In the aftermath of the horrific incident in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve, in which approximately 1,000 men, described in many sources as recent asylum seekers from the Middle East, sexually attacked and robbed in excess of 200 women, some German politicians chose instead to criticize the action of those who brought the crimes to the public’s attention as “right wing rhetoric,” as noted in the Daily Mail. Politically, that mindset is reminiscent of President Obama’s comments following the San Bernardino terrorist shooting, which he used to concentrate more on his gun control proposals and on his belief, often stated but with little provided evidence, that there is a significant anti-Muslim backlash threat in the U.S., rather than on the growing threat of violent terrorists’ assaults.
The New Year’s Eve attack was another recent European event calling into question the European Union’s open-borders policy, known as the Schengen Agreement. Originally designed to promote the passport-free flow of people within nations participating in the agreement, it now faces substantial revision or elimination as a result of attacks by Islamic extremists, such as the November 13 attacks in Paris which killed 130 people.
As noted by the BBC “in 2015 the influx of more than a million migrants – many of them Syrian refugees – greatly increased the pressure on Schengen. One after another, EU states re-imposed temporary border controls. In December the European Commission proposed a major amendment to Schengen, expected to become law soon.”
The Council on Foreign Relations reports that “Political upheaval in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia is reshaping migration trends in Europe. The number of illegal border-crossing detections in the EU started to surge in 2011, as thousands of Tunisians started to arrive at the Italian island of Lampedusa following the onset of the Arab Spring. Sub-Saharan Africans who had previously migrated to Libya followed in 2011–2012, fleeing unrest in the post-Qaddafi era. The most recent surge in detections along the EU’s maritime borders has been attributed to the growing numbers of Syrian, Afghan, and Eritrean migrants and refugees. [There are]… estimates that more than 464,000 migrants have crossed into Europe by sea for the first nine months of 2015. Syrians fleeing their country’s four-and-a-half-year-old civil war made up the largest group (39 percent). Afghans looking to escape the ongoing war with Taliban rebels (11 percent), and Eritreans fleeing forced labor (7 percent) made up the second and third largest groups of migrants, respectively. Deteriorating security and grinding poverty in Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, and Sudan have also contributed to the migrant influx.
The questioning of immigration policy concerned more than just several recent incidents that were the actions of Islamic extremists. Sweden has become a major case study in the results of allowing entry to a substantial number of immigrants that do not assimilate readily into local cultural norms and standards.
Sweden made a specific political decision to allow an unprecedented and vast increase in immigration. Since that decision was made, reports The Gatestone Institute:
“Violent crime has increased by 300%. If one looks at the number of rapes, however, the increase is even worse. In 1975, 421 rapes were reported to the police; in 2014, it was 6,620. That is an increase of 1,472%. Sweden is now number two on the global list of rape countries. According to a survey from 2010, Sweden, with 53.2 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants, is surpassed only by tiny Lesotho in Southern Africa, with 91.6 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants.
“Over the past 10-15 years, immigrants have mainly come from Muslim countries such as Iraq, Syria and Somalia. Michael Hess, a local politician from Sweden Democrat Party, encouraged Swedish journalists to get acquainted with Islam’s view of women, in connection with the many rapes that took place in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the “Arab Spring”…Hess notes that “There is a strong connection between rapes in Sweden and the number of immigrants from MENA-countries [Middle East and North Africa].”This remark led to Michael Hess being charged with “denigration of ethnic groups” [hets mot folkgrupp], a crime in Sweden. In May last year, he was handed a suspended jail sentence and a fine — the suspension was due to the fact that he had no prior convictions. The verdict has been appealed to a higher court.
“Whether or not they measured by the number of convicted rapists or men suspected of rape, men of foreign extraction were represented far more than Swedes… A new trend reached Sweden with full force over the past few decades: gang rape — virtually unknown before in Swedish criminal history. The number of gang rapes increased spectacularly between 1995 and 2006. Since then no studies of them have been undertaken.
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The Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) is a conservative and euro-sceptic European political party, defending broader conservative and economically liberal principles. It has twenty-two member parties, as well as four independent members, spread across twenty countries.
The AECR believes that the dramatic influx of people from the Middle East into German has presented vast problems.
“When Angela Merkel announced that Germany would welcome all that sought refuge at its border in September 2015, the move was celebrated as a sign of Germany’s progressive leadership. Today, the reality of inciting rather than discouraging large scale migration via treacherous and criminal channels has been tragically well documented.
“A second reality now hitting home is that large-scale uncontrolled migration inevitably leads to host communities feeling some strain as more and more people settle in those areas….
“Following the Paris terror attacks in November, France re-introduced border controls. Germany also, embarrassingly, has had to introduced border controls in 2015 while Austria is going as far as putting up a barbed wire fence along its border with Schengen EU-member Slovenia. The repercussions are also being felt further afield as the migration pushes on northwards.
“Sweden – traditionally one of the most welcoming of EU countries – [has] began carrying out ID-checks on its border with Denmark. Denmark, responded by introducing checks at its borders with Germany.”
Although expressing confidence that the threat could be overcome, Pope Francis has warned that the massive wave of Islamic immigrants could pose a threat to the human-centered culture of Europe.