Germany's Vast Social And Demographic Experiment
Rich Lowry writes in the NY Post about the refugees streaming into Europe:
In Syria alone, about 4 million people have fled the country, and another 7 million have been internally displaced.Refugees and migrants are also coming from Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other hopeless places, adding up to potentially tens of millions of migrants.
The locus of the migrants' hopes, more than anywhere else, is Germany. It is expected to get 800,000 asylum claims just this year.
The government is talking of taking 500,000 migrants annually for the next several years, and Chancellor Angela Merkel calls the crisis "the next great European project." The reaction of the rest of Europe should be, no thanks.
What Germany is proposing is undertaking a vast social and demographic experiment, with the rapid, bulk importation of Muslim immigrants into a country with an aging population.
Other European countries could be forgiven for not being so adventurous. The experience of the French banlieues, home to generations of unassimilated Muslim immigrants, hasn't been a happy one.
Which places aren't taking refugees? Oh, the oil-rich, Muslim Gulf States, of course.
Of course, Islam doesn't help engender charity from Muslims toward the refugees:
Neither is the Islamic community particularly keen on disaster relief, even for Muslim victims. This is because the Quran teaches that the disasters which befall communities are a punishment from Allah.
Ah, yes, ISIS is right there to argue that the little dead boy on the beach deserved his fate.
And no, ISIS is not "un-Islamic." If you read at all in Islam, you will see they are quite Islamic; it's "moderate Muslims" who are not.
via @instapundit
I was just mentioning to people why not have the refugees go to Saudi Arabia, common culture common religion, common climate, similar language. As opposed to sending them to Iceland.
Joe J at September 12, 2015 12:16 AM
Well, you see the Gulf States know better. I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating: Jordan took in displaced west bank Arab muslims that we call Palestinians after the 1967 war. Provided food and shelter.
How did the PLO repay such kindness? by trying to assassinate the king, and take the country. They failed, and were forcibly ejected.
I wouldn't take them in, either.
Or as one smart person wrote, we'll take the women, the children, and the elderly. The young and healthy we'll arm for war and send back to fight for their homes. When you succeed, we'll send you back your dependents.
Of course, Germany has other goals. Apparently, they have a labor shortage, and this ought to fill that for a while. Someone has to work to support that social welfare web.
I R A Darth Aggie at September 12, 2015 9:09 AM
The Arab states like the PLO mofos in Israel, where they can direct all their energy toward blaming (and murdering) the Jews for everything that is wrong with their lives.
Amy Alkon at September 12, 2015 10:08 AM
You know, if Germany wants to run an experiment that is their business, but the whole, "And everyone else in Europe has to take a gazillion refugees too" thing is not cool. Do your experiment, pull out of Schengen and leave everyone else alone
NicoleK at September 12, 2015 11:07 AM
"Of course, Germany has other goals. Apparently, they have a labor shortage, and this ought to fill that for a while. "
Wrong, wrong, wrong. All of these migrants will be on generous German welfare benefits in no time. That's one of the reasons radical Islam has spread throughout northern and western Europe. They live in self-contained neighborhoods, never have to learn the native language (which getting a job would require), and they are able to out-reproduce the native tax-payers, all thanks to the generous welfare benefits. That's why these migrants are bypassing Greece, Macedonia, Hungary and heading for northern Europe -- no money in stopping in those aforementioned countries.
David Crawford at September 12, 2015 2:38 PM
This swarm of refugees is a hijra, IMO, which is emigration for the cause of Allah. One of the reasons that the rich Arab countries will not take them, I'm sure, is that they would rather have them colonizing other countries in the cause of Islam.
mpetrie98 at September 12, 2015 8:20 PM
CNN's major online headline was a march by Germans protesting that their borders weren't open enough.
They're advocating suicide and don't know it. The biggest threat to any region is the immigrant bringing their problems with them rather than fixing them at home. Ask Arizona about Californians, or Floridians about damned Yankees...
Radwaste at September 13, 2015 12:40 AM
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