Culture matters. It's the primary source of social progress or regression.

Nowhere do we see this more clearly than in the status of women.

The Judeo-Christian culture and perhaps a more up-to-date civilization has produced

over time the lower codes, language and material prosperity that have greatly elevated women's

status. But this progress is not shared everywhere. There are still hundreds of millions of people

that live in a culture, the Islamic, for instance, that takes female inferiority for granted.

Until recently, these cultures, the Western and the Islamic, were furthermore

spread separated. But that is changing dramatically so. Large numbers of immigrant men from

the Middle East, South Asia and various parts of Africa have brought a different set of values

to the West, specifically Europe. More than a million arrived in 2015 alone, more are on the

way. As a result, crimes against girls and women,

groping, harassment, assaults and rape have risen sharply. These crimes illustrate the stark

difference between the Western culture of the victims and that of the perpetrators.

Let me be clear, not all immigrant men, or even most, indulge in sex attacks or approve of such

attacks. But it's a grave mistake to deny that the value system of the attackers is radically

different from the value system of the West. In the West, women are emancipated and sexually

autonomous. Religiosity and sexual behavior or sexual restraint is determined by women's

individual wishes. The other value system is one in which women are viewed as either commodities

that is their worth depends on their virginity or on the level of a prostitute if they're guilty

of public immodesty, wearing a short skirt, for example. I do not believe these value systems

can't coexist. The question is which value system will prevail. Unfortunately, this remains

an open question. The current situation in Europe is deeply troubling. Not only are Muslim women

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