Isn’t it ironic that the policy of free access into Europe that dissolved frontiers, has led to lifting barriers and rising blockades in our streets? Cities like Amsterdam, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome have started to ‘enrich’ themselves with anti-terrorism strategies. With those measures life might proceed in a usual and fashionable way, just like the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan wants us to believe that living in a big city and that threats of terror attacks are “part and parcel of living in a big city”.
Will migrants make the countries they move to a lot like the countries they came from?
But in the end it comes down to what Douglas Murray asserts, “Does it matter that even if the number was one immigrant in a million becoming a martyr and committing suicide? It’s a cost-benefit analysis isn’t it? We can ignore this question of the numbers of individuals that come into Europe, but we can only hope that our kids don’t like Ariana Grande and go on the wrong night to a concert.”
But this question of free movement in and into Europe goes far beyond only terrorist atrocities committed in the name of Islam and how they disturb our way of living (some 40 attacks were accounted in Europe since the beginning of the year). Let’s start by grappling with a very important question, “What happens in the long run? Taking into account that migrants shape the cultures in which they emigrate to, is it possible that they import something more than an ethnic cuisine? Will migrants make the countries they move to a lot like the countries they came from?” Read more at Voice of Europe.
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