Posted on 01/12/2016 8:59:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Since the scores of New Year's Eve sexual attacks on German women by hundreds of men identified as Arab or North African, the left in Germany has faced a dilemma: which to fight for first -- women's human rights or multiculturalism?
This was the same dilemma that faced British authorities between 1997 and 2013. During those six years at least 1,400 girls from the age of 11 in just one English city (Rotherham, population 275,000) were raped by gangs of men, nearly all of whom were immigrants (mostly from Pakistan) or their sons.
But British authorities kept silent. Why?
In 2014, the reason finally was revealed: The perpetrators were Muslim, and British authorities were therefore afraid to publicize -- or often even investigate -- the crimes. They feared being branded Islamophobic and racist. Politicians on the left and right acknowledged this fact.
As I wrote in a column in 2014:
"In 2002, a Labor Party MP from nearby Keighley, Ann Cryer, complained to the police about 'young Asian lads' raping girls in her constituency. In her words, she 'was shunned by elements of her party.' And note, that as is demanded by the left in the UK, she didn't even mention that the rapists were Pakistani, lest Muslims be blamed for this evil. They were 'Asian lads.'"
The British Home Secretary, Theresa May, told Parliament that "institutionalized political correctness" was responsible for the lack of attention given to the mass rape.
In other words, between protecting over a thousand girls from repeated gang rape and protecting Muslims from being identified as the rapists, British authorities chose to protect multiculturalism and "diversity." In the competition between multiculturalism and one of the most elementary instincts and obligations of higher civilization -- the protection of girls and women from sexual violence -- higher civilization lost.
The U.K. is of course not alone in having multiculturalism and the fear of being branded racist or Islamophobic take precedence over protecting girls and women. Some German authorities' reaction to the events of New Year's Eve in Cologne exemplified this.
After the attacks in Cologne, the mayor of Cologne suggested, in the words of The New York Times, "that women can protect themselves from men on the streets by keeping them more than an arm's length away."
In the mayor's words: "It is always possible to keep a certain distance that is longer than an arm's length."
Aside from the moral foolishness of the comment, it is factually incorrect. It is often impossible to keep an arm's length distance from others -- as, for example, on a crowded bus or train, or, as in Cologne on New Year's Eve, on crowded streets.
It is important to note two things about the mayor. One is that she has been among Germany's most vociferous advocates of accepting 800,000 Syrian refugees into Germany.
The other is that she is a woman.
One would assume that a woman would instinctively wholly condemn the sexual predators rather than lecture women on the distance they should always keep from men in order to avoid being attacked. But the mayor, like the British authorities, has opted for multiculturalism over human and women's rights, for fighting Islamophobia over fighting to protect women.
A related example is Ralf Jaeger, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, the German state in which Cologne is located. The left-wing minister said: "What happens on the right-wing platforms and in chat rooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women."
All the isms of the left -- multiculturalism, feminism, environmentalism, socialism, Marxism, egalitarianism -- distort the individual's and society's moral compass. But, as the minister's comments make clear, none do so more than the left's loathing of conservatives and conservative values.
As with multiculturalism, a left-wing priority -- in this case destroying the right -- has distorted the left's moral compass. How could anyone in his right mind write that right-wing platforms and chat rooms are "at least as awful" as women being sexually attacked and even raped by gangs of men? The answer is that you cannot be in your right mind; you have to be in your left mind.
I checked the original article, he actually did use that headline. Who are these Multiculturalism Trumps?
Two to the head will fix a lot of these problems.
You forgot the /sarc tag (I think).
How is a woman supposed to keep a much bigger, stronger man at “arms length,” much less the approximately 30 men who surrounded those German girls to assault them? I thought blaming the victim was supposed to be a bad thing. But now that the oh, so precious Muslim invaders are doing the raping, mere women are just going to have to huddle inside their homes or resign themselves to being raped, I suppose. Once again, liberal causes collide, and it looks like the liberals have made their choice.
Dennis is discussing this on his show right now.
Just switched to him. Rush hasn’t touched this subject!
National Revue has this title
In Cologne, Multiculturalism More Important than Protecting Women from Rape
ArcaMax.com has the best title though
It’s still early. Maybe he will today?
He’s talking about the football game and the State of the Union. Laura Ingraham has barely mentioned this and I think it’s a super important current event!
Today is his birthday
WE have been saying this for years... maybe decades.
I just want the leftists to OPENLY ADMIT IT.
But will they?
No, the left will NOT openly admit that they throw women under the bus as a matter of policy... not unless they are FORCED to admit it. Who has the power to FORCE them to admit it? I can only think of one person.
Donald Trump?
It places them now in the position of protecting unapologetic criminals in pursuit of some imaginary Greater Good. Honest media acting in their self-described capacity of protectors of the public welfare would at least force them to express and describe that Greater Good for open criticism. It hasn't happened because the media are as dishonest as the politicians they cover.
This is a wedge issue we can use to grab women from the democrats. In past elections soccer moms would vote democrat based upon promises of after school programs and generous amounts of FUD about republicans. Today it is the democrats who are anti women. Hillary thinks women will vote for her because she is a women, but soccer moms will vote for someone who keep their neighborhood safe.
Good point.
That is my prediction, that Trump will trumpet this issue when the time is right.
Yep. Me too. And that's why I'm all in.
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