“Hey, Us Liberals Are The Real Victims!”

Doris Akrap whinges and whines in – where else? – CiF:

We still do not know exactly what went on at Cologne’s central station on New Year’s Eve. Police have recorded 379 allegations of violence, 40% of them sexual assaults, with two reports of rape.

Sounds like you do know, then.

They have identified 31 suspects, who include at least two Germans, a Serb, an American and 18 asylum seekers from the Middle East and north Africa.

Yup, sounds exactly like you do indeed know. Which is, I suspect, the problem!

That’s all we know for sure. But the public still hasn’t recovered from the headlines last Monday saying that a crowd of 1,000 refugees had mobbed German women. Since then, some of us have been searching for a source whose testimony we can trust.

No, some of you have been searching for a way to cling to your liberal views no matter the downside now being shoved in your faces. And in your daughters' faces.

One million migrants arriving in Germany in 2015, the Paris attacks, the far-right parties Pegida and AfD growing – in some ways, as tensions over immigration increased, it seemed everyone was waiting for a major incident. For the last six months, every little punch-up in a refugee camp has been news, an attempt to create a horror story about violence in the “other culture” .

You think we need to create one, as opposed to simply observing the ones that are happening?

… the shocking events in Cologne seem to have cracked what was always fragile. Unsurprisingly, rightwing commentators – who over the year have been talking of refugees as if they were terrorists – are reacting gleefully to the events. Have they won?

Yes, because that’s all that matters, isn’t it? Who was ‘right’. Not the assaulted women, they can be thrown under the multi culti bus as a necessary sacrifice.

No. Not yet. It is completely normal to be appalled by what seems to have happened in Cologne. And it is completely normal to demand that every criminal has to be punished. It is also completely normal to discuss every fear caused by their behaviour. But I have another fear.

I just bet you do.

Too often in the past few days I have heard the Willkommenskultur-Germans saying they feel “exploited”, “abused”, “cheated”. We know this behaviour. It’s like angry parents whose children have got into trouble: “I did everything for you and what do you do?” As every parent, every German, has to learn: just like every child, every refugee is an individual. Not every refugee will study hard and become a doctor. No, some refugees will get drunk on New Year’s Eve and make a whole lot of mess.

Hey, if they just confined it to New Year’s Eve, there wouldn’t be much problem. You could simply deploy the police that you seemed to have handy when Pegida organised a protest rally against the cover up. They could bring their water cannons!

But they won’t.

I don’t want to trivialise sexual attacks. And I don’t want to deny the possibility that some people from the Middle East may have greater problems with women and alcohol than others. Nobody ever said that the refugees, even when they were wrapped in insulation blankets after arriving over the Mediterranean, were all angels. You’re sure to find bigots, antisemites and criminal gangs among them, just as you’ll find racists, rapists and arsonists among the German population (there were more than 200 arson attacks on refugee accommodation in Germany last year).

In that case, it would be crazy to import more, wouldn't it..?