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Migrant boat turned away by Italy arrives in Spain
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | June 17th, 2017 | By Luis Felipe Fernandez and Jordi Rubio

Posted on 06/17/2018 8:56:20 AM PDT by Mariner

VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - A migrant rescue boat turned away by Italy and Malta arrived at the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday, ending a gruelling voyage which has made it a symbol of Europe's failure to agree on immigration.

Spain swooped to help 629 mainly sub-Saharan Africans on board the Aquarius last week after Italy's new government, asserting its anti-immigrant credentials, refused to let it dock. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who took office two weeks ago, took the opportunity to show a more liberal stance.

But the plight of the Aquarius, run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) with Franco-German charity SOS Mediterranee, highlighted the European Union's failure to agree on how to manage the huge influx of people fleeing poverty and conflict.

In Valencia, officials in white protective suits and masks greeted the migrants as they debarked and police started identifying them and processing their information.

The Aquarius arrived carrying 106 people rescued from unstable boats near Libya. The others had been transferred to an Italian coast guard vessel and a ship belonging to the Italian navy to make the journey safer.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deathofthewest; europe; hijrah; spain
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What the do-gooders fail to fully realize, or disregard entirely, is that this is a battle against dark forces in the world to preserve Western Civilization.

Without which there is little hope for man.

We must preserve this civilization first, as our principal goal. Then we can propagate relief into the countries that are suffering.

The US is under the same assault, just a different front.

If we fail, all hope for survival is lost.

1 posted on 06/17/2018 8:56:20 AM PDT by Mariner
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Send it back to Libya.

So simple.

If the Soros henchmen on the crew refuse, then detain them and hire a crew who will.


2 posted on 06/17/2018 9:01:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Mariner

Visit Spain...no one smiles..very unhappy people.


3 posted on 06/17/2018 9:06:43 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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this is a battle against dark forces in the world to preserve Western Civilization.

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”

A quote from an 1899 book by Winston Churchill, "The River War", in which he describes Muslims he apparently observed during Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan

4 posted on 06/17/2018 9:12:59 AM PDT by FatherofFive (deIslam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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Send it back to Libya.

Libya won't take them and unlike Europeans, they'll enforce their immigration policies with Kalashnikovs.

5 posted on 06/17/2018 9:15:44 AM PDT by Drew68
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“What the do-gooders fail to fully realize, or disregard entirely, is that this is a battle against dark forces in the world to preserve Western Civilization....”
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The involved “do-gooders” do not want to see Western Civilization preserved, they want to see it destroyed. Have no doubt of that fact.


6 posted on 06/17/2018 9:20:09 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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Unlike Italy who just elected a right wing government that is all in favor of stopping this invasion, Spain just installed a socialist/communist PM.


7 posted on 06/17/2018 9:25:37 AM PDT by aquila48
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“The involved “do-gooders” do not want to see Western Civilization preserved, they want to see it destroyed. Have no doubt of that fact.”

10’s of millions of their supporters and sympathizers are just plain ‘ol do-gooders.

The actors are the ones who want to see our civilization destroyed.


8 posted on 06/17/2018 9:30:26 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Have fun, Spain.


9 posted on 06/17/2018 9:31:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It took Spain almost 800 years to boot the muslims out the last time they were invaded.

Now they are inviting them in.....


10 posted on 06/17/2018 9:32:50 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ( Gadsden Purchase 1853: U.S.A. buys 29,670 square miles from Mexico for $337 An Acre)
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“In Valencia, officials in white protective suits and masks greeted the migrants...”

Sounds like a WONDERFUL bunch of new immigrants to welcome.


11 posted on 06/17/2018 9:43:56 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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“What the do-gooders fail to fully realize, or disregard entirely, is that this is a battle against dark forces in the world to preserve Western Civilization.”

I despise do-gooders like these “doctors without borders” because they make the rest of us pay for their perverted sense of guilt and then walk away feeling so compassionate and holier than thou.


12 posted on 06/17/2018 9:43:57 AM PDT by aquila48
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Looks like 770 years of Islamic tyranny wasn’t enough for Spain.


13 posted on 06/17/2018 9:48:15 AM PDT by montag813
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To: BenLurkin

I’d offer a Shermanesque solution. They go back to Libya (and stay), no harm. Any attempt to deviate from course would not be in their best interests.


14 posted on 06/17/2018 9:54:55 AM PDT by setha (England has chosen the path of a quotarchy - rule by quotas.)
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Doctors without Borders must have lots of big money backers. They have costly large ships. Doctors without Borders transport thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa and deliver them to Europe. Many migrants pay smugglers big sums of money to be smuggled. Are Doctors without Borders actually human smugglers? That organization refuses to disclose their source of funding. They seem creepy to me.


15 posted on 06/17/2018 10:00:05 AM PDT by Yolanda
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“Are Doctors without Borders actually human smugglers? “

The nation of Italy says they are.


16 posted on 06/17/2018 10:05:00 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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MSF/Doctors Without Borders is a vicious anti-Israel organization. Probably involved in pizzagate as well as abetting the invasion of Europe.


17 posted on 06/17/2018 10:07:01 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Drew68

And....

Seems like that’s killing two birds with one stone. Or, a whole lot of birds with a whole lot of 7.62x39. Just sayin’


18 posted on 06/17/2018 10:18:12 AM PDT by qaz123
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These ships trafficking in human cargo need to be sunk. Seal teams (from whatever nation) need disable these ships while they lie in port.

Although one side of me would rather see them sunk fully laden while still at sea …
 

19 posted on 06/17/2018 10:47:25 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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#7: "Spain just installed a socialist/communist PM."

Oh for the days of Francisco Franco. How far Spain has fallen!
 

20 posted on 06/17/2018 10:52:38 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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