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by Soeren Kern
• August 9, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Germany's
migrant rape crisis has now spread to cities and towns in all 16 of
Germany's federal states. Germany now finds itself in a vicious
circle: most of the perpetrators are never found, and the few who
are frequently receive lenient sentences. Only one in 10 rapes in
Germany is reported and just 8% of rape trials result in
convictions, according to Minister of Justice Heiko Maas.
- Up to 90% of
the sex crimes committed in Germany in 2014 do not appear in the
official statistics, according to André Schulz, the head of the
Association of Criminal Police.
- "There are
strict instructions from the top not to report offenses committed by
refugees. It is extraordinary that certain offenders are
deliberately NOT being reported about and the information is being
classified as confidential." -- High-ranking police official in
Frankfurt, quoted in Bild.
Sexual violence in Germany has reached epidemic
proportions since Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed into the country more
than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle
East. The government has been facing a rising voter backlash to the
open-door migration policy, including public protests (left). In some
areas, authorities have distributed cartoon guides, to
"educate" migrants that sexual assault is not acceptable
(right).
Sexual violence in Germany has reached epidemic proportions since
Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed into the country more than one million
mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Gatestone Institute first reported Germany's migrant rape crisis in
September 2015, when Merkel opened up the German border to tens of
thousands of migrants stranded in Hungary. A follow-up report was
published in March 2016, in the aftermath of mass attacks against German
women by mobs of migrants in Cologne, Hamburg and other German cities.
Germany's migrant rape crisis has now spread to cities and towns in
all 16 of Germany's federal states. Germany is effectively under siege;
public spaces are becoming increasingly perilous. Police have warned
about a potential breakdown of public order this summer, when young male
migrants are likely to see women lightly dressed.
by Louis René Beres
• August 9, 2016 at 4:00 am
- For today's
terrorist, whether in Paris, Orlando or Nice, the mass murder of
noncombatants is a typically satisfying expiation, a scapegoating
operation that brings to mind certain ritualistic processes of
bloodletting, religious sacrifice and an outlet for sadistic sexual
excitement. For the jihadist in particular, terror may find a ready
ideological shelter in Islam, but the expressed theology is likely
little more than a useful cover for acting on otherwise forbidden
wishes. The ready supply of adherents only indicates how widespread
these forbidden wishes are -- but have little to do with politics.
Our operational plans concerning jihadist terrorism
may need to be more consciously structured as much upon the cumulative
wisdom of Sigmund Freud (right), Erich Fromm and others as upon Sun-Tzu
(left) or Clausewitz.
"Man differs from the animal by the fact that he is a
killer; he is the only primate that kills and tortures members of his own
species without any reason... and who feels satisfaction in doing
so." — Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness.
Throughout the world, many people suffer from some form or other of
mental illness. Of these, a substantial number are also inclined to
various expressions of aggression. When conditions arise to dignify their
irrepressible violent urges under the purifying rubric of some
"higher cause" -- such as revolution, rebellion, or jihad --
some will gratefully seize upon those "exculpatory"
opportunities.
by Jagdish N. Singh
• August 9, 2016 at 3:00 am
- The terrorists
set fire to more than 10,000 houses and destroyed huge amounts of
private and public property in the state. This has left the
minorities in the Kashmir Valley with no choice but to flee their
homes. Today more than half a million of them are living in
miserable conditions in camps in different parts of the country.
- "Kashmiri
Pandits are on the verge of losing their... homeland in Kashmir...
the ethnic cleansing of Pandits from Kashmir...[led] to [the] forced
exile of the entire minority... when Islamic insurgents committed
mass massacres of Pandits in villages and hamlets throughout
Kashmir." — U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, 2004.
- "Whatever
is happening in Kashmir is Pakistan-sponsored. The name is
'Pakistan,' [Land of the Pure] but its acts are na-pak [not
pure]." — Rajnath Singh, India's Home Minister.
Rioters in Kashmir throw stones at Indian security
forces and wave the Pakistani flag, July 6, 2016. (Image source: Al
Jazeera video screenshot)
When Narendra Modi became India's prime minister two years ago, he
had a mandate from the citizens behind him and his party was in power. It
was assumed, therefore, that he would be able to adopt policies and
programs that would foster peace and development in the state of Jammu
and Kashmir, which has been troubled ever since it became part of India
in 1947. The scenario in the Kashmir Valley is, however, getting no
better.
In a recent discussion on the ongoing crisis in Kashmir, a prominent
member of the Indian Parliament said, "This government has miserably
failed to restore peace in the Valley. There is an environment of
insecurity and fear."
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