The Night That Changed Germany's Attitude To Refugees
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Published 2016-04-04
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A mob sexual assault on young female revellers on New Year's Eve turned Germany's celebrated tolerance of mass migration upside down. What happened and why was it hushed up? How has it changed the nation?
Michelle describes how the assailants, supposedly refugees, "touched us everywhere they could, between the legs and at our breasts". Police and media initially downplayed the incident, but as days went by, Germans learned that more than 1000 complaints of sexual assault and theft had been lodged, with the alleged assailants being described as North African and Middle Eastern. Subsequently, the generosity that has seen Germany embrace more than a million new migrants in the past year, otherwise known as "Welcome Culture", is wearing thin.
For Frauke Petry, head of the increasingly popular right wing Alternative Party for Germany, "it's time to wake up" to the way society is being changed by immigration. Left-wing feminist Alice Schwarzer fears that a "misguided tolerance" on race issues facilitated the violence, and the resultant backlash. "I am convinced", says Schwarzer, "that we have for the first time since 1945, a growing right wing movement."
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All Comments (21)
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I mean come on, if you’re a refugee have the common sense to adapt to your surroundings. Be thankful to the country that accepted you and don’t force your culture and laws into them.
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As a german I can say its very sad how we get called nazi for everytime we slightly criticise the „Welcome Politic” in our country
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Muslim men treat women as PROPERTY, that will not change because of geography.
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The crazy part is we let them in our countries, and we know that they hate us.
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These refugees are not just from another culture, their thinking is from another century.
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“The right wing movement is growing” gee wonder why
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7 years after this report one can say finally that nothing changed.
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I'm an Indian working in deutsch-bank, I never faced any kind of racism from my co-workers. If you are going to a country, you need to be useful to that country
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I rather be labeled a racist than claim third world migration is a good thing
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"I heard Germany is luxurious," He talks about it like it is a hotel.
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I am engineer from America and was denied a visa due to an open container violation I had 20 years ago in college. Maybe I should have converted to Islam first.
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In India we have a proverb "Boya ped babool ka aam kaha se hoye" which means "Planting affection into a prickly acacia, yet expecting mangoes, is a tale of misplaced hopes in the orchard of life"
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A Government's first responsibility is the safety of its own citizens.
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To the Refugees, "Never bite the hand that feeds you". And to those who accept Refugees, "No kind deed goes unpunished".
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Every country in the world is feeling their wrath right now. 95% of us got roped into accepting them.
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cannot imagine the mental strength these women must have to come forward and recollect the traumatic events so calmly
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Imagine being a refugee, being welcomed into Germany with open arms, provided with clothes, food, water and shelter, only for you to turn around and do shit like this. It's a complete spit in the face of the German community. Whoever was a part of it should be ashamed.
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When you bring a group of men who truly believe women are men's possessions, this is what happens. They should be kept where they learned their values.
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The reward for tolerance are treachery and betrayal
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Same night something similar happened to me and my daughter in the centre of Viena, in the square in front of the cathedral. Not so horrible. The most horrible to me was that the man that grabbed my daughter had a... vailed woman hanging on his other hand , completely indifferent to my top of the lungs screaming. No, they didn't come to Europe as refugees, they came as invaders . Just see that most of them are young men. Anybody, can you actually point out how many of them started working a decent job? How many started speaking the language of the country they are in? Sorry, I have come to believe that abstract humanity makes more bad than good.
