ZEID RA’AD AL HUSSEIN, the Jordanian UN high commissioner for human rights, has heavily criticised the UK's immigration policy regarding those fleeing the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan comparing our countries treatment of these people to Hitler's treatment of the Jews. Many of those fleeing Syria are ending up in refugee camps in Jordan – we, the UK, are giving over a billion pounds to help these people forced into such a perilous state to keep them safe in such camps – more, in fact, than any other European country.
The UN high commissioner has little comparative understanding between what happened to the Jewish people under the Nazis and what he sees as our 'treatment' of the Syrian migrants. It is pure hyperbole; the seething outrage of an irrational mind on this one issue. I sympathise with his frustration at the treatment of these people. Life and circumstance is, however, often more complicated than emotional resentment; and this is the case with the Syrian migrant influx. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein knows nothing (or so it seems by his remarks) about the influx of migrants into the UK during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970's from the old British Empire, who mistakenly our politicians thought we had a duty of awarding British citizenship, and creating the Commonwealth.
Was this the gesture deserving of a comparison with the Nazis? I will not lie that such influxes tested the tolerance of the indigenous population, but any act of racism at the time was restricted to the individual or small quantities of individuals; never baring any close comparison to the hundreds of thousands of Brown Shirts causing mayhem in Germany 76 years ago, that Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein alludes to.
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein must curb his language. He is ignorant of the European open borders policy, which in the UK's case has permitted an additional five million people to share our shore, and wrought much tension upon the social fabric of our nation - a nervousness that can only inflate into out and out social unrest if hundreds of thousands of Syrian migrants were forced by the EU to be taken in by the UK.
Either we allow, as in the case of Angela Merkle, a million migrants from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and even Pakistan to become citizens of our country; or we have the five million from within Europe under Schengen – we cannot tolerate both; and Mr Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein had better understand this; for he appears ignorant of the circumstance of countries, like the UK, who oppose such an influx from the Middle East.
I would welcome half a million Syrians to become part of our society Mr Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein; but not as an addition to the numbers already allowed in under Schengen. Our leaders in Europe have fucked up good and proper, by meddling in the Middle East to the point where in Libya France and the UK interfered militarily against Gaddafi to successfully bring about his overthrow, which only poured oil on the fire. History will say of the behaviour of the West's various military involvements in the Middle East, that such a participation in the region made the situation a hundred times worse for the people of Iraq, Libya and Syria, than it was for them under the dictators.
In fact, I would not be surprised if history treats Saddam, Gaddafi and Assad much more kindly than today's politicians and many commentators. I bet, given what has happened in these countries due to our meddling, the three dictators will be seen, yes, as brutal. But perhaps they had to be to prevent the different religious faction from doing to each other what they are doing today – and I also bet (although they will not admit to it publicly) that in their heart of hearts, Blair, Bush, Cameron, Obama and Hollande all wish they could turn the clock back, when, in particular, in Cameron's case he sees the mass migration into Europe.
So, Mr Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein; I agree that the West has fouled up, and as a Jordanian representative of the UN, it must be most irksome to say the least, considering how hard pressed your nation is in coping with refugees from (mainly but not exclusively) Syria.
But to compare the UK's reaction to this great tide of humanity in such terms as you do is not only very silly but will prove unproductive in terms of the people you are trying to help. Western politicians have done great harm to the people of Iraq, Syria and Libya, by their involvement. We in the West have behaved like democratic imperialists believing that our actions would lead to fully fledged democracies in nations that were never suited to become democracies in the first place.
Blair believed in a kind of nation building in these dictatorships once the dictators were swept to one side. The kind of nation he wanted to be the architect of was liberal democracy. It has, however, done more harm than good. But we are where we are. Then where are we Europeans now as the continent of last resort, and northern Europe the preferred final resort to the, by now, economic migrants?
Europe, like the West generally is in terminal decline. It is not a question of if, but when. But it is Europe that will succumb first despite the attempts to create a United States of Europe to keep the continent's democracies solvent. Immigration will destroy Europe. But its destruction began not by the present influx of Syrian refugees; but by colonial guilt, and in Germany's case, the 70-year guilt that Nazism bequeathed future generations of Germans including Angela Merkle.
Colonial guilt in Europe produced the ideology of multiculturalism, and this began the fall of European culture. Europe is in a dizzy state at the moment due to the latest influx; its indigenous people's have had to suck-up to the multicultural agenda which promotes diversity rather than integration. Such diversity will fragment people of different cultures each demanding their own cultural practices; many of which run contrary to the indigenous cultures throughout the continent.
Therefore, before Mr Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein criticises in such stark, and to the UK, repellent terms his opposition to our prime minister's policy on Syrian migration; let him, first of all, consider the reactions from, not only the indigenous population; but also from second and third generation migrants who oppose the Schengen influx.
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