Multicultural appeasement in Cologne

By Dan Hannan

Published January 18, 2016 5:01am ET

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Multicultural appeasement in Cologne — The German state lacks the resources to protect its female citizens from sexual assailants, but it has the resources to prosecute people who insult the assailants. (AP Photo) | Martin Meissner

What was your reaction when you heard that there had been a series of organized mass sexual assaults across German cities? Sympathy for the victims? Anger at the perpetrators? Concern about the future? If so, you’re evidently not a German official.

Ralf Jaeger is the interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, where the worst attacks happened. He was in no doubt about what the real outrage was. Not the assaults and rapes, but the online comments by his political opponents.

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