(https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/) (https://www.facebook.com/Gatestone.Institute) (https://twitter.com/GatestoneInst) (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/rss.xml) (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/contribute.php) In this mailing: * Soeren Kern: _Germany's Migrant Rape Crisis: January 2017_ (mip://0c7db048/default.html#toc_item_9934) * Uzay Bulut: _Islamic Terror and the U.S. Temporary Stay on Immigration_ (mip://0c7db048/default.html#toc_item_9932) * Philip Carl Salzman: _The Great Humanistic Delusion_ (mip://0c7db048/default.html#toc_item_9886) * Thierry Baudet: _The end of European democracy_ (mip://0c7db048/default.html#toc_item_0000) _Germany's Migrant Rape Crisis: January 2017_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9934/germany-rape-january) Tolerating a "rape culture" to sustain a politically correct stance on mass migration 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. _Continue Reading Article_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9934/germany-rape-january) _Islamic Terror and the U.S. Temporary Stay on Immigration_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9932/islamic-terror-immigration) 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." _Continue Reading Article_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9932/islamic-terror-immigration) _The Great Humanistic Delusion_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9886/humanistic-delusion) 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. _Continue Reading Article_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9886/humanistic-delusion) _The End of European Democracy_ (https://gatestone.eu/the-end-of-european-democracy/) 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. _Continue Reading Article_ (https://gatestone.eu/the-end-of-european-democracy/) You are subscribed to this list as [email protected]. To unsubscribe, go to https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/list_unsubscribe.php To edit your subscription options, go to https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/list_edit.php To subscribe to the this mailing list, go to https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/list_subscribe.php _Gatestone Institute_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/) 14 East 60 St., Suite 1001, New York, NY 10022 -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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[PoliticalForum] Germany's Migrant Rape Crisis: January 2017
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