Sociopathic scum harassed a number of women in the central train station in Cologne on New Year's Eve. Jens Spahn, member of the Bundestag for the CDU, asked earlier today on Twitter: "Where's the outcry when you really need it?"
Jens Spahn, along with other people fretting about the absence of an outcry, must be living on a different planet. Have they not read the reports published in various media outlets over the last few days, or are they just deliberately ignoring them?
Media outlets heavily covered the event, quoting numerous politicians and Cologne officials. But Mr. Spahn seems to have missed all that. It's either that he lives in his own parallel world, or he believes that people are too stupid to recognize his statement for what they really are: cheap populism.
What Spahn, along with other populist politicians and professional critics of Islam -- who seem to be crawling out of the woodwork en masse -- hope to achieve with this is clear. They take the disruptive behavior of a small group of young Muslims and pin it on "Islam."
"Equally antisocial is the behavior of someone who would exploit these events to stir up hate against Muslims, refugees, or anyone else."
It won't be long before people start showing up and demanding a reform of Islam. Some are already claiming that this incident was the result of the "Muslim conception of women." If sexual harassment is part of the Muslim conception of women, was the highly intoxicated state these men were found in also a consequence of their deep religious convictions? Despite Islam's prohibition on alcohol?
It gets even more absurd when total idiots insist that we shouldn't keep quiet about the cultural background of these men, even though countless articles and reports have already mentioned that the group consisted mostly of men from North Africa.
Alarmists will use such an incident as an excuse to raise the issue of culture clash. But sociopathic behavior is sociopathic behavior, regardless of the alleged background of the perpetrators.
Equally antisocial is the behavior of someone who would exploit these events to stir up hate against Muslims, refugees, or anyone else. I can already see how these same politicians, who always pose as heroes addressing unpleasant, allegedly underrepresented topics, will be making symbolic visits to mosques before the next elections, in order to secure both photo ops and Muslim votes. It's time to stop falling for these ruses.
This post was originally published on HuffPost Germany. It has been translated into English and edited for clarity.