I read about a quarter of this ill informed and badly written article. What a pile of utter tripe.
"In Germany, New Year’s Eve celebrations turned nasty as up to 40 incidents of sexual assault, many by Arab or north African migrants, were reported. And in Sweden, attacks on women were undeclared by authorities allegedly because the perpetrators were immigrant men, reportedly of Afghan origin."
"Turned nasty"???????????
It also implies that the attacks weren't covered up in Germany.
"Europe-wide spasm of self-doubt, a cold shower of realism after the warm righteousness of hospitality." which book of journalistic shite cliches did he pick that one from?
It is the "warm righteousness of hospitality." which bothers me. If Germany had not accepted so many people the headlines would have been "Racist Germany strikes again" So Germany took a lot of people claiming to be refugees in and they are now seen to have been taking the moral high ground in taking in people claiming to be refugees.
If he lived here he would realise that not everyone felt hospitable and nor do they feel hospitable now towards people who are not refugees and have no reason to claim asylum but still arrive here and try anyway. Nor do they feel hospitable towards gangs of young single men hanging around in cities who only seem intent on criminal activity.
The crowning glory has to be this - "But instead of answering whether we care more about women or immigrants, we should reject that question altogether."
That question has already clearly been answered by the actions of Governments and Police throughout Europe in the last few weeks.