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“For a start, people who traveled for so many miles through such horrific conditions in order to find work cannot accurately be portrayed as lazy benefit-scroungers”
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“Europe, he says, is frightened that an influx of foreigners will erode European values. But what values will there to be uphold if we abandon our duty to protect those less fortunate than ourselves? Wat incentive do we give to refugees to maintain the fabric of our society if that fabric is so ragged in the first place? "If Europe is not able to show a better way of life to them, then they will think that their morality is better than ours."
"They need to face some higher standards of morality, " he says. "If not, they will set their own."
[Quoting Serbian priest Tibor Varga]”
― The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis
"They need to face some higher standards of morality, " he says. "If not, they will set their own."
[Quoting Serbian priest Tibor Varga]”
― The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis
“In the process, you obscure the actual reasons why people might risk their life to cross the sea â€� the wars and dictators that forced them from their homes. By denying the existence of these real root causes you simultaneously absolve yourself from the duty of providing sanctuary to those fleeing from them. Acknowledging this duty would prove very problematic: it would be an admission that your own failure to do so previously was the reason why so many thousands then turned in their desperation to smugglers â€� and why so many of them then drowned in the ocean. It would be an admission that a Syrian boards a boat only when he realises that there’s no realistic means of winning asylum from the Middle East. And an admission that Libya’s current predicament is in part the result of NATO’s (justifiable) airstrikes against Gaddafi in 2011 â€� and subsequent (and unjustifiable) failure to help Libya’s post-Gaddafi transition.”
― The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
― The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
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