"Western leaders have simply lost faith in Western civilization," believes Ayaan Hirsi Ali to be one of the reasons for the European analogy regarding migration. According to Ali, a critic of Islam who once fled Somalia, the EU leadership is playing the world's biggest game of misunderstanding in immigration policy.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Mogadishu, 1969) is a Dutch-American politician of Somali origin, a researcher at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, and a member of parliament in the Netherlands from 2003 to 2006 for the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV). He gained fame with his criticism of Islam and is the author of several books on this topic.
The European leaders' immigration policy is a big Misunderstood Game.
"The first deliberate misunderstanding is that developed economies inevitably need unskilled immigrants without a formal educational background," says Hirsi Ali. The woke left, he says, argues that "those terrible anti-immigrants who get caught up in cost-benefit analyzes of how much money immigrants cost society and how much they add simply don't get it all" - so the anti-immigrationists leave out out of the equation are the thousands of HUF incalculable advantages, the gastronomy, clothes, sights and sounds of the new, exotic cultures that move to their homeland together with the immigrants.
According to him, the second deliberate misunderstanding is the "argument of compassion", according to which some people only want to stop economic migration, but those who are also entitled to asylum would be allowed in temporarily, until their country is put in order. Hirsi Ali warns that sympathizers do not answer the question of how economic migrants can be distinguished from refugees, when their country can be expected to return to order, and what they will do in the host country until then.
"The best players of the Misunderstanding Game also have very convincing distractions," such as appeals to empathy: what if your family had fled, or had you not taken in Jews fleeing the Holocaust? "Otherwise, they say, it's our fault that their societies are falling apart, because we colonized them in the first place," Hirsi Ali outlines the pro-immigration argument. "This is where the conclusion of the Misunderstood Game crystallizes: atonement for historical sins is more important than any attempt to look at existing problems rationally," sums up Hirsi Ali.
The third manifestation of the Misunderstanding Game is "the claim that all immigrants are the same". Hirsi Ali refers to a number of relevant studies, including the work of Dutch sociology professor Ruud Koopmans, who researched why, for example, Lebanese Muslims find it more difficult to integrate into Australian society than Lebanese Christians, and why Bangladeshis or Pakistanis struggle in Britain when Hindus and Sikhs fit in easily.
"Koopmans can explain these trends with convincing data. But who cares about such questions, especially boring stuff like data? What is important is the misunderstanding, the mixing, the obfuscation. So Mr. Koopmans, they say, let's just look at your intentions! His research may be empirical, but what is important is his weak point, that although he calls himself a social democrat, he is actually a racist. He failed. You can't hide behind the mask of the labor party if you slander the real workers of the world with your anti-social science!" – the author formulates the essence of the anti-data misunderstanding with some sarcasm.
“And finally, when played at its most sardonic, The Misunderstood Game insists that we all want the same things. We all want to be free and equal; we all want to respect the law; we all share the same basic values and we all want to respect the dignity of others," says Hirsi Ali. "With the exception of a recalcitrant layer - and this is in every society - we are all just human beings" - thus the misunderstanding.
Hirsi Ali, on the other hand, argues that it is impossible for everyone to have the same image of God - otherwise it would not be possible to explain Islamist hate rituals, Islam's anti-women, anti-gay and anti-Jewish, Pakistani Muslim criminal organizations, or forced marriages, ISIS, al - Kaida, the knifemen, the mass murderers in trucks.
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