Germany needs to ban alcohol if it wants to prevent further sexual violence and to help North African migrants integrate into society, a Muslim pressure group has claimed.
Commenting
on the Cologne sex-attack controversy, MuslimStern, which has 20,000
followers on Facebook, said its mission was to 'highlight the way the
media was using the incidents to promote racism against minorities'.
The
group complained that the female victims had brought the unwanted
attention to themselves by dressing in a manner that North African men
were not accustomed to.
Large groups of Muslim men who
congregated around the cathedral in Cologne on New Year's Eve are
believed to be responsible for more than 520 sexual assaults and at
least three rapes on women in the city
The MuslimStern Facebook page has
called on German authorities to ban alcohol claiming that Cologne women
were responsible for their own attacks by comparing them to a naked
antelope thrown in front of a lion
The group claimed: 'The government
should ban the consumption of alcohol because it leads to traffic
accidents, violence and rapes, and is extremely damaging to health. But
for capitalist societies, this is too much to expect. So long as alcohol
is not prohibited there will be no discernible decline in these cases'
The
group claimed: 'You cannot expect to chuck a naked antelope in front of
a lion and not expect it to react. It is mind boggling that with so
much time spent teaching children about sex at school, they completely
forget to pass on this basic biological fact.'
As
a consequence of the attacks, they urged the German government to
introduce a ban across the country on the consumption of alcohol.
The group also blamed women for getting attacked by inciting the young men.
In one
section of the Facebook post, which has since been deleted, the group
claims: 'Some women should think about whether it is wise to lightly
dressed and drunk, to go between hordes of drunken men.
'In general, the woman wearing due to their nature have a responsibility when it goes out of the house.
'You can not throw a naked antelope from a lion and expect that at the lion stirs nothing.
'It
is amazing that is taught in biology class so much about the mating and
sexual behavior of living things, but these rules are completely
ignored in everyday life.
'And
because many non-Muslims constantly emphasise that we live in a
Christian country, we call on you, in this country that women should
dress Christian.
'Mary,
Mother of Jesus, lived out as a Christian woman has to dress. So it
would be highly recommended for some women to take Mary as a role model
and not Lady Gaga.'
Searching for a home: Refugees walk along a street as they cross the Slovenian-Austrian border today
More
than 520 women have reported assaults from New Year's Eve with at least
three rapes which have been blamed on Muslim migrants who congregated
around Cologne's cathedral during the night.
Cologne's
Muslim preacher Imam Sami Abu-Yusuf, who blamed women wearing perfume
for the fact they were assaulted over the New Year, went on to justify
it by saying that alcohol had taken away the restrictions of 'men from
North Africa'.
He
also added that the sex attackers were 'from North Africa', unlike
Salafists like himself who are mostly from India and the Middle East.
Mr
Yusuf had earlier told Russian TV women only had themselves to blame
for being assaulted because of the way they dressed. When asked why the
attacks had happened he told REN TV: 'One of the reasons is the way the
women were dressed. If they just wear light clothing and put on perfume,
then things like this will happen.'
After
the comments local Green MP Volker Beck complained to police about the
comments saying it was incitement to carry out crime.
As
the controversy raged over the remarks, a reporter from the Cologne
Express asked him to qualify his statements, and reported that he
laughed when asked if he really believed that women were responsible for
the attacks they suffered.
He told the Express:
'My reply was taken out of context. What I said was that we have a real
problem with men from North Africa living in Cologne. These young men
take tablets and drugs, and over New Year they took alcohol which took
away all the barriers.'
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