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In reply to the discussion: Europe - migrants - Cologne attacks - The comments section on this Guardian article... [View all]Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)38. Islamification of Europe my arse.
It's not happening, the biggest complaint about immigration to the UK concerns Poles and other East Europeans, even though they're doing the jobs British people refuse to do.
These people coming into Europe right now aren't migrants, they're refugees fleeing persecution from Islamic fundamentalists and a brutal dictator. There are laws governing asylum seekers.
Rotherham was terrible, but the perpetrators have all been locked up, unlike well heeled abusers who got off scot free.
Twelve former residents of children's homes say they were abused by Lord Janner, a BBC investigation has found, as criminal proceedings end.
The peer, who died before a court could examine claims of child abuse against him, regularly visited homes in Leicester in the 1970s and 1980s.
An ex-police officer says he reported suspicions about Lord Janner, a decade before police began a full inquiry.
Lord Janner, who had dementia and died aged 87 in December, had denied abuse.
A "trial of the facts", due to take place in April, has now been shelved by prosecutors.
A jury would have been asked to decide - without reaching a decision about whether he was guilty - if 22 alleged incidents of abuse from the 1960s to the 1980s had taken place.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35304528
Over 1.1 million asylum seekers entered Germany last year, the vast majority are just concerned with getting on with their lives. And yes the few hundred who've been groping should be prosecuted, and if they're not asylum seekers they should be repatriated.
You Americans really are addicted to fear, once Communism collapsed you didn't know what to do with yourselves. Well you've found a nice bogeyman in Islamic fundamentalism, funded by Reagan and given legitimacy by Dubya's illegal invasion of Iraq which had a knock on effect throughout the ME. Never mind, as long as your arms dealers are doing well you can grip your guns full of piss and fear, safe in the knowledge that state of the art American weapons are being sold to Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia before being shipped on to IS to continue the cycle.
If and when the conflict ends in Syria don't expect the asylum seekers to hang about. They're going to want to go home, just like 2nd generation Nigerian migrants are doing.
The champagne is flowing at the bustling Fahrenheit rooftop bar with its sweeping views of Victoria Island's skyline. With glasses clinking young Nigerians returnees from the diaspora jostle to tell of their tales of the opportunities they've unearthed since coming home. They call them the repatriates - or more simply the "repats".
Among the guests at Fahrenheit, a hub for diaspora returnees started by a London-trained Nigerian lawyer and designer, was Kemdy McEarnest who had only moved to Lagos just seven months earlier. He talked exuberantly about how Nigeria was on the up and the range of opportunities he had developed for his own PR business since coming to the country. He said if Nigerians can return in large numbers then the country could really "grow".
Sitting alongside him was Aisha Shaba. I had earlier met Aisha when I had visited the set of "On the Couch", a talk show on the Nigerian Spice TV fashion channel. Aisha grew up in Hammersmith in west London and told me it had been a steep learning curve in the hustle and bustle of Nigeria since coming back four years ago after graduating from university.
She landed a part in the country's biggest soap opera, "Tinsel", and has now moved on to other acting parts in film and TV as well as working as a presenter. "A lot of people are coming back now. And I think that's an amazing thing," she said.
http://www.channel4.com/news/nigeria-the-repats-who-have-returned
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Europe - migrants - Cologne attacks - The comments section on this Guardian article... [View all]
sibelian
Jan 2016
OP
Exactly. Rotherham's may end up destroying the UK left, and Cologne may bury the German left...
sibelian
Jan 2016
#60
Uncontrolled immigration is a horrible idea. I hope they renew controls soon.
Green Forest
Jan 2016
#3
"... invaded by members of a foreign culture who do not share their values and mores." Le Pen and
pampango
Jan 2016
#8
Yes, I suppose I ought to be embarrassed by that. But frankly I'm not - here's why:
scarletwoman
Jan 2016
#9
Nations certainly should have the right to protect their cultural heritage, etc. They should also
pampango
Jan 2016
#12
when multiculturalism includes marginalizing women thru violence, i'm out.
nashville_brook
Jan 2016
#64
You mean this comment suggesting that Germans now begin arming themselves with guns?
KittyWampus
Jan 2016
#6
The OP flatly states that there are over 6,000 comments. Why would you think he 'means' this
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2016
#7
I've read through 18 pages of reader comments, so far. It's certainly been fascinating.
scarletwoman
Jan 2016
#17
I've only been to Frankfurt and Dusseldorf (sp?), but that was 35+ years ago,
scarletwoman
Jan 2016
#19
Thank you! I wish I could find the article I referred to in my post, but I have no idea where I read
scarletwoman
Jan 2016
#31
Yes, that one struck me as well. In fact there are several very articuate posters on that thread...
sibelian
Jan 2016
#59
In one of the comments, someone posted a link to this Telegraph article, as a contrast to
scarletwoman
Jan 2016
#21
What you're saying makes me think of Putin and his relationship to the Russian Orthodox Church.
scarletwoman
Jan 2016
#33
What exactly are you on about? 100s of women were sexually assaulted in Germany, Austria,
scarletwoman
Jan 2016
#27
um I think you need to fully explain your comments about Jews, just sayin, thank you nt
steve2470
Jan 2016
#41
... err.... yes we ARE scared of Muslims in the UK. Or at least some of us. I live there too.
sibelian
Jan 2016
#65
Whatever meaning you wish to take from the comments section I referenced is up to you.
sibelian
Jan 2016
#82
"Perhaps you are able to explain to me how I am responsible for this alleged fire."
Denzil_DC
Jan 2016
#86
The process whereby the Rotherham abusers were ENABLED has NOT been addressed.
sibelian
Jan 2016
#81
"Now I've got the measure of you" - no, you don't need the *measure* of me, pal.
sibelian
Jan 2016
#89
If you are guided by the comment section of any medium, you are going the wrong way IMO.
Are_grits_groceries
Jan 2016
#53
The Guardian has stopped being the Guardian. It's not the newspaper I remember.
sibelian
Jan 2016
#80