Immigration security

Reverse Swing: Europe’s cultural nightmare

Europe is in a state of existential upheaval. Having agreed to let in many thousands of refugees from the Islamic lands to its south, the Old Continent is awakening to the cultural and political fiasco in its midst.

The mass groping of women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, by men of North African and Middle Eastern origin, has offered the most lurid and distasteful example to date of the culture clash between the host societies and many of the young migrant men who have sought refuge in Europe.

Cologne was a watershed, and there has been a hardening of European attitudes toward Muslim migrants after the events there. For the first time, the liberal left has grown afraid, viewing the misogyny embedded in the culture of the displaced men in their midst as a threat to women’s safety and to hard-won women’s rights.