The public feels deceived by politicians and church leaders pressing an ‘open door’ policy The assaults on women in Cologne and other European cities on New Year’s Eve have confirmed the fears of many ordinary Germans and Austrians, who are in no way right-wingers, that they can no longer trust politicians, the police or the media, writes Christa Pongratz-Lippitt. I have even heard women say that they no longer trust leading churchmen to protect them because the message they have been getting from church leaders is that taking in Muslim refugees is the overwhelming priority. One German bishop even suggested after the attacks in Cologne that the “self-confident manner of western women” was not to Muslim men’s taste. It is difficult to say when people fi