Posted on 03/24/2016 10:54:23 AM PDT by Riflema
Some 320,000 Muslims from Bulgaria surged unexpectedly into Turkey in June, July and August of this year, and an additional half million may hope to follow. Viewed demographically, historically or economically, it has become one of the most sudden and significant population shifts since World War II.
The sheer numbers indicate the dimensions of the problem posed for both countries. Bulgaria's population is 9 million, of whom about 1.5 million are Muslim. Depending upon the reports they receive from their co-religionists already in Turkey, another half million may soon be pressing to emigrate. Already Bulgaria has called for volunteers and also decreed labor mobilization to finish the tobacco harvest, tend the dairy farms, and move into the small factories in southeast areas of the country left almost deserted by the exodus.
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Ok, they were leaving a crappy commie country for a slight less crappy free enterprise (at that time) one, but they seem to have had no qualms relinquishing that little bit of their territory completely voluntarily.
Today, Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE all have better material standard of living than, say, Dearborn, so I wonder...
there is hope yet for USA and Europe... once we get loyal leadership
If Islam is so damn great, then why is every Muslim fleeing ISIS?........................
1989 ?????
“Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE all have better material standard of living than, say, Dearborn”
I don’t think this is the case.
For some people in Saudi, Qatar UAE and Kuwait this may be so, the fairly privileged natives, but this is not true of all foreign workers including foreign Arabs. And I wonder very much about just how well off the natives are in Saudi. Its a welfare state but the standard of living considering the high cost of living isn’t up to Euro or US standards.
The punchline “I’ll just have a diet Coke” is appropriate.
The Median Income wiki is interesting -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income
Saudi has high-ish household income (in the low-Euro range, better than Czech, Spain, Italy), I think because of large households, but their comparable median personal income is less than 1/3 of the US and less than half the Euro median.
Ah, but how hard would it be to persuade our beloved mahometan friends that they do have lands of milk’n’honey? And sharia too! What’s not to like?
Very hard.
Saudi, Kuwait, UAE, etc. have oil income for their own subset of a “native” population. These are really small countries - or the population/livable area is small, the rest is useless wasteland. They can be more or less wealthy if they don’t have to spread it around to all the billion + believers.
Okay, okay I get the stats. My bigger point is that these dopes can be made to go home, even after settling for a couple of hundred years. All it takes is a little imagination (I feel a Lennon song coming on...)
It’s a history lesson, ....
It’s referred to as “a nugget from recent history” in Post #1
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I defy you to step outside in August in Michigan and say that you’re worse off than if you were in Saudi Arabia. It is an oven there and for the average Saudi citizen it is not a better living than in the US.
And thats another matter.
Arabia was always a marginal environment for human life.
At the time - 1989 - Turkey was probably just a better option, life style wise... Nothing I’d classify as “self-deportation”. More a reflection on just how crappy Soviet-satellite Bulgaria was back then. And no direct way to the West.
Most have probably moved on the western Europe since then...
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