[pfarnsworth]

Germany had a massive amount of sexual assaults perpetrated over NYE last year, mainly from Middle Eastern immigrants/refugees. Things like this tend to leave lasting bad impressions on refugees in general, regardless of how true it is, and look at how that issue blew up in Merkel's face since then.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/10...

[mkesper]

The offenders were mostly from northern Africa (so not from Syria, where most immigrants in 2015 came from). That Washington Post article is clearly biased. Better read the source article: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/uebergriffe-in-koeln-frau...

[jonathankoren]

Perception and reality are two different things, and only the former is relevant to politics.