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originally posted by: Revolution9
a reply to: dollukka
The video is a bit alarmist. It is edited to include so many different migrant crowds from around the world at different times, but it is very URGENT this be addressed. Now we will have to deploy armies in Europe to deal with it.
"I think that Christian minorities are being persecuted in Syria and even if the conflict were over they would still be persecuted," she said.
"So I believe there will be a focus on ensuring we can get access to those persecuted ethnic and religious minorities who will have no home to return to even when the conflict is over.
"That includes Maronites, it includes Yazidis, there are Druze, there are a whole range of ethnic and religious minorities that make up the populations in both Syria and Iraq."
originally posted by: hutch622
"So I believe there will be a focus on ensuring we can get access to those persecuted ethnic and religious minorities who will have no home to return to even when the conflict is over.
I wasn't moaning about my English culture I was moaning about my British culture, there is the difference.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: bjarneorn
If Europe wants to deal with this, they'll have to revolt
If I had been drinking I might be tempted to say that Europeans are revolting.
But I haven't been, so I won't.
originally posted by: beansidhe
No, do. Some of the attitudes on this thread are making me ashamed to say I'm European.
Ok, let me give it to you straight faced ... you think the refugees should be "welcomed".
The Scottish Government has repeatedly called on the UK Government to play a part in a co-ordinated European response to this emergency humanitarian issue and has agreed to take a fair and proportionate share of refugees in Scotland.
Following today’s comments by the Prime Minister that the UK will take 20,000 refugees by 2020 which will be funded through the UK aid budget, Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s Minister for Europe and International Development, said: “As made clear by the First Minister at last week’s emergency humanitarian summit, Scotland is willing to take our fair share of refugees to help some of the most vulnerable people in need.
“We welcome the Prime Minister’s shift in attitude and late recognition that the UK has a role to play as an important first step. The 20,000 refugees over five years should not be seen as a cap or an upper limit and we must also play our part in responding to the crisis on the southern European coast line.
You don't provide help to your own homeless, but want to give it to foreigners ... hypocrite.
The people who really need our help, are still in the middle east ... getting beheaded, because they don't have the means, or the money to pay smugglers to smuggle them to Europe.
originally posted by: beansidhe
a reply to: bjarneorn
Do feminists upset you? That's a shame.
Ok, let me give it to you straight faced ... you think the refugees should be "welcomed".
I do, most definitely. Thankfully the Scottish Government does too.
The Scottish Government has repeatedly called on the UK Government to play a part in a co-ordinated European response to this emergency humanitarian issue and has agreed to take a fair and proportionate share of refugees in Scotland.
Following today’s comments by the Prime Minister that the UK will take 20,000 refugees by 2020 which will be funded through the UK aid budget, Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s Minister for Europe and International Development, said: “As made clear by the First Minister at last week’s emergency humanitarian summit, Scotland is willing to take our fair share of refugees to help some of the most vulnerable people in need.
“We welcome the Prime Minister’s shift in attitude and late recognition that the UK has a role to play as an important first step. The 20,000 refugees over five years should not be seen as a cap or an upper limit and we must also play our part in responding to the crisis on the southern European coast line.
Riaghaltas na h-Alba
You don't provide help to your own homeless, but want to give it to foreigners ... hypocrite.
Don't I? Are you sure about that? Really sure?
The people who really need our help, are still in the middle east ... getting beheaded, because they don't have the means, or the money to pay smugglers to smuggle them to Europe.
The UK is taking Syrians directly from refugee camps, one thing that I find myself agreeing with David Cameron about. What is it you're concerned about specifically? That the 'wrong' people are getting in? Healthy ones? How dare they be healthy.
The news made me angry, watching thousands of people men, women and children WALKING across Europe to find a place of safety.
There is poverty in Europe, of course there is. We live in a place where greed is King and human misery is an unfortunate by-product of keeping the rich rich. It is not the refugees' fault and we should not turn them away.
You are expressing compassion for only one side - the migrants. Where is your compassion for these who are being disturbed by this?
originally posted by: beansidhe
England now is not friendly like it used to be. Sense of community is being wiped out of existence.
There are huge disturbances in our culture.
I’m writing this to you from a refugee camp in Germany. All the Syrians here are so grateful for the welcome people have given us but we want to live in Syria, not Germany. I was 22 when the fighting started in 2011. I was living in a neighbourhood called Ghouta, a short drive from Damascus.
A year after the uprising the regime of Bashar al-Assad placed Ghouta under siege - this means nothing comes in or out - no food, no medicine, nothing. A year after that the regime attacked us with chemical weapons and more than a thousand were gassed to death. For years they have also dropped barrel bombs and missiles on us from regime aircraft. Normally we got struck eight times a day. How could we continue to survive that hell on earth?
but there is a flood of just one kind of people who are being used in a political game.
just one kind of people