Germans are freaking out about all of the refugees being allowed in.
This is not true for the majority of the population(FYI Germany is the only country of it's large neighbour countries that has a voting population that votes for "new age" racists/nazis below 20%(In Germany it's in fact below 2%)
Numerous people saw it happening long time ago. You let all these people from Africa and Middle East come to western countries hoping that they will all integrate and become normal part of western society. Big mistake. It only takes small part of them to get radicalized and start **** like that and more will follow. And Europe is accepting more and more Syrian refugees now...( half of them are not even Syrian or real war refugees). It is going to get even more ugly. Europe is on a edge of real war.
Only solution in Europe right now is to secure borders, do not accept any more refugees or immigrants from Africa or Middle East and clean up the mess they created. I am afraid it is too late now though. My heart bleeds for once beautiful continent who will soon will be overrun by dark ages. I am very afraid with liberal win in Canada it will start happening here as well. Our PM Turdoe already promised to bring in 25.000 refugees by January next year. And we regular people will pay for it.
If you punish all the good people from these countries for the deeds of those who are brainwashed by some crazy religious ppl, what good does that do long term for intercultural relationships?
If you were randomly born in a country that was in war, wouldn't you wish you had some place you could try to start a new life?
Think of all the "washed" jeans of the first generation you wore. You know where they come from? Kurdish part of Turkey and Syria. You know what happened with the workers that worked for Western corporations there? They developed lung diseases and cancer after only a few year at an alarming rate. Did these corporations knew they were exploiting + killing ppl there? Absolutely.
So you and/or your friends
most likely not only benefited from the misery caused in these regions, you also deny a super small portion of real human beings that are prosecuted for either political(Assad) or religious(IS) reasons refuge that your country agreed upon as part of UN resolutions.
So in truth your government just pays back a portion of what mainly corporations and the people living in your country profited off of those people.
I'm always amazed how ignorant some people are when it comes to "globalization".
Joe, this may turn out to not be the case, so often the quality of intelligence/ info is off in the early going, but the thinking is French born nationals may have been involved. Of course there will be "revenge" incidents. A refuge camp in Calais, France was set afire last night, for instance.
What strikes me here is the colossal intelligence failure represented by a plot that had to involve dozens of people. Apparently, American intelligence did not recognize it. French intelligence missed it. This is really a stunning failure where the intelligence services are concerned.
Edit: my wife was telling me that, in one instance, a village of 100 people in Germany was selected for the settlement of 750 Syrian refugees! Seriously, ya gotta do better then that!! It is indeed, as you state, a terrible dilemma....
The way I see it, France has been primarily targeted in the recent past(There are multiple reasons probably, one popular is their military/political stance) and my thinking is that the USA, England and Germany would have been just as large targets in the past and they largely avoided incidents like this while in France there were 3 successful within 365 days. So counter terrorism seems to be unable to anticipate/investigate situations like these.
News reports quote the French intelligence agency that they knew something was up, but they didn't know more details.
Why the fudge do you not err on the side of caution when multiple threats are being made in advance of the football match?
At the Austrian border apparently a Montenegrin arms trafficker was stopped last week with automatic guns, semi automatic guns and different explosives heading to Paris(Though it is unknown if that's the prisoner's statement or conclusion after the incident)
How many hints do these agencies need to determine that something big may be imminent.
The bad solutions when it comes to refugee homes are that the government gambled on the situation solving itself(aka Russians agreeing to drop Assad) and other EU countries other than the nordic/scandinavian actually offering asylum. So right now there's a serious shortage of homes(in general there is in Germany, since the government scaled back social housing projects a lot in the past) that fulfill security standards and there's limited legal possibilities to take free houses away from their owners to temporarily give them to refugees.
Then there's corporations that literally practice extortion against cities by offering living space for at least twice the price it would score on the open market. I know that first hand.
Germany has accepted more than 1M refugees this year alone and 300k last year. A quarter of those are usually being sent back to their original countries(Albania and Kosovo mostly). A quarter of the refugees are Syrian, a third from Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's not an easy challenge to integrate them and offer them education. Financially, even if the stream of refugees doesn't stop, Germany has already determined it's healthy enough to mount this challenge. The European problem is that most of the rich countries are acting completely irresponsible and some countries that shouldn't have been accepted into the EU showcase why they should have been a no-go in the first place(I'm looking at you Hungary)
There's way too much corruption going on in that organization and that will be the real "European test".
