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The Invasion of Europe

"Let's look lucidly at this subject of migration. The very poor do not leave their country, they are the middle classes of emerging economies that are passing through Libya today [Mediterranean routes from Africa to Europe]. An overwhelming majority of those who go to sea after months, years of wandering, suffering, where do they come from? Nigeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Guinea."
"Are these countries doing less well than they were ten years ago? No. And so we have a youth who believe there is no hope in their countries."
"These people, given the magnitude of this wave, cannot be accepted, at least, not all of them. We need more Africans to succeed in Africa."
French President Emmanuel Macron

President Macron speaks of the African birthrates: African countries "have seven or eight children per woman", he observes. And Europe? Well, the reality is the more educated and well-off people are, the fewer children women will bear. Africans are dissatisfied with the view of their future. Yet nothing keeps them from producing more children than they can cope with. There are regional conflicts, there is low employment, there is inequity between regions and within countries, and there is the pathology of cultural, ethnic, sectarian suspicion where tribal dissatisfaction becomes lethal.

Perhaps worse, there is the spectre of violent Islam jihad haunting African nations. And where there is conflict and fear there is also famine.

Sudanese migrants wait on the side of a road in Ouistreham, near Caen, northwestern France | Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

African countries are overwhelmingly headed by dictators and tyrants whose regimes cannot be dislodged. Malfunction and dysfunction describes all too many African regimes, riven with corruption. Little wonder, then, with instant communication around the world, African youth see how other countries work, the quality of life, the opportunities of a future opening up to those living there, and they want that for themselves as well.

Why not remain where they are and work toward a revolutionary change in governance and opportunities to advance both their futures and that of their countries?

"I always say, present me the woman who decided, being perfectly educated, to have seven, eight or nine children", Macron has noted. The birth rate he quotes is decidedly not that of any country in Europe or North America. Modern Western reality is that with wealth and education birthrates decline and continue to go progressively lower.

Recommending that in less advanced, struggling-with-poverty countries there be fewer children is considered a racist intolerant intervention. Falling Western birthrates and steadily increasing African ones.

An inundation of haven seekers and economic migrants and refugees from Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa has brought a huge multitude into Europe. A multitude with a variant culture and values, and a religion that gears its faithful to be unassimilable. Not only that but increasingly aggressive about substituting their own laws for those of the country they invade.

Creeping Sharia, Muslim contempt for Western culture, heritage and values, and a rise in violence wherever large groups of Muslim live and feel resentful make for uneasy populations.

The United Nations foretold in 2004 that the population of Africa would level off around two billion by 2100. That has been somewhat revised; the same source now projects that the population of Africa will reach 4.5 billion, a change resulting from slow economic growth which even so sees African women bearing an excess of offspring.

By the end of this century, it is posited, two in five human beings on this globe could be African. And by no means will they be all living in Africa.

Europe and Africa in the late 1990s both held roughly equal population numbers; a hundred years later, that might change to seven Africans for every European. European leaders have become only too painfully aware of the crises that arose and will continue to demand notice as Africans keep demanding they be absorbed in Europe, anywhere but where they see little hope for their economic futures.

Recent migrations have demonstrated how simply that will be accomplished, the marches, the violent infiltrations, the demands that fences come down; the implacable, demanding presence.

Migrants rescued off the coast of Libya wait to disembark from the supply vessel OOC Panther in the Sicilian port of Messina, Italy, in April 2017. (Sipa via AP)

Labels: Africa, Birthrate, Conflict, Dictators, Europe, Poverty

posted by Pieface @ Sunday, November 04, 2018