The left's reality problem

During the migrant crisis the media has been drumming the need for Western nations to take in more and more refugees.  We have seen various harrowing images of drowned children, women and children in liferafts who have escaped several warzones etc, but strange that according to even the most reliable figures most of the refugees are fit young men.

The reasons for accepting the refugees are summed up below

• The west's colonial history.

Somehow modern day Europeans have to pay back the excesses of their forbears.  This is part of the post-colonial guilt trip that I read about.

• The west is responsible for these wars

To a limited extent yes, US and Uk have been heavily involved in Iraq and Afghanistan for example.  However, a large percentage of the refugees head for places like Germany and Sweden, which have had little involvement in recent wars due to constitution (Germany) and political neutrality (Sweden).  The main source comes from Syria and that conflict started when Syrians started protesting against Assad, the west only got involved when IS came along.

• The west has all the world's resources

This is an old canard, its true that large amounts of resources flow to the west, but this is all to do with trade, it is all paid for.  In fact in recent years, the world's resources have been flowing towards China.

• Refugees enrich us with their culture and even add to the economy

Whether foreign cultures can enrich the west is a hotly debated point.  I don't see Chinese, Iranian or whatever non-Western society suddenly deciding it needs cultural enrichment.  As I will point out later it is this cultural difference that leads to problems.

So there you have the left's arguments and I will put the counter point in my next post.

Rebuttal of a rebuttal 2

In a previous post I made some replies to a ridiculous article about the refugee crisis.  Now someone has replied to my comment with a reply that is even worse than the original article and here is my reply to this reply

Hi Rachel
When I first read your reply my first thought was that it was a brilliant satire from the right of the political spectrum, I was corrected when I clicked on your facebook profile. Then I realized you were being serious. 

Sorry to say this but your response is even more deluded than the original article. 

" There is evidence already of sexual assaults of women who try to make this journey. Also women in Germany are asked to cover up in order not to provoke these male refugees into commiting rape."

Links? Proof?"

As for evidence of German women being told to cover up, then check out this link (yes I know its the Mail and its former owner supported Stalin, erm Hitler during the 30s)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Germany-state-SIEGE-Merkel...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Rape-child-abuse-rife...

The article above already alleges that women refugees or migrants are being raped right now in these refugee centres. Even women refugee activtists from NoBorders have been gang raped and told by NoBorders not to report this as it will damage their campaign.

http://www.breitbart.com/.../no-borders-activist-gang.../

These stories makes your comments below sound like complete nonsense

"Respecting boundaries? In most Asian cultures, it's completely taboo, disgraceful, dishonourable, unclean, for a man to touch a woman he is not related to by blood or marriage. I'd take them over a gang of navvies on any building site in Europe.

The refugee women are at risk from criminal human trafficking gangs, not their fellow refugees. Bear in mind thatmany in Asia regard the West as licentious and sexually promiscuous - not a safe place to send one's sheltered, unprotected, often uneducated, womenfolk to alone."

It sounds like you are the kind of person to believe that Islam is religion of peace, because a muslim told you so.

In another case a refugee activists was mugged by migrants in Germany, mugged by the very people he was helping and he wanted more of these people to come to his country.

http://www.breitbart.com/.../makes-sad-says-open-borders.../

If it is not safe for men to stay in Syria, why are Kurdish women signing up to the Kurdish militia, the YPG. In fact I have read articles that since the Syrian civil war started, women have joined the fighting on all different sides. Lastly why are muslims from Western countries going to Syria to fight for ISIS, sometimes taking their entire families along with them?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-are-so-many-young-british...

The refugee crisis

Even living out here in HK, one cannot avoid the refugee crisis that is happening in the Europe and the UK in particular.
From truck stowaways, cross channel swimmers and drowned toddlers, this has been the headline news on CCTV, Phoenix TV and TVB here in HK. There are many harrowing stories and but if you see through the emotional photos and footage a few facts need to be made clear.

Refugee or not.

Assuming they are all refugees fleeing persecution, why haven't they all sought refuge in first safe destination. Why do they have to seek refuge in certain European countries?  Also apart from a few tragic examples, most of these refugees are young men, if governments persecute people then they would persecute men and women, young and old.  Could it be to do the fact that the UK and Germany have a good social security structure?

 

Crisis due to western intervention

Germany has opened up its doors to these refugees from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea, but Germany has not been involved in any of these conflicts.  The UK was involved in Iraq and Afghanistan and now partially in Syria.  Other countries have been heavily involved in the Syrian conflict including Iran and Russia(both on the Assad side), the Gulf states, Saudia Arabia and Turkey (on the side of ISIS).  So far these countries have failed to take in any refugees.  The other form of western intervention has been British muslim teenagers going to Syria to join IS, apparently without their parent's knowledge!  Surely Iran and Russia should open their borders.  This argument does look very thin.

 

Isn't the UK in austerity.
We keep hearing that the UK is in austerity, but the left wants the UK to let these 'refugees' in, so how can the British taxpayer pay for all this when the UK is already in tough economic times?  Suddenly we regard to foreigners, austerity is ignored.