Europe-related Immigration News Archives
This is a very large file. For the full smaller digest version, click here.House of Lords: immigration to Britain has had nearly zero economic benefit
From this:
Ten years of record immigration to Britain has produced virtually no economic benefits for the country, a parliamentary inquiry has found.
A House of Lords committee, which is due to report next Tuesday, will call into question Government claims that foreign workers add £6 billion each year to the wealth of the nation.
It is expected to say this must be balanced against the increase in population and their use of local services such as health and education, resulting in little benefit per head of the population.
"Our overall conclusion is that the economic benefits of net immigration to the resident population are small and close to zero in the long run," the report will say.
The findings of the Lords economics committee threaten to demolish the key argument made by ministers to justify the highest levels of immigration in the country's history...
Airstrip One: "Migrants taught how to scrounge"
From this:MIGRANTS hoping to settle in the UK are to be taught how to rake in state hand-outs.Obviously, this is a leftwing attempt to both encourage new clients for public and private social welfare agencies, as well as an attempt to erase England's rather long history and start anew, Gramscian-style.
They will be shown how to claim benefits, demand equal rights, make full use of the NHS and get parental leave.
Labour will expect immigrants to know such information as part of the Government's "Britishness test".
But if applicants fail, they will not face removal – they will merely be told to keep resitting the exam until they pass...
...Yet ministers have again ruled out any requirement that newcomers learn about Britain’s history...
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New York Times on Russian "invasion" of Latvia (Duranty Lives!)
Two New York Times flavors blend into one horrific mess in "Latvia Fears New 'Occupation' by Russians but Needs the Labor". One of those flavors is one frequently discussed here: the NYT's lack of regard for national sovereignty and support for massive immigration. The other is a decades-long habit of supporting Soviet - now putatively Russian - misbehavior. Given the historical record (you know, that whole Communism thing), one might think that Latvia is fully justified in avoiding massive immigration from Russia. While that side of the issue is certainly explored, it's not explored in the depth that one might expect given that historical record. On the other hand, the article isn't as bad as NYT articles on the similar situation in the U.S., in which such fears would be treated with complete disdain.[A long-time Russian resident of Latvia] inhabits a parallel universe that has little to do with Latvia. She watches a Kremlin-financed television station and eats Russian food. And she has no intention of learning Latvian ("Why the hell would I want to do that?"), though she says her grandchildren are being forced to do so...
...She has not [taken a new citizenship test], instead pinning her hopes on a new "Russian occupation" of Latvia. This, she says, is gaining force with the arrival of illegal workers from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. They have streamed in by the hundreds, if not thousands, to help fill the gap left by the nearly 100,000 Latvians who have left in search of a better life since their country joined the European Union in May 2004...
...But there was a price [to leaving the Soviet sphere and becoming part of the EU and NATO]: while economic growth shot up to 10 percent this year, the large westward migration of Latvians has left a gaping hole in the job market. Now the country must choose either to accept the economic necessity of immigration or to hold on to deep and abiding historical resentments...
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Tony Blair's secret meeting with massive immigration tycoon
From "The PR tycoon, a private dinner and PM's meeting with Euro lobby group":Prime Minister Tony Blair held a secret meeting in the Kensington home of a City tycoon where he met a group of business people lobbying for unlimited immigration from Romania and Bulgaria.
The Observer has learnt that Blair attended a private dinner at the luxury Kensington townhouse of Roland Rudd, the high-flying financial public relations guru who is a close friend of European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson.
Earlier this year Blair's eldest son Euan spent a fortnight at Rudd's company Finsbury on a work experience placement. Although it is not unusual for the Prime Minister to meet senior figures in business, it is unusual for him to go to a private house where such discussions would not be minuted...
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"Outrage as Australian Leaders Tell Muslims to Fit In"
From this:Australian Muslim representatives are voicing outrage at comments by the country's two top politicians, who urged immigrants from Islamic societies to fit in, learn English, treat women with respect, and shun extremism.Similar report in "Muslims warned to integrate if they want to settle in Australia". More on the reaction in "Muslim anger erupts at Costello call to renounce terrorism".
An Islamic leader warned that the remarks could antagonize Muslims and lead to a repeat of incidents such as the rioting in a Sydney beachside suburb last December, when groups of youngsters -- described as having a Middle Eastern background -- fought with whites.
Prime Minister John Howard late last week said migrants should integrate into the way of life in their new country but that a minority of Muslims was opposed to accepting Australia's values...
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"Memos reveal [UK] Government complacency towards immigration"
A cautionary tale:The complacency of the government towards the vast scale of immigration from Eastern Europe has been graphically exposed by Foreign Office documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Memos from Britain's embassy in Warsaw to Foreign Office bosses in London openly mocked claims that hundreds of thousands of Poles would flock to the UK after the country was granted entry into the UK.
Ministers claimed at the time that just 13,000 people would come to Britain when the borders were opened.
In fact more than 700,000 immigrants from the former Soviet bloc have arrived in Britain since 2004 - around half of them from Poland...
Posted at 08:41 PM | Comments (1)
The "migration meltdown in Britain"
From this:
A massive rise in immigration next year could trigger a devastating crisis in Britain's schools, housing and welfare services, according to a secret Government report leaked to The Mail on Sunday.The document reveals that every Government department has been ordered to draw up multi-million-pound emergency plans after being told public services face catastrophe as a result of the hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans pouring into Britain...
...The leaked document, written by Home Office Minister Joan Ryan, is entitled Migration From Eastern Europe: Impact On Public Services And Community Cohesion...
The London Times article on the leaked report is here. Some of the comments on the Daily Mail report show that England has a Bloomberg-style problem:
They cannot claim benefits.They do not take council flats or houses from British people because they are simply not entitled to them.If it wasn't for the Polish or Bulgarian maids,porters or receptionists,our hotels wouldn't function.The same goes for public transport or agriculture.
On a related note, Britain's "Serious Organised Crime Agency" says it can cost as little as 150 Pounds to be smuggled from France to England. Someone from the "Immigration Advisory Service" (an NGO and probably far-left) disagrees, saying it's in the high hundreds or more. This article is based on the same report, and highlights the even less reputable activities of smugglers.
Posted at 02:59 AM | Comments (1)
"Emergency border squads", Euro-style
This is not a joke:A plan to create rapid reaction teams of border guards to deal with European Union immigration crises has been unveiled by the European Commission.
The teams would be assembled by the EU border security agency, Frontex, from lists of experts in member states...
The proposals approved by the European Commission on Wednesday say it would be up to each member state to decide whether to make experts available...
Mr Frattini said the aim would be to have a pool of 250 or 300 ready to be called up in emergencies, including experts in first aid, translation, risk assessment and the identification of people.
All border guards would wear their own national uniforms - with an armband identifying them as members of a joint EU rapid reaction team - but would be temporarily under the control of the host state.
The Commission says that planning such an operation is currently complicated by a muddle of different national laws in each member state governing what tasks foreign border guards can fulfil...
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Spain's cautionary example on illegal alien amnesties
From this:
...Spain offered four amnesties for illegal immigrants between 1985 and 2000. None of them slowed the flow of undocumented migrants. In February 2005, Spain tried again, announcing a grant of temporary residence to illegal aliens who could prove that they had been in the country for at least six months. The Spanish government legalized 700,000 during a three-month window. The plan did not stem the tide. Instead, the influx of illegal immigrants from Africa increased dramatically. The government recently acknowledged that 7,500 illegals arrived in the Canary Islands during the first half of 2006, compared to 4,751 in all of 2005. Spanish police documented about 12,000 attempts by Moroccan migrants to enter the Spanish town of Melilla. Illegal border crossing has been matched with a skyrocketing number of cases of fraud from individuals trying to qualify for amnesty, overwhelming immigration officials, who have been unable to cope with processing, screening, and adjudicating the flood of amnesty applications...
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CSM: "Deep roots of Paris riots"
The CSM promises to get to the root of the matter, but instead let's look at the only people they interviewed:..."Frankly I am not surprised by what is happening," says Dounia Bouzar, an expert on French-born Muslims who has worked in the mostly black and North African districts on the outskirts of Paris. "Given the way these kids live, I wonder why it doesn't happen more often."I think it's safe to say all those people are "liberals". And, the article doesn't go into the real root of the problem: massive immigration.
..."Working class suburbs have become ethnic ghettos," says Marc Cheb Sun, who edits "Respect," a magazine aimed mostly at young black and North African readers. "That is the origin of the problem."
...Jean-Francois Amadieu, a university professor who founded the "Discrimination Observatory" [conducted a study showing discrimination against suburb-dwellers/North Africans]
...Michele Lereste, who runs the "Green Light" social-work agency in Villetaneuse, just North of Paris, where the projects are almost entirely inhabited by immigrant-descended families, [complains that] government funding cuts have closed a number of job-training institutes, "and we are finding it harder and harder to get employers to take apprentices from our district."
...Taïb Ben Thabet, who has been a social worker in the projects north of Paris for 35 years...
If France had not imported these immigrants they wouldn't have this problem now. If there were fewer, there would be less of a problem. If there were more, there would be more of a problem. Obviously, they need to stop the flow and perhaps even quietly, safely try to get as many as possible to go home. I'm sure that a fair percentage of those who live in the suburbs are illegal immigrants, so they may not have a right to be there in the first place.
They need to make sure that those who remain assimilate, and they also need to change their system to accomodate them. But, when doing that they need to fight against the "liberal" impulses of people like the social workers above.
And, once again, none of this would be necessary if they hadn't embarked on this foolish course in the first place. Don't invite people to live in your country unless you're absolutely sure that they're going to play by your country's rules.
Posted at 03:32 AM | Comments (3)
Les banlieux brule depuis six jours
Mon dieu! La France a decouvert les "wonders" de l'immigracion massive:Unrest spread across troubled suburbs around Paris in a sixth night of violence Tuesday as police clashed with angry youths and scores of vehicles were torched in at least nine towns, local officials said.Aussi voir: "Almost 2m living in France's angry ghettos". Attendez ici si il vous plait: un apologist vient bientot.
Police in riot gear fired rubber bullets at advancing gangs of youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois _ one of the worst-hit suburbs _ where 15 cars were burned, said the prefecture that runs the Seine-Saint-Denis region. Youths lobbed Molotov cocktails at an annex to the town hall and threw stones at the firehouse...
...The area, home mainly to families of immigrant origin, often from Muslim North Africa, is marked by soaring unemployment and delinquency. Anger and despair thrive in the tall cinder-block towers and long "bars" that typically make up housing projects in France...
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"Spain heightens fence at African enclave"
Spain has two enclaves in Morocco: Melilla and Ceuta. That country claims they're Moroccan property, and Spain also has to contend with refugees trying to use the outposts to get onto European soil. So, they've built a 10' high double-fence around Melilla, including a wide array of sensors and even guards using rubber bullets.Now:
Spanish authorities are rushing to double the height of a fence surrounding the north African enclave of Melilla after a dozen more immigrants were injured in a battle with police as they tried to find a way on to European soil.UPDATE: See "Hundreds of immigrants tear through border fence" and "Spain asks EU for strict policy against illegal immigration".
The injuries followed the deaths of at least three immigrants over the past three weeks during mass attempts to storm the frontier that have ended in clashes with both Spanish police and their Moroccan counterparts on the other side of Melilla's border. Immigrants are using ladders and what one official called "military tactics" in their increasingly desperate attempts to get through the barrier erected around what is, in effect, a land frontier between the European Union and Africa.
Posted at 09:21 AM | Comments (0)
Malta invaded by refugees via Libya
The island country of Malta is somewhere between Martha's Vineyard and the Chattanooga, Tennessee metro area in size, with about 400,000 inhabitants. But, they've got a problem:
Libya has said that there are 1.5 million sub-Saharan Africans on its territory and many have their sights set on Europe.Specifically, they're trying for the Italian islands of Lampedusa and Sicily, thence to mainland Italy. However, they frequently run out of fuel and wind up in... Malta. And:
Under European Union law, asylum seekers must stay in the European country they first arrive in. Although Malta is no bigger than the Isle of Wight, it is a sovereign member of the EU, so anyone who lands is stuck there.But, wait, their screwing gets worse:
Five years ago Malta received only 24 illegal migrants. This year's total stands at more than 1,100 so far, with about 30 arrivals a night - the equivalent of 165,000 asylum seekers reaching Britain.They go on to provide a few quotes and a poll that doesn't exactly put the Maltese in a good light. (The picture above is of the ever-attractive actress Justine Bateman who is of Maltese descent. Because of my good memories of Family Ties I'm going to give the Maltese the benefit of the doubt. I'm sorry, I know this is a news story, but I just couldn't resist.) And, other Europeans countries are trying to pass the buck, and the EU rules aren't working in Malta's favor.
Some 4,000 asylum seekers have arrived since the crisis began in 2002. More than half are eventually granted refugee status or humanitarian leave to remain. Most of those refused asylum also stay on the island, in a limbo that is miserable for all involved. It is hard to prove where they are from; harder still to deport them to home countries that are sunk in anarchy.
Malta's tradition of hospitality is being slowly poisoned by the crisis. New hard-line nationalist groups are springing up, while politicians from the two mainstream parties talk of "putting national interests before human rights".
Whatever the other factors involved, Malta shouldn't have to deal with this situation. There are two ways to do that: ensure that those in Libya stay where they are, and ensure that they know that there's no work or benefits for them in Europe. Malta - like the U.S. - has a right to determine whether they're going to admit people or not.
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EU: Immigrants should pledge loyalty to EU instead of Britain
The EU's "Commissioner for justice and security", Franco Frattini, wants all future EU immigrants to take an "oath of faithfulness" to the European Union. Recent immigrants to Britain already go so far as to swear allegiance to the Queen, but swearing allegiance to Brussels is even worse.Frattini says: "One can get every immigrant to somehow declare they will respect national law, EU law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights."
As for the latter:
The charter is seen by its supporters as representing the basic values of the EU. It goes considerably further than the old European Convention on Human Rights, offering, for example, the right to parental leave if you adopt a child, the right to continuous training, the right to social security benefits and the right to strike. It has no legal force because it was part of the European constitution, which was rejected by French and Dutch voters...What are Britain's options?
The oath of allegiance to the EU — which could be in addition to or in place of the oath to the Queen — would be subject to negotiation, but the Government cannot veto it because it gave up its national veto on EU immigration law last year. Britain does have an opt-out, but it would have to reject the entire package of immigration measures...Of course, if Americans let their guard down and the globalists get their way, an EU-style system could be coming the U.S.'s way.
An EU diplomat said of the proposal: "It's loony."
Timothy Kirkhope, the leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, and former immigration minister, said: "I am amazed. You can laugh, but it worryingly shows the views of people who should know better. I swore an oath of allegiance to the Queen. I am not going to take kindly to an Italian gentleman telling me to swear allegiance to unelected people, or to swear allegiance to something I don't agree with — a unified European state."
Mike Nattrass, deputy leader of the UK Independence Party, said: "An allegiance to something with no single culture, no agreed history, no common language and packed with fraud and corruption? The EU must be joking."
Posted at 09:35 PM | Comments (0)
Londonistan in the news
In the post "London subway and bus bombing open thread" I said that the mainstream bloggers and the MSM would attempt to ignore the impact that Britain's foolish, tranzi-inspired immigration policies most likely had on the bombings.
However, that same day CBS Evening News had a segment on Londonistan.
Now, the New York Times offers us "For a Decade, London Thrived as a Busy Crossroads of Terror" and from the WaPo comes "In London, Islamic Radicals Found a Haven". Why even the lunatic libertarians at Reason had a post linking to those two articles, and it was devoid of their usual Open Borders spiel. On the saner side, National Review offers "Londonistan No More".
And, our own favorite blogger Insty says:
Immigrant groups used to be anxious to prove their patriotism, in part because they feared the consequences if they were thought disloyal. That seems not to be the case today.
What a pithy notation of the problem! Say, everyone let me know when the fine sources linked above start actually covering this issue rather than just popping in when something bad happens.
Posted at 03:14 PM | Comments (1)
Vienna, then and now
Vienna today:Austrian Muslims have expressed concerns at a modified immigration law, fearing Muslims would take the brunt of the new restrictions as they make up the majority of immigrants in the south-central European country...Vienna 1683:
According to estimates, there are some 750,000 immigrants in Austria, representing 10 percent of the country’s eight-million population.
Muslims, estimated at nearly half a million, make up some 6 per cent of the population...
The Battle of Vienna in 1683 (as distinct from the Siege of Vienna in 1529), marked the final turning point in a 250-year struggle between the forces of Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire. Over the 16 years following the battle Christian forces would permanently drive the Turks south of the Danube River, where they never again posed a serious threat to central Europe...There's more on "Eurabia" here. See also "immigration [to Europe] as a Trojan horse to expand jihad", The "Andalus syndrome", and "When Multiculturalists seek to understand!"
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UK: "Few failed asylum seekers removed"
Of 62,700 people refused asylum last year, 4,100 had so far been removed, Home Office minister Des Browne said in a Commons reply.Others could have left without informing the authorities, he added...
[Tory MP Sir Teddy Taylor] estimated there were "probably 250,000" people living in Britain who had been refused the right to remain in the country...
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Dutch to deport three imams
AMSTERDAM — Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk is moving to deport three Muslim clerics because of accusations they represent a threat to public order and national security.The three imams will be declared undesirable aliens and two of them will have their residence permits cancelled, the first such action has been taken against clerics.
In the third imam's case, an application for an extension of a residence permit will be refused.
The Dutch security service AIVD said one of the imams originates from Bosnia and a second comes from Kenya. The origin of the third imam was not released, newspaper De Volkskrant reported...
Posted at 09:05 PM | Comments (1)
"Spain starts illegal immigration amnesty"
EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS - Madrid's decision to grant an amnesty to illegal immigrants living and working in the country is set to have consequences well beyond Spain.
The amnesty, which is likely to affect up to one million immigrants, began on Monday (7 February).
Over the coming three months, Madrid will accept applications from immigrants who can prove that they have been in Spain for at least six months and who have a job.
The government's aim is to get some control over the country's illegal immigration problem.
But Madrid's move could have consequences for the rest of Europe as granting Spanish residency to the immigrants means that they would have the right to live and work anywhere in the European Union...
So, they want to get a handle on illegal immigration by... showing that they're an easy touch for illegal immigrants? Won't that just encourage more illegal immigrants to come? Won't that lead to the "need" for yet another amnesty? Rinse, repeat.
And, as the rest of the article describes, the other EU countries are less than pleased about yet another capitulation by Spain.
Please read up on al Andalus to get an idea of where this is all eventually heading. See also "Immigration [to Europe] as a Trojan horse to expand jihad".
Posted at 06:01 PM | Comments (3)
'Rattled' Blair to set tough tests for migrants
From this:
Tony Blair will try today to recapture ground lost to the Tories on immigration by announcing plans to turn away people who do not bring economic benefits or professional skills to the country.
The Prime Minister and Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, will announce the tough new tests for would-be immigrants from outside the EU as part of a five-year-plan to bring immigration under control...
Labour's response reflects Mr Blair's worry that the party could lose millions of votes to the Tories unless it addresses public concern about spiralling immigration and the pressure on public services.
Opinion polls confirmed yesterday that the issue will be uppermost in voters' minds at the election, which is expected on May 5.
A YouGov poll for The Mail on Sunday found that 75 per cent of people thought Labour's policies on asylum were not tough enough. A poll for the Migrationwatch think-tank found that 45 per cent of voters would be influenced at the election by the parties' immigration policies...
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Dutch flag banned in some schools
From this:
Cals College in IJsselstein has prohibited two of it's students to have Dutch flags on their bags.
The 16 year old boy and his friend where told by the director of their school that they "urgently should consider" to remove the Dutch flags from their bags, it could provoke other students, mainly Moroccan students. The two considered the urgent request of the school as a prohibition...
Update (2005 feb 1):
Daily news paper Telegraaf now says that their are more schools who ban the Dutch flag. They write that Groene Hart Lyceum in Alphen aan den Rijn already ban the Dutch flag for nearly a year. They deny access to students who have flags on their bags or cloth. The school says they need to do this because of the new social climate. But they say prohibition is a big word, they do it in consent with the pupils...
The Dutch article on that update is here.
The Telegraaf article "Vlagverbod is wijdverspreid" remains untranslated, but I imagine the headline means "Flag prohibition is widespread".
It would be nice to see a trustworthy verbatim translation of these articles into English or at least French or German.
Posted at 10:38 PM | Comments (0)
" No tolerance, please, we're Dutch"
Spectator UK:...Holland is the country where everything is allowed, where everything is tolerated, from dope in the coffee houses, to fat-thighed whores baying for your money in frowzy shop windows, to imams suggesting that it's OK to beat up women every now and then. The Dutch model seemed to be this: we'll have our whores and our homosexuals and our cannabis over here and you can smack your women around over there in your Maghrebian ghetto. Live and let live. Mutual tolerance.The new citizenship exam is described here. I could probably pass it even without the video.
But all that is changing. What's happened in Holland is a warning: one commentator calls it "Education By Death" - the process which made the silent majority in America become militant after 9/11, which galvanised the Australians after the Bali bomb, which led to the fall of the Aznar government after the Madrid train bombing. The transformation of achingly liberal and endlessly tolerant Western people into resolute neocons. And in the case of Holland, the death which has been doing the educating was that of an iconoclastic film-maker and broadcaster, Theo van Gogh, a distant relative of that one-eared painter...
...Shortly after the murder of van Gogh, the Prime Minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, clambered aboard a bandwagon which had been set rolling by a bunch of "concerned" media moppets. This was for everyone in the country to wear an orange wristband signifying unity and tolerance. You can also buy badges bedecked with a picture of a little bumblebee in support of the government slogan "Bee Tolerant" (geddit?). But it has not done much to pacify the country. Right now, Dutch tolerance is in short supply.
There are broader fears at large. One recent study suggested that within six years at least three large Dutch cities will have an effective Muslim majority. There's also the nightmare scenario of the Low Countries' caliphate. There are enormous and growing Muslim populations in towns and cities dotted along the coast from Lille to Rotterdam - populations which will one day be in the majority...
Posted at 02:53 PM | Comments (1)
[UK] Immigration warning 'vindicated'
From this:
Immigration will add six million to Britain's population over the next three decades, according to new figures. The estimate, by the think tank Migrationwatch UK, is based on the latest forecasts from the Government Actuary's Department (GAD).
They appear to confirm claims made by Migrationwatch two years ago, when the group first sprang to prominence by calling for a debate on immigration.
It was accused of scaremongering and ministers cast doubt on the accuracy of its figures...
Migrationwatch's research has opened up the debate on immigration for the first time since the late 1960s. The huge increase over the past five years has forced the big political parties to address the consequences of a rising population.
Opinion polls show that immigration has emerged as the voters' biggest concern, and Migrationwatch accuses other pressure groups of deliberately wanting to withhold the true facts from the public.
Internal Home Office memos obtained by Migrationwatch using data access laws have shown how Whitehall officials objected to the way the organisation's research was being traduced. One e-mail said: "Can we stop saying that Migrationwatch forecasts are wrong . . . Migrationwatch assumptions are often below the Government Actuary's Department high migration variant."
Sir Andrew Green, the chairman of the group, said: "The Government should explain why they have stimulated massive levels of immigration without consulting the British people and how and when they propose to bring it to an end."
Posted at 10:07 PM | Comments (0)
"Swiss reject citizenship reform"
BBC: Swiss voters have rejected plans to relax the country's strict naturalisation laws...
The government had said it wanted to make procedures easier, saying too many people were left out of the country's system of direct democracy...
Early polls indicate that the majority of voters were against a plan to give citizenship to Swiss-born children of immigrants.
A second poll on granting citizenship to foreigners raised and schooled in the country was also rejected.
Posted at 09:12 PM | Comments (1)
When Multiculturalists seek to understand!
Let's start at the end and work towards the headline with this one:
"Most of the people on the team are there to get a positive experience and to play soccer," Bruun-Hanssen said. "Now Djerv has to present its view of the case, and then we have to evaluate possible sanctions against players and the club afterwards. But at the same time as it is important to send a clear message, we are also forced to try to aid Djerv as a club so that they can incorporate persons with multicultural background into the club in the most sensible way."
What ever could Norwegian (professional?) soccer "section leader" Roald Bruun-Hanssen be referring to?
From "Players threatened to decapitate and rape":
One player was knocked down, and several members of the audience were threatened with decapitation and rape when several of the players in the 7.division game flew of the handle...
Several of the Djerv 2 players acted aggressively towards both other players and the audience. According to the local paper Bergensavisen, one person was injured after being knocked to the ground by a Djerv player.
The sudden outburst of rage was also directed against several audience members, several received death threats and several were threatened with decapitation. Some of the women in the audience were threatened with rape...
"These are threats of aggravated violence and we don’t want anything like this on the soccer filed," Bruun-Hanssen said to TV 2 Nettavisen. "I haven’t either heard to anything like this before."
However, he does not want to condemn the entire team which mainly consist of immigrants.
[...quote above follows...]
See also the previous post: Sweden enjoying the wonders of massive immigration, "multiculturalism"
Posted at 12:34 AM | Comments (2)
Sweden enjoying the wonders of massive immigration, "multiculturalism"
I don't entirely trust this site or the translation, but here are some articles about how part or all of Sweden's third-largest city (Malmo) has apparently descended into a multiculturalist's paradise. For example, this one from the Afton Bladet (Swedish version here):
Malmø, Sweden. The police now publicly admit what many Scandinavians have known for a long time: They no longer control the situation in the nations's third largest city. It is effectively ruled by violent gangs of Muslim immigrants. Some of the Muslims have lived in the area of Rosengård, Malmø, for twenty years, and still don't know how to read or write Swedish. Ambulance personnel are attacked by stones or weapons, and refuse to help anybody in the area without police escort. The immigrants also spit at them when they come to help. Recently, an Albanian youth was stabbed by an Arab, and was left bleeding to death on the ground while the ambulance waited for the police to arrive. The police themselves hesitate to enter parts of their own city unless they have several patrols, and need to have guards to watch their cars, otherwise they will be vandalized. "Something drastic has to be done, or much more blood will be spilled" says one of the locals.
Other summaries are provided at the link. Note that these are summaries, not full and exact translations. In a later post, the translator responds to criticisms about him providing summaries rather than full translations. He says if anything he understated the matter.
While I tend to believe him, I'd also like to see word-for-word translations. I'd also like to see the justifications for this from the MultiCultiCult establishment.
Posted at 02:19 PM | Comments (3)
"Sri Lankan gangster gets to stay"
News from the frozen north:
TORONTO - A Sri Lankan gangster caught in Toronto with an AK-47 assault rifle and sawed-off shotgun that police believe were meant for a murder has won the right to stay in Canada after a refugee judge ruled the man's family would suffer if he were sent home...
After setting aside a deportation order, the judge told Kathiravelu to stay away from gangs and guns, and instructed him to return to the refugee board on June 18, 2010, at which time his case will be looked at again...
Posted at 08:34 PM | Comments (1)
"Almost 2m living in France's angry ghettos"
From al-Guardian:
Almost 2 million French citizens are living in newly created urban ghettos in an environment characterised by anti-French feeling, racial hatred and the oppression of women, according to a French intelligence agency report leaked yesterday.
The report, parts of which were published in Le Monde, concluded that approximately 1.8 million people across France were living in places which were either "already ghettos or on the way to becoming them".
The study is set to reignite the debate over France's struggle to integrate its immigrant population and its inability to cope with rising unemployment, sexual inequality and growing fundamentalism in its urban sink estates...
...Most of the "sensitive suburbs" are run-down housing estates built by the French government between the 50s and 70s to house immigrant workers.
The intelligence body based its definition on a range of criteria encompassing high immigration levels, high levels of non-French speakers at school, the presence of anti-semitic and anti-western graffiti, growing numbers of inhabitants wearing religious or oriental dress, and a growth in Muslim religious institutions. They reported that more than 300 areas were already ghettoised. The report added that the wealthier inhabitants "usually of European descent" were moving out en masse...
See also the almost two year old article 'The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris'.
Previous coverage of Europe's immigration problems starts here.
Posted at 07:03 PM | Comments (1)
"immigration [to Europe] as a Trojan horse to expand jihad"
That's a quote from the WSJ. Yes, the same WSJ that calls those who don't support Open Borders "nativists."
See 'New Breed of Islamic Warrior Is Emerging' for the full article.
Excerpt:
Immigration is a key way to extend the radical ideas into Western Europe. One Takfiri scholar, Abu Basir, wrote in 2001 that "jihad and immigration go together...the one cannot be achieved without the other."
Fifteen of the 18 suspects jailed for the Madrid bombings come from cities in northern Morocco that have become front-line recruitment centers for the ultrafundamentalist message. One senior Moroccan official says "every country with an Arab or Muslim immigrant population now faces this problem" of potential sleeper cells...
Unlike previous generations of radical Islamists, who attracted police attention by their long beards, public proselytizing and orthodox postures, the newer generation of holy warrior blends in better. They are encouraged to lead a double life in the ultimate pursuit of jihad, according a German intelligence report.
"Outwardly they pretend to lead a modern lifestyle," says terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp. "But deep inside they adhere to a pure medieval strain of Islam." Many Takfiris shave their beards and avoid mosques for security reasons. "Recruits conceal their true beliefs until the time is right," Dr. Ranstorp says...
Damn those European nativists!
See this post for this quote from a Muslim scholar: "Islam will return once more to Europe as a conqueror and as a victorious power..." See this post and the one before it for more information on "al-Andalus."
Posted at 10:38 PM | Comments (2)
The French know what they're doing
The article "The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris" details some of the problems the French are having with unchecked immigration by a largely hostile foreign population. I'm sure that the French leaders who invited such mass immigration in the first place have a solution, right?
The same author has a shorter anecdote about a visit by someone from England's Equal Opportunities Commission.
There's no independent proof that that encounter took place or took place as described, and the author might be overstating his case regarding Paris. However, the facts, figures, and incidents mentioned in the Paris article no doubt are true. The problem now is to get people to learn from it.
Posted at 02:36 PM | Comments (0)
