A group of male Syrian refugees distributed fliers on the University of Cologne condemning the attacks and apologizing for the criminal actions: "These criminal actions stomped all over our cultural values – values which naturally include respect for women and men"

ghebert001 · 2016-01-13T15:13:52+00:00

A culture that respects women and men...by stoning adulterers? By treating women and some men as 2nd class citizen? Maybe honor killings are considered respectful because it has the word "honor" in it. There's always killing apostates and homosexuals...there's some respect for ya. Many "moderate" islamists may not engage in these types of horrible avts but they do believe these acts are justifiable when others do them.

FromTheFarSouth · 2016-01-13T16:08:26+00:00

Not all Syrians are muslims. A lot of Syrians and Middle Easterners migrated to my country (Chile) during the first half of the 20th Century and most of them were Christians. Their descendants are very powerful and influential in the Chilean society.

I posted this article because I think we shouldn't lump all male refugees together as if they were the same. In the same way North American feminists demonize white men, European conservatives demonize men from the Middle East and North Africa.

Trail_of_Jeers · 2016-01-13T20:37:16+00:00

Taqiyya.

Rethgil · 2016-01-13T23:04:15+00:00

Happy to see someone making rational point about race instead of the usual attempts here to pass blame for sexism onto foreigners. We are doing ourselves no good and storing problems for the future by conflating xenophobia and feminist extremism. They are seperate things and Im sick of people using this site to basically say 'feminists are wrong, us white men aren't sexist.... But THOSE foreigners over there are'.

richardnorth · 2016-01-13T17:42:43+00:00

Logic that says dont judge a group by actions of a few still (inconveniently) applies: if a handful of people hand out fliers, it doesnt mean they represent their entire group. Just sayin

192873982 · 2016-01-13T14:48:40+00:00

All the reaction letters of Syrians I read are very implausible.

Perfect German language is not what they can do. I believe that leftists initiated these letters because they fear racism, the Syrians might just have tagged along, since it helps them and doesn't take any effort.

Because of it's history, Germans fear nothing more than being racist. That's because they didn't learn the right things in their history classes. The problem in WW2 was not that it was right-wing or racist, the problem was that people stopped thinkiong for themselves and let themselves being manipulated. The problem is that they trusted the media to show the truth about themselves, which no media ever does.

rg57 · 2016-01-14T05:22:02+00:00

The reports said none of the attackers were even from Syria. How can they apologize for something they didn't even do?

Don't apologize. Assimilate into the German culture. Discard the one that failed you.

ee4m · 2016-01-13T15:08:06+00:00

Many muslim guys are brought up with the following beliefs.

Women are the gatekeepers of sex, women who don't gatekeep well enough deserve punishment and women are basically like a property - going out at night and not covering up is seen as like leaving your doors and windows unlocked.

Men always want sex (this is because sex is so thin on the ground due to excessive pressure on women to gatekeep).

Women that do not gatekeep are perceived as asking for it, and so in some peoples minds that means its more okay to sexually assault women that go out at night, don't cover up and have casual sex.

*feminists have dubbed this set of beliefs "rape culture".

That's basically what's behind this.

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