'Auslander raus!'

[kurogane]

Allah Loompas
Doompity dee
If you were wise you'd have listened to me

They need to start a public educaton campaign to educate these dung munchers.
I suggest they call it a Civility Crusade. They're never ever leaving Europe so let's at least have some fun.

[kurogane]

Migrants linked to 69,000 would-be or actual crimes in Germany in first three months of 2016: police

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKCN0YT28V

69,000..........in 3 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sadly, proper levels of outrage can only be maintained by not reading the article too closely, but it could be enough of a kick in the pants to restore some sanity to the discussion, some integrity to the border checks and gates, and help preserve Europe as an attractive holiday destination for the coming wave of rich, leisured Baby Boomers. It would be a shame for the European economy and the potential tourists if the Merkelites are allowed to persist in their nefarious strategy.

SAVE OUR TOURIST SPOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#Europeantourismmatters
LOL, OMG

[kurogane]

Shades of 1933???? Will the Cat Ladies rise to protect the rights of the underdogs as they are persecuted for having Culture? Will the Xenophobia ever cease?

Germany to clamp down on migrants’ multiple wives and child brides
GERMANY has said it will no longer allow migrants to have multiple wives or child brides.
By Selina Sykes
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/680 ... -marriages

Polygamy is banned in Germany - but many officials “turn a blind eye” to migrants who arrive in the country with more than one wife, according to the German newspaper Bild.

Just so the lefty camel hugger skeptics will know it's For Real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In related news, Vladimir Putin's message is being misunderstood and manipulated by the Lamestream Media.

[kurogane]

While I detest the violence it would have been hard to fault the attackers for their musical appraisal............

Radiohead fans beaten with pipes in Turkey for 'listening to music and drinking beer during Ramadan'
Police were called to disperse the attackers, resulting in tear gas and rubber bullets being fired

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 89911.html

................but it turns they were just Ramadanadingdongs going Allah Loompah, so rubber bullets and truncheons it is. A few good belly kicks should help their fast. Feckin cavemen.

[wagyl]

Feckin cavemen.

And how does this differ from Christian traditions of sacrifice (like giving up being racist or faithist for Lent)?

Fun fact: the following were classified as fish for Lenten dietary purposes: beaver, seal, porpoise, heron, even sheep found drinking from streams.

[dimwit]

Feckin cavemen.

And how does this differ from Christian traditions of sacrifice (like giving up being racist or faithist for Lent)?

Fun fact: the following were classified as fish for Lenten dietary purposes: beaver, seal, porpoise, heron, even sheep found drinking from streams.

Er, well when was the last time you heard about someone getting beaten for not fasting during Lent? Sometime around the Enlightenment I would guess. Growing up up as an Anglican I can't remember any dietary requirements for Lent.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Not only in Turkey and not only in Ramadan

Dancing Ban

[...]

Tanzverbot is the German term for "dancing ban". In Germany and Switzerland, dancing on some holidays is banned by most state or canton governments. These occasions are certain Christian and secular holidays aimed at mourning or contemplation, such as Good Friday, All Saints' Day (from its association with All Souls' Day practices) or memorial days like Volkstrauertag. The German and Swiss dancing bans prohibit public parties, but not dancing in one's private residence.

Until 1999, an ordinance in Pound, Virginia required that dance hall permits not be granted "to anyone who is not a proper person, nor to a person who is not a person of good moral character".

[...]

The German version of Wiki even has a detailed list of dates.

Radiohead could have thought about/expected this IMO.

[kurogane]

Feckin cavemen.

And how does this differ from Christian traditions of sacrifice (like giving up being racist or faithist for Lent)

No, no,...........no. The violence not the abstinence.

Fun fact: the following were classified as fish for Lenten dietary purposes: beaver, seal, porpoise, heron, even sheep found drinking from streams.

Papistry truly is the gift that keeps on giving, but it's actually rather refreshing to hear that priests were munching on beaver occasionally. And FTR, Lent is not really a Christian tradition, it's Papistry: the mind of the acolyte weakens from thirst and hunger and becomes more receptive to the lure of the Anti-Christ. Or some such Protestant rubbish. Plus, the last Lentan riots were probably about 500 years ago. Allowing for their appalling taste in bands, nobody should face a beating just for liking pablum.

[Russell]

Yeah, Christians would never resort to violence...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Yeah, Christians would never resort to violence...

Christianity is not currently the threat to the world that Islamism/Jihadism are.

[kurogane]

Yeah, Christians would never resort to violence...

A fair point, and one that relates to an abstinence of a different kind, or more correctly, 2 different kinds of abstinence not practiced.

OTOH,

UN says 65 million people displaced in 2015, a new record
"I hope that the message carried by those forcibly displaced reaches the leaderships: We need action, political action, to stop conflicts," said Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. "The message that they have carried is: 'If you don't solve problems, problems will come to you.'"

Don't get me wrong, I know a filthy Dago when I hear one, but did Guido just threaten us?

Surely even Luigi DeSuicido knows what a fucking Gatling Gun is???? Feck, man. Somebody shoot George Clooney before he makes another Nescafe commercial. Christ.

[kurogane]

PEACE IN OUR TIME

Merkel vows to keep Germany safe from terror and rescind all negative effects of gravity and centrifugal force
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/eu ... error.html

I can think of a few I know (and usually love or at least quite like) that will be reassured. Everybody else is buying canned food and bullets. This is like having Charlie Chaplin run the anti-slapstick campaign. Does this woman have no shame?

[TennoChinko]

PEACE IN OUR TIME

Merkel vows to keep Germany safe from terror and rescind all negative effects of gravity and centrifugal force
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/eu ... error.html

I can think of a few I know (and usually love or at least quite like) that will be reassured. Everybody else is buying canned food and bullets. This is like having Charlie Chaplin run the anti-slapstick campaign. Does this woman have no shame?

And, here is the Perfect Solution (replaces Final Solution c.1940's v/WWII)

[TennoChinko]

Yeah, Christians would never resort to violence...

Christianity is not currently the threat to the world that Islamism/Jihadism are.

Or, have been in the past ... even when you look at the Christian Crusades versus Muslim Conquests....

[kurogane]

Other than for PO'ing squishy kneejerk liberals I find the Crusade vs Mohammedan Conquest rehashes rather tiresome: it was a long, long time ago, though I do remember really liking El Cid; Heston was so cool at that age. The problem here isn't that the Muslims are invading, after all, it's that they're being invited and then very often rather neglected, all while pissy pants like Merkel stubbornly insist they're right because they can't admit they aren't. They need to close the gates, put up large and clear Not Welcome signs, clear the backlog of applicants, work at getting them integrated or at least housed, clothed and fed, and then move onto renting parts of Turkey and Lebabon for the rest, and doing what they can to make those camps as habitable as possible. There are simply too many people for this to work; it's like in the Mark of Gideon (season 3), where overpopulation has ruined life on Gideon but they steadfastly refuse to take the measures necessary to restore the quality of life and are hamstrung by their own cultural and social inertia. I think Merkel is known to be stubborn, but this level of hubris is unconscionable: she will hand Europe back to the ethno-crazies if she doesn't climb down and compromise.

Other than the sure to open kebab shops I do admit the prospect of a re-Mohammedanised Europe makes it much less attractive as a vacation destination, but many of them are decent and are there to stay for now, and many of those are actual refugees, and there's always the nice parts of South America for an Olde World trip. As long as they don't get shirty about beer and bacon it might actually work, and most will want to go home at some point, when their homes get unshittified.

[wagyl]

most will want to go home at some point, when their homes get unshittified.

Ask the original inhabitants of any settled area what they think about that vain hope. I believe you can find some First Nations people nearby.

Getting specific (and personal), Denmark is certainly unshittified from conditions 100 years ago. Is British Columbia less shit?

[kurogane]

Even for you that is kneejerk sophistry, but it does highlight why the discussion is so convoluted: this is a refugee problem, not immigration, and most refugees express a desire to return home if conditions improve enough to allow them to do so. Refugees don't give up on their homes and emigrate so much as are forced out by conditions, especially that trivial one about their prospects to continue breathing. The conflation of this massive, crisis based population transfer with historical New World immigration is common, in all senses, and possibly the most unhelpful misconception in the Globalites Beyond Borders Camp (or, the Gushing Gulag?)

Unless we want to conflate the economic migrants using refugee cover to muddy the waters with legitimate refugees, in which case we're back to square one..............again

[wagyl]

Is this really so different from the post World War II movements of people? How many of those formerly Displaced People and their children ended up going back to Europe?

How many Boat People ended up going back to Vietnam?

I don't think you can call it "most," no matter how hard you twist.

[kurogane]

Okay, but those 2 examples are markedly different than late 19th Century New World economic migration, crisis based as they were. The World War II example is a better one for your argument, I think, and fair enough: assuming things get better, many might choose to return home, or to commute like many Lebanese and Chinese Canadians do, as examples, living with one foot in both worlds as it were. I also think boatloads of Vietnamese ( ) would also consider it if there were tangible improvements in the attitude and policies of the Vietnamese state towards those who left. It is said to be still not overly friendly to returnees, despite their economic clout, though that is according to my vehemently anti-communist and ethnic Chinese Vietnamese friends. Also, I think it is wrong to compare the German social absorption capacity to expressly immigrant based New World societies.

Plus, if we're arguing for Remain it makes the dangers I am suggesting exist all the more cogent. I do not believe Europe can accommodate the Merkelian Imposition without significant and potentially retrograde political upheavals. Which would be sad, because it would be nice to have a nice European summer trip available as an option without having to worry about supporting angry white folks

[kurogane]

Crikey!

I give up. All you Oompa Loompah huggers win:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news
Elias Hussain Mahmud was jailed for 12 years
01 Aug 2016, 11:30am
Migrant who entered UK illegally raped woman on her morning commute after being allowed to stay

As shocking as I find his disregard for the legal niceties of state sanctioned rape, I simply cannot abide crimes against language so egregious.

[wagyl]

I am guessing that you are puzzled by the difference between legal rape and illegal rape.

[kurogane]

Yes, but looking back in anger, I have the mild satisfaction of knowing I wasn't as confused about it as he was, and won't have to pay the piper for my ignorance. But I still shudder to think that may have been a strategic attempt to educate their readers about the distinction between the legal and illegal types.

[dimwit]

I am guessing that you are puzzled by the difference between legal rape and illegal rape.

I thought legal rape is what is done by income tax auditors.

[kurogane]

Take a bow, man.
Anyhoo, that was just me having one of my Bad Headline Attacks. I was not trivialising sexual assault, so we're clear. Especially not the illegal kind

[Samurai_Jerk]

The singular life of a Syrian refugee in Japan

It sounds like a sadly familiar story. A plan for the family to stick out the war in Syria while the children finish their education — but then a missile strikes their home.

Jamal, 24, remembers running to the basement after the first explosion and hearing the horrifying sounds above. His younger sister went into shock, prompting his terrified mother to slap her. Like so many other Syrians, they decided they had to leave.

But Jamal and his sister and mother didn’t follow other Syrians to Europe or North America. Instead, after a brief stay in Egypt, they flew to Japan in October 2013. The next year, they were granted refugee status.

In their new home, that makes them an oddity. According to recent figures from the Japanese Ministry of Justice, as of 2015, only six Syrians have been accepted as refugees in the country. Jamal’s family, who asked not to be fully identified because of concerns about their relatives in Syria, make up half that number.

The situation isn’t much better for refugees from other nations. Last year, Japan received a record 7,586 applications for refugee status. Just 27 were granted.

This unusual situation has helped make Jamal a sought-after, unofficial spokesman. He’s frequently interviewed by Japanese reporters and gives lectures to students about his experiences. “I always start my presentations talking about Syria,” he explained recently over coffee in the suburbs of Tokyo, “because most Japanese people think that it is just a desert or something.”

To be fair, back in Syria there was a lot Jamal didn’t know about Japan, either. His closest interaction with Japanese culture came through anime, which he watched online with Arabic subtitles.

Jamal’s family had planned to head to Sweden, where a cousin was living. But the Swedish visa was denied, and an uncle who was married to a Japanese woman helped them get to Japan instead.

[...]

That early period was tough. Tensions soon boiled over in his uncle’s house, so Jamal’s family moved out. Not yet authorized to work legally, Jamal found employment on sketchy, sometimes dangerous demolition jobs. After a nail went through his foot, he got tetanus and spent a week in the hospital.

“It was the worst period in my life,” he said. Later, Jamal said he worked 15 hours a day, six days a week at a burger chain. By then he was legally able to work, and it was certainly better than the demolition jobs, but still grueling: It took him an extra hour and a half just to get to and from the restaurant every day.

He eventually found a better-paying job, teaching English to kindergarten-age children. After the family’s refugee status was approved, he began taking full-time language lessons. Jamal now speaks Japanese at a conversational level. He has made friends through soccer, playing for two local clubs. Like his Japanese teammates, Jamal heads out to the izakayas for post-match beer and food — though the beer is alcohol-free and he avoids pork because of his faith. He attends Friday prayer at Tokyo Camii, the largest mosque in Japan.

Japanese often assume he is European. Some are surprised when he reveals he’s Syrian. “Some of them I can tell from their faces that they didn’t like it,” he added, “but they don’t say anything.”

[...]

Jamal could not explain why his family was the exception. He said that his mother, who used to work for Syrian state television, was interviewed numerous times in long sessions that left her in tears.

He understood Japan’s apprehension about refugees, to an extent. Friends who have ended up in Germany have told him about dangerous Syrians they’ve met in the country. “If they accept everyone without being strict . . . of course the country will be in chaos like what’s happened in France,” he said. “If you are at home and somebody knocks your door and says, ‘I want to come in,’ you wouldn’t let him come, right? You need to know him.”

But if Japan can’t take in the thousands of Syrians that European or North American nations are taking, Jamal said, it should still do more than it’s doing now. “If, for example, they accepted all the Syrians who are living here — 500 or so — it wouldn’t have such a big impact because they are separated in each prefecture,” he said.

But a recent survey conducted by Ipsos MORI found that just 18 percent of Japanese believed that refugee integration could be a success, while 46 percent disagreed.

[kurogane]

Good for him for sticking it out and good for the Japanese for sticking to their guns. If more countries would show the same mettle more refugees might still be close enough to home to pick up a rifle and fix things more quickly, not to mention the benefits for rich country tourists visiting Europe, as Jamal alluded to. I noticed lots of Uzbeki types at the convenience stores in Asserkisser (great employees, btw) but didn't have to deal with or even hear of any refugee types.

[Grumpy Gramps]

spent a week in the hospital.

“It was the worst period in my life,” he said.

I always knew that Japanese hospitals are worse than Syrian bombardments.

Kudos to the guy, though.

[Isle of View]

Is this really so different from the post World War II movements of people? How many of those formerly Displaced People and their children ended up going back to Europe?

The fUSSR and the Warsaw Pact collapsed on or about 1991.
That's 46 years after then end of WWII.

[kurogane]

Hope for a final solution to the migrant problem?

One Of The Last Remaining Routes To Europe For Refugees Is Also One Of The Deadliest
Rescuers are feeling powerless in the face of mounting challenges.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ref ... 1d9e63f478

Perhaps with a concerted effort the border patrols and such can close down this last route and help the migrants stay at home, or wherever it is they are now, keeping them safe and leaving Europe to those who live there and those who can pay to visit.

[Grumpy Gramps]

The NATO and its allies are working hard already to stop people from going to Europe. Good bombs are not cheap.