ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND MIGRANTS
'SWARMING'
INTO EUROPE
In
case you missed my previous blogs over the past two years I would like
to reiterate a few matters which your mainstream media are deliberately
concealing.
Before I do however, I must say that I have a problem
welcoming these particular migrants and refugees from Muslim countries
and from Africa.
The problem I have is not because of their color nor
religion but their attitudes to women, to Gay people, to Lesbians, to
the disabled and to other minority communities.
Almost without
exception, none are Christian. Indeed I have heard (unconfirmed reports)
that the Muslim refugees, when they hear there are African or Middle
East Christians amongst their group, have resorted to murdering them
rather than allow them to travel onwards to Europe with their group.
While I have no proof of this, it would be no surprise to discover there
was some truth, given the attitude to Christians in the Arab countries
of North Africa - such as Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Algeria and in Muslim
countries in the Middle East today.
We are being asked to welcome
people who regard women as second class citizens whose only usage for
girls is enforced marriage, female genital circumcision or mutilation, reproduction or
barter. Their attitude to Gay and Lesbians is that they should be
murdered as their relationships constitute a grevious sin 'against
Allah'. Their general attitude to the disabled and minorities (such as
Albinos) is that they too should be murdered at birth (infanticide.)
Many have similar attitudes to females – indeed the practice of killing
female babies is still practiced in many African and in some Arab
countries since they are regarded as having 'less value' than male babies.
Again our politicians deliberately conceal these facts from the general public.
As
someone who grew up with Jewish, German, Russian, Italian and other
children whose parents were fleeing the aftermath of the horrors in
Europe – both Stalin and Hitler - and managed to survive concentration
camps only to find they had no living relatives – hence starting new
families during the 1950s in more peaceful regions, I have an emotional,
moral and spiritual dilemma when rejecting anyone fleeing the horrors
of war, famine, disease and impoverishment.
But the refugees I knew were very tolerant and forgiving people.
They
were not people who would stone women, or gays or other social outcasts
(at that time) to death. Indeed they had seen far too much murder and
pillage in their own lifetimes to wish it on anyone else.
The
refugees we are being asked to welcome I do not recognise as being able
in any way to adjust to the values of modern day Christendom (since
their Imams forbid it) and my own preference would be to ensure their
temporary safe passage and security with no possibility of European
citizenship for either themselves or their children, neither through
birth or marriage, and their ultimate return to their homelands after
peace is restored – with full compensation offered where they have saved
assets during their sojourn in the safety of Christendom.
[There may
well be exceptions where some have significantly contributed to
Christendom and espouse it's ideals and values, but such should be
exceptions rather than the general rule.]
Unfortunately racism
and hatreds based on skin color or other racial stereotypes have blurred
and fragmented what should be a united and concerted humane approach to
the plight of people fleeing for their lives from what is certain death for themselves and their families.
The ideal solution would be that their fellow-Muslim countries would offer to shelter these refugees.
Indeed
Turkey and Jordan, the Lebanon and some North African countries have
been doing what they can to take in desperate Muslim refugees – and
should be praised for their humanitarian efforts which all too often go
unrecognised in Christendom. The rich Gulf countries (including, of course, Saudi Arabia) have done virtually
nothing to assist in the context of taking in quota numbers of
fellow-Muslims.
Those Really Responsible For The Crises Are Not The Helpless Refugees But Our Own European Christian Politicians
Until
our politicians decided they would bring 'salvation' and 'democracy' to
North Africa and The Middle East, Iraq and Egypt and 'set the people
free' these problems did not exist.
We all worked quite happily with
stable governments in Africa and the Middle East who ensured that
illegal migrants were returned home and never had access to clandestine
smugglers since such close monitoring and political controls made any
such activities criminal offences, with very severe penalties to such
extent that smugglers would not dare undertake such ventures.
What
our Christian politicians left these Muslim lands, far from democracy
and freedom, is anarchy and chaos, where nobody is in control and people
are living in more fear they have ever known since the time of colonial
rule of these territories by imperial powers. But don't expect your
mainstream media to tell you about the abysmal failures of our
politicians and their culpability in what can only be called a complete
mess in North Africa and the Middle East.
What they will tell you
about is those 'evil' people smugglers – who, by the way, are
transporting men, women, children and babies out of harms way to places
of safety.
If Jesus was alive, I believe that one of his chosen
professions today would be that of a People Smuggler – leading the
exodus of those with no hope and in fear for their lives, from war zones, day and night,
out of Hades, chaos and evil – to anywhere that they, their families
and their children might find survival, regardless of their race or
religion or creed.
All I hear about from the same guilty
politicians in Christendom is 'swarms' of 'locust' refugees 'pouring'
into Europe. Yes it is true. The numbers are, as I have said in earlier
blogs, unprecedented and unheard of since the Second World War, but it
is these very same politicians who are to blame for the problems they
are deflecting to blame onto the hapless refugees and anyone who assists
them to reach the shores of Christendom's safety.
Fortunately the
Greek, Italian and Maltese authorities recognise the difference between
political refugees from those countries we have left in chaos – Libya,
Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, from those we clearly have no
obligation to assist – such as economic migrants from Nigeria, Ghana,
Gabon, The Congo, Central African Republic, Senegal Pakistan and Southern Africa.
Unfortunately I am no saint so I do
have a genuine problem welcoming individuals who do not share any of my
values – regardless of their race, color or creed.
As a
Christian, however, I would not deny them shelter from the storm but
would be partial to denying full citizenship rights, under most
circumstances, at any time, to such political refugees.
I share
nothing in common with racists who only have hatred for these
(unfortunate and blameless) people solely because they are a different
religion and ethnicity.
What I would like to see is an honest
politician in Christendom who will have the courage to stand up and take
responsibility for the unholy mess they have all clearly created
through incompetence.
As one of my Marist teachers used to say:
''Show me a man with hair on the palm of his hand and I'l show you an honest politician.''
©Patrick Emek, August 2015