There is an on-going brouhaha occurring in Europe over the New Year rapes and sexual molestation in Cologne and (if the reports are accurate) other German and European cities as well. At last count, 561 complaints of sexual assault have been made to German police, which relate to the New Year incidents.
The first response of the authorities was to ignore the lawlessness, then downplay it. There were various alternatives put forward: it was a series of attacks by organised crime; it was general hooliganism, not related in any particular way to recent German migrants; it was normal New Year festivities that got out of hand due to alcohol--etc. But as time has passed, the obvious became irrefutable. It was a co-ordinated, organised assault upon women by (young) Islamic men. The perpetrators appear to have been a mixture of recent arrivals together with those who have been in Germany for some years.
The left wing amongst the Chattering Classes have been striving might and main to deflect the criticism away from migrants, on the one hand, and Islam, on the other. James Delingpole provides a summary of the "excuses" being offered to justify the actions or deflect blame.
For the first week after New Year, liberal progressive types responded to the orgy of rape and sexual molestation by Muslim immigrants in Cologne (and other European cities) by pretending it never happened. Now that the overwhelming weight of evidence has shown it definitely did happen, the bleeding hearts have been forced to change their tune. Here are the best excuses so far.We would make some general comments. The first is that we must face this essential truth: Islam is a "root and branch" culture. It is all encompassing. The notion that Islam is skin deep amongst its advocates and its beliefs are easily shed is condescending nonsense, to say the least. Islam needs to be taken seriously, on its own terms, and with due respect. Its power and hold over adherents is not to be taken lightly.
1. It was a false flag operation designed to discredit innocent lovely immigrants
This theory was advanced on Twitter by Forbes contributor Frances Coppola (no relation: she’s an economist not a member of the movie dynasty). Her tweets are protected and it’s possible she has since withdrawn it. Too late:
— WTFMag (@thewtfmagazine) January 7, 20162. You can’t talk about these things because it encourages the ‘Far Right’
LBC radio presenter Iain Dale was outraged. Properly outraged. More outraged than listeners had heard him be in some time. So outraged that LBC publicity felt compelled to release video footage of him getting worked up and almost stamping his little fists on the studio console as he gave both barrels to his guest interviewee Katie Hopkins. Was it the molestation of dozens of helpless young women by gangs of up to 1000 men that had stoked Iain’s ire? Was it the vicious and unapologetic misogyny so rampant among Muslims? Was it the extraordinary ingratitude of these men who’d been offered a refuge from war and persecution only to spit in the face of their hosts?
Nah. Dale was far, far, far more upset about Katie’s allegedly inflammatory language – and the signals it might send out to the Far Right. Well done Iain! Virtue duly signalled.
3. Rape is only a ‘thing’ when white people do it
As ever Laurie Penny leads the pack here:
So bored of racists who only pretend to care about women's rights when they see an opportunity to bash Muslims.
German feminists seem to agree with her. They remind me of the story told by a German friend whose aristocratic and very left-leaning aunt simply couldn’t wait for the moment in 1945 when her family estates would be overrun by advancing Soviet troops: to be gang-raped by good Communists would not be an ordeal but a pleasure.
4. Ooh look some cute kids! And they’re Syrian refugees!!!
Syrian immigrant children: aren’t they just adorable, those japesome little tykes? See how they throw snowballs at Serbian policemen in this actually dull-as-ditchwater footage that we have captioned “Syrian refugee children defeat a Serbian police officer in adorable snowball fight” in the rather desperate hope it might go viral. Doesn’t it make you feel SO much better about whatever it was – probably nothing – that happened in that place in Germany whose name eludes us?
5. Nothing to do with Islam. It’s because all men are rapists, obviously
Dunno about you, fellow male readers, but my idea of a perfect New Year is to gather in a city centre with 999 or so of my bestest mates and see how many women we can grab, fondle and, ideally, sexually assault or rape. I make no apology for this. It is what we men do. All of us, pretty much all of the time because it is in our male nature. With our XY chromosomes that is what we are programmed to do: rape, rape, rape, all day and all night. We can’t stop ourselves.
And that’s why – argues a young chap called Edward Siddons in the Independent newspaper – we men are in no position to condemn the behaviour of immigrants of North African or Middle Eastern origin.
In focusing on difference, in this case, racial or ethnic difference, we miss vital similarity. There is a common thread throughout these assaults and the vast majority of violence against women throughout the world. The perpetrators are men.So true, Edward. We are all guilty! Nothing to do with Islam whatsoever.
Most Western people assume that once the poor migrants make their way to the West, they will readily shed their Islamic beliefs and accept Western secular liberalism with relish, because Western liberalism is superior and enlightened. Therefore assimilation is going to be a relatively easy matter. A little bit of time will be all that it takes.
Such cultural smugness and superiority is egocentric at best, inane ignorance at worst. Yet, we doubt not that such sentiments are widely held amongst the chattering classes and European elites.
We suggest that if Western elites do not remove their glasses of smug self-satisfaction and vaunting self-righteousness they will eventually learn the hard way. And the highway of their education will be paved by rapes, assaults, criminal violence, riots, disruption, and riots.
Secondly, the biggest enemy faced by the secular West is its own carefully crafted propaganda. It is now starting to be publicly acknowledged that authorities have been covering up Islamic migrant violence and crime for years for the sake of political correctness. It has been a case of "one must see no evil, hear no evil". The Rotherham Syndrome, where authorities deliberately cover up and ignore criminal acts by Islamic migrants, to protect the prevailing politically correct narratives, appears to be routine in other European countries as well.
Following the revelation that German police suppressed the news of migrant sex assaults on New Year’s Eve for up to a week, it has now been revealed that Swedish police suppressed similar news for several years. Events like those seen on the streets of Cologne, Hamburg, Helsinki, Paris, Salzburg, Zurich, and more were played out at Stockholm’s free youth music festival ‘We are Sthlm’ in recent years.We suggest that the self-righteousness and arrogance of the West, in general, and its political establishments, in particular, will prove too entrenched. The more Christian countries to the east of the European Community are likely to deal with the issues far more energetically, and with clearer heads. They are less likely to have bought into the libertinism and "evangelical" commitment to fundamentalist Western secularism and humanitarianism.
Police initially reported that the festival attended by 850,000 12 to 17-year-olds in August 2015 passed with “relatively few crimes”. In reality, reports Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, problems arose as soon as the first day’s concerts began with gangs molesting girls in the audience. A memo sent to police chiefs and the Stockholm police media centre at the festival suggested the migrant sex crime problem was, in fact, a recurring one from previous years. Police now admit they should have shared this information.
We have thought for a long time that Western secularism is a paper tiger. Given enough Islamic migrants it will not be able to withstand aggressive Islam. It will turn dhimmi and make every accommodation possible to accede to Islamist demands. It will be justified by appeals to human rights, equality, non-discrimination, social respect, tolerance, and accommodation.
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