I don't think I am my friend. I think we can all pull claims out of the scrap book and fling it at each other. I could say that Europe is getting some karma. After all, what have we after 500 years of 'discovery'? A generation stuck to their cell phones, selfish as xxx and blaming it on people running from wars that are stirred into action by resource stealers and backed up by 'debt agendas' created by private banking interests.
When i see a woman holding her baby up in the sea , fighting for their lives, I react differently. These people are stuck in the middle, and are falling prey to yet more greedy xxxx called smugglers.
My advice to these people would actually be 'stay out of Europe', because they don't want to be disturbed from staring at their mobiles, and they are a sad reflection of what it means to be human now. Luckily there is a tide of those who care, and here's hoping humanity wins.
I have lived with Muslims around me all my life,and have never once had a problem with any of them. The bullying I got as a kid was always from yobby English kids who hated my nationality. :)
LG
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This photo shows a Syrian mother trying to hold her baby above the water, after the boat they were on sank in the Mediterranean.
According to the UN, the vast majority of refugees have fled from Syria, where an estimated 220,000 to more than 300,000 people have been killed during its appalling and escalating war. The lack of compassion from many westerners that have been dumbed-down by xenophobic narratives in the mainstream media has been appalling. These people are human beings, our brothers and sisters who are in a perilous and desperate situation (largely caused by imperialism) that require urgent assistance!!
Refugees don't hide their taxes in the Cayman Islands; Refugees don't privatise the National Health Service; Refugees don't influence government cuts to spending; And Refugees don't scrape together their life savings, leave their loved ones behind, bribe and fight and struggle their way onto the undercarriage of a train, or into a tiny hidden compartment of a lorry with forty other people, watch their friends and loved ones die or get raped, all for the express purpose of bragging about earning £67.46 a week.
Imagine waking your children in the morning, feeding and dressing them, pulling a little girl’s hair into a ponytail, arguing with a little boy about which pair of shoes he wants to wear. Now imagine, as you are doing that, you know later today you will strap their vulnerable bodies into enveloping life jackets and take them with you in a rubber dinghy - through waters which have claimed many who have done the same. Think of the story you’d have to tell to reassure them. Think of trying to make it fun. Consider the emotional strength needed to smile at them and conceal your fear.
Try and envisage how it would feel like when that experience – your frantic flight from war – was then diminished by a vicious, dishonest media that crudely labelled you and your family "migrants," as if you were a scourge on society. Imagine having little to no voice in countering this description of you so commonly used by governments and journalists.
#Syria #MigrantCrisis #MediterraneanEscape
#RefugeesAreWelcome
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We wanna go there but we don't want them here. Can't afford them
see. After we've stolen all of it, there just isn't any to spare. Oh yes 'discoveries', njot bloody conquests. Jesus may have thought his generation was pretty corrupt, but I question that.
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The Age of Discovery was a period of European global exploration
that started in the early 15th century with the first Portuguese
discoveries in the Atlantic archipelagos and Africa, as well as the discovery of the Americas by Castile in 1492, and the Portuguese discovery of the ocean route to the East in 1498, and by a series of European naval expeditions across the Atlantic and later the Pacific, which continued until the 18th century. It is sometimes regarded as a bridge between the Middle Ages and the Modern era, along with its contemporaneous Renaissance movement.
European overseas expansion led to the rise of colonial empires,
with the contact between the Old and New Worlds producing the
Columbian Exchange: a wide transfer of plants, animals, food, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases and culture between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. This represented one of the most-significant global events concerning ecology, agriculture, and culture in history. European exploration allowed the global mapping of the world, resulting in a new world-view and distant civilizations acknowledging each other, reaching the most remote boundaries much later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery
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How do Muslims contribute to Britain?
None of us are angels. And people may say 'ooh you are a Muslimn lover'. Well actually yes I am I suppose. But I am fundamentally a people lover, and believe we are all the same, when at ease, and our pot isn't being stirred. But Muslims do contribute economically as well.
In fact the Italians and the Polish and the Carribeans, and many other races contributed to the success of Britain greatly as well.
LG
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British Muslims contribute more than £31 billion to the UK economy and wield a spending power of £20.5 billion, a new report has found.
The paper from the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) was published to highlight Muslims' growing contribution to the UK and to mark the 9th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) coming to London this week.
According to the MCB report, there are 114,548 Muslims in "higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations". London alone is home to 13,400 Muslim-owned businesses, which create 70,000 jobs. British Muslims are estimated to spend over £1 billion on the halal food industry. There are around 2.78 million Muslims in the UK.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/29/uk-muslims-economy_n_4170781.html
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Crimes against Muslims in Britian
Of course we can all carefully compile a biased list, showing only Muslim crimes, puff up the agenda which is basically no more than an appeasment of our own prejudices. So, just to counter the claims that Muslims are devils, nasty fuckers who want to screw your children, here's a little fact about crimes against them in this short period
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Muslims in Britain are becoming the target of hate crimes in retribution for terrorist attacks around the world, according to a new report based on the latest figures for anti-Muslim attacks.
The study by Teesside University found that children as young as 10 have been involved in hate-crime attacks and incidents, although most perpetrators were identified as being over 40.
The latest data for anti-Muslim incidents in Britain from the Tell Mama project reveals that there were noticeable spikes in the immediate aftermath of the high-profile terrorist attacks in Paris, Sydney, and Copenhagen in the past year.
The Tell Mama (Measuring anti-Muslim attacks) figures, which have previously been cited by the home secretary, Theresa May, show that there were 548 incidents reported from March 2014 to February 2015. These ranged from online abuse and threats, to street-based assaults and extreme violence.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/17/hate-crimes-against-muslims-britain-spike-jihadi-attacks-study
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Which countries are Syrian refugees fleeing to?
An estimated 9 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war in March 2011, taking refuge in neighbouring countries or within Syria itself. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), over 3 million have fled to Syria's immediate neighbours Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. 6.5 million are internally displaced within Syria. Meanwhile, under 150,000 Syrians have declared asylum in the European Union, while member states have pledged to resettle a further 33,000 Syrians. The vast majority of these resettlement spots – 28,500 or 85% – are pledged by Germany.
http://syrianrefugees.eu/
