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This demonstrates perfectly how the rhetoric over the immigration crisis has got vastly out of hand and people have lost their marbles…the Daily Mail’s Robert Hardman sinks to the depths here…

A desperate father and a train ride with such grim echoes: ROBERT HARDMAN on the trains carting migrants off to detention camps in Hungary

Through the condensation fogging up this oven of a railway carriage, an exhausted, ecstatic face pressed itself to the window yesterday morning.

In the morning queues for loos and standpipes around Hungary’s largest railway terminal, several thousand of the saddest souls on Earth began to dream that they were on the move again after a two-day standstill. But not for long.

By lunchtime, the truth was out and spreading like wildfire through this infernal dump. This train had not been going anywhere near the border with Austria, let alone the longed-for embrace of Germany. It had all been a monstrous hoax. A Hungarian policeman admitted as much with a mirthless snigger the moment it left the station.

This cargo – there’s no way they could be described as ‘passengers’ – was actually destined for a railway siding next to the Bicske detention camp a few miles outside Budapest. The only welcome was police wielding batons.

As word reached back to Keleti, there was disbelief – as much among locals as the migrants themselves. You did not need to be a historian to sense the chilling echo of Europe’s not-too-distant past. The last time people were duped on to trains around here, they ended up in Auschwitz.

Pathetically, after making the explicit association with the concentration camps, he adds:

Let us be clear that there is nothing remotely comparable to the Nazi era in the conduct or intentions of the Hungarian authorities.

And oh yes…that ‘desperate’,’caring father’…..the one who got all the sympathetic photos in the papers and who is the main subject of Hardman’s piece? …look at exactly what he did to his pregnant wife who was holding a baby…

The BBC does a hatchet job on a firm of lawyers who support the Christian employee in the US who refuses to marry gay couples….The legal team behind Kentucky’s defiant clerk

We are told that ‘It has been labelled a hate group and one of twelve organisations embarking on an “anti-gay crusade” in the US, but it is a group that anti-gay rights activists are increasingly turning to to represent their views.’  So fairly clear how we are supposed to perceive this firm and Christian views.

Fair enough you might say if a certain group’s views are judged illiberal and prejudiced but of course that’s is only fair enough if the BBC applies the same standards to all religions…..not just the one that Muslim Mishal Husain declared was deeply ‘unpleasant and backward’…and it wasn’t Islam.

How is it that one of the BBC’s favourite commentators can get away with this, and indeed his religion get away with it?…

As a Muslim, I struggle with the idea of homosexuality – but I oppose homophobia

I am also (to Richard Dawkins’s continuing disappointment) a believing Muslim. And, as a result, I really do struggle with this issue of homosexuality. As a supporter of secularism, I am willing to accept same-sex weddings in a state-sanctioned register office, on grounds of equity. As a believer in Islam, however, I insist that no mosque be forced to hold one against its wishes.

 

Paradoxically, ‘as a Muslim’, he quotes the Koran to prove that Islam is not homophobic:

Out of the 114 chapters of the Quran, 113 begin by introducing the God of Islam as a God of mercy and compassion. The Prophet Muhammad himself is referred to as “a mercy for all creation”. This mercy applies to everyone, whether heterosexual or homosexual.

Er…how is it that ‘as a Muslim’ then he has a problem with homosexuality if the Koran says all is fair in love and war?…well not war obviously, there is no mention of war in the Koran!

Just another example of the BBC’s hypocrisy….and they’re not in short supply today…….

The BBC must be squirming with embarrassment then over this…

‘I can’t believe they picked him over me!’ Eggheads’ CJ de Mooi claims Strictly bosses snubbed him for Jeremy Vine after he asked for same-sex dance partner

Eggheads star CJ de Mooi has blasted BBC bosses for being behind the times after claiming he was snubbed for a place on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing because he asked for a same-sex partner.

The openly gay 45-year-old – who sits on the panel of the hit BBC quiz show – said producers opted to go with the programme’s host Jeremy Vine after he asked to dance with a man during negotiations.

Speaking to the Daily Mirror, he said: ‘I can’t believe they picked Jeremy over me. I’m quite upset. It’s because I wanted to dance in a same-sex couple.

Is the BBC a homophobic hate group then?

Oh and one more….not done Stewart Lee for a while (not in a gay way…not that that would be wrong!) so here goes…..he doesn’t like religion and has made a programme about the illiberal nature of blasphemy laws….

Whilst he is happy mostly attacking Christians he does mention Islam in there…however when back in the real world and having to make those dangerous ‘blasphemous’ statements he’s a lot more coy when it comes to Islam…in fact rather than attack Islam and Muslim extremism he attacks those ‘Islamophobes’ who are brave enough to stand up and have their say so don’t let the title of the video fool you….and his latest tour apparently has the same narrative about Islamophobia…

There is a bidding war going on as to who is the most humane, the most compassionate, who can get the most brownie points for making the boldest bid for pro-asylum seeker empathy.

Labour’s Yvette Cooper opened the bidding, no doubt as a cunning ploy in her leadership election run, with a grandiose gesture of 10,000 whilst Andy Burnham claimed he had always been thinking along those lines and she had stolen his glory.  Meanwhile the world’s conscience that is Bob Geldorf trumps them both with a personal pledge to adopt 4 Syrian families.

Not to be outdone the Green’s Natalie Bennett displays the usual measured and rational approach so long associated with the Greens and suggests we take in 250,000…or 1 in 8 of the refugees…not sure about her maths as there are over 4 million refugees from Syria alone..never mind those from Afghanistan and Eritrea that she also thinks in need of help.

Finally of course, and where would we be without him, there is the right irreverent Giles Fraser who has said that the Bible is clear: let the refugees in, every last one

Thousands more, says David Cameron now, grudgingly conceding to popular pressure. But why not all of them? Surely that’s the biblical answer to the “how many can we take?” question. Every single last one. Let’s dig up the greenbelt, create new cities, turn our Downton Abbeys into flats and church halls into temporary dormitories, and reclaim all those empty penthouses being used as nothing more than investment vehicles. Yes, it may change the character of this country. Or maybe it won’t require anything like such drastic action – who knows? But let’s do whatever it takes to open the door of welcome.

Another good paycheque gone into his bank account then.  Nothing like a bit of controversy to get yourself into the papers or on TV and sex up your career prospects…and Giles is an expert at that…having fled his job in disgust at the capitalist ogres of the Church who wanted outrageously and selfishly to use their churches without them being occupied he has gone on to make a tidy wedge, ironically, from his worthy statements that he churns out relentlessly proclaiming both his humanity and his anti-Establishment credentials at the same time.  No wonder the BBC and the Guardian snapped his talents up.

From the Guardian:

Quotas…how does that work?  If the migrants don’t want to live in the country they are forced to go to what use are quotas and why should one country or another then have to take them just because they have decided they want to go there?

The Today programme devoted the last half hour to the migration crisis….that’ll be half an hour and the other 23.5 hours on the BBC devoted to promoting the migration crisis.

They had on Sir John Holmes, former UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs.  (08:39)  I’m not sure why they [Sarah Montague, emoting beautifully about migrants as per the norm] had him on as they pretty much ignored everything of relevance that he said….’everything’ that is if it didn’t reflect the BBC’s own extreme position on immigration.

Holmes said that there is an asylum crisis but there was also an underlying migrant crisis, ie that of economic migrants.  Montague ignored that serious point that has been raised before, that the question of how many refugees any country can take is also wrapped up with the issue of the number of economic migrants that have already flooded into a country.  Holmes also made the very relevant point that quotas simply won’t work because the migrants have no intention of being told where to live….so all the pressure on the UK to take ‘their quota’ is nonsense if most migrants seemingly want to go to Germany.  Holmes says the UK has done very good work in helping the refugees in the Middle East but he says we should take more here..however he also said that accepting asylum seekers wasn’t the answer and that the crisis in Syria had to be addressed.  You may have expected Montague to leap on that in a journalistic fashion, but no, she dodged asking the question, perhaps the answer would not be to the BBC’s liking….how to siolve Syria?  That’s the only question that really matters.  But not to the BBC?  Usually the BBC is all too eager to end a war if it means stopping the West or Israel bashing Muslim terrorists…but seemingly not a war that sees Muslim terrorists being all too successful.

I’m guessing she had an agenda that didn’t include anything that not only stopped a war but stopped the flow of migrants to Europe….despite her admitting that the current situation just encourages more to come to Europe...’it is unlimited’.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of listening to the Chief Rabbi on the Today programme lecturing us about humanity…he’d just had a conflab with the Pope who declared that ‘We all share this world together, therefore we need to care for this world together,’”...the chief rabbi told us we must help these people ‘knocking on the door of Europe’.…hmm….whilst I support the existence of Israel I have to say I’m not being lectured about how we must reach out to everyone and open the borders when he doesn’t say the same about the Palestinians….when I hear him advocating a ‘one state’ solution for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict I might take his words and sentiments seriously…but he knows that such a policy would destroy Israel….strange he doesn’t recognise the same will happen to Europe…as Boris Johnson has already alluded to with his ‘mass migration doomed the Roman Empire’ comment..

We need a paradigm mindshift he tells us…we look on these migrants as if they are from Mars he tells us….the Palestinians might say the same, he doesn’t tell us.

He refused to name numbers which makes his pleas meaningless….though definitely ‘some of them should be allowed in’

Webb managed to get him to proclaim that economic migrants were equally worthy of ‘asylum’ as their lives were in danger.

The BBC got what it wanted.

I was also listening to Lyse Doucet the other day on the TV news and if I hadn’t known she was BBC reporter I might have mistaken her for some sort of pro-immigration campaigner as she told us that something must be done and more migrants must be allowed in….having said that one look at her Twitter feed says it all…here curiously echoing the good Rabbi’s words….

lyse doucet ‏@bbclysedoucet 23 hrs23 hours ago

lyse doucet retweeted jagmeet singh

#oneworld

lyse doucet added,

jagmeet singh @pre_vakeel

#migrantcrisis @bbclysedoucet

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It seems we are being fed a line on the migration crisis and people are happy to look the other way and accept whatever is said if it makes the migrants tales more harrowing and piles on the ‘guilt’ that puts pressure on politicians to open the borders.   The Today programme had a tale of terror from Kobane in Syria telling us of the dreadful dangers that the inhabitants still live under and that many are still fleeing…could that have been a counter to the story that the father of the drowned children has gone back to Kobane in war torn Syria to bury his family and live there which no doubt has raised a few eyebrows in question about his reasons for taking that terrible risk with his family…

Aylan Kurdi buried alongside brother and mother in Syria

The funeral of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, his brother Galip and their mother takes place in their hometown of Kobane in Syria

The father whose wife and sons drowned as they attempted to reach the Greek island of Kos from Turkey warned fellow Syrians not to risk the lives of their loved ones by attempting to flee the country, as he buried his family on Friday.

Apparently he is now saying he will stay there with the graves of his family.

This is a man who put that family onto a tiny boat to make an unnecessary sea crossing knowing that his wife was terrified of the water and that a 3 year old and a 5 year old, without life jackets, would have no chance of survival if the worst happened, as it did, as he should have expected.  He is no hero or ‘victim’ of the West and its asylum policy as the BBC seem to be trying to portray him as.  Every sympathy for his wife and children but for him?  Not so much.

His family were safe in Turkey but we were told that because of a log jam in the Turkish asylum process applicants were forced to take the dangerous DIY route in dangerous small boats…how true is that?  They could of course head off across land or go by ferry perhaps….in May the Telegraph reported that Syrians were in fact being allowed to take ferries to Greece quite freely and openly…

Residents of Greece’s eastern Aegean islands say ferries carrying hundreds of Syrian migrants at a time are making the short hop from Turkey’s coast, with Turkish officials making no attempt to stop them boarding.

One other thing….a UKIP candidate tweeted this: “The little Syrian boy was well clothed and well fed. He died because his parents were greedy for the good life in Europe. Queue jumping costs.”…now maybe the word greed is one of those trigger words that are too honest to be allowed but why the outrage…other than the fact it was a UKIP man who said this?  After all Tory Malcolm Rifkind on the Today programme said exactly the same thing in less emotive wording…

The point I would have to make from a humanitarian view, I don’t blame people wanting to find a better life in the countries of northern Europe, but from an asylum point of view, if you are already in Turkey than your life is not in danger, your children are not going to lose their lives, your children are safe from Syria, so it becomes a separate issue as to whether the countries of Europe should be expected to have, as it were, an open ended position for anyone who wants to come here.

No BBC journalist declaring Rifkind is the ‘worst human alive’:

H/T Don’tblamemeivotedukip:

The BBC confirmed to Breitbart London that Morrison’s use of his BBC-linked Twitter account was inappropriate, and that the licence fee-funded journalist had removed the comment.

A spokesman for the organisation said: “The BBC has clear social media guidelines which staff must adhere to, even when using personal accounts.

“We have spoken to Alex and reminded him of his responsibility to uphold our guidelines. He has deleted the tweet.”

That family would still be alive if they didn’t think the streets of Europe were paved with gold and were encouraged to do so by the pro-immigration extremists cheerled by the BBC.

Hope you weren’t looking forward to “A Question of Sport” on the BBC tonight. It’s been cancelled and they are running a “Migrant Special” instead. Expect to see lots of cute kids and smiling mums. Not that the BBC have an agenda or anything, no way!

Well, the emotional blackmail from the BBC (along with others) has worked and we can now look forward to thousands of Syrians enriching our country. You have to hand it to the BBC, they use the power of their broadcasting monopoly to undermine our country at every opportunity! Anyway here’s a new open thread.

Boris Johnson counters Dan Hodges’ judgement of history with a bit of historical perspective……

‘Mass migration brought down the Roman Empire’?

Boris Johnson has reacted to the image of Aylan Kurdi and described it as a “very, very shocking image”, writes Henry Samuel in Calais.

“It’s very difficult; we have to address the problem at the source and stop people coming like this, but certainly if people are really in need and are scared for their lives, we must receive them,” he said.

But should the UK take more refugees?

It’s is very difficult because we mustn’t create the feeling around Europe in all these zones where there are problems that they can get here without any problem. We mustn’t created a pull factor and that’s the problem now, we must distinguish between those who are really scared of persecution and those who are migrants looking for a wealthier life.”

“We must above all be very clear with people who want to come from these countries that it’s not an Eldorado here, it’s not simply a question of turning up and receiving benefits. And I fear that if we don’t make this clear then we will create the conditions for migration to continue and increase.”

“Let us not forget that the fall of the Roman Empire was down to immigration. Massive movements of people in the end is not sustainable.”

Of course there is another historical perspective that invites comparison as millions of Muslims eye up an attempt to cross into Europe…..that BBC map at the top of the post looks awfully familiar…the Ottoman Empire and its incursion into Europe……

‘Europe’ as we know it will no longer exist in a very short time.

The Telegraph reports an example of those ‘desperate’ migrants….refusing to go to a refugee camp…..no longer ‘refugees’ then?…what is it they want, was it safety or a new life in Europe?….Maybe the BBC can answer as they report the migrants chanting “Germany, Germany.”

EU migration crisis: Hungary refugees trying to reach Austria refuse to be taken to camp and forced off train – latest

The train, which left at 10.20 BST was bound for towns near the Austrian border and several hundred migrants were on board.

James Badcock in Budapest said that the train then stopped at Bicske, which is one of the country’s four main refugee camps.

Migrants were then taken off, state news agency MTI reported, and AFP estimates that about 250 to 300 migrants were on board.

The train was due to split, with three carriages due to travel to Szonbathely and the rest to Sopron, both near Hungary’s western border with Austria.

ITV’s James Mates has tweeted that a man and woman with a baby were on a track at a Hungarian train station in a desperate attempt not to be taken to a migrant camp nearby.

Man and wife with tiny baby throw themselves onto track demanding not to be taken to camps. Getting c distressing pic.twitter.com/ploEd11rAH

But he later tweeted that Hungarian police were forced to let them back onto a train.

Hungarian police failed to control those they wanted to take to the camp. Forced to let them back onto train. pic.twitter.com/4yQqVaEwI6