For the women of North Africa, the sexual assaults in Cologne are nothing new

[LittleBlue]

LONDON – Germany is reeling from the news, hidden for several days because of its political sensitivity, that as many as 90 women were sexually assaulted by a crowd of young men of Middle Eastern appearance outside Cologne Cathedral on New Year’s Eve. This is, as the local police chief put it, a “whole new dimension of crime” for Germans to confront. No woman in North Africa, however, would be the least bit shocked...

In North Africa, it doesn’t require a war for sexual abuse to become routine. Some of the anecdotal stories told by victims of the Cologne attacks are strongly reminiscent of what women in Cairo have suffered over the past few years.

During the 2013 protests that preceded a coup against former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, for example, 101 sexual assaults (including at least three of rape) were reported among the crowds. These, by the way, were the supposedly secular crowds, not the Muslim Brotherhood protests that followed Morsi’s removal. Here’s what would happen, according to a detailed study by the Worldwide Movement for Human Rights, a nonprofit umbrella for 178 organizations:

According to survivors and witnesses, these attacks tend to form a clear pattern. Attacks are perpetrated by groups of men who single out one or two women and separate them from the crowd by forming a circle around them. The men are mainly in their 20s and 30s. The survivors are groped by the mob and dragged violently to different locations. Sometimes their clothes are removed. Many survivors report members of the group saying, “Do not be afraid, I’m protecting you,” while they are being attacked. Attacks last from a few minutes to more than an hour. Several cases of rape have been reported and some survivors have required urgent medical treatment...

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/01/10/commentary/world-commentary/germany-catches-the-north-african-disease/#.VpL5MVnha-e

[newblewtoo]

2. Reading through

this reminded me of the American reporter Lara Logan who had a similar thing happen in Egypt.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=american+reporter+gang+raped

There seems to have been a lot of censorship on social media about this one example was Reddit.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/06/stories-on-cologne-assaults-face-censorship-on-reddit/

Censorship never works and it poisons the well and plays into the hands of the demagogues.

[zazen]

3. remember South African dr who developed vaginal rapist trap?

I sure with that was mass produced. Basically, women could wear a steel jaw trap inside their vagina that would clasp and probably sever a penis upon penetration. kinda useful.

Just a few of those might deter those monsters. Word would get around.

Small price to pay.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Kick. This violent shit has to end

[appalachiablue]

5. K & R Worldwide abuse and violence toward women and girls that's heartbreaking and despicable.

It's my hope that I live to see the start of serious discussion and action concening male privilege.

[davidn3600]

6. An interesting video on it

Listen to the woman in the video and how she describes how it happened to her in Cairo. And then notice how similar that description is to what witnesses say happened in Cologne.