There’s a simple answer to this: what is the race of the perpetrators of the 1000 offences vs that of the perpetrators of the 8000 offences?

But I suspect that data is not made readily available – and that’s the big issue here. It may (or may not – we don’t know) reveal that immigration is a driver of offences. Either way, we have to acknowledge that authorities are not neutral on this: they don’t want to risk stirring up racial tensions. Sadly that sometimes suppresses information that’s important for prevention of those crimes in the first place. There’s well-known precedent in the UK where reports on Asian grooming gangs – that could have prevented further offences – were not released because of fear of the “racial sensitivity” of the facts. The police forces in question have now admitted this.

None of this means that immigration is a driver of crime in Norway. But it could be. The big problem is this: data needs to be made public so people can act on the truth and sadly “progressive” authorities are bad at doing that. However much we’d all like the world to be one way, if the facts say otherwise, the answer isn’t to hide the facts.

Yes. The general acknowledgement and recognition of sexual assaults of women, and more recently the #metoo movement.

I understand you xenophobia wants to pin everything on immigrants, but by that logic it’s just as likely that the iPhone is the reason for the increase: “The original iPhone was launched in 2007. 2018 over 8,000 sexual offenses reported . . . there must be a pattern here if only I could make it out!!!”

1,000 sexual offenses reported on average annually in the 80s. Mass immigration from the third world begins in 2004. 2018 over 8,000 sexual offenses reported . . . there must be a pattern here if only I could make it out!!!