Prone to cause a stir with his opinion - Thilo Sarrazin (photo:WikimediaCommons)

To speak or not to speak.

SPD (social democrat)-politician Thilo Sarrazin remains the sore spot for his political party as well as the executive board of the Bundesbank (German Federal Reserve Bank). For quite some time, Sarrazin's abrasive remarks about Muslims and integration have again and again infuriated immigrants and Germans alike..Now, the extremely outspoken politician and chairman of the German Federal bank has published his book Deutschland schafft sich ab (loosely translated: "How Germany abolishes itself") and once again: the debate about what may and may not be said out loud enters the stage. And while Sarrazin feels he is in the right and keeps pointing to his constitutional right of freedom of speech  , the SPD's executive committee and the executive board of the Bundesbank beg to differ. Sarrazin has now been summoned to a meeting in Frankfurt to discuss his future as chairperson of the bank. SPD-politicians are currently discussing Sarrazin's expulsion from the (left-of-centre) SPD.