That's official data, you won't find more reliable data than this , seeing greek boats you
can realise they are actually gender balanced,
different story for libyan boats which, because of the reasons that I explained before, are made up mostly by men. You can't measure 'large' as an absolute value, Europe actually welcome few refugees compared to middle eastern countries. Europe is obliged by Geneva Convention to welcome real refugees, it should be even more important for countries which support religious freedom, human rights, liberalism et similia as their core values, 10% of refugees are also Christian and they are welcomed in Middle East so it's really laughable seeing people that condemn all muslims as terrorists and then support killing boat refugees that escape from war. We know that the facts in Cologne have been magnified by biased media especially in US: they were not 1000 men but about 80 men, they were not refugees but a gang of North African illegal immigrants already known to the police, not actual rapes (like these instead http://www.vice.com/read/rape-culture-germany-cologne-new-years-2016-876) but pickpockets covered by violence. Regular refugees (like legal immigrants) have instead crime rates and rape rates even lower than Germans http://www.thelocal.de/20151113/police-refugees-commit-less-crimes-than-germans Illegal immigrants(all ethnicities) are known for higher crime rates because they can't find legal jobs and don't benefit social support. Actually muslim immigrants (legal + illegal ones) are slighlty less prone to rape than other immigrant ethnicities like in Sweden (Sweden's rape case s a mythhttps://debunkingdenialism.com/2015/12/12/how-anti-immigration-activists-misuse-rape-statistics/) . Rape rates by ethnicity http://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/05/08/br-1996-2-invandrares-och-invandrares-barns-brottslighet-1/br-1996-2-invandraresoch-invandrares-barns-brottslighet-1.pdf Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia: 4,6 Jordan, Palestine, Syria : 1,9 Iraq: 4,0 Iran: 2,0 Romania, Bulgaria: 3,6 "The rest of Africa, excluding Uganda": 3,3 Some people use the 'islamization card' to oppose refugees but let's analyze that too. Muslims are often considered not compatible with liberal values falling into the error of equating the entire Muslim world to Saudi Wahhabism when in fact it is not,indeed, the Muslim world is very diverse, quarrelsome and absolutely not homogenous. Muslim immigrants are mostly Moroccans, Tunisians and Algerians ,countries where religious freedom does exist, other examples: religious offices have recently been banned from politics in Morocco, veil is forbidden at school in Tunisia , 34% of parliamentarians are women in Algeria,and here Syriahttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism_in_Syria; it is true that they are more religious countries than we are today, they have still blasphemy laws (abolished in the West only few decades ago) but what has been said until now makes them at least compatible with liberal values. Some figures: France, a country that have lived immigration for decades and it is the European country with the highest percentage of Muslim immigrants today, ( being an extreme case I analyze the data on this country in order to cover all intermediate situations) one fifth of all Muslims has already become an atheist and only 5% of Muslims attend mosque regularly, then these have views on issues like homosexuality similar to French people. I call it assimilation while 'atheization' better describes the situation than 'islamization'. Add then these facts 1)Syrians in Germany will be ~1%, ethnic Arabs in France are ~10% 2) Immigrants to France are mostly permanent settlers, refugees are semi-permanent settlers. 3)Syrians are more Christians leaned than North Africans. And 'islamization' become a non-problem. SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-saunders/10-myths-about-muslims-in_b_1864589.html