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What happened in Britain, as the Muslim rape gang scandal went on for so many years (and continues to this day) has been a multidimensional scandal of towering proportions. There were all the girls whose lives had been ruined. There were innumerable officials who had betrayed their public trust in allowing it all to happen. There were the leftist “anti-racism” advocates who demonized and stigmatized those who dared to call attention to the real problem. There was the establishment media, which followed the leftist line readily instead of having an ounce of concern for the victims.
All of it added up to a society and a civilization in tremendous crisis and steep decline. And Britain was not alone. Although in most cases it has taken place on a much smaller scale, the same phenomenon has played out in other countries as well. As this behavior was, at least in the eyes of some Muslims, sanctioned in Islam, this was not surprising. Such was the ethnic makeup of twenty-first century Europe as these crimes were committed.
In 2015, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the doors of her country to millions of Muslim migrants, she repeatedly proclaimed to her people: “Wir schaffen das!” that is, “We can do this!” It was extremely unlikely, however, that any significant number of Germans had any idea of what exactly she was saying that they could do. It wasn’t even clear that Merkel herself knew, either. On December 31, 2015, however, Germany, and the world, found out one of the things that could happen when a massive influx of Muslim migrants entered a non-Muslim country.
On New Year’s Eve 2015, Muslim migrants whom Merkel had just invited into Germany joined others in committing the staggering number of roughly two thousand rapes and sexual assaults in several cities, including Cologne, Dusseldorf, Dortmund, and Bielefeld. On the same night, mass rapes took place also in Stockholm and other cities of Europe. Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas was sure that it was a premeditated action: “For such a horde of people to meet and commit such crimes, it has to have been planned somehow. No one can tell me that this was not coordinated or planned. The suspicion is that a specific date and an expected crowd was picked.”
Maas had good reason for this suspicion. The news agency Agence France-Press noted that according to the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, “some North Africans had sent out calls using social networks for people to gather in Cologne on New Year’s Eve.” These calls were heeded: “Young men not only from Cologne, but as far as France and Belgium responded to the call to travel to the western German city.”
A January 2016 report from Germany’s national police stated that on that night, “Women, accompanied or not, literally ran a ‘gauntlet’ through masses of heavily intoxicated men
that words cannot describe.” The police were overwhelmed: “Security forces were unable to get all of the incidents, assaults, crimes, etc. under control. There were simply too many happening at the same time.” There were so many “fights, thefts, sexual assaults against women, etc.,” that even identifying the suspects “was unfortunately no longer possible,” as there were just too many incidents for police to be able to keep track of all of them.
The Muslim migrants also displayed utter disdain for the police, who were “bombarded with fireworks and pelted with glass bottles.” One officer said that he encountered a level of contempt “like I have never experienced in my 29 years of public service.” This likely stemmed from the Qur’an’s characterization of non-Muslims as the “most vile of created beings” (98:6), but was also a manifestation of the general sentiment among the migrants that they occupied a privileged position in German society.
One of them said as much on that New Year’s Eve, telling police: “I’m a Syrian! You have to treat me kindly! Ms. Merkel invited me.” As they were apprehended, some of the migrants gleefully tore up their residence permits before the eyes of the police, saying: “You can’t touch me. I’ll just go back tomorrow and get a new one.”
There would be much more of this, and much of it is still to come.
