Originally Posted by
Montmorency
No, the relevance here is Fragony's sweeping claim that 100% of assault rapes in Oslo are committed by immigrants. This notion was handily demolished in the course of the linked thread.
This is a crude way of looking at it, and my metric is an equally crude solution. But there's more than one angle to it. What you miss is that the gross total of rapes going by your statistics is rather low, and a reaction against over a million immigrants over the actions of a few hundred makes no sense. If you could find a source showing that of all immigrants, the one's responsible for rapes are usually Muslim, it would even then not be sufficient basis for any sort of policy action. You would first need to consider that most of these Muslim immigrants are from poor areas. You ought to control for income, education levels, age, and generations since settling. After all this, would you find a meaningful correlation that indicates significant culture shock? Can you do all this? I see it as necessary.
You need to get out of the tabloid mindset. 'Oh no Muslims are raping everyone we must do something!' is both ridiculous and unhelpful. At the very least begin by finding a source that can break down crime statistics very finely by demographic.
Furthermore, how do you account for the fact that