By: Nicolai Sennels, Denmark

Dear North Americans

Rumors have reached Europe that you are about to repeat our mistake of taking in tens of thousands of refugees from the Third World. Having seen my country and my continent radically changed during the last decades as a result of such immigration, here is a friendly, but serious warning.

First I want to stress that taking Third World refugees to the West is not the most compassionate reaction to war and unrest in the Middle East and Africa. Helping people to a life in safety inside a culture, language area, and climate they feel home in – their own geographic region – is much cheaper, and we can thus help more people. On top, we will avoid exposing our own citizens to often criminal and violent individuals, of whom many have radical, religious views. We have an obligation as humanists to help people in mortal danger, but when a culture breaks down, merely fleeing from a dangerous situation does not entitle one to Western standards of living. And we can give safety, medical help, and education to dozens of people within their own environment for the money it costs to maintain a single refugee in the West.

This is not just my own opinion: All parties in Europe promoting such arguments against taking in refugees are rising in the polls.

Refugees – Integration Imposssible

Integrating people from especially Islamic cultures into our European societies has proven impossible. Of course there are always individuals who manage, but integration of immigrants and refugees from these countries has been a huge failure. A recent study from Denmark shows that immigrants from Islamic countries are all at the very bottom of the list when it comes to getting jobs in their own countries. This Muslim inability engage in employment in their home countries carries over when the Muslims immigrate to Europe (Islamic countries in bold font.).

Employment rate 30-59 year-olds (2013)

	Men	Women	Combined
Country of origin	Percentage	Percentage	Percentage
Holland	86.4	77.5	83.1
Sweden	73.9	74.8	74.4
Germany	76.3	72	74.2
Lithuania	75.7	70.9	73.1
Finland	72.4	72.7	72.6
UK	75.1	66.2	72.5
Norway	73.1	71.9	72.4
France	76.5	65.3	72.2
Poland	76.4	67.4	72.1
Hungary	76	67.3	71.4
Rumania	74	66.8	70.6
Latvia	75.7	64.2	68.7
Ghana	67.7	68.4	68
Thailand	62.2	67.8	67.4
Canada	71.8	62.5	67.1
Macedonia	75.6	56.2	66.3
Italy	69.5	58.4	66.1
Iceland	66.6	64.4	65.5
Bulgaria	68.2	62.4	65.4
Philippines	73.9	63.4	64.9
Ukraine	72.9	59.3	64.5
USA	67.5	60.2	64.3
Vietnam	67	61.3	64
China	66.9	60.4	62.9
Spain	64.9	58.8	62
Sri Lanka	66.1	57.6	61.8
India	69.2	47.4	60.9
Brazil	59.9	58.9	59.1
Russia	54.4	57.2	56.6
Turkey	63.2	42	53.1
Pakistan	67.3	36.2	52.7
Yugoslavia*	55.8	45.5	50.7
Iran	50.9	47.5	49.6
Bosnia-Herzegovina	51.1	46.9	49
Morocco	59.3	39.1	49
Afghanistan	49.6	28	39.1
Iraq	38.8	25.4	32.8
Lebanon	39.5	19.4	30.4
Somalia	31.8	23.1	27.6
Syria	27.9	17.3	22.8
Denmark	83.7	81	82.3

 

An experienced integration senior official described how “Refugees see work as a punishment. They see social welfare as money they get anyway, and work as a punishment that comes afterwards, unless you find a way to avoid it.” A German study of Muslims in Germany concludes that almost all of them want to keep their own culture instead of integrating into German culture: “94 percent agreed with the statement that immigrants in Germany should keep the culture of their country of origin.”

Importing people from these countries will thus not save us from the economic challenges of not having enough children ourselves to maintain a demographic population replacement rate. On the contrary, large numbers of immigrants on welfare will leave even less money for our own young, elderly, and sick. Allowing Muslim immigration to sustain a nation’s economic workforce to compensate for below-replacement birthrates is a hope that is not based on reality.

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