http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027520089 Purveyor (26,181 posts)
German Sexual Assaults Lead To ‘I Told You So’ Claims On Muslim Immigrants In U.S.
American conservatives are claiming a "we told you so" moment.
From Republican front-runner Donald Trump to evangelical Franklin Graham, many on the political right are pointing to the shocking wave of sexual assaults in Germany as a justification of their concerns of Muslim immigration.
It's now clear that what police first described as a "relaxed atmosphere" in Cologne, Germany, on New Year's Eve was anything but: Of the more than 500 criminal complaints related to incidents near the city's main train station that night, roughly 40 percent include allegations of sexual assault, including at least two rapes. A police report cited by the BBC described the assailants — small groups of men broken out from an estimated 1,000-man crowd — as "almost exclusively" North African or Arab.
To conservatives, the depraved assaults confirmed their fears.
"What's going on in Germany is unthinkable," Donald Trump said at an Iowa rally over the weekend, when he linked the incidents abroad to "radical Islamic terrorism."
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/11/german-sexual-assaults-lead-to-i-told-you-so-claims-on-muslim-immigrants/
As we will find out, our buddly philosslayer has stepped in it with both feet.
philosslayer (1,748 posts)
1. Did you expect anything different?
Islamophobes don't need much of an excuse to show their hatred.
We see a DUmp value system is being built before our very eyes. In the newly built DUmmie value system the feminazis readily throw the poor, misunderstood Muslims under the bus...
smirkymonkey (15,771 posts)
4. Obviously, you are not female. We don't need this kind of harrassment here.
You obviously don't care about how this affects women. What is the difference between being prejudiced upon race or sex? You are just choosing one over the other.
Nuclear Unicorn (17,613 posts)
5. You consider mass, mob sexual assault to be "not much of an excuse"?
Democat (9,930 posts)
11. Rape is no big deal?
I always thought DU members took rape pretty seriously, but a few don't see any big deal in this case?
Coventina (13,321 posts)
18. I guess being a women = "Islamophobe" in your world.
A short sighting of the clue bat...
plus5mace (59 posts)
2. Yeah, they were right. This has been a devastating turn of events.
Muslims get a free pass to rape women in Europe because the government is too PC to stop them. It's like something in a right wing comic book. If I read it as fiction, I'd say it wasn't a credible story line, yet here is the chiefs of police in two large cities saying that they covered up crimes to avoid creating anti-immigrant sentiment. The whole Bernie vs Hillary show won't mean anything if the public thinks we care more about not causing offense than about protecting them.
smirkymonkey (15,771 posts)
3. Yes, and as usual the rape apologists will be out in full force with their charges of
"islamaphobia". If the shoe fits...
pampango (21,809 posts)
8. Liberals are too "politically correct" to stop them? Who does that sound like?
Muslims get a free pass to rape women in Europe because the government is too PC to stop them.
Acting and sounding like Marine Le Pen or Geert Wilders is not the answer. All Muslims are not bad people. They do not get a 'free pass' to rape women in Europe', regardless of what the far-right claims. The vast majority of them are good people as is true with any ethnic or racial group.
The whole Bernie vs Hillary show won't mean anything if the public thinks we care more about not causing offense than about protecting them.
The Donald, Cruz and the other republicans are all about protecting us from evil Muslims (and Mexicans and gay marriage and China and Japan, etc.). If 'protection' from all the evil Muslims is what you are looking for, there is a party for that. The GOP will keep them all out of the US under the assumption that they are all bad. Should we start to act like republicans (condemn 'political correctness', create and cater to fear) in order to win the next election?
Another brief appearance of the clue bat
Jim Beard (597 posts)
6. Merkel admits there is a problem, just too many, too fast
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3394896/Merkel-admits-Europe-lost-control-refugee-crisis.html#ixzz3x0SKsGgt
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German Chancellor admitted Europe is 'vulnerable' and said countries do not have control of the situation
Angela Merkel also said the euro was 'directly linked' to freedom of movement in Europe and if countries do not allow their borders to be crossed without much difficulty, the European single market would 'suffer acutely'
Thousands of people took to the streets of the German city of Leipzig to protest against the influx of refugees
Protesters chanted 'Resistance!' and 'Deport them!' and some had signs which read 'Refugees not welcome!'
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Quantess (26,804 posts)
7. I told you so, too.
I am not surprised at all by the turn of events.
LisaL (26,385 posts)
10. It's kind of obvious.
You let that many people into the country (from a completely different culture, no less), you are bound to have problems.
Wait,, wut?
Dear LisaL - what do you think happens when you let 11 MILLION people into the country?
Democat (9,930 posts)
12. Eventually the left will be forced to face reality
In Europe and America.
Democat is living on the edge, DUmmie style!
pampango (21,809 posts)
17. You don't often hear liberals say
"the left will be forced to face reality" and adopt the attitudes and policies of the right.
Denial is more than a river in Egypt (yet another part of the world being "helped" by Obama's foreign policy but that is a discussion for another time)
