There is really nothing new, except maybe the number, in this piece about how the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is begging the West to get the Middle Easterners out of the Middle East.
Syrian refugees: Here we come! Photograph: Hadi Mizban/AP
Note that they mention Western countries which “have the means,” can afford an influx of poverty, but no mention of the RICH Islamic countries, most notably Saudi Arabia which has the money and the land to accommodate a couple hundred thousand or so of their fellow Muslims.
See first Daniel Pipes’ brilliant idea of keeping Muslims in their own cultural zones, here!
The U.N. refugee agency on Friday appealed to European and other states to grant asylum to more Syrians as increasing numbers flee their country in perilous journeys across the Mediterranean.
Naturally there is crisis-mongering about how people are dying trying to get across the Mediterranean from Libya, but not one word to suggest that the West clamp down on the now lawless Libya which allows the boats to launch from its shores. How about stationing some warships along the coast of Africa and sending some of the boat people back, or load them up and take them to the EMPTY UN state-of-the-art refugee camp Al-Azraq! The flow will quickly subside!
The U.N. agency has proposed that Western countries admit up to 30,000 Syrian refugees on resettlement, humanitarian admission, or other admission programmes by the end of 2014.
So far this year, 16 Western countries have pledged to resettle 10,240 Syrian refugees, including 500 announced by France this week, the UNHCR says. Germany accounts for 5,000.
“UNHCR is calling on countries that have the means to do so, in Europe or beyond, to offer solidarity through not only financing and other contributions, but through measures that would mean third-country resettlement and family reunifications,” Fleming said.
This civil war will end sooner or later, so why is it imperative to permanently move the ‘migrants’ to a third country, unless of course this is really about UN-facilitated Al Hijra!
US readers should make it clear to your elected officials in Washington that we can’t afford more imported poverty!
France has agreed to take in 500 Syrian refugees at the request of the United Nations following talks in Paris between French President François Hollande and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, the UN agency said Wednesday.
Even the Socialist Hollande knows what Muslim immigrants have done to France! Maybe they will insist on Christians only.
With no end to the conflict in sight, the UN agency has urged EU nations to offer asylum to some 10,000 Syrians this year and another 30,000 in 2014.
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Some 50,000 Syrians have so far applied for asylum in the EU, mostly in Sweden and Germany.
Speaking of Sweden, they are hastening their country’s decline with a record number of asylum seekers—mostly Syrians and Eritreans—tweeted by Fjordman, here.
This morning on my twitter feed the UNHCR was promoting a kid’s game—“Against all odds”—which I had never heard of. Turns out they have been working on building “empathy” in your children worldwide since 2005 with this game to be used in classrooms. The goal is for Western children to accept “integration” (note they always shun the word assimilation!).
See how clever this is! The character here looks strikingly like the internationally popular Japanese animation—Anime!
Here is some of what ‘wikipedia’says about it (emphasis mine):
Against All Odds is an Adobe Flash video game developed by UNHCR designed to teach players about the plight of refugees. Originally released in Swedish in 2005, the game has been translated into several languages, the English edition of which was released in November 2007.
Initial funding for the project came from a grant of NOK 1 million from Statoil to UNHCR’s Baltic and Nordic regional office, with the aim of developing a project to reach young people and promote integration in the region.
UNHCR decided to proceed the project as a web-based game, a medium which could reach a large number of young people, require no distribution costs and minimal marketing costs. The game was aimed at 12 – 15 year olds, an age where people began to develop ideas regarding refugees and similar issues.
In Against All Odds, the player takes the role of a refugee, and plays through twelve stages – depicting his persecution and flight from his native country, through to eventual integration into a foreign country as an asylum seeker.
In awarding a prize in Austria, a jury said this, according to wikipedia:
The jury praised the game for building understanding, empathy and concern for the plight of refugees in the player
Swedish young teens have had eight years of this indoctrination—-do you think it worked there? See here and here.
This is at once a fun read and an annoying read at IRIN News (a ‘humanitarian’ news outlet connected with the UN).
UN housing (a caravan) converted into a much-needed perfume shop. Photo: Areej Abuqudairi/IRIN
It’s fun to see how cleverly some Syrians are turning their situation into a study in how capitalism develops (albeit skewed a bit by the freebies from donors) when left to their own devices and where there is virtually zero regulation and zero taxes.
It’s annoying when you consider the author of this piece (or at least the editor) focused on the “haves vs. the have-nots” aspect—your classic commie orientation.
And, some of you might be put off by the fact that the Syrian entrepreneurs are using donated items in their commercial ventures.
Here is how the article begins, but read the whole thing and note how ‘clever’ these Syrian Capitalists have become. (Emphasis is mine)
ZA’ATARI, 8 October 2013 (IRIN) – Just over one year ago, thousands of white tents were erected near the Jordanian-Syrian border to “temporarily” host Syrian refugees who had fled violence in their country. Waves of refugees have since flooded the desert camp; Za’atari is now Jordan’s fourth largest city and the world’s fourth largest camp, home to 120,000 Syrian refugees.
To accommodate the population’s needs, a market has sprung up along the main road at the entrance to the camp, extending over several kilometres, with grocery stores, clothing boutiques, restaurants, bakeries, cafés, electronic shops and barbers all available.
This frenzy of commerce has spawned winners and losers, buyers and sellers, haves and have-nots, honest traders and outright thieves.
Such divisions have fuelled resentment, particularly as those better off are viewed as taking advantage of the aid system at the expense of those living at the edge of survival, in an environment with very little security or regulations.
No regulations, no taxes, no rent, no electric bills and no child labor laws! Here is one of many anecdotes that amused me:
To be able buy groceries from the Za’atari market, Zubi sends her 13-year-old son to work.
He stands with a wheelbarrow in the middle of the market, offering to wheel purchases or aid materials to residents’ homes. Depending on the distance of the trip, Mohammad Kahir earns between 0.50 to 2 dinars ($0.70-$2.80) per trip.
Just fyi, there are dozens of new (and predictable) stories in my alerts today about Syrian refugees—most are dire warnings about people starving/freezing/drowning, mean-spirited governments not taking them in, and that the number is going to grow exponentially.
For all of our coverage of Syrian refugees, go here. Between Somalis and Syrians we are never at a loss for stories to post!
That’s a question that comes to my mind as I read the many reports coming out of France over the last two days about Syrians demanding entry into the UK even after France relented and offered asylum there. Hat tip: pungentpeppers who has been following the demonstrators’ demands closely.
Syrian invaders (oops! refugees) sit on a roof at the ferry terminal at Calais. Photo at NBC Philippe Huguen / AFP – Getty Images
I’m also reminded of Kilian Kleinschmidt at Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan saying that the Syrians were the most difficult refugees he had ever seen. Their attitude, that the West owes them something, is not going to endear them to the citizens of first world countries who are frankly sick of the angry squabbling Middle Eastern migrants.
Some 60 Syrian refugees – many of them on hunger strike – are in a standoff with police at a ferry terminal in northern France.
The group has occupied a footbridge at the port of Calais, a popular crossing point into Britain, and is demanding the British government grant them asylum into the U.K.
Between 20 and 40 of the group have not eaten for two days, activists and protesters said.
Katie Wellington, an activist with the Calais Migrant Society who is at the port, said some 70 riot police attempted to clear the site on Friday morning. In response two Syrians climbed onto a roof and threatened to jump if their asylum demands were not met.
Wellington said the group has effectively given the British government an ultimatum: “Let us into the U.K. or we will die here.”
“These people have different reasons for wanting to come to the U.K.,” she said. “Many of them have family or communities there, and they feel they will get better protection from the [British] government than in France.”
Denis Robin, the prefect of the Pas-de-Calais region, told Sky News he has offered the Syrians, currently illegal migrants, asylum in France.
Mohammed: “We are ignored.”
One of the protesters, 25-year-old Mohammed al Kayd, said he was an economics student studying in Damascus before he was forced to flee Syria one year ago.
“In Calais we sleep in the streets and no one asks us what we need or what happened to us. We are ignored,” he told NBC News via telephone. [Well, Mohammed, apparently a good community organizer, managed to not be ignored by NBC.—ed]
Check out Mohammed’s travel route:
“I left Syria with a little bit of money which I had to spend on food and travel,” he said of his 2,000-mile journey across Europe. “I went through Jordan and from there through Egypt and to Italy by boat.
“The journey by boat lasted for 10 days [What? Was he in a rowboat?—ed] and the last three of these I went without food. From Italy I went to France and traveled to Calais by train.” [Sounds like he had a pretty easy time traveling across Europe which no longer has border checks on each country—ed]
At France 24 we learn that some of the poor and destitute travelers spent $13,000 to reach the port of Calais and they unleashed their anger at the French President where even the Socialist Hollande now apparently knows that an invasion is on.
Ali, a 38-year-old, can barely hide his anger, saying although French President Francois Hollande had taken a strong stand against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons, the French were not welcoming at all.
“Why does the president say one thing and the police another?” Ali said, adding that he had spent $13,000 (9,500 euros) to come to a country where the “president said ‘we must help Syrians.'”
“Here even animals are better treated than us,” he said.
$13,000! $13,000! Where the h*** is all that money coming from?
Does no mainstream investigative reporter ever ask? I believe young Muslim activists are being paid to lead these demonstrations, the question is, who is funding them?
I hear Al Azraqcalling! That is the state-of-the-art UN refugee camp in Jordan that sits empty. How about packing all of the demanding Syrians up and taking them there (including the ones now plaguing Bulgaria). Such action would send a message and other Syrians would think twice before heading off to Europe. It is a simple solution, but too sensible for the UN.
For more information: We never did make a special category for Syrian refugees (a mistake), but if you use our tags you should be able to find the dozens of posts on the topic. (See tags in right hand side bar).
