{"id":85083,"date":"2016-01-12T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=85083"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:22:37","slug":"multiculturalism-trumps-protecting-women-from-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=85083","title":{"rendered":"Multiculturalism Trumps Protecting Women from Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Since the scores of New Year\u2019s 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 \u2014 women\u2019s human rights or multiculturalism?
\nThis 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.
\nBut British authorities kept silent. Why?
\nIn 2014, the reason finally was revealed: The perpetrators were Muslim, and British authorities were therefore afraid to publicize \u2014 or often even investigate \u2014 the crimes. They feared being branded Islamophobic and racist. Politicians on the left and right acknowledged this fact.
\nAs I wrote in a column in 2014:
\n\u201cIn 2002, a Labor Party MP from nearby Keighley, Ann Cryer, complained to the police about \u2018young Asian lads\u2019 raping girls in her constituency. In her words, she \u2018was shunned by elements of her party.\u2019 And note, that as is demanded by the left in the UK, she didn\u2019t even mention that the rapists were Pakistani, lest Muslims be blamed for this evil. They were \u2018Asian lads.’\u201d
\nThe British Home Secretary, Theresa May, told Parliament that \u201cinstitutionalized political correctness\u201d was responsible for the lack of attention given to the mass rape.
\nIn 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 \u201cdiversity.\u201d In the competition between multiculturalism and one of the most elementary instincts and obligations of higher civilization \u2014 the protection of girls and women from sexual violence \u2014 higher civilization lost.
\nThe 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\u2019 reaction to the events of New Year\u2019s Eve in Cologne exemplified this.
\nAfter the attacks in Cologne, the mayor of Cologne suggested, in the words of The New York Times, \u201cthat women can protect themselves from men on the streets by keeping them more than an arm\u2019s length away.\u201d
\nIn the mayor\u2019s words: \u201cIt is always possible to keep a certain distance that is longer than an arm\u2019s length.\u201d
\nAside from the moral foolishness of the comment, it is factually incorrect. It is often impossible to keep an arm\u2019s length distance from others \u2014 as, for example, on a crowded bus or train, or, as in Cologne on New Year\u2019s Eve, on crowded streets.
\nIt is important to note two things about the mayor. One is that she has been among Germany\u2019s most vociferous advocates of accepting 800,000 Syrian refugees into Germany.
\nThe other is that she is a woman.
\nOne 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\u2019s rights, for fighting Islamophobia over fighting to protect women.
\nA 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: \u201cWhat happens on the right-wing platforms and in chat rooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women.\u201d
\nAll the isms of the left \u2014 multiculturalism, feminism, environmentalism, socialism, Marxism, egalitarianism \u2014 distort the individual\u2019s and society\u2019s moral compass. But, as the minister\u2019s comments make clear, none do so more than the left\u2019s loathing of conservatives and conservative values.
\nAs with multiculturalism, a left-wing priority \u2014 in this case destroying the right \u2014 has distorted the left\u2019s moral compass. How could anyone in his right mind write that right-wing platforms and chat rooms are \u201cat least as awful\u201d 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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