Egypt billionare offers to buy Med island for refugees

AFP by way of Yahoo News ^ | September 3, 2015 | Victor Luckerson

[SunkenCiv]

How about building new housing for them in, say, Libya? Or the Sinai? Or Yemen? Or Eritrea? Or Bikini Atoll or Kahoolawe if you're set on an island? Or -- and stop me if you've heard this before -- consider building enough for half the world's population in the empty areas of Arabia or Egypt? Or just kiss all our asses.

[grania]

Cool. So he’d be buying his own nation and have thousands of people grateful to be there.

[I want the USA back]

Very good idea. Send all towelheads there so they can’t hurt normal people.

[txhurl]

Because there are no bedouin tribes on those islands to start blood feuds over who was there first. That’s what the islamos exploit, tribal history to form alliances and pools for new jihadis (usually inbred).

You don’t think this would be a great idea? instructive for young muslims who haven’t been ruined by madrasses yet?

[SkyPilot]

Buying Muslim invaders islands is akin to an enemy parking an aircraft carrier off the coast. The offer is offensive in nature, and this is warfare.

[Mr Radical]

Why does the island have to off Greece or Italy? Why can't they simply build a new one in the Persian Gulf, like the Marjan Island Resort ???

/rhetorical

[moovova]

Sorta like a floating Roach Motel.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for sticking up for him, but he's just trying to make colonization and Islamic takeover look no different than building resort hotels and casinos. Nice try.

[txhurl]

Who is him? I hate muzzies as much as anybody, but I’m all for keeping them out of the cities they’ve selected here for 300K+ of them.

[W.]

Nice thought, but they don't wanna work, they want to leech benefits, swamp the host countries with sheer numbers and make it another caliphate of Islam.

However, were the island like Hotel California [You can check out, but you can never leave] that'd work, too...

[BatGuano]

What kind of dope could think that Guam could “tip over?”

Oh, never mind, I remember the dope that suggested it could.

[familyop]

"How about building new housing for them in, say, Libya? Or the Sinai? Or Yemen? Or Eritrea?...empty areas of Arabia or Egypt?"

That would be better, but obviously, trade interests, diplomats and their customers in Muslim countries have put them off limits, as have Italy, Greece and Spain. The migrants are already being shoveled by southern Europe and eastern Europe into places like Iceland, Norway, Sweden, France, the U.K. and the U.S.A., which makes much less sense.

[Jane Long]

All part of The Plan.

[OldNewYork]

Great idea? Why doesn’t this Egyptian billionaire buy a big swathe of Egyptian land and do the same there?

[txhurl]

Some author in Iceland persuaded 10K Icelanders to open their homes to the refugees. There must be some kind of .gov scam to get that to happen.. Iceland is monoculture to the extreme.

[txhurl]

Some author in Iceland persuaded 10K Icelanders to open their homes to the refugees. There must be some kind of .gov scam to get that to happen.. Iceland is monoculture to the extreme.

[cookcounty]

Could have built Gaza into a Singapore…….but that requires a population that wants peace and prosperity.

[familyop]

True.

[unlearner]

“If TX had islands, I’d jump at the chance...”

Texas has many islands. Albeit, few undeveloped ones. I think these are developed:

Alcatraz
Alexander Island
Bayucos Island
Blackberry Island
Brazos Island
Clark Island
Coyote Island
Dagger Island
Dewberry Island
Galveston Island
Goat Island
Grass Island
Hannah Island
Horse Island
Ingleside Point
Long Island (Calhoun County)
Long Island (Cameron County)
Matagorda Island
Mud Island (Aransas County)
Mud Island (Brazoria County)
Mustang Island
North Deer Island
North Padre Island
Padre Island
Pelican Island (Corpus Christi)
Pelican Island (Galveston, Texas)
Pelone Island
Pleasure Island
Port Aransas
Red Fish Island
San José Island
Shamrock Island
Skimmer Key
South Padre Island
Spoil Banks
Tres Marais Island
Turkey Island
Turnstake Island
Twin Island
Ultimo Island
Vanderveer Island
Vingt-et-un Islands
Walton Island
Ward Island
Watts Island
Wood Island
Yucca Island

Many more are small and unnamed.

[txhurl]

Any of those fit 300K refugees?