Well it's been a month since San Bernadino was shot up by ISIS supporters, almost to the day, so of course there's already another major event in the news (although *somehow* not reported on until almost a week after the occurrence) supporting my views.
A group of 1,000 Arabic/Middle Eastern men carried out an
organized - not random or unrelated to each other -
organized series of sexual attacks in Cologne on New Years Eve, with 90 victims thus far. All in one night.
BBC article on the topic.
Take note that these people aren't thought to be affiliated with any extremist groups; they're just "refugees." So they're not "radicalized," as some would like to use as a shield for Muslims as a whole.
Here's the top comment in the
Reddit thread for the same article, very relevant in my opinion although I disagree with his assertion that integrating the migrants ever had any potential to succeed:
They keep downplaying the refugee connection yet every paragraph describes witnesses, police, suspect's documentation all very bloody strongly implying a connection.
The bigger picture (refugee influx into EU) is going to go bad very quickly, public sentiment is what was going to make this work and the powers that be have been handling that pretty poorly tbh.
Sexual crime is regarded as among the most heinous offences in western society and those who commit sexual crimes are utterly reviled.
So all of this mixes up with public sentiment to produce a very bad atmosphere for these refugees. The rapid, clean and neat social intergration Frau Merkel et al were praying for has failed.
Of course it fucking has! It doesn't matter if it is irrational or bigoted to tar all these refugees with the same brush, it's still going to happen. When people are frightexned (and what european with a family would not be terrified reading the accounts in this article?) they do irrational things.
A mass sexual attack (police suspect it to be organised in fact, like wtf is going on here?) by an ethnically non native group... jesus christ put down the identity politics textbook and read some anthropology. This crime cuts to the very core of human civilisation's most ancient primal nightmares. Fear of rape and pillage by an invading foreign force you fools, it's carved into our very beings as tribal animals.
People are going to be understandably and predictably reactionary as a group towards another group.
So then what? Mass internment to "protect" the refugees? Like say... camps? Uh oh...
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, the EU has to take the world as it is, not as they would like it to be and the world is a harsh place.
Is it worth it to take in every single person you can but have to treat them all like hazardous animals?
There were thousands of perpetrators, witnesses and police desribe them as being primarily middle eastern and north african in ethnicity, this crime is new to law enforcement in these areas, a group of detained suspects were all carrying refugee papers.
Do the math, this is directly linked to the refugee situation, it is not "improper" to suggest this, it is blindingly obvious and the public backlash will be en masse across europe.
The next election in every eu nation is going to be a right wing dream come true.
Large-scale attacks by Muslims didn't used to be a semi-annual occurrence in Western Europe. This is what so-called "progressive," leftist, feminist, tolerant, etc. policies have wrought. "Progress," meaning, advancing to the rear. The same thing will happen to the US if we continue to import these people.
We can't solve the Muslim problem in their countries, the last 69 years prove that. Letting them into ours is disaster in progress. The best remaining option is to let them fight among themselves, in their native lands, and let us keep to our own countries. That academia ideal of every nation, culture, and religion co-existing in wondrous multi-cultural societies just doesn't work in the real world.
Call me ignorant, a bigot, hateful, nazi, racist, islamaphobe, extremist, whatever pejorative de jour fits your fancy. I'm going to voice my opinions regardless, and I'll more likely than not be back with another piece like this before spring starts.
