Re: Katie Hopkins gets warm reception as she calls Islam ‘single biggest threat’ to Europe Archived Message
Posted by brooks on July 7, 2019, 3:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Katie Hopkins gets warm reception as she calls Islam ‘single biggest threat’ to Europe"
The migrant/refugee crisis in Europe has its source in western imperial policies. The only "engineering" going on in this context that I can see is of expanding illegal wars and occupations, of new administrative barriers and physical border walls to keep the people fleeing these depredations out, and of propaganda campaigns scapegoating the desperate and fleeing victims in a classic ruse of divide-and-conquer imperialists everywhere. The mass floods of immigrants and refugees to the west are a predictable though not intended consequence of these policies and institutions. Whether the people leaving their home countries are emigrating or fleeing - often different versions of the same thing, often the same thing called by different names - in the case of Muslims, they are usually leaving countries devastated by us. Therefore to speak of their coming to the west, as as a threat to the integrity of our security, economy, culture, etc, is not only to be unwilling to accept the predictable consequences of our policies and crimes, but is to play into some of the most dangerous narratives of the current era. What's being engineered isn't mass migration but the portrayal of the migrants as the dangerous "other", as potential "terrorists", as a threat to our jobs and way of life. Muslims in the west post 911 have already suffered serious repression and Hopkins' rhetoric just adds fuel to the fire. In a perfect world without such a horrific political context, one could perhaps take such concerns about our security and culture seriously - perhaps - but in the face of genocides and ecocides and our limitless atrocities against Islamic states and their citizens, it's the welfare of our victims, not some nebulous concept of the purity of "western culture" that we need to be concerned with if we care about justice. If you have some evidence of some other kind of devious immigration engineering by the deep state going on of policies to accept more immigrants/refugees to promote the interests of western empire/neoliberal capital, I'd be interested to see it. But whether it exists or not, it doesn't affect the moral obligations of the people in the aggressor states like Europe, Canada, or the US.
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- Re: Katie Hopkins gets warm reception as she calls Islam ‘single biggest threat’ to Europe - johnlilburne July 5, 2019, 3:28 pm
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- Re: Katie Hopkins gets warm reception as she calls Islam ‘single biggest threat’ to Europe - brooks July 5, 2019, 6:37 pm
- Priorities - Gerard July 6, 2019, 10:30 pm
- Re: Katie Hopkins gets warm reception as she calls Islam ‘single biggest threat’ to Europe - Gerard July 6, 2019, 10:37 pm
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