Posted on 02/28/2022 8:57:57 PM PST by KingofZion
They file into neighboring countries by the hundreds of thousands — refugees from Ukraine clutching children in one arm, belongings in the other. And they’re being heartily welcomed, by leaders of countries like Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania.
*** “These are not the refugees we are used to… these people are Europeans,” Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov told journalists earlier this week, of the Ukrainians. “These people are intelligent, they are educated people.... This is not the refugee wave we have been used to, people we were not sure about their identity, people with unclear pasts, who could have been even terrorists…”
“In other words,” he added, “there is not a single European country now which is afraid of the current wave of refugees.”
Syrian journalist Okba Mohammad says that statement “mixes racism and Islamophobia.”
*** The change in tone of some of Europe’s most extreme anti-migration leaders has been striking — from “We aren’t going to let anyone in” to “We’re letting everyone in.”
Those comments were made only three months apart by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. In the first, in December, he was addressing migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa. In the second, this week, he was addressing people from Ukraine.
Some journalists, too, are being criticized for descriptions of Ukrainian refugees. “These are prosperous, middle-class people,” an Al Jazeera English television presenter said. “These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from areas in the Middle East... in North Africa. They look like any European family that you would live next door to.”
*** CBS news apologized after one of its correspondents said the conflict in Kyiv wasn’t “like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European” city.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Why do the citizens of so many Middle Eastern countries want to leave them, Mr. Mohammad? Especially when the countries they want to go to are so full of "racism and Islamophobia" ?
Just stating the obvious.
Truth Hurts!
Mostly civilized people tend to welcome the presence of even more mostly civilized people.
Bingo! If they don’t like it they are “free” to return.
There are big differences
1. These refugees are going to neighbouring countries. Not flying thousands of miles to break in
2. They are coming through legal checkpoints, not breaking in illegally.
3. They are women with children or old people. Not men
Exactly. Pay attention, Europe, these are what REAL refugees look like.
Western Europe can have their Syrians and Afghanis, New Europe can handle the Ukrainians.
Ukrainians here favor the GOP. Democrats will suddenly find an excuse not to take many.
Just like Mayorkas said to Cubans “don’t come here”.
the statement is TRUTH
Europe should have “Islamophobia” Islam is a violent cult that has led several invasions of Europe. Muslims need to stay in their own violent s holes. Not Europe.
ah yes, another attack on Hungary. A country that protects its borders, but will take in some real refugees already in their neighborhood.
Suck it up. If you don’t like it, fix up your own religion/culture first.
Excellent accounts.
He’s the only one
Same globalists loving some Zelensky
And loving non whites and non Christians streaming into Europe to work and pay for their insane pension funds
Are now complaining Uke refugees fleeing a war they support short of shutting Pootie pipeline are too damn white..
Priceless is an understatement
How will the giant western lockstep propaganda media and internet parse this....
The last being far more a threat to the west so far than Pootie invading Ukraine
Note fire breathers I said “so far”
It is the difference between letting literate productive people fleeing strife in their homeland in who are not there for the economic benefits and mostly illiterate people, some, but not all, fleeing strife, who are there for the economic benefits and who have historically been proven difficult to assimilate. If you are President of a country with limited resources, who are you going to let in? Most responsible politicians, except the one currently residing in the White House would choose the former while the non lucid one wandering the halls of the White House prefers the latter.
When Putin decides to press the nuclear button, I hope that the New York Slimes and Compost are ground zero. A den of traitorous bastards. May they die an agonizing death! /spit
I’ve been seeing a lot of Muslims grip about how well Ukrainian refugees are being welcomed and treated. They do not understand the difference between going into nations that are like you’r own and going into nations that have nothing in common with you as it was with the Middle Eastern throngs that flooded the borders in the EU. ...and they were mostly young men...these are primarily woman and children because the men are staying in Ukraine to fight.
Too bad they can’t kick out the unwanted illegals and replace them with the civilized refugees. For instance, 1000 illegals out, 1000 refugees in.
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