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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
Lets not forget, we need to hold ourselves accountable for a good percentage of this, due to our actions in certain countries (Libya, Syria, Iraq to name but three)
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Being more than a little cold when they elected to head to Germany there was a good case for describing them as economic migrants.
Refugees are fleeing from somewhere, not fleeing to somewhere. These people have gone through multiple 'safe' countries before reaching Europe, ignoring the trip across the Schengen area to Germany.
The UK is not a part of Schengen, the UK does not have an obligation to take refugees from France or anywhere else in the EU. The UK provides more humanitarian aid than any other nation in the EU, and has taken millions of economic migrants from Europe in the past decade already.
Feel free to self-flagellate over all this if you want. None of the actions in the Middle-East were done in my name, I had no power to influence them, and have no interest in supporting bad policy to try and atone for bad policy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...t-borders.html
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Originally Posted by deadite66
They may be fleeing for their lives or wanting to make a better life for themselves but many of these people from muslim countries will be very religious, do we really want those that agree with death for apostasy, Sharia law and forcing their wives and daughters to obey them in the west.
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Tad late for that. Seen the results of social attitudes surveys of British Muslims?