<i>No, I don&#x27;t suggest it&#x27;s higher. I suggest that there is no obvious correlation between religion and crime rate...</i><p>Sorry, I misinterpreted this phrase as being a suggestion that it&#x27;s higher: &quot;Note that this does not mean that immigrants do not commit less crimes than residents.&quot;<p>So what are the numbers, for immigrants and Germans?<p><i>The racists don&#x27;t have a plan to prevent another Cologne. Not a credible one, anyway. They live in a fantasyland where you can just push a button and immigration stops.</i><p>Most politics is pure fantasyland. Consider Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders here in the US - both are spouting pure fantasy that appeals to the emotions of their base.<p><i>In the end, what happened in Cologne is like a mass shooting in the US: individually, a horrific event, but one for which there is no quick and easy public policy response, and in the end, does not pose a much bigger statistical risk than being hit by lightning.</i><p>Eyeballing the numbers, this seems unlikely. As far as I know, tens to hundreds of people were not struck by lightning in Cologne, and similar numbers at the Swedish music festival &quot;We Are Sthlm&quot; every year since 2014.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spectator.co.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;its-not-only-germany-that-covers-up-mass-sex-attacks-by-migrant-men-swedens-record-is-shameful&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spectator.co.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;its-not-only-germany-that...</a><p>So on the one hand, we&#x27;ve got left wing types denying reality as you do above. Then we&#x27;ve got right wing types at least acknowledging the problem and proposing to do <i>something</i> about it.<p>Unless left wing types can compromise on ideology and actually acknowledge reality (Muslims raping women is a vastly larger problem than lighting strikes), people will turn to the racist right for solutions.