Germany shocked by Cologne New Year gang assaults on women

[Kidlicious]

Sava maybe got pissed off because he thought that dinner had no empathy.

people who are usually analgetic to the other are usually the same cruel to themselves.
they are unhappy people.

the way you treat the other (more specifically the immigrant) is the gauge to know wether your "bien dans ta peau"

it's sad that most people aren't but we are not about to let them expand their misery worldwide, that would be poor behavior

Empathy? Like what Rev Jeremiah Wright has for the victims of 9/11?

[Kidlicious]

Then I am sorry to say you are part of the problem. I freely admit I do not always put things as artfully as possible but the numbers brought up are real and not "questionable" as you claim. Ignoring the problem due to ideological or sensativity fears will not make it go away and only insures it will get worse.

It seems you prefer the head in the sand approach though and THAT is the sad part.

They are brainwashed. Look at a documentary on Islam. Unless the documentary is specifically made to tell the whole truth and is called a racist documentary it's a bunch of Christian hating propaganda. Our kids are brainwashed, just like in Saudi Arabia.

[Ecthy]

Kid, JM is right about this according to what I have read. They have a lot of self censorship and fear they will be called a racist if they bring up certain facts. Also if you post the wrong thing in social media half of your friends would probably unfriend you therefore certain topics simply cannot be brought up much less honestly discussed.

We have a strain of that in the US too. Just look at how Sava went off the rails. The political correctness is infectious.

You're an idiot.

[ricketyclik]

First of all, there's more Germans, a lot more. Second, where's the numbers? Finally, whatever numbers you get will probably be bull****.

As previously stated over 1.1 million refugees in the last year alone, compared with perhaps a few hundred perps. Displaced, unemployed and unwelcome perps at that, so it's suprising there aren't more.

Approximately 0.02%. Yeah, Muslims are a dangerous lot.

[Kidlicious]

It's that kind of attitude that is going to cause this to happen again.

[Dinner]

As a conservative, Dinner assumes unemployed people are lazy and choose to be unemployed if they look funny.

I am certainly not a social conservative though on economics I am. Nor do I automatically assume all unemployed people are lazy though I do start to question things when people do not even try to look for a job for years on end. Especially when free education is available, such as it is in Sweden, where people could improve their job skills if they wanted to do so. So why aren't they? Or at least a fairly large number are not.

[Dinner]

Anyway talking about multiculturalism vs assimilation (I always found the first a bit odd and taken some slack for it)

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35311422

That is actually a pretty good article, Paiktis. I do think a failure to push assimulation results in feelings of alienation and segregation. So anything to help improve intigration helps diminish those feelings of not belonging and alienation.

[Dinner]

You're an idiot.

You know, you could say I was wrong and then point out why instead of just insulting. Just saying.

[Dinner]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35326090

Ok, where do people stand on this one? Justified or not justified?

A public swimming pool in Germany has banned all male migrants due to the fact that large numbers of them kept sexually harassing female bathers to such an extent many simply stopped going.

[Kidlicious]

To be fair, Germans are too open to public nudity. The Muslims do have a point. I just don't agree with sexually assaulting women because you don't approve of their behavior.

[Dinner]

As a conservative, Dinner assumes unemployed people are lazy and choose to be unemployed if they look funny.

Btw, as a second response the second National Review article I linked has a section at the end about how a culture of not working is created and how that is often how second generation welfare dependence ends up getting passed on. Remember this is the sub culture the author grew up in so he might have some insights you don't see.

[DinoDoc]

Unexpectedly: Cologne Sex-Attack Spree Sparks 'Huge Spike' in Weapons Sales

[Kidlicious]

Unexpectedly: Cologne Sex-Attack Spree Sparks 'Huge Spike' in Weapons Sales

Islamophobia

[Dinner]

Unexpectedly: Cologne Sex-Attack Spree Sparks 'Huge Spike' in Weapons Sales

Austria has had similar sales spikes even before the rape mob incidents. I can't say I blame people for wanting to protect themselves and their families.

Also from that report:

Two weeks after the mass incidents on New Year's Eve, the number of criminal complaints reached 676 on Friday — including 347 sexual offenses, Cologne prosecutor Ulrich Bremer said. Five suspects are in investigative custody.

That is what upsets me when Laz says there were only two rapes so what is the big deal (or something to that effect). There were hundreds of sex attacks just at that one location and hundreds more in other German cities while Austria, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland all had similar attacks. This is a major wide spread problem due to culture and trying to make light or minimizing it should not be acceptable.

It is pretty clear authorities are doing a dismal job if only five out of a thousand have been caught and charged. That is called tokenism.

[Kidlicious]

Meanwhile at least one carnival parade has been cancelled.