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MAJORITY OF FINNISH MEP’S OPPOSE VISA-FREE FOR TURKS……..

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MAJORITY OF FINNISH MEP’S OPPOSE VISA-FREE FOR TURKS……..

By KGS8 years ago1

Common sense if you ask me……..

Majority of Finnish MEPs oppose visa-free regime for Turkey

An Yle survey has found that a majority of Finnish MEPs would oppose the introduction of a visa-free regime for Turkish citizens entering the Schengen area. Just three of Finland’s representatives in the European Parliament support the move, which is part of a deal on migrant repatriation between the EU and Turkey.

Ahmet Davutoglu ja Angela Merkel — Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and German chancellor Angela Merkel agreed a deal to try and stem the flow of refugees into the EU. Image: Sedat Suna / EPA

The EU Commission on Wednesday urged EU member states and MEPs to back a deal granting visa-free access to the Schengen area for Turkish citizens, so long as Turkey meets 72 conditions—but Finnish MEPs are less than keen, according to an Yle poll.

The agreement was struck between the EU and Turkey to try and halt migrant flows from Turkey to Greece, and implement a mechanism to deport migrants from Greece back to Turkey if they do not claim asylum.

As a quid pro quo Turkey asked for a relaxed regime for its citizens, but EU governments and MEPs must back the deal. Of 13 Finnish MEPs just three say they favour lifting the visa requirement, seven are opposed and a further three remain on the fence.

Some based their opposition on Turkey’s failure to meet all 72 conditions, but the Commission said on Wednesday that all but five have been met—and those remaining five are expected to be met soon.

The three MEPs positive on the deal were from the Centre, SDP and National Coalition parties—but all three had party colleagues opposing the agreement. Both Finns Party members were against the agreement, while the Left Alliance and Swedish People’s Party MEPs did not give a view one way or the other. The Green League MEP said that she opposed the agreement as Turkey had not yet met the conditions.

Yle

Written by KGS

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By paul May 07, 2016

The EU is a failed liberal experiment, and it will look like Detroit soon.
Erdogan runs it. Merkel dances like a puppet on a noose

Ask Merkel what strategy he has for Germans who want to immigrate elsewhere.
I mean, its a real shitbowl in Germany now. I would not leave my pigs there now.

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There’s No Common Cultural Legacy For The Alt-Right

Still, is there something to it? Is there a common heritage that will cover El Greco and Hume and Dostoyevsky? Is there one that can include the Jacobites and the Jacobins? There is, but it is not racial, and white supremacists reject it because it rejects them. The unifying heritage of Europe is religious and philosophical. It is Jerusalem and Athens, in one famous formulation. Christian religion and Greek philosophy, filtered through Roman law and culture, are the foundation of European culture. The tensions, agreements, developments and settlements between these have shaped the Western world, and these roots of Western civilization are not congenial to white supremacy.

Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history.

Greek philosophy is likewise ill-suited to serve as a basis for white identity. It is either too universal (addressing the human condition in general) or too local—none of us live as citizens of an ancient Greek polis. Later philosophical developments in Europe, such as the philosophies of the Enlightenment, likewise tend to be too universal for white supremacists seeking a tribal identity. As for the scientific revolution that developed within Western culture (albeit with much borrowed from outside Europe), math doesn’t care what color someone is.

War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. The only way to defend Western civilisation is to reaffirm and restore its Biblical foundations. My argument is a development of ideas I first explored in my 2012 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power.

We are living in an era which extols reason, science and human rights. These are said to be essential for progress, a civilised society and the betterment of humanity. Religion is said to be their antithesis, the source instead of superstitious mumbo-jumbo, oppression and backward-thinking.

Some of this hostility is being driven by the perceived threat from Islamic terrorism and the Islamisation of Western culture. However, this animus against religion has far deeper roots and can be traced back to what is considered the birthplace of Western reason, the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Actually, it goes back specifically to the French Enlightenment. In England and Scotland, the Enlightenment developed reason and political liberty within the framework of Biblical belief. In France, by contrast, anti-clericalism morphed into fundamental hostility to Christianity and to religion itself.

“Ecrasez l’infame,” said Voltaire (crush infamy) — the infamy to which he referred being not just the Church but Christianity, which he wanted to replace with the religion of reason, virtue and liberty, “drawn from the bosom of nature”.

Perfecting society

But this Enlightenment did not remove religion so much as pervert it. It took millenarian fantasies, the idea that the perfection of the world was at hand, and it secularised them. Instead of God producing heaven on earth, it would be mankind which would bring that about. Reason would create the perfect society and “progress” was the process by which utopia would be attained.

“I think that we should correct the vocabulary that we use, and call a spade a spade. It is all about Jihad, the Islamic effort to spread Islam globally”:

Terrorist attack – should be called Military Jihad.

Incitement – Media Jihad.

Al-Jazeera – Media Jihad Channel.

Imposing Sharia law – Judicial Jihad or Legislative Jihad.

Boycotting Israel (BDS) – Economic Jihad.

Emigration to EU and US – Emigration Jihad / Hijra Jihad.

Building mosques, Islamic education institutions – Cultural Jihad.

Halal food – Dietary Jihad.

Hijab or Niqab – Clothing Jihad.

Activity of MSA – Academic Jihad.

Activity of CAIR – Political Jihad / Public Jihad.

Collecting money for Islamic “charities” – Financial Jihad.

Political correctness – Submission to Jihad.

J Street, Peace Now, JVP and their likes – Jewish Useful Idiots who Serve Jihad.

Iran deal – Western Support for Nuclear Jihad.