Friday, 25 September 2015

Europe and Its Refugee Crisis

In this age of frequent Civil Wars, perhaps what world  had never witnessed so far, Europe is reaping its own harvest. Europe with the aid of its God Father (America) tried not only to revolutionise and change the discourse of Arab Nations by imposing Democracy but also it did not turn away from using violence through its creation called NATO. Europe thought that it will end what it use to call "crisis", the dictatorial crisis by a single blow, by promoting violence and using proxy groups for weakening the corresponding government. The Arab Spring got a humongous public support, many of the dictators gave up like that of Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt but the Syrian Government did not. Instead Syrian Government bombed the protesters and created a vacuum, a vacuum of trust among its own people. This vacuum created enough opportunities for radical groups to grow up. They got their support from few people who were among those hurt by the violent measures taken by the government to curb the so called Arab Spring. Among these groups who were dreaming of their reign, there was one group which was promising people of an Islamic State, a unified Islamic State which would be ruled by a Caliphate just like the olden days, those olden days in which Islam ruled, conquered, built mosques, eliminated everything and anything which was detached from Allah....

Many people misled by this notion, supported every bit of IS views. But who knew that IS was not Islam. It was Wahhabism, an extreme Sunni sect which wanted Sunni Islam built on the concept of Wahhabism and Deobandi. Wahhabism does not respect even the Sufi sect, they believe in either the submission or cutting-off any demonstrator who does not accept their choice. Later on IS started persecuting all of them who denied its Wahhabi stand and the Sunni notion. Different local groups such as the Kurdish groups, who were once declared terrorists working against state, suddenly gained support not only from the people but from government too. But it was already too late as America had delayed the calculations a lot. Six months after IS had started holding strong grounds, US President Barack Obama admitted that they had heavily under-estimated IS. IS now controls more than 50% of the Syrian territory and almost 500,000 people have lost their lives to this Civil War.

Europe : Double Trouble

Europe is losing money very fast. PIIGS have already gone bankrupt and they are withdrawing themselves from pumping money in any situation which does not mean business to it. And at this situation the refugees who number in millions, have arrived at its door seeking asylum, its right to live and avoid the conflict of which they are nothing more than just a victim. The refugees are finding it very hard to live with dignity that they even did not bother the lobbying by UK in 2014 to get away with Mare Nostrum. Mare Nostrum was a mission focused over saving refugees from drowning but UK wanted them to drown so that they should not take that journey. But the situation back at home were so dangerous for these refugees that they multiplied their attempts and risked their lives for reaching Europe which has a lesser stringent laws for Refugees and respects Human Rights more than any continent does, may be not by spirit but at-least by rules. Refugees were also encouraged by European public who welcomed them everywhere which is not only "Being Human" but also slapping its own government.

The mass killings, severe conflict, armed race, proxy wars and many other factors which led to mass exodus of the Syrians is such that One-Third of the Syrians are refugee in their own state and and another 4 million have fled their country. Most of them are educated, employable, in new age group which are perhaps the demand of the European State. But Europe is going bankrupt, it is not ready for this much of rehabilitation. A few countries such as Hungary has said that it won't accept any "Muslim" population despite this fact that even if Europe takes the entire population, the percentage of Muslim population with respect to total population residing in Europe will increase by hardly 1% and still it will be less than 5% of the total population. This same sick attitude of Europe has led to participation of around 4000 European Muslims out of nearly 35000 in IS. The isolation of its own people just because they belonged to some religion, gave a push to recruitment drive of these extreme religious outfits, and now Europe is repeating the same. 

Trouble or Opportunity

As mentioned earlier, the European population is an aging population. Europe needs educated youths. Also the vague argument over Muslim population does not stand any chance as the refugees once given an asylum, try very fast to engage within the country, open their own business as is evident in case of Syrian refugees who belong mostly to at-least an average family. They afforded $1000 per head to cross Europe. So if given chance, then they will contribute to Economy and perhaps return very soon of what is being invested on them right now. We have defaulters who have cheated for years, can't we give these refugees a chance to show them what is an observed fact. Also, since a war torn refugee is himself/herself a sufferer, so it is observed that most of the refugees try to live a very peaceful life in their new place. During this, they compromise a lot with their interest so that they do not disturb the natives and limit their own chance of a good life. More than that, these refugees had not created IS but it was created by the political and strategic vacuum which was created by US and its European Allies (who are refusing to accept them). Till now, despite this huge crisis, its the first option of US and its Allies is that the Syrian Government should step down first and then they will co-operate with the office of Syria over the issue of IS. Such a trash.....

Though Assad (Syrian Monarch) could not be given a clean chit but he is trying to make sure that IS is put on the back-foot despite this fact that his neighbours, like Saudi Arabia, are keen on destablising the Syrian Governmnt as its a Shia Government (and Saudi's are Sunni and so is IS). Saudi and its neighbouring countries such as Oman, UAE have accepted zero refugees (shamelessly) but Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt are taking care of 95% of the refugees. Europe should try to utilise these refugees on humanitarian ground as it needs them more than they do. Europe will starve for people if it does not accept youths at faster rate. This unfortunate moment has given them such opportunity, they should utilise it. Europe should stop singing the vague "Muslim" song and should understand that refugees tend to commit less crime than the natives as they have arrived in Europe not to loot but to find better opportunity. IS is not refugees' creation but of Europe itself !!