Women protest their insane government in Cologne.
As I noted on Twitter yesterday, this was the biggest mass rape of German women since the Soviets invaded.
[Update Saturday afternoon]
This seems related somehow: Swedish women request segregated jacuzzis, due to being groped. It seems to be a recent problem, for some reason that just has me scratching my head.
[Sunday-morning update]
Another report of hundreds of “Arabic” men attacking women on New Years Eve.
Nope, nothing coordinated about this at all.
[Update Sunday afternoon]
Why we can’t remain silent about the Cologne assaults:
Street sexual violence is also—obviously—not exclusive to Arab and Muslim-majority countries. Indeed, among the worst offenders is Papua New Guinea, where two-thirds of women are subjected to some kind of physical or sexual violence, and rapists from “raskol” gangs are happy to pose for photos after their latest rape.
Having said that, what is infuriating and totally counterproductive is to deny that a specifically cultural problem around immigration patterns and European sexual norms has been steadily rising across the continent. To pretend this is not the case only further stigmatizes us brown Muslim men. That the problem requires attention is clear.
German police unions and women’s right groups have recently accused authorities of underplaying cases of rape at refugee shelters. “There is a lot of glossing over going on. But this doesn’t represent reality,” police union chief Rainer Wendt told Reuters. Henry Ove Berg, who was a police chief during Norway’s recent spike in rape cases, said, “people from some parts of the world have never seen a girl in a miniskirt, only in a burqa… when they get to Norway, something happens in their heads.” He added that “there was a link but not a very clear link” between the rape cases in Norway and immigrants. Hanne Kristin Rohde, former head of the violent crime section of the Oslo Police Department, was criticized in 2011 when she went public with data suggesting that immigrants committed a hugely disproportionate number of rapes. “This was a big problem… but it was difficult to talk about,” she remarked. There was “a clear statistical connection between sexual violence and male migrants.”
Any solution to this emerging issue must simultaneously seek to deny the far right the ammunition it desires while preserving Europe’s hard-earned progressive social values.
This is all controversial, but it must be said. Anecdotal attitudes point to the same conclusion. Abdu Osman Kelifa, an Eritrean asylum seeker to Norway, recently told The New York Times that in his home country, “if someone wants a lady, he can just take her and he will not be punished.” He confessed that it was still hard for him to accept that a woman could accuse her husband of rape.Between denying the problem and using it to fuel bigoted far-right rhetoric, an approach grounded in data and a level head is vital. Any solution to this emerging issue must simultaneously seek to deny the far right the ammunition it desires while preserving—not reneging on—Europe’s hard-earned progressive social values.
I hope it’s not too late.
[Update a few minutes later]
The tension between the forces of political correctness and the pent-up forces of repressed cultural traditions is now bursting like a spring wound up beyond containment. Things may start slowly at first but ramp up rapidly, mirroring Cornelius Ryan’s famous description of the Berlin Philharmonic’s last performance as the Red Army stood at the gates of Berlin.
…Seventy years later, the question facing people caught in the middle is where to run. There is nowhere obvious. In Europe, Ross Douthat argues, all exits are temporarily blocked. The left has destroyed the middle, leaving only a choice of extremes. “Just last week Merkel rejected a proposal to cap refugee admissions (which topped one million last year) at 200,000 in 2016.”
…Everywhere one looks the matches are being lit. The sudden outburst of resistance comes the end of what Jonah Goldberg called “a bad day” for the Narrative. A bad sequence of decades since 2001, more like it.
These will be the worst days for Europe in seventy years, I’m afraid. As he notes, the Constitution may save us, but it doesn’t help that the left has trampled all over it for a century, and continue to do so.
[Update a while later]
Sex crimes across Germany. The cover up unravels.
A government that refuses to protect its citizens from foreign invasion is wholly illegitimate and should rightfully be overthrown.
A government that actually aids and abets the foreign invasion? Those officials deserve to be dragged into the street and lynched.
Amen brother.
Rand, how log do posts need to be here?
But not the biggest mass rape of European females since then. That title would go to Rotherham.
Also, via Sarah: We won’t see a Slutwalk in Cologne anytime soon.
If you think comfortable western feminists who boldly march in America are going to risk their necks when the police don’t have their backs then I have bridges in Rotherham and Birmingham to sell you.
No, not Rotherham, horrible though that was.
Consider the Bosnian rape camps. If you google it, you see estimates from 20,000 to 50,000 rapes. Say, completely arbitrarily, that it was “only” a quarter of that, and the mass rapes elsewhere in Europe since WWII is still dwarfed.
If you google it,
How wonderful that one can do that, eh Bob? Do you think any segment of western civ would actively have encouraged the media or other authorities to cover that up? To actively encourage the activities involved to be lied about and withheld from the public? To punish anyone who wished to speak out about it? For the perpetrators to be repeatedly dismissed from the consequences of their actions?
I don’t know what you are talking about. The Bosnian war happened a quarter century ago involving millions of Europeans. Rand is blogging about something that happened nine days ago involving orders of magnitude fewer Europeans. But you can certainly easily look up information about either.
Why not just gracefully admit that you forgot about the atrocities committed in the Bosnian war? Here is an article, if you’d like to read more about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Bosnian_War
” Do you think any segment of western civ would actively have encouraged the media or other authorities to cover that up? ”
Yes, I do.
What, you think Serbs are not part of Western Civ? And do you think no one likes Serbs? (I have always liked the ones I have met!) And do you think that there were not plenty of other people who simply wished the Yugoslavian wars would go away, so that they didn’t have to confront or even intervene to stop a horror unfolding in Europe, in a place surrounded by NATO? To protect blood and treasure, better to cover it up, right?
But everyone found out anyway.
OK, Bob-1, if you have some beef with Serbian people, man up and disclose your name.
Why not just gracefully admit your attempt to yell squirrel here, by completely ignoring the attempted administrative and media cover-up (which never happened in Bosnia) and trying to redirect to something more in line with your cast-in-concrete narrative, is disgusting and contemptible.
Rand blogged about Germany. You expanded the scope to Europe, so that you could talk about “the title” going to Rotherham. Presumably, you brought up the example of Rotherham because Muslims were the rapists.
Ok, so you set the criteria — mass rape, organized, in Europe, with a religious discrimination aspect.
I responded by pointing out a far worse organized and systematic mass rape, in Europe, with a religious discrimination aspect, and now you accuse me of ” yelling squirrel!”
Why? I found an example that is orders of magnitudes worse that meets _your_ criteria but doesn’t fit _your_ narrative.
Presumably, you brought up the example of Rotherham because Muslims were the rapists.
No, you did that all on your own.
Curt: You know those commercials such as “If you’re Peter Pan, you stay young. That’s what you do”? If you’re Sidetrack Bob you yell “Squirrel!” That’s what you do.
I hehd no idea zis vas such a concern of Cherman vimmen ez I do not vatch ze cable television . . .
Do two cases of rape really qualify as “mass rape”? And I’d be really surprised if there hadn’t been other incidents of “mass rape” in Germany since WW2 involving more than two rapes.
What do you mean “two cases of rape”? There were hundreds. It was coordinated.
From your link: Cologne police have recorded some 200 complaints, ranging from groping to two reported rapes during New Year’s festivities.
It wasn’t just Cologne. And given their behavior, they’re probably underreporting.
Given the publicity, I’m pretty sure a higher proportion of the victims have come forward than would normally be the case.
I’m not seeing evidence for your claim that there were hundreds of women raped across Europe in a coordinated campaign, and given that there are tens of thousands of women raped in Europe each year, often by men who’ve been drinking, it lookings to me like you’re again seeing what you want to see to justify your bigotry.
My “bigotry”? Hilarious.
Given the publicity, I’m pretty sure a higher proportion of the victims have come forward than would normally be the case.
Given the effort by the authorities and media to prevent that publicity, up to and including outright lying, are you saying this “higher proportion” is a good thing or a bad thing? In your perfect world, would googling “Cologne rapes” produce only results about alcohol abuse and sluts?
Yes, your bigotry. You managed to convince yourself that hundreds of complaints, for a wide range of offenses, most relatively minor were hundreds of complaints of rape. You did it because you believed what you wanted to believe, and that was whatever fueled your bigotry against Muslims.
You seem to be trying to emphasis that you’re not the only bigot on Earth, on that point you’re correct.
I’ve become long inured to being called a racist and a bigot, by racists and bigots. It’s at this point meaningless to me.
Curt Thomson: are you saying this “higher proportion” is a good thing or a bad thing?
neither, I’m saying it’s a likely thing.
In your perfect world, would googling “Cologne rapes” produce only results about alcohol abuse and sluts?
In a perfect world people would get their facts right and not dream up false sh!t.
I’ve become long inured to being called a racist and a bigot, by racists and bigots. It’s at this point meaningless to me.
If you’d been a bigger man you’d have acknowledged your mistake about there being hundreds of rapes, us mere humans often get things wrong.
So I think you’re also inured to critical self assessment.
If you want to define rape as literal penetration with a man’s genitals, then yes, apparently they were only sexual assaults. So that’s all right, then.
If you’d been a bigger man you’d have acknowledged your mistake about there being hundreds of rapes, us mere humans often get things wrong.
So I think you’re also inured to critical self assessment.
I personally think the actual crimes are way overstated here too. But I can’t help but notice that you’re far more concerned about Rand’s alleged bigotry and other perceived flaws than you are about what actually happened. It’s just a opportunity for some bigotry against a acceptable target.
So you say you’re concerned about bigotry? Eat your own dog food. In addition to your own bigotry on the matter, we also have the crimes in question. Let’s back bringing these people to justice which I think will do more for addressing Rand’s supposed bigotry than wallowing in hate will.
Karl Hallowell: “Let’s back bringing these people to justice which I think will do more for addressing Rand’s supposed bigotry than wallowing in hate will.”
I don’t hate Rand, I don’t think I’m intolerant to his opinions as I think intolerance requires a refusal to examine the merits of other peoples opinions, I think I’ve fairly examined his claim of “hundreds of rapes”. What I was intolerant of was the reason for his initial mistake and his not admitting the mistake, instead he was dodging around trying to change his original meaning.
As for “Let’s back bringing these people to justice” yep I’m keen on justice systems that actually do that, sadly and realistically few of these people will be convicted, the track record in Germany is poor: According to a national report, the conviction rate of rape in Germany has declined: it was 20% in the 1980s, and by 2000 it was 13%..(wiki)
For lesser sexual offenses I’d assume there’s even less likelihood of justice.
Rand, don’t be so hard a person . . . especially if they don’t watch cable television . . .
It depends on how you define r@pe. Perhaps sexually assaulted is a better term?
We could apply Democrat’s standard of r@pe, where all unwanted touching is r@pe, or is that just a standard applied to non-Democrat straight white males?
I don’t know what the right term is but being surrounded by tens of men and groped all over, even the crotch, and having clothes torn off and items stolen from pockets, seems rather rapey.
I get you might not think it was r@pe r@pe but rather a lesser form like sexual assault but you do think the behavior in question is appalling right?
Had a fraternity done this, Democrats would be advocating a nation wide ban and seizure of assets of said fraternity plus people going to jail.
The amazing thing here is that the Democrats and global left show a lack of standards in the behavior of their ideological allies.
From what I can find the majority of the sexual assaults were groping, groping is bad, but groping isn’t rape and shouldn’t be labeled as such just so people can inflame the bigots.
It’s not rape, but it IS classified as sexual assault. Except when a prominent Democrat is the perp, according to Gloria Steinem’s “one free grope” rule.
I find it interesting that you’re so obsessed with the “bigotry” of Rand, yet I’ve never heard you speak up on the bigotry of the college left and their false accusations of “rape culture.” Why this sudden defense?
In fact, your comments seem to come out of the blue. I’ve only been following Rand’s site for 5 years, so excuse me if I’m wrong, but I have never seen you comment before. Why now? Why this sudden interest?
I used to comment on this blog quite frequently until about 8 months ago when all my comments were suddenly block, all I was getting was a message along the lines of “the blog owners policy is not to allow comments posted under a pseudonym” (something like that). I tried emailing Rand but got no reply, at about the same time it seemed a few other commenters disappeared.
Anyway, things are working now, but under a different name 😉
I’ve no idea what that is about.
Oh, and I tend not to comment on US domestic matters as it’s not my area of knowledge – when compared to most other commenters here.
Hmm, I have had comments not go through because I was at a doctor’s office or someplace and the error message was can’t post from behind a proxy.
I have had comments not go through because I was at a doctor’s office or someplace and the error message was can’t post from behind a proxy.
Yep, that’s the one, but I was posting from home, as usual.
Let’s just note you are not using the standard that Democrats apply to what is considered rape. I happen to agree that all sexual assaults are not rape and that any unwanted attention is not sexual assault.
But regardless of who it inflames, people deserve to know the truth. Far too often our friends to the left want to conceal the truth based on the racial stereotypes they have for the other. They always place fear of backlash from the other over concern for the actual real world actions that took place and all while scapegoating the other rather than the people who carried out those actions.
Another reason to doubt that this was “the biggest mass rape of German women since the Soviets invaded”: the travesties of the communists in East Germany visited on political dissidents, and specifically, the inmates of Hoheneck Prison.
Again, there was no institutional attempt to cover that up, as there was here and in Rotherham. We simply don’t know how many other Colognes and Rotherhams have occurred because of leftists like you who always seem to know exactly what it is people should be allowed to know and what should be withheld.
History has demonstrated repeatedly that this kind of institutional censorship, particularly when the mainstream media is fully on board, is effective. Knowing that, it is fairly certain that indeed this was the biggest mass rape of German women since the Soviets invaded.
When government and media conspire to create a false narrative, and brainless leftist twits chime in with “worse shit happened before, there’s nothing to see here, these women had it coming, blah blah blah…”, one needs to look harder. The Telegraph allows itself to drift considerably off-script:
But Bild quoted a senior police officer in Frankfurt as saying it was standard policy to keep offences by asylum-seekers from the media.
“There are strict orders from the chiefs not to report offences by refugees,” the unnamed officer said. “We are only allowed to answer if journalists ask specifically about such incidents.” [which we all know they do, riiiiight]
The Frankfurt authorities said police spokesmen had been told to be careful when speaking about asylum-seekers.
The newspaper claimed it had evidence of a similar policy in North Rhine-Westphalia, where Cologne lies, and elsewhere in the country.
And from that bastion of right-wing hate The New York Times:
If you believe that an aging, secularized, heretofore-mostly-homogeneous society is likely to peacefully absorb a migration of that size and scale of cultural difference, then you have a bright future as a spokesman for the current German government.
You’re also a fool. Such a transformation promises increasing polarization among natives and new arrivals alike. It threatens not just a spike in terrorism but a rebirth of 1930s-style political violence. The still-imaginary France Michel Houellebecq conjured up in his novel “Submission,” in which nativists and Islamists brawl in the streets, would have a very good chance of being realized in the German future.
“brainless leftist twits chime in with “worse shit happened before”
What kind of twit brought up Rotherham as an example of something worse that happened?
If you don’t want comparisons to other events, don’t invite comparisons by describing that the event you want to focus on with superlatives such as “the worst”, “the most”, “the biggest”, and “takes the title”.
Rand stated “this was the biggest mass rape of German women since the Soviets invaded.” Obviously very triggering for certain people. I decided to add a little extra trigger by pointing out Rotherham was worse. The common aspect being an institutionalized attempt at cover-up. You then attempted to re-direct to something that had nothing in common at all (other that rape of women).
Your desire to side-track the discussion in another direction may be admirable or not (personally I think not at all) but your execution is a pitiful failure.
The 2015 new years eve rapes in Germany were the biggest mass rape of German women since the Soviets invaded. That fact may leave you breathless with indignation, but that’s no excuse for intellectual laziness in attempting to make it go away.
Witnesses have said the assaults were perpetrated by men of “North African or Arab” appearance, inflaming a debate over Germany’s ability to integrate about 1.1 million asylum seekers who arrived in 2015.
German federal police have so far identified 32 suspects, 22 of whom are asylum seekers, in connection with 76 offences, 12 of which had a sexual nature, the interior ministry said.
22 asylum speakers out of 1.1 million did what? This is your mass rape?
22 asylum speakers out of 1.1 million did what?
They assaulted hundreds of women.
This is your mass rape?
Is the assault of hundreds of women “ok” with you, Dave?
At this point there is absolutely no possible way to accurately estimate the magnitude of rape that is going on in Europe. One can only put a lowest-possible number on it, knowing with complete certainty that the real numbers are vastly higher.
John Hinderaker: Sex Crimes Across Germany: The Coverup Unravels:
What is most remarkable about this story is the coverup, which is now being freely acknowledged:
Many Germans, including some of the victims themselves, have accused authorities of a conspiracy of silence over the assaults to stop criticism of the mass immigration policy pursued by Mrs Merkel and her politically-correct supporters. The mainstream media in Germany has, until recently, toed the Government line; a top public broadcaster, ZDF, recently refused to run a segment about a rape case on its prime-time ‘crime-watch’ show because the ‘dark-skinned’ suspect was a migrant.
The programme’s editor defended her decision, saying: ‘We don’t want to inflame the situation and spread a bad mood. The migrants don’t deserve it.’
American news outlets also censor the news to advance a political agenda, but they are not quite so brazen about it.
Cracks only began to show just before New Year. Bild, Germany’s largest daily newspaper, broke ranks…
Contemplate that for a moment: “broke ranks.”
In 2011, there were about 7,539 reported cases of rape in Germany.
Are you one of those crazies who think it’s OK if German women are being raped, as long as it’s only by German men, and not those filthy immigrants?
You seem strangely focused on a tiny fraction of the rapes happening there.
Yeah, you got all of these mass shootings by mentally unstable white/Asian guys, and there is one, just one lousy incident by Middle Eastern people and the cable channels have got this blown way, way out of proportion. Truth is, I don’t watch cable television and haven’t been on top of what people are so excited about . . .
Let me know when you see any evidence that the rapes committed by “German men” are being organized on social media.
Let me know when you see any evidence that there is institutionalized suppression of information related to rapes committed by “German men”.
Are you one of those crazies who think it’s OK if German women are being raped as long as the reporting of it is managed and manipulated for appropriate public consumption?
Don Surber: Gang r*pe is the new terrorism tool
The rules of r*pe — yes, Muslim terrorists have a r*pe rule book — allows them to gang r*pe any girl or woman regardless of age.
…
These rules were not written to r*pe in the Middle East. They are part of a coordinated plan to terrorize westerners.
As Glenn says, it’s actually a pretty old one. What’s been upgraded to the 21st century is social media-enabled efficiency in execution combined with an institutionalized program of after-the-fact cover-up.
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Strange, I’ve not had problems.
Strange, not really. People working for the Administration have “technical assistance” with respect to spam filters and all manners of other things. Didn’t Snowden explain all of that?