And some of the discussions in Germany I've seen in regards to treatment of Muslims are similar to how other European countries conduct their discourses on Muslims. See also what Günter Wallraff tried to do.
I'm not saying Germany is as incompetent as e.g. France, Netherlands, or Denmark, but there is a problem that Continental Europe is having when it comes to talking about race, I would argue.
Sweden knows what's up, though.
Wallraff is a piece of steaming dogshit, every sane person would tell you that.
He loves himself and the praise from idiots, who're believing that his "research" actually proves anything.
And you know what ?
Not too long ago when my gf and I where heading to the university and we could use the ICE train, because the regular one was late, he was sitting there with his book up front so everybody would notice him.
That asshole got alot of right criticism for his actions on several of his actions.
The difference is, there is a faction that's always louder.
In that case it's the Bild crowd, in the USA it would be the Fox crowd and so on, they're always louder than serious newspapers/stations.
For me personally, I avoid the term race alltogether.
First of all, it's incorrect within the biological terms of taxonomy and also within the anthropology it's a term not up to date anymore.
And I get your criticsm about the treatment of Muslims in Germany, which I can also agree to.
Here is a posting about that topic I made a while ago, allthough it's more focused on immigration, it also includes some points that fit well into our discussion :
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=127301201&postcount=172
These days the discussions are quite good, but it's not something that changes overnight.
The problem is, it took way too long until we actually had the discussions and I won't argue that there were some laughable arguments within the discussions.
There are proper discussions now and alot of people know how to articulate themselves and how to handle it and others.
As I said though, it's something that needs more time until real change will occur.
Obviously we will never have a perfect situation in any country or anywhere on the world, but it takes alot more time to change something to the positive, as it takes build up a worse status quo.