The ISIS-Driven Refugee Crisis

The photo of a Syrian Kurdish refugee boy washed up on a Turkish shore has brought attention to, and shock over, the massive refugee flood fleeing ISIS and heading for Europe, at any price. Just another consequence of the rest of the world’s lackadaisical response to the ISIS advance and horrors. This is what happens when the U.S. doesn’t want to be the world’s policeman – there are no police, and the thugs are running amok.

The Left’s anti-authoritarian (at least anti-police) leanings also seem evident in the notable lack of the Obama administration’s public expressions over the rash of racially motivated U.S. police assassinations. They are outspoken at the drop of the hat when a black thug is killed by a policeman, even before it’s clear there was no racial motivation for most of the highly publicized cases that form a false narrative for the “Black lives matter” movement.

There are several million refugees or displaced persons (homeless within Syria , Libya, Iraq, etc.) who are fleeing ISIS. Hewett guest Mark Steyn recommended the book “Camp of the Saints,” that 40 years ago wrote of a similar European refugee flood & dire consequences. 95% good guys, 5% bad, incl. terrorists.

Europe is paying the price. Germany has agreed to take in 800,000 refugees, which is a huge number considering their size (about 80 million), though not comparable to the relative size of the U.S. illegal immigrant population.

Some conjecture it’s part of their still trying to redeem their image after the Nazi horrors. I saw evidence of that premise over Labor Day weekend when I watched a new German movie, “Phoenix,” that clearly showed the Germans are still, 70 years after WWII, dealing with the issues of the Nazi horrors, and those who went along with it. One of the trailers before the movie dealt with the same issues. But of course once you’re anywhere in the European Union, you’re quite free to go anywhere – there are no longer national border controls.

As if Europe didn’t already have problems with the current Muslim population (e.g., the French riots, terrorism, etc.), this new influx accelerates what Mark Steyn wrote about in “America Alone.”

“[Mark] Steyn believes that what he describes as "Eurabia", a future where the European continent is dominated by Islam, is an imminent reality that cannot be reversed.” Every Continental under the age of 40—make that 60, if not 75—is all but guaranteed to end his days living in an Islamified Europe." "Native populations on the continent are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic."

“In his book America Alone, Steyn posits that Muslim population growth has already contributed to a modern European genocide:

“Why did Bosnia collapse into the worst slaughter in Europe since the second World War? In the thirty years before the meltdown, Bosnian Serbs had declined from 43 percent to 31 percent of the population, while Bosnian Muslims had increased from 26 percent to 44 percent. In a democratic age, you can't buck demography—except through civil war. ...The problem that Europe faces is that Bosnia's demographic profile is now the model for the entire continent.”

It’s not just a matter of ethnicity or religion (racism or Islamophobia), which the Left of course would attribute to any concern over all this. Although Islamic extremism is clearly the problem.  The great majority are not problematic. But as seen with previous generations of immigrants, a fair fraction of the younger generation, to the extent it is not assimilated, grows forgetful, restless and resentful and prone to troublemaking or terrorism. And even several percent of many millions can cause a lot of trouble, and be fertile ground for ISIS or other extremist recruitment.

As Bobby Jindal (an immigrant himself) noted regarding U.S. immigration problems, “Immigration without integration is invasion.” And so ISIS is actually fomenting the European invasion. And will continue to, as long as it’s allowed to continue to expand and commit atrocities. And who knows how many of the so-called refugees are actually terrorists already? Just as with our own borders in the U.S.