Immigration

Submitted by Iftikhar Ahmad (United Kingdom), Oct 30, 2016 at 13:32

We deride them as 'migrants'. Why not call them people?

Immigrants, asylum seekers, marauders: we are losing sight of the men and women involved.

What do the following people has in common: Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England; the former England cricketer Kevin Petersen; Nigel Farage's wife, Kirsten; Chelsea's new striker, Pedro; and Sir Bradley Wiggins?

Yes, they are all migrants - or, if you prefer, immigrants. Having moved to the UK to further their careers, some might be described as "economic migrants". Except that this term is reserved exclusively by politicians and the media to describe people who - unlike bankers or sports starts - they don't like: people who, in the words of our foreign secretary, are "marauding" across Europe.

People from the UK moving abroad to pursue their career or financial interests, meanwhile are "expats", never emigrants or migrants.

One Guardian employee who has been reporting extensively on the situation in Calais says: "The conclusion I came to was, wherever possible, to describe those in the camp as 'people' initially, with an extended phrase along the lines of 'more than 3,000 people who have fled war, poverty or persecution beyond Europe's borders....'."

Another journalist says: "They are people - men, women and children, fathers and mothers, teachers and engineers, just like us - except they come from Syria, Eritrea, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Why not just call them 'people', then list any other information we know that is relevant?"

Politically charged expressions such as "economic migrants", "genuine refugees" or "illegal asylum seekers" should have no part in coverage. This is a story about humanity. Reporting it should be humane as well as accurate. Sadly, most of what we hear and read about "migrants" is neither.

Stop treating foreigners like garbage and they will stop ruining your precious country. Why did you let them in in the first place if you didn't want them here? They left everything in their countries because of your promises. Are you so anxious to please that you can't say "no"? I would love to see you go to a foreign land where you don't have any friends, you don't even know anyone and you don't speak the language, and start from scratch. I would just LOVE to watch you do that. Let them integrate and stop segregating them. What I want is people being nice to each other. I don't care about race.

In Islam there is no commandment to kill people by making such allegations against them. The cartoonists had exercised their freedom of expression, and freedom of expression is totally allowed in Islam. Even during the Prophet's time there were several instances of ridicule, however the Prophet and his Companions neither punished such persons nor asked anyone to do so. On every occasion of this kind, the Prophet's Companions always tried to positively disseminate the message of Islam. They never tried to punish these people. The killing of those people who had published the cartoons is a gravely un-Islamic act in the name of Islam. What did killing Saddam Husain do. What did killing Osama Bin laden do? NOTHING!!!. There is a long line of replacements. I don't know the answers. He was asked by MI5 to join them...so you know he is working for them.

Multiculturalism means different cultures living side by side, separately. We live in a multicultural world of mono-cultural countries. If only England becomes multicultural and other countries don't, then the result will be a less multicultural world. Right next to the Over ground Station, a peek inside the Railway Tavern pub will reveal white locals in the front, black locals in the back room. This segregation is self-enforced; both parties seem to prefer it that way. The sight of such retailed segregation is uncomfortable, and off-putting. It inevitably reminded me of the "separate but equal" facilities of late-Jim Crow 60s America.

You and people like must learn to respect and tolerate those who are different. Muslim community is a part and parcel of British society. Muslim community needs Masajid, state funded Muslim schools with Muslim teachers, halal meat, sharia laws and Muslim cemeteries, otherwise, the future generations would be lost in western jungle. Muslim children must develop their cultural, spiritual and linguistic identities before they are exposed to wider society, otherwise, they would turn towards extremism and terrorism. All Muslim extremists are the product of state schools with non-Muslim teachers. Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods.
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