I’m very disappointed by those who are using the terrorist attacks which have taken place in Paris as an excuse to start promoting hatred, especially against refugees in this case but against Muslims in general in a lot of situations.
How many refugees are there?
Millions upon millions.
How many of them are terrorists?
An extremely small percentage.
How many Muslims exist?
About 1.6 billion in according to statistics from 2010, or in other words about 25% of the world’s population. Roughly one out of every four people is a Muslim.
Again, how many of them are terrorists?
An extremely small percentage.
If you see things from this perspective, it’s hard to rationally and ethically justify ridiculously inhumane approaches such as telling all refugees to leave, selfishly closing borders and so on.
In 2015 and beyond, I like to think us humans can do better.
November 15th, 2015 at 3:27 pm
All I know is is that Open Borders allowing murderers, rapists and terrorists into your country is DUMB. If saying that makes me a xenophobic bigot racist than guilty as charged. I kinda see my view point as common sense but I’m crazy in the way I like to employ reason and logic.
November 15th, 2015 at 3:32 pm
when you have 1000’s of people crossing borders daily who have no home, no money and no prospects it will inevitably cause problems. when all you need is one terrorist to kill hundreds or thousands even one in the millions is too much and too great a risk. there is a lot of things in muslim culture i don’t agree with. the way the treat their women for one. i get tired of being told to be tolerant of other cultures who seem to have a lack of compassion for so many others. who is telling them to be tolerant of western values? no one..
November 15th, 2015 at 4:37 pm
European welfare countries where everybody gets a free apartment and free money if they are unable or unwilling to find work and support themselves and their family through their own work are a magnet for hundreds of millions of people in the world who live in poverty.
I feel compassion too and wish that everybody in the world would have a great life but the problem is that the European tax payers simply can’t pay a free life for all of the worlds needy because taxes are already through the roof in many European countries and still governments debt levels keep rising and services for native born European people and immigrants who came earlier through work based immigration are already being cut in several EU countries and at the same time citizens of many European countries are also maxed out in terms of debt levels so the current consumerism society and the we can afford anything mentality is an empty facade.
Despite Merkel saying repeatedly that Germany can afford Merkel’s Grandiose visions to welcome millions this is NOT true.
When you look through the statistics the unemployment rates for second generation Turks whom germany has By the millions is much higher that native germans and the unemplyment rates for Iraqis, Afganistanis and Somalis and Syrians are several times bigger despite living years in their adopted EU countries and the unemployment rates are actually well over 50% in many EU countries for these groups.
This is not a sustainable model and the European welfare state model is broken at the moment.
European countries can NOT afford the current amout of immigration that has been started By Germany and Sweden with their open borders policies where Merkel in Germany and Löfven in Sweden actually INVITED every syrian to come live in their countries and then were surprised when millions came and when this message started also a huge rush of Iraqis, Afganistanis, Somalis and army service deserting Eritreans startd arriving in addition to the Syrians.
It is unsustainable that at the moment Sweden and Germany have started an insane rush into Europe with their policies that attract and lure people to take the risk in the sea between Greece and Turkey because they know that they can travel from Greece to those countries which provide free money and free apartments which is basically whole of western europe from Austria northwards with Germany and Sweden and Netherlands and UK being the most dreamed about destinations among the people trying to get to europe.
The “refugees” coming from Turkey to Greece should be sent back to Turkey because they were NOT in any kind of danger in Turkey because Turkey is a safe country where millions of europeans take beach vacations every year and Turkey already hosts 2 millions Syrian refugees, most of whom work in the black market or live on their savings and rent an apartment where they live.
To those without money Turkey provides a tent with an electric heater and free fod and water in their many refugee camps.
When it comes to Iraqis, Afganistanis and Somalians they should be returned to their own countries peaceful areas taking into consideration that according to all the international agreements and EU law when internal flight in their home countries is possbile then NO refugee status should be given in another country.
The problem is that when there were less people coming many EU bureaucrats and bureaucrats in many western EU countries stopped following this part of international agreements on refugees and started giving refugee status and the free apartments and free money that follows this in the European welfare states to many people who should have fled internally inside their own countries according to international agreements.
When you give more free money and more free apartments and it is easy to get a permit to stay and EU regulations demand that decisions on asylum applications must be taken in under 6 months then this leads to more people coming when word spreads through Skype, Facebook and email what a nice apartment and how much money relatives, friends or people from the same town got and in which countries.
There is unlimited demand for free money and free apartments.
The only solutions to the current madness is:
-start returning EVERYBODY from Greece to Turkey
-Eu funds refugee camps in Turkey and Libanon and Jordan for Syrians
-Iraqis, Afganistanis and Somalians are returned to their home countries safe areas according to international treaties using the presumption of internal flight when countries have safe areas.
-No family re-unifications on welfare anymore for the already arrived people
-Eu countries return people to their countries of origin if there are areas deemed safe in them which is the situation in Iraq, Afganistan and Somalia.
-Eritreans are returned to Eritrea on the condition that there are no punishments for them so that the current army desertion epidemic stops.
It is insane that EU-countries give free apartments and free money to every Eritrean who deserts their mandatory army service in Eritrea using as justification that they can not be returned to Eritrea because they would be put in jail for deserting their army service.
This rush of tens of thousands of Eritrean army deserters to Europe makes crystal clear that Europe has become totally out of touch with reality.
What did EU bureaucrats expect when they started giving free apartments and free money to every Eritrean army deserter.
Mandatory military service VS. free apartment and free money in germany/sweden etc.
I hope Merkel is removed from power By her party because She is completely out of touch with reality and is only interested in her Legacy and blinded By the adoration of arriving millions who call her Mama Merkel for welcoming them to Germany.
Schauble, Maiziere and Seehofer all seem to be completely fed-up with Merkels irresponsibilty and I think Schaubles comparison of Merkel to a skiier who started an avalanche with careless skiing shows that Merkels days as leader of Germany are numbered because if CDU/CSU does not want to be out of power for ten years after the next elections then Merkel has to retire and either Schauble, Seehofer or Maiziere has to become the new leader of Germany and stop the current insane refugee/immigration policy of Germany which has created the current unsustainable situation.
November 15th, 2015 at 5:08 pm
The country with the most rapes in the world in relation to it’s population is South Africa according to statistics.
The country with the second most rapes in comparison to their population is Sweden according to statistics.
When you take a chart of the amount of rapes and immgration side By side it shows that the current rape epidemic in Sweden has risen at the same pace as the amount of muslim immigrants and african immigrants in Sweden.
Sweden does not return these rapists to their countries of origin if they came through the asylum process and the sentences are short so a brutal rape which would get 25 years in USA gets 1-2 years maximum in Sweden and if the defendant cries in the court and gives a sob story how they have been treated badly By “racist” swedes then they might get only parole.
Currently large swedish cities are surrounded By immigrant ghettoes where ambulance and fire department do NOT go without police escort and swedish police only enter these ghettos in groups of minimum two cars and swedish police has ordered armoured cars because they are pelted with rocks By immigrant youths and many policemen and firemen and medics need to continually take sick leave because they have been thrown with a rock and the swedish police does NOTHING to these rock throwers because they do NOT want to look “racist” By arresting people who throw them with rocks and try to hit them with a rock to their head.
Few yers ago there was a huge epidemic of burning cars and burning schools and attacking police stations in these immigrant ghettoes of Sweden.
Swedish police’s response was to move the police stations away from these parts and hardly anybody was arrested and currently in many ghettoes there is no more mail service because mailmen refuse to go and DHL (courier Company) publicly stated that these parts of Sweden no longer get deliveries because the delivery men Were regularly assaulted and robbed.
Swedish media has the most strict self-cencorship in the world and the facts are always hidden from public with the stated goal (that has been openly admitted By several Swedish journalists) of lessening racism because in Sweden reporting the facts and telling the truth is considered racist if it puts some immigrant groups in a bad light.
The most famous example of late was when several somali men Gang-raped a swedish woman on a Cruise and swedish media reported that swedish men gang-raped a woman on a Cruise despite most of the men still having somalian passports and only a residence permit to sweden.
One can NOT compare USA media or UK media to swedish media.
Swedish media treats immigrants and especially muslim immigrants like North Korean media treats dictator Kim Jong-un.
When it comes to the France attacks it has already been confirmed that two of the attackers came to Europe through Greece and travelled through many European countries and applied for asylum in some of these so if there were border controls then at least the paris attacks would have been smaller because there would have been two less terrorists shoting people dead with Kalashnikovs.
November 16th, 2015 at 12:15 am
Be realistic. you are not a politician to be correct politically on every issue.