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- Soeren Kern: Germany: Migrant
Sex Crimes Double in One Year
- A. Z. Mohamed: Saudi Arabia's
Connection to Radicalizing British Jihadis
by Soeren Kern • June 12, 2017 at
5:00 am
- The
case of Eric X. and his 23-year-old rape victim has exposed,
once again, the systemic failure by German authorities to
enforce the law and to ensure public safety: a failure to
secure borders; a failure to vet incoming migrants; a failure
to prosecute and imprison criminals; a failure to deport
failed asylum seekers; and a failure by police to take
seriously the migrant rape crisis engulfing Germany.
- Germany's
migrant sex-crime problem is being exacerbated by its lenient
legal system, in which offenders receive relatively light
sentences, even for serious crimes. In many instances,
individuals who are arrested for sex crimes are released after
questioning from police. This practice allows criminal
suspects to continue committing crimes with virtual impunity
- In
Berlin, a court acquitted a 23-year-old Turkish man of rape
because his victim could not prove that she did not give her
consent. The court heard how the man shoved the woman's head
between the steel bars of the headboard of a bed and
repeatedly violated her over a period of more than four hours.
The woman cried "stop" and resisted by scratching
the accused on the back, but at some point she stopped
resisting. The court asked: "Could it be that the
defendant thought you were in agreement?"
Some of
the approximately two million migrants from Africa, Asia and the
Middle East allowed into Germany by Chancellor Angela Merkel are
shown arriving in the country, via Austria, on October 28, 2015
near Wegscheid. (Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
Two German police officers have been removed from
their posts after they failed properly to provide emergency
assistance to a woman who was raped by a migrant in Bonn.
The lack of attention by the police has added to the
perception that German authorities are not taking seriously a rape
crisis in which thousands of German women and children have been
sexually assaulted since Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed in around
two million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
by A. Z. Mohamed • June 12, 2017
at 4:00 am
- The
probe was to be conducted by the newly established
"extremism analysis unit" of the Home Office, then
headed by Theresa May, and its findings were due to be
published in the spring of 2016. However, more than a year
later, the investigation has yet to be completed.
- Moreover,
its contents might not be released to the public, due their
"sensitive" nature, rumored to center on Saudi
Arabia, Britain's key ally in the Gulf. Since the U.K.
recently approved £3.5 billion-worth of arms export licenses
to Riyadh, it is possible -- even likely -- that any
revelations about Saudi promotion of terrorism in the country
could be problematic.
- Mounting
evidence suggests that British jihadis are not only groomed in
Wahhabi mosques in the U.K., but many visit Saudi Arabia,
where they work or study.
The
Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in London (pictured) claimed
that the reason Westminster Bridge terrorist Khalid Masood passed
its visa vetting was that he did not have a criminal record in
Saudi Arabia. This is, of course, a complete lie, which raises the
question of whether Masood fell through the cracks through incompetence
or collusion. (Image source: prebano66/Wikimedia Commons)
In the wake of the London Bridge attack on June 3,
which came on the heels of the Manchester Arena bombing, Britain's
approach to combating terrorism has come under scrutiny at home and
abroad. Judging by man-in-the-street interviews, it played a
significant role in the June 8 general election, the outcome of
which -- a victory for Prime Minister Theresa May against Labour
leader Jeremy Corbyn, yet a hung parliament -- reflected a split in
voter perception over whom was to blame for the country's
precarious security situation and which party is better suited to
rectify it.
Although Corbyn has called terrorist groups, such as
Hamas and Hezbollah, his "friends," May not only has been
holding the reins since the resignation of former Prime Minister
David Cameron in September 2016 -- after the Brexit referendum --
but she had also served as Home Secretary for six years before
that.
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