten, VS Verlag,ISBN3-531-15911-9, pp. 53–54
