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Refugees And Islam From An Englishman's Perspective

Filling in the gaps of our limited perspective

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There seems to be some misconceptions when people, on all of sides of the argument, talk about Islam and Muslim immigration; with words like "Islamophobia" or "racist" getting thrown around with little to no thought about whats actually been said to prompt such a response. With the current refugee crisis going on one might think it wise to discuss and carefully consider what it would mean for a country to take on millions upon millions of displaced "refugees" from countries with antithetical cultural values to the host country. But seeing how this is the age of selectively collective guilt and social justice, European governments have done the complete opposite of that and welcomed their invaders with open arms.

Yes, I called it what it is. An invasion. Why? Because the vast majority of Muslims who made it to Europe are not in fact refugees, but economic migrants who want to cash in on the German (and by extension European) guilt that's been leftover form the Holocaust. And that guilt must be strong because anyone who dares to call this what this is either A) gets censored by government and/or social media. B) Labelled a Neo-Nazi fascist scumbag or C) Thrown in jail provided they aren't beaten to a pulp by angry migrants first.

Just ask Tommy Robinson, founder of the EDL and Pegida UK, what its like to be on the receiving end of all of this. I've only recently heard about Tommy and his work and like most people I heard he was a far right nazi type. But I decided to read past the headlines and hear what he had to say.

It truly amazes me that a guy like this can get pigeonholed as a Nazi, despite the fact actual Nazi's routinely send him death threats. Do we really live in such a time that reasonable discourse based on personal experience is considered? (What am I saying is, of course we do, and it's going to be what kills countries.)

We Americans have a pretty big obstruction when it comes to talking about the refugee crisis, and that is terrorism.All we seem to know is 9/11 and body counts, we don't know Rotherham, we don't know Cologne, we don't yet know shariah zones and we certainly don't know what it’s like to feel like an outsider in your own country of heritage with the only exception to that being the native Americans. The American reaction to this has been to say that Europe should be more afraid of car accidents than the millions of both native muslims and immigrants that believe it is their divine right to behead you in the street should you disagree with their religion. To which i say this isn't a fear about death, its a fear of losing ones identity through intimidation and cultural coercion.

We also have the benefit of receiving the migrants who can afford to come here, who aren’t the American white trash equivalent that is making its way to western Europe En masse. We're lucky because we only have two types of muslims in the US, the liberal Muslims who are alright and the radicals, who are easy to spot and deal with if you aren't afraid of being labelled a bigot. Europe has a third kind, and that is the kind of muslim who makes their religion political, and to implement it in every sphere of life. Who want to reorder society in accordance with Sharia. That is what we mean when we talk about Islamism, or Islamo-facism if you will. If you’d imagine for a minute if all of Americas white trash rednecks migrated to any random middle eastern country, and brought all the best (or worst if you’re a liberal) parts of the redneck culture with them, how would you imagine that would go down with the host countries population? I think the British did this not too long ago, and we called this colonialism. And if you want to say this is justified because its the other way around now you're a hypocrite of the highest order.

Now I can see the comments now about how “Not all Muslims are like that” and I know not all Muslims are like that which is why I’m speaking out against the bad ones. I know that Anjem Choudary does not represent the vast majority of Muslims in the UK, but to the Englishmen who have to live with these people he certainly does. But the tiny minority can do massive damage if left unchecked. Just take the fact that muslim immigrants in Sweden, who make up% 5% of the country’s total population, have increased the frequency of rape by about 1500%. And even that may be underplaying the severity of the situation since second generation immigrants are counted as swedes.I know that fraction of the 5% of muslim’s in Sweden probably do not represent the rest, which is why I’m going to call out in its most barbaric forms, and I really question the motives of any moderate Muslim or social justice warrior for trying to brand me Islamophobic for it.

In the end I’m not interested in halting all immigration, I want to see that the actual refugees get the help they need.Unfortunately for every one refugee in Europe there are probably 6 migrants who just want to exploit Europe’s generosity.The best thing Europe can do right now is to have the conversations that need to be had.By censoring and shutting down the debate, they only strengthen the radicals on both sides.This is something that we need as Americans need to see from Europe’s perspective, because we’re the ones who will have to deal with this later down the road, and we can’t make the same mistakes.

I highly suggest you take the time to hear Tommy out, he's a pretty reasonable guy, and I think we could learn quite a lot from him.


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