Everybody is stuck on the events in Cologne, but since then there’s been a wave of sexual assaults on women and girls of all ages all over Germany.
As usual, female bodies, become a site where political and ideological battles are played out.
The New Reality for Germany’s Women
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http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/15/15-year-old-boy-was-stabbed-to-death-by-migrant-because-he-was-protecting-young-girl-from-sex-assault/
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I Googled the story and it seems like nobody knows what happened just yet:
http://www.vocativ.com/news/270687/syrian-immigrant-sweden-school-stabbing-is-anti-immigrant-rallying-cry/
It bothers me a lot that now the subject of violence against women might be used to cover up all kinds of bad shit.
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I was surprised to read such numbers:
\ According to the Cologne police, 40 percent of the city’s immigrants from northern Africa become delinquent, mainly for theft, within their first year in Germany. Another problem, the police say, is that in order to avoid deportation, many asylum seekers from this region ditch their passports so that their home country is unknown.
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“in Bavaria, swimming pools have issued leaflets with simple pictorial instructions on behaviour for migrants who may never have swum in public before.”
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Very cute.
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Somewhat related – loved this approach of Cameron:
A £20m fund to teach Muslim women in the UK to speak English will tackle segregation and help them resist the lure of extremism, David Cameron says.
While there was no “causal connection” between poor English and extremism, language lessons would make communities “more resilient”, Mr Cameron said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35338413
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This sounds like he suspects women of being especially prone to extremism.
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\ This sounds like he suspects women of being especially prone to extremism.
No. He suspects not integrated people are especially prone to it. This applies for both genders:
\ “But if you’re not able to speak English, you’re not able to integrate, you may find, therefore, that you have challenges understanding what your identity is and you could be more susceptible to the extremist message that comes from Daesh.”
\ New rules will mean that from October, people coming to the UK on a five-year spousal visa will have to take a test after two and a half years to show they are making efforts to improve their English.
It is an extremely pro-women idea, especially if it works. I suppose, Muslim men have to go on the street and at least think about working, unlike many women whose families and husbands are glad to be in an ignorant, helpless condition.
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a 15-year-old girl was followed and harassed by a stranger on a bus, who then allegedly eventually raped her in Republic Square next to the main station of Mönchengladbach, Germany, a city of 255,000 people.
http://www.germanimmigration.eu/2016/01/15-year-old-raped-in-public-in-m%C3%B6nchengladbach.html
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He is also predicting what you talked about – a nation state controlling the diverse, segregated population via more militarized police:
http://www.germanimmigration.eu/2016/01/german-policeman-immigrants-commit-more-crimes-and-this-fact-is-covered-up.html
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He lost me at the word “ethnic.” Look at Canada. It’s as “ethnically diverse” as the US and there is no crime. And police is falling asleep, especially in the most “ethnically diverse” areas like Montreal. In the meanwhile, ethnically homogeneous East St. Louis is exploding with crime.
Looking for any answers in the entirely fictitious category of ethnicity is a waste of time. Again, Jews and Palestinians, Ukrainians and Russians – can you be any closer genetically and any farther away in other respects?
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\ He lost me at the word “ethnic.”
In Europe, ethnic seems to be followed by cultural. Definitely so in Germany’s case. I suppose, Europeans are not familiar with Canadian realities, so that may explain some confusion.
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“In Europe, ethnic seems to be followed by cultural. ”
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\ It can be preceded or followed by anything whatsoever because it’s an entirely fictitious category of analysis
When I say ethnic, I mean nationality because this has been my life experience.
Jews may be “an entirely fictitious category,” but it does not mean we don’t exist. 🙂
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“When I say ethnic, I mean nationality because this has been my life experience.”
“Jews may be “an entirely fictitious category,” but it does not mean we don’t exist.”
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“However, trying to ascribe any genetic or physiological basis to them is a very mistaken and dangerous path. It’s especially scary when Germans begin to do it because their history with this kind of thing is not good.”
What is it that you think make current Germans so worthy of attention? Clearly you know it is nothing genetic or physiological. Do you think they have an inherent culture of racisim? even now? more so than other places in the world?
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Germany owns Europe, so everybody cares about Germany.
As for racism, today Germans are enormously less racist than people in my part of the world, and I applaud them for that. It’s sadly ironic that we (meaning Russian speakers) defeated Germans in WWII but they are doing so much better than us on abandoning racism.
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I agree that ethnic as a genetic classification doesn’t make a huge amount of sense, but ethnic as shorthand for a group with a common culture and shared set of values, then it does.
How are Ukrainians different from Russians if not by culture (in the sense of collective values).
(yeah, I know that within each large group you’ll find a similar range of values, but the frequencies differ and that’s important).
Germans (who are genetically pretty mixed within Europe but who have a similar set of values) are letting in large numbers of people with very different values into their country and that means they have to adapt to that or change the policy.
I’m always saying that language and cultural identity should take precedence over genetic identity in countries with immigration but most people are very, very hostile to that idea.
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“I agree that ethnic as a genetic classification doesn’t make a huge amount of sense, but ethnic as shorthand for a group with a common culture and shared set of values, then it does.”
“Germans (who are genetically pretty mixed within Europe but who have a similar set of values) are letting in large numbers of people with very different values into their country and that means they have to adapt to that or change the policy.”
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The case of a woman who was not allowed to enter a Sparkasse bank branch because of her face-covering niqab has sparked debate in western Germany.
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The woman’s offer to remove her veil in a private room and show her ID in the presence of a female employee was not an option for the bank, the spokesman said, because of security concerns. He explained that this would present a risk to the employee if she had a weapon.
http://www.thelocal.de/20160118/muslim-woman-thrown-out-of-bank-for-wearing-niqab
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If I tried to enter a bank wearing a motorcycle helmet, I would be refused entry. same for niqab. End of story.
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