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Tensions Rise in Germany Over Handling of Mass Sexual Assaults in Cologne
The Guardian reports:
A ferocious debate has erupted in Germany over the handling of mass sexual assaults and muggings carried out by groups of young males during New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne, amid accusations of a police and media cover-up over fears of whipping up anti-foreigner sentiment in the wake of the migrant crisis.
About 100 complaints have now been made to police, two-thirds of which are linked to sexual assault, including two rapes. According to police and witnesses, the perpetrators were of north African and Arab appearance, although neither the identity nor origin of any of them has so far been established.
If you're not already feeling queasy enough be sure to read the link "Asian sex-grooming gangs in the UK" in the article. Apparently you can find similar stories from all over the UK, these sexual crimes against underage girls perpetrated by muslims are sickeningly common.
Conspiracy of Silence - or Sensationalist Reporting?
There are a number of marginal news sites posting stories out of Europe these days, mostly from Germany, Sweden, as well as other claims made regarding Finland and the UK. The claims all center around a huge increase in rapes by immigrants, outright take over of public train stations, and mass groping of women passing through the stations.
According to these reports, the incidents started in midsummer and continue to this day, but the local news organizations have refused to publish reports of these incidents even after arrests have been made. Often police are accused of withholding the news of any complaints or arrests for months.
The clear implication, more often implied than stated is that the national leaders who went public in their pledges to accept refugees from the middle east war zones as well as northern Africa are leaning on main stream news outlets to suppress news reports of these rapes and sexual assaults. This suppression, if it exists, also appears to extend to the US press.
The assaults aren't limited to European women, but also include women in the immigrant shelters, some as young as 16. The immigrant shelters population in Munich is 80% male. But not all the alleged perpetrators are migrants from the recent wave of mass migrations over the summer and fall. Some are earlier immigrants from North Africa who don't necessarily live in the camps.
Finally some reports are leaking into the western press in the US, such as this brief report in the New York Times about events on New Years Eve. That same event was reported by a couple of the British tabloids.
Many reports are in German, Here and Here. (Google Translate does well with these pages). Others are in English such as this one and this one.
Are any Soylentils living in the EU near refugee centers seeing these problems? Is it being reported? Is it being repressed? Or is the whole thing a made up issue by biased articles in fringe news sites?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by M. Baranczak on Friday January 08 2016, @05:45PM
Well, here's one way to look at it.
The refugees are a problem for Europe, but they're a much bigger problem for ISIS (or whatever the fuck we're calling them this week). Their ambition is to build an actual, functioning country; it's really hard to do that when all the regular civilians have ran away, and all you have left is heavily armed young men. So they're staging operations in Europe designed to provoke hostility to Muslims (so far, it's working).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:04PM
This "z0mg ISIS wants you to hate muslims!" conspiracy theory is getting old. It's all staged! Just like the moon landing!!1
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday January 08 2016, @06:18PM
This "z0mg ISIS wants you to hate muslims!" conspiracy theory is getting old.
When one of the key architects of ISIS actually goes on record saying as much it tends to no longer be a conspiracy theory.
Al-Suri, Kepel said, had a vision: “a proliferation of blind attacks that will provoke lynchings of Muslims, attacks on mosques, harassment of women in veils, and create hotspots of war that will put fire and sword to Europe, seen as the soft underbelly of the West."
Hating Muslims plays right into the Islamic State’s hands [washingtonpost.com]
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Friday January 08 2016, @08:00PM
Maybe a few muslim nuts can get the whole country mad at all muslims then recruiting becomes easier. Or if a few muslim nuts blow something up then it is easier to get away with in a country where the natives all think the muslims look the same. Or if you need more of your nuts in a country get them in the stream of refugees going in.
There are many ways to get right through defenses and many ways to cripple a target from the inside. These tricks are not new and are not used by good people. So "provoking lynchings" and such is not surprising.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Friday January 08 2016, @09:11PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2016, @12:47AM
Uhhh, that doesn't make much sense. The Muslim population observes their very strict laws because - ENFORCERS! In most Muslim countries, there are morality police watching all the time. If/when the population escapes those sharia police, and they aren't being monitored all the time, they tend to act differently.
Yes, those intoxicated men are Muslim.
Google for stories about Saudi princes being investigated for drunkeness, sexual assault, and other immoral conduct.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @02:01AM
If it was for the purpose of jihad, then they probably would.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:29PM
This is all about softening up nations for subservience.
Zoom out for the bigger picture: I don't like Islam, but even before all this started, the wider agenda in Syria / Iraq was known - to reduce the population density there substantially and remove organized government there. This is intended to create the necesary vacuum to easily instate US/allies controlled regimes that can govern for their handlers/financiers without difficulty. The strategy is dual, with an aim to weaken and ultimately destroy European culture/civilization in order to make it easier to govern. That is, if Europeans lose their cultural identity and become a mish mash of races and disconnected cultures, they will be unable to act in unison and won't pose meaningful resistance and thereby be easier to govern for matters that aren't in their interest - such as changes that remove their sovereignty and freedom.
(Score: 1) by D2 on Saturday January 09 2016, @03:44AM
Is this your opinion? I need to know before I suggest your sizing up your tinfoil hat...
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday January 08 2016, @06:08PM
So they're staging operations in Europe designed to provoke hostility to Muslims (so far, it's working).
Exactly! Recall the fake Syrian passport found after the Paris shootings: Syrian Passport by Stadium Stolen or Fake, A.F.P. Reports [nytimes.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2016, @12:51AM
And, you seem to presume that the French police forged that passport?
I presume that the passport was forged in Syria, or Iraq, or maybe Turkey. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/how-easy-is-it-to-buy-fake-syrian-passport [theguardian.com] The demand for passports, fake or otherwise, exists in the mideast, not in France, or Belgium, or Germany, or wherever. People in the mideast want to get the hell out, no one wants to get in.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday January 08 2016, @06:41PM
Well, in the short term, it means they're seizing and selling the former possessions of the refugees, which helps them seem like a stable state, economically. Now, in 3 years when there are no doctors, engineers, lawyers, plumbers, builders, or farmers and they need that to retain a basic semblance of structure(this is presuming they're not wiped out entirely), it will be the most failed state you've ever seen with no value to anyone, and no money to support their "caliphate".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:47PM
Ready for invasion :)
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday January 08 2016, @10:50PM
While that is a consistent story, it would be better if there were some good evidence that it was true. It *MAY* be, but I know of know proof. It's also possible that this is considered acceptable behavoir where they came from, but I know of no proof. It's also possible that this is behavior evolved a result of travelling through lawless areas, but I know of no proof. And I could come up with other consistent stories, including that this is a fabricated story.
It is definitely true that many muslim countries give considerably fewer rights to women, and expect considerably more restricted behavior. It's also true that cultures where many men are denied access to women tend to evolve customs where those deny use violence to get access. So it's not unbelievable that this is an actual report of a series of actual events, and that the perpetrtors are accurately characterized.
I don't think it's reasonable to be certain given what is known, but this doesn't mean that it shouldn't be considered reasonably probable.
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