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Pope Francis strong message on World Day of migrants and refugees
Pope Francis urged countries to welcome and respect migrants and refugees and not to treat them as “pawns on the chessboard of humanity”. Francis, who has made the defence of the poor and vulnerable a cornerstone of his papacy, said in a message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees that there should be a change in attitude on the part of host countries. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIndeed “there should be a change in attitude on the part of host countries.” We should tell the migrants and refugees to stay where they are. After all, most of them want to bring their country and culture with them. If they stay where they are, they won't have to. The top countries in the world are ones where the people stayed where they were and found their way through problems. They didn't run away. If everybody just ran away, no-one who know who or what they are. Imagine the inhabitants of France running away to live in the middle of China. Or the inhabitants of Spain running away to live in South America. Oh no, they did that, didn't they? There's nothing wrong with the attitudes of “host countries”. Importance of the word “host”. “Host” implies that those arriving are “guests”. So why don't they act like guests? Instead they arrive with the words “We want........” Later, they change to “We demand........” Then they start demanding that the host changes to suit them. And that's when the real problems start! Easily solved if they just stay where they are.
Sep 25th, 2013 - 12:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don’t agree with the Pope….The problem with all this floury stuff he says is that is already been said and done for 30/40 years ago. Politically correct beliefs are already old, just as he is, and it just doesn’t work, especially in times of prolonged economic crisis. The fact you have in Europe the rise in the last few years of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Marine Le Pen in France and UKIP in Britain is a clear indication that people are just fed up, and don’t buy the story any longer, and of course that multiculturalism has failed miserably. It’s better for more moderate parties to succeed earlier because there is a risk for more extremists ones to come to power like Golden Dawn in Greece which is now unstoppable.
Sep 25th, 2013 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gaddafi would stop all the immigrants from North Africa to enter Italy and Europe via the Mediterranean, as he was close friends of Berlusconi…Now Gaddafi is gone so maybe Italy is seeing the consequences of that. I read from an Italian sociologist (can’t remember her name) the other problem with massive oversupply of unskilled immigration is that most the migrants are mostly men and very few females in proportion, so of course it’s a tremendous social problem as well.
It’s really time for the countries that expel these massive amounts of migrants to be more responsible of what they do and create opportunities and improve life standards for their own people rather than just leaving for someone else take care. I think that that is where the problem starts
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