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by Soeren Kern
• June 6, 2016 at 5:00 am
- The National
Front party has accused Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo of putting the
concerns of migrants ahead of those of French citizens. In a
statement, the party said that the number of homeless people in
Paris had increased by 84% between 2002 and 2012, but that Hidalgo
has shown little interest in alleviating the problem.
- Although the
EU-Turkey migrant deal has temporarily stemmed the flow of illegal
migration to Greece through Turkey, hundreds of thousands of
migrants are still making their way into Europe.
- According to
the International Organization for Migration, more than 204,000
migrants arrived in Europe (mostly Greece and Italy) during the
first five months of 2016, more than twice as many as arrived during
the same period in 2015.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced plans to build
a camp for thousands of illegal migrants in central Paris, which is to be
modelled on Grande-Synthe (pictured above), a camp housing 2,500 illegal
migrants near the French port city of Dunkirk. (Image source: AFP video
screenshot)
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced plans to build a
"humanitarian camp" next to one of the busiest train stations
in the city, so that thousands of illegal migrants bound for Britain can
"live with dignity."
Hidalgo, who has often sparred with French President François
Hollande for his refusal to accept more migrants, says her plan to help
illegal migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East is a "duty of
humanism."
Critics counter that Hidalgo's plan is a cynical ploy aimed at
positioning herself to the left of the current president, as part of a
political strategy to wrest leadership of the Socialist Party from
Hollande, whose approval ratings are at record lows.
At a press conference on May 31, Hidalgo said the camp would be
built in northern Paris "near the arrival points for migrants."
She was referring to Gare du Nord — one of the busiest railway stations
in Europe — from where high-speed Eurostar trains travel to and arrive
from London.
by Burak Bekdil
• June 6, 2016 at 4:00 am
- In 2014, one Yeni
Akit columnist wrote that a "Gaza fund contribution
tax" should apply to Turkish Jews, as well as foreign Jews
doing business in Turkey, Turkish nationals with commercial ties to
Israel, and any business that maintains a partnership with a Turkish
Jew. The penalty for failing to pay the tax should be the revocation
of the Jew's business license and the seizure of his property.
- It was not even
considered shocking when the Turkish man who shot at the journalist
Can Dundar outside a courthouse said in his testimony, "I was
deeply annoyed by his news reporting ... I knew he had been to
Britain for a while... I thought he was a British spy..."
Murat Sahin (left) attempts to shoot journalist Can
Dundar (crouching at right, with his back to the camera) outside a court
in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 6, 2016. Sahin later stated that "I was
deeply annoyed by his news reporting ... I knew he had been to Britain
for a while... I thought he was a British spy... I planned this
[shooting] in order to teach him a lesson." (Image source: RT video
screenshot)
The Western euphemism for Turkey's supposedly mild,
"post-modern" Islamists, who came to power in 2002, was
problematic from the beginning. The past five years has seen the Turkish
"post-modern" Islamist's sad funeral -- sad because they, in reality,
never lived in this universe. They were the brainchild of the optimists
sipping their coffee at a Washington café, or a London pub or a Berlin
beer house. Now there is just the official funeral service with an empty
coffin: there was, in fact, no such a thing as "post-modern"
Islamism.
Political Islam, when it wins popular support, tends to adopt
direction of the majority rather than the pluralistic route [see Turkey
and Egypt]; and when mixed with cultural and religious nationalism in the
Orient, it often adopts not just the direction of the majority but also a
few militant turns [see Hamas].
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