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In reply to the discussion: Taharrush - The Sickening And Terrifying Arab Rape Game That Is Spreading Across Europe(updated) [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)I "refused" sources written in German, a language which I do not speak, since I cannot, you know, read German.
Also, I am not going to trust an article imperfectly translated by software.
I have read numerous accounts and I am certainly sure that attacks happened, but I do not accept that these attack were "planned/coordinated" without compelling evidence. I also refuse to ascribe to an entire nation/sect of people criminal behavior committed by a few. Have we learned nothing from press coverage of the Black Lives Matter and the Occupy Movement?
Have we not learned that "official reports" must be scrutinized? According to "official reports" every unarmed Black person killed by police was heavily armed, on drugs, trying to steal the officer's gun and part of the Black Panthers.
Reading through the one English language German source you provide, I find these salient point:
But she soon found herself alone in a terrifying situation when, shortly after being separated from him, someone grabbed her hat from her head, while others started touching her inappropriately.
This type of behavior happens in this country every day. That doesn't make it acceptable, it isn't, but it also is in no way unique.
But the police outside weren't much use. Overwhelmed by the mass of people in the main square in front of the station and trying to keep the situation under control, the authorities ended up forcing Duncan back into the crowd.
The police badly underestimate and mishandle a mob, making a bad situation worse. Again, hardly unique to Germany.
Unbeknownst to the American at the time, she was caught up in an event that would make headlines around the world and throw intense scrutiny on Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policies in Germany. Hundreds of women reported being assaulted around the train station that night, mostly by men who appeared to be of North African or Arab descent.
Reported by who? Oh, I am sure women reported being assaulted, but who provided the numbers to the paper? What official? What agency? Can they provide the reports to back up the claim of "hundreds"?
While the media coverage of that night shed light on many horrifying episodes, it also had the effect of obscuring some of the more positive developments. Duncan's experience is one such example.
Around that time, a young Middle Eastern man came up to her and asked, in German, if he could help her. Since she didn't speak German and he didn't speak English, the man called over one of his friends, Hesham Ahmad Mohammad, who did speak English.
A 32-year-old former teacher, Ahmad Mohammad had, along with his four friends, braved an arduous journey from his native Syria to reach Germany, where he had been living for six months. The trek had taken the group to Turkey, then to Greece by boat, then through Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary and Austria, until finally they reached the Bavarian city of Passau.
The five men, all of whom now lived in different parts of western Germany and had therefore not seen each other since their arrival, had chosen to reunite in Cologne for New Year's Eve. But what they saw when they arrived at the central station shocked them. The people were extremely rowdy, Ahmad Mohammad said, and he even witnessed an attempted robbery.
"We knew [shortly after we arrived] that that's a dangerous place for us, because we saw that many people were drinking and they lost their minds," he told DW.
Gosh, a huge mob of drunk men are dangerous. Que surprise!
And yet, the "Arabic looking" men stepped into help the woman in danger.
When he and his friends came across Duncan, he said the American was crying and clearly "afraid of all men."
After a while he convinced Duncan to let them help her. "At that time she said to me, I've lost my friend and I am alone. I am American. I am here alone.' I said to her, You must stop crying. We can help you.'"
As she set out once more to find her boyfriend, Ahmad Mohammad accompanied her. He said ten other men attempted to harass her, but he shielded her from them. Soon, his other friends also came to her aid, forming a circle around her.
Afraid of all men, not just ones from North Africa. And again, the "Arabic looking" man came to her aid, with his friends.
The subsequent reunion between Duncan and her boyfriend was joyous, he said. The Syrian men cried.
What monsters.
I do note that the German government is tossing out some Moroccans and Algerians. but that was ongoing before this and those governments have not been cooperative. Were the attackers all from those countries? I am guessing that among the mob were a significant number of German men, worse for the wear, looking for "harmless fun" at other people's expense.
Regardless, all should be found, tried, and if convicted punished.
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