Solving the European Migrant Problem
Barry Shaw/Gatestone Institute/September 13/15
The problem is that these people do not escape the Middle East. They bring the Middle East with them. Let Europe accept the Christians. Let Muslim Arab countries accept the Muslim Arabs.
The problem facing Europe is not only the vast number of migrants flooding the continent. It is that, from past experience, these people do not escape the Middle East. They bring the Middle East with them. The result is enormous strain on the social fabric of the host nations. It becomes increasingly difficult to assimilate the immigrants with the people already there, as governments try to accommodate the overwhelming weight of strangers who do not know their customs and do not speak their languages.
Multiculturalism was a dream. It failed. In its place seems to be an emerging nightmare of unmanageable proportions. Migrants from the Middle East enter Hungary from Serbia, on August 26, by crawling under a temporary razor wire fence erected by the Hungarian government. (Image source: WSJ video screenshot) The migrant problem is becoming a huge destabilizing headache for Europe.
It should not be. The most humane solution — respecting the migrant’s ethnic and religious origins, and honoring their basic traditions of faith and language — might be closer to home, at least for the migrants from the Middle East and North Africa.
Had these migrants been Jewish you can be sure that Israel would have taken emergency measures to accept and absorb them into the Jewish State. These migrants are not Jewish, but the Israeli model of large and successful absorption and integration into society could be the template for the migrants, the vast majority of whom are Muslim and speak Arabic.
Therein lays the solution. Host countries such as wealthy Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, with vast tracts of barren land, might be persuaded to join the world in accepting Arabic-speaking coreligionists and help them build new productive lives that contribute to the state.
