[pjc50]

Europe's "mass terrorist attacks" are so much less frequent than US mass shootings that they would barely register.

The sexual assault issue seems to have been a couple of big nasty incidents, which were heavily spun by media personalities whose main line of business was talking up the threat of Islam. How big a problem this really is is hard to tell, especially since nightlife has been cancelled for fourteen months.

[luckylion]

> The sexual assault issue seems to have been a couple of big nasty incidents, which were heavily spun by media personalities whose main line of business was talking up the threat of Islam.

Sorry, but that's nonsense. In Rotherham or Cologne, the opposite was true: the media was actively working on covering it up, not "heavily spinning it" to talk up some threat.

[jasonvorhe]

Citation needed.

[allendoerfer]

https://meedia.de/2016/01/06/koeln-und-die-verzoegerte-ueber...

He is actually right. They reported it 4 days late.

[volta83]

Just because they happen less frequently (which I don't know if this is the case) does not mean that they are not an issue.

I don't know how the situation is in the US about these things, but if these problems do not exist there at all, its normal for Americans coming here and seeing it happen "occasionally" to freak out about it.