The Birmingham ‘refugees welcome’ summit. A meeting point of ‘holy fools’ and cynical political operators.

Deluded 'refugees welcome' types who are gathering in Birmingham with the intention of allowing in more of the same types of people who are often making ordinary Britons lives into a misery.

 

Compassion is, on the whole, a good thing and is one of those things that makes the world go round, but compassion that is not backed up by common sense or political awareness is highly dangerous. It’s right to be compassionate to those in distress but this compassion needs to be tempered with a bit of street smarts to avoid being ripped off or contributing to a problem. For example it doesn’t help a street junkie or an alcoholic tramp to give them money as the cash will be used for self destructive ends. In this case the giver will not be helping the person get better but will merely be prolonging their problem and possibly helping to kill them.

What applies to substance addicted tramps is also pertinent to political campaigns, such as the ‘refugees welcome movement. This movement is working very hard to import people who are often not genuine refugees, they have passed through many safe countries in order to get to their chosen destination. Many of those whom well-meaning but naïve people and politically exploitative groups are trying to help, are also those who countries like the UK should be struggling to keep out. The cohort of ‘refugees’ that this movement is working to help also contains a large number of jihadis, criminals, chancers, ponces and the sort of sex criminals who are causing problems all over Europe at the moment.

A prime example of the confluence between naïve religious fools and cynical leftist political exploiters will be found this weekend, on the 10th September, in Britain’s second city, Birmingham. A very annoyed and worried non-Orthodox Jew based in London has pointed me in the direction of details of an event that truly shows how naivety, foolishness and political cynicism can come together, with potentially disastrous results. It seems that the Liberal Judaism movement, one of Britain’s smallest and most left dominated Jewish religious organisations, is co-hosting with the Leftist community organisation Citizens UK, this ‘refugees welcome’ summit in Birmingham. This particular ‘welcome summit’ Birmingham should be seen as particularly dangerous for national security as it is a gathering of a large number of individuals and groups who want to allow in those who will endanger the nation and its citizens.

This blog has seen the Liberal Judaism e-bulletin on their website, which speaks of this event and the naivety of the Rabbis who are involved in this summit and the political cynicism of Citizens UK is truly shocking. Here’s the text from the e-bulletin article with as is usual policy for this blog, the original text in italics and this blog’s comments in plain text.

The Liberal Judaism e-bulletin said:

Liberal rabbis have been at the forefront of a campaign to speed up the arrival of lone refugee children to the UK – visiting Calais, holding a memorial event at the Home Office and delivering a letter to the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd.

If I was Liberal Judaism, I’d be keeping quiet about such activities for fear of inviting justified opprobrium from those citizens of the UK, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who have a far more realistic view of the so-called ‘children’ and other residents of the Calais camp. These Rabbonim and others are giving ministers and British citizens the false impression that there are tiny toddlers desperate for assistance in the Jungle camp . Sadly the reality is more likely to be that these ‘children’ are either in their mid to late teens or are young men of military age pretending to be children. The use of the word ‘children’ by Liberal Judaism, Citizens UK and others involved in this campaign is monstrously dishonest and emotionally manipulative.

Liberal Judaism’s senior rabbi, Rabbi Danny Rich, was part of the 20-person Citizens UK delegation of clergy to Calais last week, which also included Liberal Rabbis Pete Tobias, Janet Darley and Aaron Goldstein, as well as Reform and Masorti rabbis and Christian and Muslim clergy.

This group appears to me to be a motley collection of the naïve, the easily led, the leftist ideologue, those with Islamic agendas and the well meaning. I see nobody on that list whom I can ascertain is asking the hard question of whether or not these alleged ‘children’ will be conducive to the UK public good. The record so far with regards these alleged ‘refugees’ has not been good. The people of Kent for example have already had to deal with a massive influx of alleged ‘unaccompanied child migrants’ who are putting pressure on the care system and who may not even be legally or morally classifiable as children. In that same county people are starting to see the sort of sex crimes committed by these ‘refugees’ that have made places like Sweden and Germany much more unsafe for women and children than they were before. In one case a British girl was allegedly gang raped by a group of minor ‘refugees’ in a shared house.

The group travelled primarily to present lists of unaccompanied refugee children who are eligible, under the Dublin III Regulation and Dubs Amendment, for resettlement in the United Kingdom.

Lord Dubs, who framed the Dubs Amendment that will allow into the UK these alleged children or troublemakers posing as children, is a good hearted man but one who gravely misunderstands the current situation and its implications. Lord Dubs was one of those individuals who came to the UK as a refugee on the Kindertransport in the 1930’s and whose life was saved by the generosity of the British people.

Unfortunately, Lord Dubs is making the huge mistake of comparing the innocents who arrived via the Kindertransport and the not so innocents who are residing in the Calais camp or who are otherwise falsely claiming to be ‘refugees’. The difference between the Kindertransport people and the Syrians and other Muslim ‘refugees’ who Britain has taken in recently is very stark. I did a bit of research on the outcomes of the Kindertransport and I can’t find any indication that those who cheated death at the hands of Hitler by being saved by Britain in this manner have been any more criminal than the general population. Of course all communities have their ‘wrong ‘uns’ and criminals but the Kindertransport does not seem to have produced more than their fair share of such people. In fact quite the opposite. Kindertransport people have gone on to contribute greatly to the United Kingdom and the world in fields as diverse as business, education, art and medicine. Contrast that with the Syrians whom Britain has taken in. According to a Parliamentary document published in March 2016, Britain had at that point taken in 2,609 Syrians. Now according to press reports, out of that number, 900 had been arrested by the police for offences including rape, other sex crime and threat to kill. That’s more than a third of those Syrians who came here who have already been shown to be dodgy or dangerous. People who are genuinely fleeing oppression and who land in a safe country normally obey the law and keep their heads down because they appreciate a place of safety and understand what the alternative is. Figures like this show not only that these ‘Syrians’ are a source of trouble, but there is an urgent need for groups who’ve previously been involved in the ‘refugees’ welcome’ movement to reassess the sort of responses that they’ve been making. It should also be remembered that these horrific figures of Syrian crime, which are huge in relation to the numbers of these Syrians, do not include the crime and trouble that others, many of them Muslims from Muslim majority nations, are also bringing to the UK.

We need to ask the question: If we the people, even those of us who may be descended from those who arrived as refugees in the past, can see that it may be safer to not let these modern alleged refugees in, why can’t these Rabbonim do the same? As I said earlier, it’s right and correct to be compassionate and offer help to those in distress, but the ‘refugees welcome’ policies promoted by Liberal Judaism and by Citizens UK are dangerously naïve. These policies do not take into account the future threat posed by these ‘refugees’ to ordinary British people. Far too many of these ‘refugees’ come from cultures that are almost impossible to properly assimilate with our own. There is no doubt in my mind that some of these ‘refugees’ may well gravitate towards working class areas, and eventually they could swell the ranks of the jihadists, thugs and the Islamic Rape Gangs that are currently plaguing area after area in the UK.

Danny, Janet and Rabbi Richard Jacobi then joined more than 100 faith leaders, council chiefs and celebrities for a memorial event for Aylan Kurdi – the young Syrian refugee boy whose death shook the world’s conscience – outside the Home Office on Friday.

This is a monstrous bit of emotional manipulation and highly dishonest to boot. Aylan Kurdi would be alive today had not his poncing people-trafficking father decided that he wanted access to other countries’ medical, dental and welfare systems. This behaviour of shroud-waving over the Kurdi incident is typical of the Left and of Leftist groups. They take a high profile case that tugs at the heartstrings, put their own spin on it and use it to promote policies which, although they may make the likes of Rabbi Rich and others feel all warm inside and that they are doing the right thing, are likely to end in tears.

They urged the government to speed up the arrival of 178 refugee children, who have the right to come to the UK because of their close family links in the country, and a further 209 children eligible under the terms of the Dubs Amendment. All of these children are currently stuck in Calais.

It’s interesting to note that nowhere in this statement is there clarification either of the ages of the alleged children or whether or not they come from cultures that have a proven record of causing problems in the UK. It is likely that those whom LJ and Citizens UK are alleging today are children, will turn out to be tomorrow’s jihadists, troublemakers, lifelong welfare claimants or rape gang members. The rabbonim and Citizens UK also don’t seem to be taking into account that France is a safe country and that these alleged ‘refugees’ have passed through several safe countries in order to get to Calais. If these alleged children have parents or other relatives in the UK, then what needs to be done is to deport the adults back to France to join their children, we do not need to burden our nation or endanger our citizens any more than has been done already.

Rabbi Danny Rich of Liberal Judaism

Rabbi Danny Rich of Liberal Judaism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The group, led by Danny (pictured above), then delivered a letter to the Home Secretary with the full list of the 387 children eligible to come to Britain and a request that Ms Rudd take immediate action.

This is political grandstanding and dishonest emotional manipulation by these clerics and by Citizens UK. This group appears very concerned about the so-called plight of the equally misnamed ‘children’ of Calais, but seem remarkably unconcerned about the effect these migrants may have on our own children here in Britain. It is sobering and sick-making to think that it will be our children who will have to share classrooms with people who come from cultures where paedophilia, rape, violence and extreme misogyny is socially acceptable. I don’t know about you but I really don’t want my child educated alongside such dangerous and disturbing individuals who come from cultures that are completely incompatible with our own. My message to Rabbi Rich and the others who are involved in this stunt is: ‘What about our children? What about their safety and security? Allowing in these alleged children will endanger our own kids and that’s something that should be far more important than allowing in the pretend refugees of Calais.

The memorial event also included prayers, readings and speeches, and the laying of wreaths to remember all the refugee children who have died in the last 12 months.

In my mind this is a disgraceful political abuse of religion and prayer. It’s a leftist political protest dressed up as a memorial. I’m appalled not only by it but also that these groups are holding a summit with the express intention of allowing in more of these dangerous and often violent migrants into the UK. We’ve seen how they behave at Calais, what makes Rabbi Rich and others think that they will suddenly cease to be violent once they arrive in Britain? It’s more than likely that they will continue to be violent, grasping, sex obsessed thugs here, just as they are in France.

Danny said: “Not a single child has yet entered the UK under the Dubs Amendment criteria.

Good! It seems that maybe the Home Office might have its head screwed on correctly and is more aware of the facts of the situation than these clerics are. It is likely that the Home Office knows damn well that those who Citizens UK and LJ are touting as ‘children’ may be anything but.

Liberal Judaism, working with Citizens UK, is therefore calling on the Home Office to immediately accept the children, now languishing in Calais, who are eligible to enter the UK.

Unfortunately Citizens UK has deeply penetrated the Liberal Judaism organisation and is corrupting it for their own political ends, which include the suicidal policy of ‘open borders’.

Judaism teaches that saving a human life is like saving the entire world. The Government must now immediately act accordingly.”

I’d like to remind the Rabbonim who are involved in this carnival of stupidity that although saving a life is very important in Judaism, so important in fact that nearly every religious rule can be broken in order to save life, that doesn’t mean that Judaism disapproves of self defence. Talmudic literature and the Bible itself states in various places that although saving lives is important, bad people with bad intentions will always exist and need to be guarded against. The Talmud for example says that if one’s own life is threatened then one can defend oneself and this is governed by the phrase ‘if someone comes to you with the intention of killing you, then get up earlier and kill them first’. Keeping out these ‘refugees’ is an act of self defence and therefore perfectly justified both morally, politically and spiritually.

These Rabbonim seem to be forgetting that a lot of those resident in the Calais camp and those who are falsely claiming asylum in the UK are the very sort of people who will end up endangering us and our children. It is perfectly morally acceptable in my view to take a more harsh view of the fake refugees at Calais. There is nothing whatsoever to be gained and lot to lose by opening Britain’s doors to the residents of the Calais camp.

As a non-Orthodox Jew myself, I’m horrified at the naivety and foolishness of these Rabbonim. They are not only campaigning for bringing in people who are more than likely going to be nothing but trouble, they are also endangering the security of British Jews as a group. Firstly they are doing this by campaigning for the entry of individuals many of whom come from cultures that are shot through with many centuries of Islam inspired Jew-hatred. The people that these Rabbonim are saying should be brought in will probably end up being the synagogue arsonists or street attackers of Jews of tomorrow. Secondly, by campaigning for these dangerous ‘refugees’ to be allowed into Britain they are tarnishing the image among Britain’s majority population of the Jewish community as a whole. It does the British Jewish community no favours for its rabbis, even those from small groups on the far left of the religious spectrum, to be associated with the sort of dangerous policies that Liberal Judaism and Citizens UK are promoting regarding these alleged ‘refugees’. There is more than enough anti-Semitism in this world without going out of one’s way to make things a lot worse by publicly and falsely identifying British Jews with a policy of importing yet more Muslim thugs, rapists, ponces and jihadists. I know that LJ, like some other religious groups is afflicted by a small and sometimes politically extreme group who sometimes call the shots, but who don’t represent the majority of the ‘Jews in the pews’. However others, especially many non-Jews may not realise that the sort of people who are attending the ‘welcome summit’ in Birmingham are our ‘tiny minority of extremists’ and may falsely believe that all Jews want to flood the country with ambulant human sewage, something that is very far from reality. There are a number of Jews, including myself, who believe that Britain should not only be more selective in deciding who is considered as refugees, but who wish Britain to demand higher standards of behaviour from these ‘refugees’ than has previously been the case. We shouldn’t keep letting in people who take the piss out of the welfare system or engage in corruption or rape little children or agitate for Shariah Law and Jihad; it’s madness. It is possible to be compassionate to others, even those from enemy cultures, without being suicidally stupid by allowing such people into the UK. The phrase ‘suicidally stupid’ is the only one that I can think of that can describe this foolish and naïve ‘Welcome summit’ that is being put on in Birmingham.

Although the Bible says ‘you should not oppress the stranger‘ it also doesn’t tell us to welcome the stranger who is not only carrying a big and dangerous stick, but who is likely to use it to bash us all over our heads. Britain needs to be defended from the residents of the Jungle camp at Calais and from other dangerous fake refugees. The policies in this area that are being promoted by LJ and by Citizens UK prioritise the alleged ‘refugees’, over and above the rights of British people and their families to live their lives unencumbered by the sort of violent individuals who characterise the residents of the Calais camp.

I’ll leave you with another sobering thought. Many of these alleged refugees say that it’s their dream to come to the UK but it should be remembered that their dream may end up as a nightmare for us and our children. The risk is too great to take.

 

Links

Liberal Judaism taking part in large open borders and refugee conference in Birmingham

http://www.liberaljudaism.org/liberal-rabbis-take-lead-on-refugees/

Details from the left wing Citizens UK organisation about this dodgy ‘refugees welcome’ summit in Birmingham

http://www.citizensuk.org/refugee_welcome_summit

900 Syrians arrested so far for offences including threat to kill and sex offences

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/695066/Police-arrest-900-Syrians-in-England-and-Wales-for-rape-death-threats-and-child-abuse

Details of the Kindertransport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport

Bio on Lord Alf Dubs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Dubs,_Baron_Dubs

Notable high achieving individuals who came to the UK on the Kindertransport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport#Notable_people_saved

Asylum figures

http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN01403

Parliamentary research briefing on Syrian refugees

http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06805

Talmudic quote on the saving of life

Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5; Yerushalmi Talmud 4:9, Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 37a.

Via Wikiquote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talmud

Talmudic quote on the right to self defence with explanations

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/defensive-war/

Rabbi Zvi Solomons on the issue of self defence

http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/torah-for-today-what-does-the-torah-say-about-self-defence/

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