Hilariously, 10 days after the mass attacks across Europe and endless eyewitness and police statements, the BBC says…
Even now, no-one – and that includes the police – really knows what happened.
But of course…
“The police should think now about what they do to help us,” Michelle continued. “This is not a situation that’s normal in Germany or the Western world.”
But she worries. “It would be wrong to blame refugees,” she tells me. “They need our help.”
Well yeah…no one has a clue what happened…except those hundreds of eye witnesses who state quite clearly that mobs of ‘Arab and North African looking men’ attacked women in Cologne…and across Europe.
Cologne Police said that 379 offences were committed on that night, of which 150 were sexual assaults.
“Those in focus of criminal police investigations are mostly people from North African countries,” police said in a statement. “The majority of them are asylum-seekers and people who are in Germany illegally.”
The BBC prefers a different narrative and reports that several arrests were made and that among them were some asylum seekers…others were ‘Germans’…and one American…..but just which Germans? Were they German German or naturalised immigrant German? The BBC is very coy about that as it tries to downplay or cover up the fact that the vast, vast majority of attackers were Muslim males.
The BBC knows it can’t really cover this up and so it tries to blame everyone other than the ‘refugees’ themselves’…and their ‘culture’.….as Sarah Khan says…
Here in the West, we need to stop burying our heads in the sand and accept that Asian, Arab and African men grow up in societies where misogyny is the cultural norm. We need to talk about it so we can change it.
Ignoring it, like the BBC did, is just condoning it. If we are allowing people to come in, we must also make sure that we are not blinded by some truths which are hard to swallow.
It is a betrayal of the truth, of the majority of decent migrants and – most of all – of women who must not see progress turned back for the sake of accommodating a medieval world view.
Here the BBC adapts the Left’s latest meme…that ISIS attacks us in Europe in order to create division and hatred between Muslims and everyone else [Have to say Muslims seem to be doing a good job at alienating everybody else without help from ISIS]…and therefore we must not allow ourselves to react in a negative fashion against Muslims in response to the attacks…we need to do everything we can to make Muslims feel at home in Europe…including ‘more Islam’…er…exactly what ISIS [and the MCB] wants.
In this case the BBC has decided that ISIS may have orchestrated the attacks in Cologne and elesewhere themselves…..
Some analysts have suggested that IS has encouraged a link between refugees and terrorism in order to foster hostility to refugees in Europe, although it is not known if the latest attack was carried out in co-ordination with the IS leadership in Iraq and Syria.
So thousands of ‘refugees’ across Europe are then affiliated to ISIS? The BBC slipped up there….destroying their own carefully created line that it is inconceivable that there are any terrorists hiding amongst the refugees.
However for some at the BBC, those predisposed to flights of fancy and self-delusion in their reporting [usually involving Israel], that is not the real answer…Hugh Sykes [H/T Craig at Is the BBC biased? and DB] continues to report as if high on something and babbles it is all a right-wing conspiracy…..
This is all very strange. Arabs and North Africans attacking German women in several cities, not just Cologne, is like a gift to PEGIDA and people like Tommy Robinson.
And there are conspiracy theories in the air that the New Year’s Eve attackers were encouraged to make sexual approaches to German women, told that it was the normal thing to do on New Year’s Eve.
If true, they may have fallen into a well-laid trap.
Sykes is not worried about the women and victims one jot, he is just concerned as to how it may effect the public’s acceptance of immigration…the BBC narrative….Sykes of course forgets the sad litany of sexual attacks within the refugee centres that the BBC has managed to avoid reporting for some reason, and the rape culture that has long existed in Sweden and Norway….since they let in the immigrants.
Is Sykes related to Sir Mark Sykes of the Sykes-Picot agreement which the BBC’s journalists seem to have such a poor grasp of? Is Sykes feeling guilt for the supposed sins of his forebears and tries to make amends by destroying all borders including those across Europe? Or is he related to comedian Eric Sykes?…only for the comic genius to jump a generation and miss old Hugh out altogether…oh he comes up with some laughable stuff but he ain’t funny, not one bit.
Sykes, like all BBC journos, thinks that to counter the arguments about controlling immigration all you have to do is to suppress the bad news and promote the line that immigration and everything immigrants do is good.
Even the Guardian isn’t convinced of that codswallop….
Only a simpleton – or, more commonly, person driven by instinct and emotion – thinks you can counter the uncompromising prejudice of “all immigrants are bad” with the uncompromising prejudice of “all immigrants are good”.
Sounds like our Hugh….but what else does the Guardian say? Is this Guardian little joke, from the same person above, the source of Hugh’s ‘flight of fancy’?…..
Short of going full conspiracy-theory, and suggesting a) that rightwing German men have slapped on the fake tan in a fiendish effort to engineer a revolt against German immigration policy; or b) that rightwing German men have slapped on the fake tan and dresses, then made it all up, to the same end, there appear to be few uncomplicated ways to blame the right for all this.
Hugh, you are a dishonest nobber, to be blunt.
The BBC as a whole is equally daft….trying to divert attention from the real crimes towards ‘future crimes’ as it warns us again and again of the supposed threat of the Far Right on the march…..whilst of course playing up the fears of the asylum seekers and migrant community….fear generated it has to be said as a result of their own actions usually…..
Ralf Jaeger, interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, warned that anti-immigrant groups were trying to use the attacks to stir up hatred against refugees.
“What happens on the right-wing platforms and in chatrooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women,” he said. “This is poisoning the climate of our society.”
The “anti-Islamisation” Pegida movement and the right-wing AfD have said the attacks were a consequence of large-scale migration.
But Cologne’s mayor said there was no reason to believe those behind the attacks were refugees.
And more….like the use of the word ‘seized’…as if they don’t have a legitimate point to make….
Right-wing groups, headed by the anti-Islam Pegida movement, gathered after reports emerged of a wave of sexual assaults on women on New Year’s Eve.
Anti-immigration campaigners have seized on the Cologne incident as an example of what they see as the failure of the country’s asylum policy. The prominence of the far-right Pegida movement was fading. It is now using the attacks as a propaganda tool.
[Critics have seized on all this as evidence that Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy has put German citizens at risk. ]
On the other side of what is a widening chasm, established Islamic groups here have expressed fears that the actions of a few may jeopardise the future of many.
Officials have warned that anti-immigrant groups have been trying to use the attacks to stir up hatred.
Some suggested Germany’s media had been hesitant to report on the attacks for fear of stirring far-right sentiment, after the arrival of more than a million migrants and refugees in the past year.
The BBC has had no choice but to report on events in Cologne…however it is downplaying those and avoiding mention of similar attacks right across Europe….many apparently organised.
The BBC has decided that once again the important thing is to shore up the argument in favour of mass immigration and has clearly come to the conclusion that mass sexual assaults, including rape, and other serious crime should be covered up in order to do that.
Those liberal, progressive BBC journalists have sat down in editorial meetings and worked out a deliberate strategy to protect rapists, sex abusers, violent gangs of criminals whilst their victims are blamed or forgotten.
The BBC is blatantly lying about what went on across Europe on New Years Day.
In parts of social media the idea of a “lying press” has taken root. [Wonder how that happened?]
The question for Germany is not just how to protect women without curtailing their lives but how to restore trust with ordinary Germans that they are being told the truth.
It is a question that resonates across Europe. It is hard to think of a series of events so likely to feed the narrative of Europe’s anti-establishment and populist parties that an elite is misleading the people.
Of course it’s not just a ‘narrative’, an imaginary portrayal of events…it’s the inconvenient truth…one that may eventually blow Europe, as a political union, apart as people see they are indeed being lied to on just about everything.
What’s worrying me is being accused of being a fascist just because I really am concerned about the levels of immigration into Europe and the (ridiculous) idea that we can assimilate them.
Our “leaders” are not fit for purpose. Our “leaders” are lily-livered career politicians who will not have to deal with the disastrous consequences of their actions. All they care about is their cosy European club and the 7-course dinners they get at taxpayers’ expense.
They need to be put in their place! And VERY soon!
Who wouldn’t want quaint little ethnic traits such as this to be brought to their country, to enrich the bland, impoverished, backward, European culture –
Why worry what label the MSM want to attach? Far-right or facist, it’s their way of trying to close down debate. Ignore them and know that in common with the majority of others you have a right to object to the wholesale destruction of Western culture.
It seems highly likely that Sykes is just making up the news, I guess its easier than working as a journalist for a living. Probably all the initial reports that came from the establishment were incorrect or distorted and these have been continuously rehashed by lazy journalists, such as the initial reports of “gangs of drunken men”, has anyone produced anything credible to confirm this?
I also echo Edward’s concern above, about being labelled a fascist when you raise concerns to people that accepting unlimited “refugees” might not be the greatest policy. I am quite shocked by conversations I have had with German friends who seem in complete denial and also do not even have in their possession the correct information. For example I was told that it was only a very small minority of German people who do not support Merkel’s migrant stance and that the UK is doing nothing to help the refugees. I corrected him, with hard numbers, but it was a complete waste of breath.
“Likely that Sykes is just making up the news”
Following DB’s exchanges on his Twitter feed it is pretty obvious he can, does and is proud of it. And knows the BBC will back him all the way to the Trust, where accountability ends… still within the BBC.
In all the exchanges he never answers a simple question on sources quoted, and resorts to trying to mock anonymity as compromising credibility… whilst not being prepared to cite those he sets up as ‘respected’.
That one line alone,
“Even now, no-one – and that includes the police – really knows what happened. ”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35261460
That one line from Jenny Hill should be enough to ensure that the BBC never receives another penny of public money.
£4B. 20,000 staff. All that trust. And transparency.
And they really know nothing, nothing!
BBC’s new Cologne correspondent…
When I was in primary school I don’t think the words ‘Islam’ or ‘Muslim’ were ever mentioned. I had a book that told me that some Muslims lived in India and knowing that probably put me in the most knowledgeable in the country at that time!
Of course there would have been ‘real experts’, academics, civil servants in the Foreign and Colonial Office, they would or should have known the truth about Islam. One could imagine them in a quiet moment saying to themselves, “Thank god we don’t have any of that nonsense here, we are truly fortunate!” Certainly one would have expected them to be advising “No!” should the question of immigration from Pakistan or India have been raised in cabinet; no more than we would have been issuing entry permits like confetti to Russians during the Cold War.
Now the ‘I’ and ‘M’ words are implicit in just about every news item, drama, comedy or documentary in the UK. For some unexplained reason we have to ’embrace’ this death cult. It used to be that the advocates for change had to make their case but now it seems to be a given that ‘we must be accepting of change’ and to import and ‘welcome’ Islam with open arms.
Some of us might remember the Challenger space shuttle disaster. Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman took part in an enquiry and was told by NASA that manned-space flight was ‘safe’, a disaster would be a ‘one in a million’ event. When he spoke to the people who dealt with the ‘routine’ space launches of communication and surveillance satellites they were dealing with ‘disasters’ of several per thousand if not quite ‘one in a hundred’. He asked them what was different between ‘satellite’ launch technology and ‘manned’ flight, what made the later so much safer? The answer was that there was no difference, just the management/political will that it was ‘one in a million event safe’. I feel we are in the same position here: “It is nothing to do with Islam [fingers crossed, hands behind back]”.
We must be mad. I know I am.
About 50 years ago I read G K Chesterton’s The Flying Inn, which was published in 1914. Loved it but thought the central theme of Muslims trying to take over the country, aided by a duplicitous government minister and using for instance concerns about social problems to ban alcohol was ridiculously far fetched……
Talking of open reporting: http://en.europenews.dk/Facebook-Censors-Story-About-Refugee-Raping-Swedish-Woman-129358.html
I guess it’s no good asking Arsene Wenger if he saw what happened then!