Posted on 12/06/2022 8:12:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The secretary of the United Kingdom’s Home Office, which regulates immigration, recently caused a scandal by referring to the nonstop immigration of mostly Muslim migrants as an “invasion.” On Oct. 30, 2022, Suella Braverman said:
The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast and which party is not… Some 40,000 people have arrived on the south coast this year alone, many of them facilitated by criminal gangs, some of them actual members of criminal gangs. So let’s stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress: the whole country knows that that is not true…. I’m utterly serious about ending the scourge of illegal migration and I am determined to do whatever it takes to break the criminal gangs and fix our hopelessly lax asylum system…
Needless to say, such frank assertions “sparked an instant backlash from all sectors of the globalist establishment in Britain, from the legacy media to politicians in both the Labour Party and the Conservatives.”
Meanwhile, and seemingly confirming Braverman’s concerns, outrageous numbers of migrants, the overwhelming majority arriving from the Muslim world, have indeed flooded the UK. According to one report, in just the first half of 2021, “an astonishing 1.1 million visas [were] granted for people to come and live in the UK… It is the highest number of visas for people to come and live here ever issued in one year, suggesting that, despite repeated promises to control and reduce immigration, the government are delivering the opposite.”
Then there is the huge “number of applicants awaiting decisions on asylum” in the UK, which has risen by 300% in four years.
According to yet another source, “In 2021, the top five most common countries of nationality of people who applied for asylum in the UK were Iran, Iraq, Eritrea, Albania and Syria.” With the exception of Eritrea, which is roughly half Muslim, half Christian, every one of these nations is overwhelmingly Muslim majority.
Incidentally, these numbers are separate from the pre-existing Muslim population of the UK, which, in 2017—before the recent migrant influx—was well over four million, or 6.3 percent of the entire, formerly Christian, population.
Little wonder that the name “Muhammad” is the most popular name for newborn baby boys in England; little wonder that Muslims in the UK and other Western European nations with large Muslim populations, regularly boast of demography as destiny. As one report explained in 2008, “Muslim hate fanatics plan to take over Britain by having more babies and forcing a population explosion… The swollen Muslim population would be enough to conquer Britain from inside, they claim.”
Despite all of this, is it correct to refer to this Muslim migrant explosion an invasion?
In fact, it is not. Consider some authoritative dictionary definitions of “invasion”:
Now, to be sure, and as chronicled here and here, Muslims have, for over a millennium, launched countless military invasions into Europe that very much conformed to these definitions. They came as an “army,” used “force to enter and take control” of various nations, and all “for conquest or plunder.”
While some of these invasions saw the long term conquest of European nations—Spain, the Mediterranean islands, the Balkans—jihadist invasions that did not lead to conquest but acquired much by way of booty and slaves were habitually launched against virtually every corner of Europe, as far as Iceland. Indeed, from 1627 to 1633, Lundy, an island off the west coast of Britain, was actually occupied by Muslim pirates from North Africa, who pillaged England at will.
Moreover, many of today’s Muslims who migrant to Europe harbor the same motives of “conquest and plunder,” which in Rotherham, England, for example, saw thousands of young British girls turned into sex slaves.
Even so, the all-important ingredient that would qualify what is happening today as an “invasion” is missing: Muslims are not entering the UK by “force,” against the UK’s will. They are being welcomed in by the government and authorities of the UK—those most charged with protecting and maintaining the national character of the UK.
This is why, Eastern Europe—which, thanks to its geographic proximity to Islam, has historically bore the brunt of and suffered from invading Islam—is not suffering now. Unlike the UK and many other Western European nations, Poland, Hungary, and their like have simply said no to migration from Muslim nations; and their native citizens are thanking them for it.
In short, if you’re invited in, you cannot be called an “invader”—regardless of your intentions. Thus, and at the risk of appearing to quibble over semantics, what is happening today all throughout the West in general and the UK in particular must be seen and called out for what it actually is: not an unstoppable invasion, but an assisted suicide.
This article is reprinted from The Stream.
Not a big loss. The UK is increasingly a cess pit since after the WWII.
Another tedious game of semantics.
If Britain is similar to the USA, all those excess foreigners are being ‘invited in’ by certain lawmakers, but most likely not by the majority of England’s people.
Some of our congressmen say and initiate plans more to impress the media and each other, than the individual voter.
That assumption could flip anytime it’s an Election Year.
Mayor of London,Sadiq Khan: “I don’t see any trend myself. Uh, gotta run. Call to Prayer you know.”
Bkmk
(people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast)
That’s weird
That seems vaguely familiar
We know where the Uniparty stands
Not Great Britain. It is now Little Britain.
Don’t question it, or you are a racist.
I’d rather travel to Turkey than England.
The Elite #s are importing the losers the migrate through Libya. The dirt that Gadhafi once managed
I believe it’s Milquetoast Britain.
Invading?
Wrong tense.
Invaded.
Words are words and reality is reality. They are being invaded. Those who break the law to enter the country are invading, as many of them have done.
One of the most ignorant statements I've ever read. He, of all people, should damned well know better, but his bias is well established.
Criminals looking for better oppirtunity
“Not a big loss”.
Speak for yourself, you selfish a-hole. We’re being invaded on a larger scale, and do you say the same about us?
Ah, the good old hypocrisy...:)
Ah, the good old hypocrisy...:)
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That’s my point. No big deal if it doesn’t affect you.
Government looks at falling numbers of customers of the massive government indoctrination centers/hospitals/jails, runs the math on their pension ponzi schemes, then uses the tools available to them to correct that problem. The tool of choice is opening the borders, no matter the quality of what is available to come in. Actually, poor quality people that tend to make lots of busy work for the government are preferred.
Imagine if a big business controlled all the laws of a country. Of course they would make laws beneficial to expanding their monopoly. The captive customers have no option but to eventually vote with their feet.
Sorry but it hit me wrong. Take no offense :).
Okay:)
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