No. Europe 2016.
Auschwitz 1942?
Posted: March 22, 2016 in Political musingsTags: asylum seekers, concentration camp, Europe, politics, refugees
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Oh. My. God.
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And?
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I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusions, Paul.
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Words fail me.
How to help?!
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Tell the politicians that we want to make them welcome.
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LOL. I wouldn’t visit Brussels just now and espouse your special brand of bs without taking out good personal dental cover.
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The people held in concentration camps in Europe are fleeing the same menace that just attacked Brussels. It does you no credit that your wafer thin understanding hasn’t worked that out.
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Think your wafer thin understanding of what’s happening in Europe is so out of touch. I’m sure it’s safer down under.
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Really? Google “Bali Bombing”. How do you explain that all those in the Paris and Belgian attacks were born and bred in those countries? How does that affect your view of refugees?
How do you feel about the fact that tens of thousands of refugees in Europe now were fleeing the very people who attacked a Paris and Brussels?
How do you feel about the fact that there are 1.3 billion Muslims and maybe a few thousand members of Daesh?
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What do you think of the children in refugee camps holding up signs saying “We hate IS” and “We stand with Belgium”?
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At this moment in time Yolly I have no feelings for them at all. If you’re so concerned about them, please feel free to invite them to your country. Hang on a minute don’t you keep them on boats at sea.
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No, actually, we have invited thousands of Syrian refugees here.
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So have we from the camps on the Syrian border. Have you conveniently forgotten about that fact.
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No I was merely correcting your previous (ignorant) remark. The fact you decline to answer my previous questions makes continuing this exchange pointless.
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What questions?
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How do you explain that all those in the Paris and Belgian attacks were born and bred in those countries?
How does that affect your view of refugees?
How do you feel about the fact that tens of thousands of refugees in Europe now were fleeing the very people who attacked a Paris and Brussels?
How do you feel about the fact that there are 1.3 billion Muslims and maybe a few thousand members of Daesh?
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They were born and bred in those countries and allowed to foster and ferment their evil beliefs by weak governments encouraging and helping multi culturalism to exist. A failed experiment in Europe at least.
Doesn’t affect my view on refugees at all. The issue of refugees has now been discredited by the confusion of economic migrants and the infiltration of would be terrorists.
Until the 1.3 billion muslims actually do something about the murdering ******** then I have no feelings about them at all. To be honest I haven’t got much time for any religion.
Hope that answers your questions.
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“We”, as in australians or us Europeans in the frontline?
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The frontline is everywhere. And the responsibility for those fleeing terror falls on all of us.
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You are so patient with trolls. So willing to have an actual conversation, when they never are, never respond to questions, never produce facts. Bless you.
This just in –
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/eu-to-begin-sending-people-back-across-the-sea-defying-human-rights-outcry/2016/04/03/7c5f6382-f5e3-11e5-958d-d038dac6e718_story.html
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This is such a foolish solution, hoping against hope that Turkey will “do the right thing” and settle them. But Turkey has a dreadful record of dealing with minorities – just look at the continual tension with the Kurds – and I am filled with anxiety that this scheme is just kicking the can down the road.
As for the trolls, I live in hope.
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I notice that you haven’t commented since I responded to your questions
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I find your attitudes too depressing to be worthy of further comment.
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I state facts and openly just like you but you can’t cope with it because you think you’re view is correct on absolutely every subject. It doesn’t work like that Yolly.
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Facts are the least of what you spout.
You think whatever you like, Paul. You accuse me of not understanding terrorism because we’re unaffected by it Down Under, despite the fact that we have endured horrendous attacks you were apparently unaware of. You ask us when we will take Syrian immigrants, ignorant of the fact that we just did. And ignorant of the fact that per head of population we have the most generous refugee resettlement programme in the world. (That’s because we know they make great, contributing citizens.)
When FACTS are pointed out to you, you’re silent.
Australia also has a hugely successful multi-cultural society, which means I know a hell of a lot more about that particular approach than you do, as you live in one of the least successful attempts at multiculturalism anywhere in Europe, primarily because of the “Little Englander” mentality you have adopted with such enthusiasm in your old age and your fellow travellers promote so regularly. Is it perfect? No. Is it hugely successful? Yes.
You are asked simple questions about the “other”/positive side of the Islamic experience or the refugee experience and your response is consistently “Oh, I don’t feel anything about them.” To you these are not people – not individuals – they are a group that you have ascribed “otherness” to.
Mate, there are 1.3 billion Muslims on the planet. If they were anything like as difficult or violent as you pretend you’d be dead and buried by now.
Remember this. Every time someone pretends that the lunatics in IS/Daesh are anything to do with mainstream Islam they fuel the fires of resentment. Good, decent honourable Muslims say to themselves, “See, doesn’t matter what we do, they still hate us.”
You rail against the poorest of the poor, the weakest of the weak, fleeing conflicts that WE instigated. And you fail to see that in your tiny, closed minded response you will invariably breed more angry, disenchanted people.
These people would rather risk drowning than stay where there are. Did you ever feel that strongly about anything? Have you paused for one second to wonder why? Oh, yes, of course, they’re all “economic migrants”. Except many of them were wealthy, middle class people before being bombed out of house and home.
Be careful what you wish for.
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I’ll leave you with this thought Steve. I’ve got quite a few customers who go to Australia often and when we discuss Sydney they tell me that I wouldn’t recognise it as it’s just a mini Asia.
Comments like that and the guy I met when I landed in Brisbane to be greeted with “You didn’t get off that plane with all those japs did you” makes me think that not all is as cosy as you may describe down under.
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I am not even going to bother to comment. And this is the last time I will let you post racist comments on this blog. The sad thing is, you don’t even realise you’re being a racist.
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