Sisters’ silence on sex attacks

I Don’t buy the argument that the migrant crisis in europe is our own fault for not taking prompt action in the war in Syria.

And now hundreds of thousands of Muslim migrants are here, neither do I accept that the incidents of sexual criminal behaviour which have recently taken place are again somehow our own fault or not something that should be discussed in polite circles.

tra-la-la, stick your fingers in your ears and pretend it is not happening.

Is anyone really surprised about the mass sexual attacks against German women in Cologne? or that in Sweden, sexual assaults on teenage girls at two separate pop festivals — apparently by Afghan asylum seekers — were covered up by a police force fearful of cultural sensitivities?

Gangs of migrants have also targeted female victims in Finland, Switzerland and Austria, while sexual attacks in Denmark are on the increase.

You might imagine that feminists would be outraged, and would be marching on the streets about this, but they are too terrified of being seen as racists to say much about the attacks.

If the assailants had been a gang of farmers from Yeovil, england rugby union supporters or members of oxford’s Bullingdon Club on an away day, the outcry would have been thunderous.

As it is, cheep cheep, squeak squeak . . .nothing. Where is Charlotte Proudman, the young barrister who dressed down that solicitor for finding her photograph ‘stunning’, when you need her most?

of course — and it should go without saying — the vast majority of Muslim men would not behave in such a way, and most Muslim societies would not allow or tolerate the behaviour of the few who did.

However, it cannot be denied that some Muslim men hold coarse, misogynist views and that this risks becoming a bigger and bigger problem.

In parts of the Islamic world, there is the medieval perception, beaten into men’s subconscious down the ages, that women in general are inferior and that Western women are whores.

to air any of this is to be accused of racism, but Islam is not a race, it is a religion. It is a set of cultural constructs and values that are open to interpretation and some of those are harsher than others.

In europe, women have fought and won precious freedoms over the past century or so. Are we prepared to see our values and standards eroded in the name of political correctness? that’s what it looks like from here.