The European Union is facing an unprecedented invasion, right now.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East are swarming into the EU, or are poised to do so. Germany is said to be facing an influx of more than 800,000, this year.
This solution might work for some of them.
Many of these migrants are Muslims, fleeing war in Syria and Iraq or in Somalia or Eritrea or Ethiopia or Afghanistan.
Surely it would be far, far better for these migrants to be re-housed in a culture that is more in keeping with their own?
So why don't the EU authorities turn these people around and send them to Saudi Arabia or Iran - depending upon which Islamic sect, they follow.
Both are rich countries, both are strongly religious and won't persecute the migrants for practicing their religion - so long as they chose the right country. Both are large countries with plenty of room for settling large numbers. Saudi Arabia has a large population of immigrants from the Indian sub-continent - mainly Pakistan, it could simply replace these with the immigrants that are most in need.
This solution would reduce the burden on European countries and stop the indigenous people from feeling swamped and for their ailing economies being even more strained. Plus, it gives the Saudis and the Iranians the opportunity to show charity and compassion to their co-religionists. Win/Win really!
This would also take away the opportunity of those in Europe to say that these are merely economic migrants - just looking for a better life in Europe, than they can achieve at home.
If this is successful and these masses of Muslims could be accommodated within these two stalwarts of the Muslim community, then perhaps those Muslims that have migrated to Europe, during previous upheavals, could also leave and settle there, as well.
Too simplistic? Consider how many Greeks and Turks moved in opposite directions when those nations moved apart in the 1920's. Consider how many Muslims moved from what was to become India to what was to become Pakistan, in 1947 (and Hindus in the opposite direction.) Mass migration can work, indeed has worked but has been most successful, when the people moving, move to an area with which they are culturally familiar.
Maybe the Americans could try this with their non-Mexican immigrants? Let them stay in Mexico rather than take them into the USA and put them, (in an effort to disperse the large numbers) into alien environments.
If something isn't done though, watch for the further rise of far Right parties in Europe. The French National Front is already in the ascendancy and will only be stopped from taking the French presidency by a coalition of Socialists, Communists and Conservatives. We see, in Spain, Greece and Germany, a backlash building. Even in my beloved UK, the UK Independence Party garnered a lot of support, in the last General Election, because of it's anti-immigration policies.
Doing nothing, isn't really an option!
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East are swarming into the EU, or are poised to do so. Germany is said to be facing an influx of more than 800,000, this year.
This solution might work for some of them.
Many of these migrants are Muslims, fleeing war in Syria and Iraq or in Somalia or Eritrea or Ethiopia or Afghanistan.
Surely it would be far, far better for these migrants to be re-housed in a culture that is more in keeping with their own?
So why don't the EU authorities turn these people around and send them to Saudi Arabia or Iran - depending upon which Islamic sect, they follow.
Both are rich countries, both are strongly religious and won't persecute the migrants for practicing their religion - so long as they chose the right country. Both are large countries with plenty of room for settling large numbers. Saudi Arabia has a large population of immigrants from the Indian sub-continent - mainly Pakistan, it could simply replace these with the immigrants that are most in need.
This solution would reduce the burden on European countries and stop the indigenous people from feeling swamped and for their ailing economies being even more strained. Plus, it gives the Saudis and the Iranians the opportunity to show charity and compassion to their co-religionists. Win/Win really!
This would also take away the opportunity of those in Europe to say that these are merely economic migrants - just looking for a better life in Europe, than they can achieve at home.
If this is successful and these masses of Muslims could be accommodated within these two stalwarts of the Muslim community, then perhaps those Muslims that have migrated to Europe, during previous upheavals, could also leave and settle there, as well.
Too simplistic? Consider how many Greeks and Turks moved in opposite directions when those nations moved apart in the 1920's. Consider how many Muslims moved from what was to become India to what was to become Pakistan, in 1947 (and Hindus in the opposite direction.) Mass migration can work, indeed has worked but has been most successful, when the people moving, move to an area with which they are culturally familiar.
Maybe the Americans could try this with their non-Mexican immigrants? Let them stay in Mexico rather than take them into the USA and put them, (in an effort to disperse the large numbers) into alien environments.
If something isn't done though, watch for the further rise of far Right parties in Europe. The French National Front is already in the ascendancy and will only be stopped from taking the French presidency by a coalition of Socialists, Communists and Conservatives. We see, in Spain, Greece and Germany, a backlash building. Even in my beloved UK, the UK Independence Party garnered a lot of support, in the last General Election, because of it's anti-immigration policies.
Doing nothing, isn't really an option!
