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For decades now Europe has opened its arms and its borders
to Muslim refugees. It did so to assert its overweening idealism, its love for
humanity and its belief that all human cultures are essentially the same.
Those who wish to do the same should, reasonably, take a look at the evidence. How has the policy worked out in practice?
Andrew McCarthy offers a capsule summary of some of the
consequences of the policy:
The
jihad waged by radical Islam rips at France from within. The two mass-murder
attacks this year that finally induced President Francois Hollande to concede a
state of war are only what we see.
Unbound
by any First Amendment, the French government exerts pressure on the media to
suppress bad news. We do not hear much about the steady thrum of insurrection
in the banlieues: the thousands of torched automobiles, the violence against
police and other agents of the state, the pressure in Islamic enclaves to
ignore the sovereignty of the Republic and conform to the rule of sharia.
What
happens in France happens in Belgium. It happens in Sweden where much of Malmo,
the third largest city, is controlled by Muslim immigrant gangs — emergency
medical personnel attacked routinely enough that they will not respond to calls
without police protection, and the police in turn unwilling to enter without
back-up. Not long ago in Britain, a soldier was killed and nearly beheaded in
broad daylight by jihadists known to the intelligence services; dozens of
sharia courts now operate throughout the country, even as Muslim activists
demand more accommodations. And it was in Germany, which green-lighted Europe’s
ongoing influx of Muslim migrants, that Turkey’s Islamist strongman Recep
Tayyip Erdogan proclaimed that pressuring Muslims to assimilate in their new
Western countries is “a crime against humanity.”
So how
many of us look across the ocean at Europe and say, “Yeah, let’s bring some of
that here”
3 comments:
Maybe we should only accept Christian refugees? An executive order could take care of that.
http://crfimmigrationed.org/index.php/lessons-for-teachers/144-hl5
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933, Americans were struggling to survive the greatest economic depression the country had ever seen. Many Americans feared that needy immigrants would take precious jobs or place an added strain on an already burdened economy.
America's immigration laws placed quotas on the number of people allowed to enter the United States from other countries. In 1939, the quota allowed for 27,370 German citizens to immigrate to the United States. In 1938, more than 300,000 Germans-mostly Jewish refugees-had applied for U.S. visas (entry permits). A little over 20,000 applications were approved. Beyond the strict national quotas, the United States openly denied visas to any immigrant "likely to become a public charge." This ruling proved to be a serious problem for many Jewish refugees. Most had lost everything when the Nazis took power, and they might need government assistance after they immigrated to the United States.
Shortly after she was appointed to the cabinet, Frances Perkins, President Roosevelt's secretary of labor, proposed an executive order on refugees and immigration. Perkins suggested that the State Department should give priority to immigrants seeking refuge from racial or religious persecution. The State Department objected to this order because it would antagonize relations with Germany and alienate jobless American citizens. FDR never issued the order, and State Department officials in Europe continued to reject many visa applications from Jewish refugees.
In September 1935, Nazi Germany passed laws that deprived German Jews of their citizenship. Without citizenship, Jews were legally defenseless. Many lost their jobs and property. Hitler also targeted with violence and persecution countless thousands of gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals, and even the physically and mentally impaired. With so many Germans fleeing their homeland, the State Department temporarily eased immigration quotas. In 1936, the State Department approved visas for about 7,000 German refugees. By 1938, that number had increased to more than 20,000. But an opinion poll revealed that 82 percent of Americans still opposed admitting large numbers of Jewish refugees into the United States. Despite pleas by American human-rights organizations, the U.S. State Department refused to increase the German quota any further.
At the beginning of World War II, the U.S. government did not believe reports that Hitler was carrying out a plan to murder millions of European Jews. But by November 1942, the evidence was overwhelming. Once again, American Jewish leaders appealed to Roosevelt: If the president would ask Congress to change the immigration laws, more refugees could escape the Holocaust. Again, FDR refused. Instead, he joined the British in condemning the Nazi genocide (mass killing) of Jews.
Wartime brought on a sharp decline in immigration when the government imposed even stricter visa regulations. Officials feared that enemy spies and saboteurs might enter the country in the guise of refugees. But as the American public became aware of the enormity of the Nazi atrocities, people began to demand that the United States do something to rescue the remaining Jewish people of Europe. In November 1943, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe introduced a rescue resolution in Congress.
Once again, the State Department objected. This angered Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., a Jew, who was appalled by the Nazi mass killings. Since 1933, the State Department had opposed nearly every attempt to help Jewish refugees. On January 16, 1944, Morgenthau met with FDR and summarized a report prepared by his department. The report documented the long history of State Department obstructionism in refugee matters.
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An indepth essay; not to be missed: http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/11/tet-take-two-islams-2016-european-offensive/
Obama and the Left want that. Why do they hate us?
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