Those in power need to face the awkward facts of gender,age, economic and cultural differences between refugees and hosts
Only some of the things we all collect excited approximately are really serious, or but far fewer in our open,western societies are also potentially sinister. Were the late-night New Year’s Eve “sex attacks” in Cologne and other European cities an unfortunate coincidence, easily dealt with by better policing? Or conclude they point to something more disturbing? Were the attacks merely opportunist, and as much criminal as sexual in nature,by young men who were drunk or high? Were they committed mostly by young men from highly conservative cultural backgrounds in the Middle East and north Africa where women can only dream of the emancipation enjoyed by European women? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com