Death in the Aegean

Sep 9, 2015 Source: westernspring.co.uk

This story features a man who recklessly took his wife, who could not swim, together with his two small sons, just three and five years of age, who also could not swim, on a perilous sea journey in a small unseaworthy boat, in a foolish attempt to reach a Greek island and thereby acquire the benefits of European citizenship. There was no need for this family to make such a perilous journey as even though the man and his family were originally refugees from war torn Syria, they had already found sanctuary in neighbouring Turkey, a country in which the majority population are of very similar ethnicity.

As we all know, the journey embarked upon by Abdullah Kurdi and his family ended in disaster, when the boat capsized and Mr Kurdi’s wife and young children drowned. Instead of being filled with shame at his recklessness, as any normal loving father might, and desirous that the ground might open and swallow him up, Mr Kurdi paraded his distress before the cameras of the media and with the help of the media, shamelessly made the tragic fate of his dead children a cause célèbre among the Metropolitan elite of the European Union.

The gullible peoples of Europe have for several days now been bombarded with increasingly intense propaganda presenting the fate of the Kurdi family as compelling evidence of the dire need for we Europeans to open our doors and selflessly allow countless millions of further economic migrants from Africa and Asia to enter our ancestral homelands and acquire European citizenship at our expense.

The migrants are always presented as ‘refugees’ fleeing violence in ‘war-torn’ homelands, and the images presented concentrate on the women and children involved, and overlook the fact that a disproportionate number of the migrants are in fact young men of military age.

Following the drowning of his family, Abdullah Kurdi took their bodies back to be buried in his native Kobane in northern Syria. Apparently, even though he and his family had allegedly fled the violence of their homeland, it was suddenly safe for him to return to bury them where their journey had begun. Clearly therefore, the Kurdis were a family of economic migrants, seeking more lucrative opportunities and a more comfortable lifestyle, rather than fleeing from imminent danger. If Abdullah Kurdi’s life and the lives of his family had been in serious danger in their hometown of Kobane, then surely the dead members of the Kurdi family would have been buried in Turkey. Mr Kurdi would surely not have wanted to return to Kobane, placing his life at risk, simply to in order to bury his family, and interestingly, Mr Kurdi has now opted to remain in Kobane, thereby demonstrating that life there is not intolerably dangerous after all.

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Death in the Aegean

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