Cologne sex attacks: women made to "run gauntlet"

[Robert Mahnke]

Hi Kai, I have been trying to pay attention to this story, partly because I
change trains in Koln now and then and so it's easier for me to imagine the
scene.

I wonder why you say your patience with Islam has come to an end, for a few
reasons.  One is that the English-language coverage I've seen has had only
scanty information about who the perpetrators might have been.  Are they
not relating facts that have been reported in German-language media?  But
even where English-language sources have interviewed witnesses/victims, I
haven't seen much to suggest that the perpetrators were from any particular
ethnic group or religion.  I've seen suggestions that there were people
present of Arab or North African appearance, but that's been true of that
area when I've passed through.  And I don't get tie you see with Islam.  Am
pretty sure Islam frowns on what happened as much as Christianity or
Judaism would.

So, curious about what I'm missing.


On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de
> wrote:

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> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/cologne-sex-attacks-women-made-to-run-gauntlet/news-story/c8a374824b163738853eb98daba9d2e6
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> Similar things happened that night in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bielefeld and
> other cities.
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> My patience with Islam has come to an end.
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