Jarnhamar
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Altair said:Meh. People kill other people for stupid, illogical reasons all over the place.
Honor killings, business deal gone wrong, voices in head.
Knowing your posting history (I mean that in a positive way) I don't believe for a second that you lump this all together and don't see a difference between every day violence and violence imported to a country through culture.
In point of fact you say " As long as they aren't doing it at greater rates than the native population." I'm fairly certain honour killings, acid attacks, assaulting people for ordering ham on their pizza or walking an (unclean) dog aren't common to London or Europes native population.
Instead of saying Germany you could say the rest of Europe minus the countries that aren't accepting migrants.The increase in sexual assaults in Germany is a valid issue for example.
I was rather happy reading this article, though pretty pissed off a Canadian judge was moronic enough to give an abuser a lighter sentence because of his "culture".
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2015/07/20/an-ontario-court-has-just-affirmed-that-cultural-norms-that-excuse-violence-have-no-place-here-editorial.html
The woman, a recent immigrant from Iran, suffered brutal spousal abuse but didn’t even realize it was against the law.
After moving to Canada in 2009 her husband forced the woman, whose identity is protected by the court, to have sex with him by hitting her, pulling her hair, pinching her and forcefully removing her clothes. “She cried out quietly so the children would not hear,” court was told.
He also slapped, kicked and punched their two sons and hit them with a belt. Once he locked them outside the house on a snowy winter day wearing nothing but shorts and T-shirts until their mother came home and rescued them.
When the husband was convicted of sexual assault and assault, Justice William Gorewich of Ontario court sentenced him to 18 months, citing mitigating factors that included the lack of a criminal record. The judge also noted a “significant cultural gap” between behaviour that is accepted in Canada and in Iran, and the “cultural impact” of changing countries.
That didn’t cut much mustard with the Ontario Court of Appeal, nor should it have.
On appeal by the Crown, Justices Mary Lou Benotto, Alexandra Hoy and David Doherty found the 18-month sentence to be “manifestly unfit”and they imposed a far tougher, and entirely appropriate, four-year sentence.