in one of the links in Steve's post

http://www.dw.com/en/german-justice-minister-cologne-attacks-planned-in-advance/a-18969653

the point is brought up that these attacks were planned ahead of time, and involved youthful economic immigrants from N Africa, coordinated by social media. This is not quite the same as saying the crimes are committed by sick and exhausted Syrian war refugees, many of which are older, are coming here with families, and are not organized or directed by anyone.

What it appears to be is a coordinated effort to throw a monkey wrench into European plans to regulate and control the Syrian refugee flow (to cause Europe embarrassment and confusion) and to exploit unemployment problems and disaffected Muslim youth (which have been coming to Germany for work because of Germany's labor shortages). These thugs have been in Europe for a while, they are not recent arrivals.

In other words, these street crimes are not the result of the refugees, but an attempt by Islamists to manipulate the refugee issue for their own purposes using disillusioned German "guest workers".

The equation "refugees = crime" is not only tailor-made for right-wing German xenophobes, but is also exactly what the Islamists want to discourage further exodus from the Middle East. They don't want their own people to know justice, freedom and safety can only be had in Christian Europe. The idea that Arabs are trying desperately to get away from ISIS and Syria, and that European governments are NOT engaged in an anti-Muslim crusade and persecution is not good press for the Jihadists, who thrive on confusion and disorder. As for the sex assaults, I don't doubt they're part of the equation, but are you surprised? Beautiful blonde German girls defiled by filthy brown and black subhuman animals... I've seen that movie before.

I know this sounds like a tired old cliche, but it is true nevertheless: by stopping the flow of refugees we are playing right into the hands of the Jihadists. We are providing to them the proof that the Crusaders are waging war on Islam and that all Muslims must band together and fight the infidel. We lose the Muslim informants in the West, and the Muslim allies in the East we need to find and fight terrorists. Divide and conquer. Its the oldest tactic in the book.