The following is about a German organization known as PEGIDA. I have taken it over from Wikipedia and therefore cannot vouch for 100% accuracy. I realize I am taking a great risk in posting this document, for PEGIDA has a bad name in the media. But that media is mostly liberal, leftist in orientation and generally condemns the sentiments expressed in this post without giving it a fair hearing. Some of the statements below are purely local German politics for which I
cannot vouch either. Some of it is definitely questionable and would need
greater nuance before I would support it. Nevertheless, the document as a whole draws our attention to some refugee issues that the liberal mainline
politicians and media tend to hide, obscure or flatly deny, if not ridicule.
I
believe you, my readers, have a right to hear the PEGIDA folk themselves out
and make up your own mind. And then see what you can take away from it and
apply to Canadian refugee policy. You will note that in the document PEGIDA
recommends Canada’s refugee policy. So that their perspective can’t be that
bad, right?
Unfortunately,
much of Canada’s policy is based on a totally inexperienced and quick-to-talk Prime Minister, who has forced himself into an unceasing process of chipping
away at his questionable campaign promise of hauling in 25,000 refugees before
the end of 2015. How could Canadians fall for such immaturity?
It can only be explained in terms of the “monster” that Harper portrayed himself to be, a monster Canadians wanted to get rid of at all costs. Well, they did. I’m glad we got rid of the “monster,” but I’m not so sure we did not simply replace him with another type of monster, one who has shown himself either to be ignorant during his campaign or deceitful or, perhaps worst of all, populist; not sure which. Whether ignorant or deceitful or populist, as one who sought the leadership of a nation, any one of these three would turn him into a monster Prime Minister. Perhaps the jury is still out on that one.
It can only be explained in terms of the “monster” that Harper portrayed himself to be, a monster Canadians wanted to get rid of at all costs. Well, they did. I’m glad we got rid of the “monster,” but I’m not so sure we did not simply replace him with another type of monster, one who has shown himself either to be ignorant during his campaign or deceitful or, perhaps worst of all, populist; not sure which. Whether ignorant or deceitful or populist, as one who sought the leadership of a nation, any one of these three would turn him into a monster Prime Minister. Perhaps the jury is still out on that one.
I
want it understood that I welcome refugees. A hundred of them are at the moment
my next-door neighbours, having been put up in a hotel. I see them every day. I
stop to welcome them and chat with them as much as language allows. Before
long, an unceasing flow of refugees will be the neighbours of my church, the
First Christian Reformed Church of Vancouver on Victoria Drive and Tenth
Avenue. A welcoming centre is under construction next door to this church and I
have voted for that church to support a chaplain cum social worker to help the Centre
“process” refugees, a move the Centre itself welcomes with open arms.
But
I do resist careless acceptance of refugees without rigorous due process. Previous recent posts on this blog have
indicated that it is often lacking in rigour.
I don’t need to repeat all that.
I
do remember years ago, when I would visit friends and relatives in my “old
country,” The Netherlands, that I
predicted that with the end of the Cold War, Islam would become the West’s next
challenge. I warned my listeners that the guest workers they were importing at
the time, would become serious problems for Europe in the future. They
dismissed me as a “red neck.” Some of
them recall those discussions and no longer apply that epithet to me.
So,
here then a brief Wikipedia introduction to PEGIDA and then its document translated
from its own German words. Read it.
Think about it. Reject the inappropriate and then insist on policies for our
own Government that are based on actual facts and have an eye for potential
dangers.
Patriotic Europeans
Against the Islamisation of the Occident[note 1] (German: Patriotische
Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes), abbreviated PEGIDA or Pegida,
is a German anti-Islamisation[1][2][3] political movement founded in Dresden in October 2014. The organisation team
in Dresden usually holds demonstrations every Monday, at a location and time
specified beforehand on its Facebook page, against what it considers the Islamisation of
the Western world, calling for more restrictive
immigration rules, particularly for Muslimswho refuse to integrate (see Item 16 of
its Position Paper). Offshoots of Pegida have been formed
in various countries.
10 PEGIDA Demands on German Asylum Politics
On 11 September 2015, Pegida posted 10 demands on German asylum
politics on its Facebook page, as reported by heute.[62] Although an official Pegida translation
exists on its Facebook page, the following is an improved version that harks
back to the original German:
1.) We call for an immediate stop on asylum seekers, and we call
for a German asylum emergency law - now!
Our asylum laws were conceived after the war for the manageable
quantity of approximately 2,000 refugees per year and not for the million we
expected to reach in 2015!
2.) We call for strict border controls! We demand IMMEDIATE
suspension of the Schengen Agreement - on all of Germany's borders!
Other EU countries already monitor their national borders again
- even though the completely failed Dublin procedure is a burden rests mostly
on Germany's back. The temporary reintroduction of border controls during the
G7 summit has proven that border controls hinder illegal border crossings, the
flourishing business of the smuggling mafia and the entry of criminals.
3.) We demand that the group of "safe countries of
origin" be expanded to ALL Council of Europe member countries!
This Council of Europe has 47 member countries with 830 million
citizens and over 1,800 European officials.
All member states have committed themselves to the preservation
of democracy and rule of law as well as the recognition of fundamental human
rights. That should be enough to count these countries as safe countries!
4.) We call for a TEMPORARYLY LIMITED right of asylum for war
refugees!
Of course, real war refugees and accepted asylum seekers are to
be granted temporary protection and full coverage on a MODEST scale. But once
the situation in the home country improves, the refugees have to leave our
country again.
5.) We call for a binding limit on the annual reception of
asylum seekers, set namely by ourselves, the host country Germany!
This vital question about the future of our country must be
carried out by means of direct democracy - through a referendum!
6.) We demand honesty, at long last, in the integration debate
and the end of the red-green[note 3] social-romantic tale of wanting to
integrate masses of male, African asylum seekers here!
No one wants that. The green socialists use the refugees to
create a red-green job wonder for bachelor graduates of chatter sciences here.
The pathological altruism and do-gooders with feigned empathy are moral
invisibility cloaks, which cover the highly lucrative migrant market.
7.) We demand that all rejected asylum seekers and hundreds of
thousands of illegal immigrants be deported at once, as logic would have it!
Again: We call for MASS deportations - and do it NOW!
8.) We demand that the refugee problem be resolved locally, in
their own cultures!
Our so-called representatives of the people should show some
backbone and take Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to task.
These wealthy, huge Sharia paradises are much better suited to
accommodate the crowds of Muslim asylum seekers than a Europe of unbelievers!
And we need, at long last, asylum audits right in the countries of origin.
Applications for asylum in Germany have to be decided by fast-track procedure
locally even in North Africa!
9.) We demand that foreign criminal, who stand in alliance with
Islamic terrorist organizations be deported immediately!
This naturally also includes the adopted "sons and
daughters" of German Minister of Internal Affairs de Maiziere, all these
jihad returnees and all known and violent Salafists - these people also deserve
to be deported from Europe immediately!
10.) The expected resistance from Brussels about any changes in
German immigration and asylum policies must be answered with exit from this
bullying dump EU.
The future French President Marine Le Pen has summarized it
concisely in the demand for "the destruction of this EU"
It’s only this radical way which works! This EU will never be
able to reform - who would rationalize away his own highly paid job?
Asylum seekers driven by nothing other than economic reasons are
NOT welcome! Christian refugees, especially those who are oppressed by
murderous Islamists, are absolutely welcome in Germany and we provide the
shelter, food and life support they need, because this is a natural German
trait. To all others: STAY OUT!
We, the people of the European nations, need to unite, to
conserve and to defend our values, our culture, our freedom. We need to unite
against the self-declared kings and queens in Brussels. We, the German people,
need international support against our own politicians in our German
parliaments.
Our politicians want to change the current form of government of
the Federal Republic of Germany substantially, they want to abolish the German
state and replace the German people with a multicultural society, they want to
establish a multiethnic state on German soil - this behaviour is high treason!
Well,
there it is. Plenty of food for thought.
You now have it directly from the horse’s mouth—from PEGIDA, not me! Does the paragraph above this one not remind you
of Trudeau Sr? And now of our current Jr? I am not sure I'd call it "high treason," but we should ask what it is we are seeing—the inexperience of youth or populism or what?
I’m
off to one of the largest annual conferences in downtown Vancouver: Missions
Fest Vancouver. I’m on their Board and
thus have plenty to keep me busy over the weekend. See you next week. Perhaps I'll give you a report.
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