What has happened in Paris is unbelievable. Well coordinated attacks on sites of mostly young people, with the purpose of creating fear and panic. Am I surprised? No, just shocked. It was bound to happen and won’t be the last time. Open borders where people are not checked, no passports, no real history of their actions and behavior in their home countries….though at the present time it looks like these were French Muslim terrorists. It’s not like the world wasn’t warned as to what was coming: it’s just that people put it aside, believing it would happen ‘elsewhere’, that the threat and action of this savage violence wouldn’t affect them. But it does, and it will again. No country is ‘safe’ from this sort of violence. The terror is already here and people feel like sitting ducks. Our hearts are with the French people but our heads should be pulled out of the sand. Extreme violence such as we have seen in Paris, etc. will call for extreme measures from our governments. The safety of our citizens and country depend upon a clearer understanding of what the world is facing. We are not an island.
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No one can ignore what is happening in Europe these days. Perhaps if you live under a rock you can, but most of us don’t. I am more than concerned, alarmed actually, at the news stream of photos where we see floods of immigrants travelling by sea and walking over countries with babies and children in tow. Elderly on crutches, pushed in wheelchairs. One Syrian woman was reported to be 105 years old.
80% of these immigrants are young men, from 18-35, single, looking for economic opportunities. A third are from Syria. The rest from Afghanistan, Iraq, the Sudan, Bosnia, Albania, and other parts of Africa. The Syrians yell and curse the US and the world for “not overthrowing Assad and ISIS”, yet they leave Syria, etc. because ‘they want a better life’. The majority of these are educated (the men) saying they are doctors, pharmacists, lawyers, engineers, and they can’t get a ‘better life’ in their home countries. Well, yes, there is a civil war going on, and they want no part of it. Some say, ‘when it is safe’, they will return to Syria because they love their home country. Just not enough to organize and fight for it. For others to shoulder the burden. They consider themselves the professionals, the elite. And they don’t want to be conscripted by either side.
Germany has said that they will take 800,000 of the immigrants (Actually 1 million). Germany is smart because these are the more ‘acceptable’ of the immigrants: more middle class, even upper class, wealthy Syrians, educated. What is left behind in the camps in Jordan, Turkey, Syria, etc. are the people who are too poor to pay smugglers to get them to the EU. This is the real crisis awaiting the news sometimes writes about and they are legion.
Of course, we don’t know what the German people think of this, but I would think it would be along the thought of “Um…no.” And as far as ‘why don’t the Saudis take these Islamic people in their own country? (Along with the other Islamic countries…) These immigrants are the ‘wrong type’ of religious Muslims. No relief for their ‘fellow’ Muslims, but the Saudis are willing to build 1000 mosques in Germany.
Two or so years ago I read “Savage Continent” by Keith Lowe. It detailed the mass migrations across Europe and the Balkans after WWII. War basically started in the Balkans, and it looks like history will repeat itself. For anyone seriously concerned about what is happening right now, I would strongly suggest reading this powerful and disturbing book.
My greatest concerns are for the children, dragged across countries, babies and small children, and those who drown in open seas and die of disease along the road. They are the true refugees. They are innocent of all politics. In my opinion, that is where immediate concern should be placed.
There is also the issue of these ‘people smugglers’. Opportunistic criminals who take enormous amounts of money from desperate people and then abandon them, jump out of boats when they are sinking. They need to be rounded up and prosecuted. But they are legion and who is funding them?
What of the hospitals in Europe? In Germany, especially in cities like Munich, Hamburg, etc., where migrants are flooding, the hospitals and staff are failing fast. According to doctors, they are seeing diseases that they haven’t seen for over 20 years and don’t have the means of addressing such quantities in the migrants. TB looms large, scabies, a couple of suspected cases of Ebola, syphilis, mental illness and depression are just some of the diseases of these migrants carry. Medical staff are exhausted and migrants are frustrated at the speed of medical care received. Police have to try to secure the hospitals yet pharmacies are raided and drugs stolen. There have been brawls, and outright riots between migrants: Syrian fighting Iraqis, Afghans fighting Sudanese. And none of these Muslims tolerate the Christian migrants amongst them……
Already over 7000 migrant men have disappeared from the camps in Germany, etc. Where did they go?
The ‘camps’ are terrible. The sanitation is substandard, migrants complain about the food, and complain “Europe is too cold, and too many people.” Well, yeah. Who ever lied about the paradise of Europe back home should have been taken with a large ton of salt. It’s not clear to me how this vast migration started, but there are migrants that are not coming from war zones: Albanians, Serbians, Kosovars, Pakistanis, and countries in Africa. These seem like economic migrants to me and to many others I would believe.
Winter in Europe will challenge reindeer. It’s supposed to be a bad one, too. And these migrants don’t want to settle in ‘boring’ Finland. “No bars, nothing to do.” I thought Muslims were not supposed to drink alcohol?
“We were promised apartments, homes, cars, money, free education and medical. Europe doesn’t care about us. We want our money.” (Your money? It’s the taxpayers of these host countries who are feeding you. What in Hell are you contributing here?
The German (and Swiss, Swedes, Finns) welcomed these migrants with open arms a few short months ago. Now? These Islamic migrants seem more like an invasion. They ‘shop’ for a country that gives the most benefits. Where in modern history are borders so porous that people are not expected to show papers, visas, passports? Greece, Serbia, Hungary’s forests and shores are littered with discarded passports. Even Syrian passports, and I can’t understand this at all, especially if Syrians are given primary consideration.
The rise of anti-migrant demonstrations all over Europe and the rise of neo-Nazi groups have not been seen since WWII. This is not predicated only on hatred, but mostly on fear. Nationalism plays a role here, too. However, in some countries, cities like Malmo, Sweden, now the ‘Rape Capitol of the World’, 95% of the rapes are by Muslim men. They bring medieval mentalities towards women and their contempt and violence are being felt by Europeans Muslim women already know the drill.
There is no pleasing and no stopping of the numbers. They complain of the pasta in Italy and the potatoes in Germany. Yesterday I saw a video: A Iraqi man complaining about a plate of food: “No man would eat this, not even a dog. This women would eat.” Says something about this culture’s misogyny.
Europe is overwhelmed, and what really makes people mad is that these other rich Muslim nations refuse to take in any of their religious kind. Perhaps they are wiser than the welcoming Europeans.
Mother Merkel’s plan was to put these people to work, to pay for the aging German’s pensions, etc. That won’t happen. These people don’t seem to assimilate easily into their host countries. And if Merkel thinks they will ‘start at the bottom’, she has something to learn. So do the rest of the ‘do-gooders’ of Europe.
This situation won’t end well. Religion and ideologies are at war. And they always have been. In six months time, the shit will really hit the fan: they (especially the young men…) will be bored and restless. Good fodder for the bad influences of destructive forces already there. And unemployment in Europe is still a serious factor for the native Europeans. The vast majority of migrants will find the going very rough.
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Jane Kohut-Bartels
Copyrighted, 2015
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