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by Soeren Kern
• February 13, 2017 at 5:00 am
- "Whoever
behaves in his host country as the reports suggest has not only lost
any claim to our hospitality but also their right to asylum!" —
Mayoral candidate Volker Stein, Frankfurt.
- The actual
number of migrant-related sex crimes in Germany is at least two or
three times higher than the official number. Only 10% of the sex
crimes committed in Germany appear in the official statistics. —
André Schulz, head of the Criminal Police Association.
- An even more
toxic practice is for police deliberately to omit any references to
migrants in crime reports. This lapse makes it impossible for German
citizens to understand the true scale of the migrant crime problem.
- City police
asked German media to delete any images of the suspect. A note for
editors stated: "The legal basis for publishing the surveillance
photos has been dispensed with. We strongly urge you to take this
into account in future reporting and to remove and/or make changes
to existing publications."
- "As a
refugee, it is difficult to find a girlfriend." — Asif M., a
26-year-old asylum seeker from Pakistan, in court on charges he
raped one woman and attempted to rape five others.
Germans protesting the New Year's Eve 2015 mass sexual
assaults wave flags, alongside a banner saying "Rapefugees Not
Welcome," on January 9, 2016 in Cologne. (Image source: Getty
Images)
German authorities are investigating reports that dozens of Arab men
sexually assaulted female patrons at bars and restaurants in downtown
Frankfurt on New Year's Eve 2016.
The attacks, in which mobs of migrants harassed women in a
"rape game" known as "taharrush gamea" (Arabic for
"collective sexual harassment"), are said to have mirrored the
mass sexual assaults of women in Cologne and other German cities on New
Year's Eve 2015.
A report published by Bild on February 5 alleged that some
900 migrants, many of whom were intoxicated, gathered at the central
train station in Frankfurt on December 31, 2016. Police blocked their
access to the Mainufer, a downtown pedestrian area along the Main River
and the site of a large New Year's celebration, so the migrants walked to
the Fressgasse, another downtown pedestrian zone known for its
restaurants and bars.
by Uzay Bulut
• February 13, 2017 at 4:30 am
- It is
short-sighted and reckless to blame President Trump for trying to
protect his country and keep his country safe -- as any good leader
is supposed to do. It would be much wiser to direct our anger where
it belongs -- at Muslim extremists and Muslim terrorists.
- To many people,
it must be easier to go after the U.S. president than after ISIS
terrorists. That way, critics of the president can also pose as
"heroes" while ignoring the real threats to all of
humanity.
- Critics of
Muslim extremists get numerous death threats from some people in the
West because they courageously oppose the grave human rights
violations -- forced marriages, honor killings, child rape,
murdering homosexuals and female genital mutilation (FGM), among
others.
- Why do we even
call criticism of such horrific practices "courageous"? It
should have been the most normal and ordinary act to criticize
beheadings, mutilations and other crimes committed by radical
Muslims. But it is not.
- On the
contrary, the temporary ban aims to protect genuine refugees
such as Bennetta Bet-Badal, who was murdered in San Bernardino. It
would be much wiser to direct our anger where it belongs -- at
Muslim extremists and Muslim terrorists.
In 2004, Moroccan-Dutch terrorist Mohammed Bouyeri
(left), shot the filmmaker Theo van Gogh (right) to death, then stabbed
him and slit his throat.
In San Bernardino on December 2, 2015, 14 people were murdered and
22 others seriously wounded in a terrorist attack. The perpetrators were
Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple. Farook was an
American-born U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, who worked as a health
department employee. Malik was a Pakistani-born lawful permanent resident
of the United States.
Among the victims of the terror attack was Bennetta Bet-Badal, an
Assyrian Christian woman born in Iran in 1969. She fled to the U.S. at
age 18 to escape Islamic extremism and the persecution of Christians that
followed the Iranian revolution.
"This attack," stated the Near East Center for Strategic
Engagement (NEC-SE), "showcases how Assyrians fled tyranny, oppression,
and persecution for freedom and liberty, only to live in a country that
is also beginning to be subject to an ever-increasing threat by
the same forms of oppressors."
by Philip Carl Salzman
• February 13, 2017 at 4:00 am
- With the
broadening of globalization, and the ever-larger flows of population
to distant lands, diversity became not only more prevalent, but a
quality to be desired, an inclusion of all varieties of humanity, an
ethic.
- The means of
attaining this diversity is cultural relativism. Its thesis is that
all ways of life are equally valid, and that judgement must be
suspended absolutely and permanently. In acknowledging differences,
we would potentially be opening discussion to insidious comparisons
with claims that one culture might be preferable or others. Such
evaluations would violate the cultural relativist principle that all
cultures are equally valid and good.
- If some people
attack others in the name of Islam or jihad, we hear it as if they
must be lacking the things that we would miss: steady jobs, nice
houses, good cars. If some people who have immigrated to our home
country murder our citizens, they must have suffered a lack of
opportunity due to racism or "Islamophobia." According to
the humanistic delusion, violent people are despondent and desperate
from not having the things that we have. And there is also a
clear answer to stopping the attacks: give those folks the nice
things that we like, so they will be content, be nice, and not try
to take us over or blow us up.
- We like to
think that all people should be treated as equals, and regard
religious prejudice as racism and discrimination on the basis of
sexual preference with disdain. But in South Asia, the hierarchical
caste system ranks people according to purity vs. pollution.
Pakistan means "Land of the Pure".
- Finally, as
members of the UN, we believe that countries should respect one
another, and not interfere with one another; particularly, we think
that warfare should be avoided. But does everyone think that?
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and EU foreign
policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels, March 16, 2015. (Image
source: European Union)
Most people in North America and Western Europe cling to a very
dangerous belief: that people are really all the same, that people
everywhere want the same things, that people everywhere have the same
values. And the things others want and value are the same things that we
want and value. This is the great Western humanistic delusion: that
everyone is the same, and everyone is like me.
Historically, people saw their encounters through a loyalty and
pride in his or her family, clan, tribe, caste, class, nation, religion,
and race, and to have suspicion and disdain for those of other families,
clans, tribes, castes, classes, nations, religions, and races. Uniquely,
in the West, after the Enlightenment, the idea of the "in"
group broadened and broadened over time, so that by the second half of
the 20th century, identity was increasingly with all of
humanity. Anthropologists rejected race as a legitimate scientific
category.
by Thierry Baudet
• February 12, 2017
Thierry Baudet, leader of the new Dutch political
party Forum for Democracy.
In his dystopian classic, The Managerial Revolution (1941),
the American political scientist James Burnham coined the concept of
"controlled democracy". According to Burnham, the civil
democracies of the second half of the 20th century would -- more or less
gradually -- be overgrown with backroom bureaucratic networks that make
the actual decisions, all far away from the electorate and public debate.
Elections would remain in place; they will provide managers valuable
insights into the preferences of the consumer-citizen, while at the same
time functioning as an exhaust valve to possible opposition forces.
Burnham predicted a form of political theatre in the guise of sham
elections between candidates who happen to be like-minded on every
fundamental subject, who are paid to debate in front of clueless
spectators in mock parliaments, while the results were known in advance
-- after all, the actual decisions have already been made.
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