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.
