What gives?—the New York Times exposing problems with multiculturalism twice in two days! First, we have a story about Malmo, Sweden (we’ve written a lot about Malmo on these pages) and how the anti-immigrant tide is rising and then we are also told about how England is struggling with the same problems with the clash of civilizations, here. The NYT says the policy shift in the UK on Muslims is “ominous.” Really? For whom?
Category: Europe
David Frum gets it mostly right
In his National Post opinion piece Frum* paints a dismal picture of what I think everyone can see—the newest refugee “crisis” coming out of the North African/Middle East turmoil. What I was looking for, however, is any understanding that there are one-worlders (within the immigration industry) who see this crisis and chaos as a good time to advance their borderless world concept and will be using the “refugee crisis” to further destabilize European nations and as an excuse to BRING MORE REFUGEES TO THE UNITED STATES and to Frum’s home country of Canada. Islamists as well will see this as an opportunity to increase Muslim numbers in Western countries.
This is not going to be Europe’s burden (cross to bear!) alone!
Here is Frum at the National Post:
The turmoil in Arab North Africa is not only a political crisis: It could soon trigger a global migration crisis.
Already, 5,000 Tunisians have attempted to migrate to Italy since the collapse of the Ben Ali regime. The would-be migrants are being held on the Italian island of Lampedusa, while the Italian government decides what to do.
Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, has publicly worried that 300,000 Libyans might try to flee to Italy after a collapse of the Gaddafi regime. It is less than 200 miles by sea from the Libyan capital of Tripoli to Lampedusa.
Spain legalized 750,000 illegal immigrants in 2007. Unsurprisingly, that generous amnesty only summoned more illegal immigration.
The Arab and African populations are booming and there are literally millions of young men with nothing to do. (Cheerful read for a Saturday morning, isn’t it.) But, I repeat, it will not be Europe’s problem alone. Keep a watchful eye for the drumbeat to begin—waaahhhh! We need to bring the refugees to North America! To Australia! We have been hearing this cry for decades every time there is upheaval in the world. I guarantee you it is already being discussed in the UN and in the US State Department!
The Arab world -especially the North African Arab world -is in turmoil because of the economic and political failure of Arab -and especially North African -governments.
Increasingly, the people of these societies look to migration as their solution.
Yet their solution is Europe’s problem. Voluntarily and involuntarily, Europe is now receiving 1.7 million immigrants a year -more than the United States. Europe’s immigrants come overwhelmingly from the Middle East and North Africa, and they are overwhelmingly Muslim in religion.
[…..]
These migrants do not usually arrive with the skills necessary to succeed in an advanced economy. They pool at the bottom of the labour force and often turn to crime or political extremism.
Unfortunately both for the immigrants and for the native-born, Europe’s generous welfare states offer the lowskilled an attractive alternative to work.
[…..]
Middle Eastern and North African populations are surging: Egypt is up from 20 million in 1950 to 80 million today. Two-thirds of all Arabs are under age 25. Some 80 million net new jobs are required over the next 15 years just to keep pace with the population explosion.
Read it all. And, get ready!
*Learn more about David Frum here at wikipedia. He has a distinguished career, however, note that most recently he helped organize that ridiculous “No Labels” political group that fizzled the day it was announced.
North African refugee “crisis” news round-up
We will be watching for any sign that the US will offer to airlift any to the US, or make noises about taking “refugees” in some sort of emergency fashion.
In the meantime, Europe is sweating—first Tunisia, then Egypt and now Libya.
Here are some recent reports:
*The New York Times reports here on an EU meeting to figure out who is going to pay for all the refugees.
* There are two reports, here and here from Switzerland (not a member of the EU) about the refugee situation. Interestingly there are tens of thousands of Chinese in Libya now trying to get out (oil field workers?).
* Aljazeera on foreigners fleeing and European worries, here.
* CNN says UN warning of mass exodus from Libya, here.
* RT News says Italian island overrun with illegal immigrants, here.
* Somali refugees mistaken for mercenaries in Libya, here.
I’ll add to this list as the news comes in (always looking for any news that the US is going to do something irrational!).
UK Diversity is beautiful alert!
Since the UK is far more “advanced” than we are in its “welcoming” approach to Muslim immigration, from time to time we bring you stories from across the pond so that you can vicariously experience the joys of multicultural understanding. Hat tip: Ed.
UK teacher brutally slashed/beaten for teaching that other religions exist! From the Daily Mail:
Four men launched a horrific attack on a teacher in which they slashed his face and left him with a fractured skull because they did not approve of him teaching religion to Muslim girls.
Akmol Hussein, 26, Sheikh Rashid, 27, Azad Hussain, 25, and Simon Alam, 19, attacked Gary Smith with a Stanley knife, an iron rod and a block of cement.
Mr Smith, who is head of religious education at Central Foundation Girls’ School in Bow, east London, also suffered a fractured skull.
The four now face a jail sentence.
Detectives made secret recordings of the gang’s plot to attack Mr Smith prior to the brutal assault. [When you read this didn’t you wonder, what the ****, why weren’t they arrested before they assaulted Smith, if the police knew of the plan?—ed]
The covert audio probe captured the gang condemning Mr Smith for ‘teaching other religions to our sisters’, the court heard.
Sad to say, but the UK is so far gone that their likely response to all this will be—guess we won’t teach anything in our schools that might offend the adherents of the religion of peace!
Another way for “refugees” to get to the US
I’ve been reporting on the “refugee” issue facing Europe in the wake of that much ballyhooed revolution going on in the Arab world (recent posts are here and here). World Net Daily has suggested another problem to guard against and that is that terrorists getting into Europe pretending to be refugees could easily get a fake passport in some European country and just come on over to the US:
Tens of thousands of people from the North African Arab countries affected by demonstrations and revolts are migrating to the open borders of Europe, creating the threat that terrorists could hide among the migrants and infiltrate host nations, according to security analysts…
The potentially dramatic influx of refugees into countries of the European Union – which have no border restrictions – also is posing an increasing security concern for U.S. officials.
Many of the countries in Europe which will be receiving the refugees are under a visa waiver program with the United States. This means that potential terrorists posing as refugees could obtain false passports that will allow them to gain entry into the U.S. without a visa, thereby making it more difficult to have any record of their entry or whereabouts.