tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77614052374840505462024-03-06T11:33:45.325+08:00The Meaning and Purpose of LifeThe meaning of life is in the inspired words of Jesus: Whoever wishes to be my follower must deny his very self, take up his cross each day and follow in my steps - Luke 9:23. The purpose of life is to remain faithful and dedicated to the calling of GodDr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-51601386258498708032021-07-31T21:39:00.050+08:002021-10-28T17:04:30.383+08:00Here They Rape Again - How to Protect Yourself Against Sex Crimes<div style="text-align: left;">This article is specially written in commemoration of 13-year-old schoolgirl, Leonie Eltern, from the Lower Austrian district of Tulln, who was kidnapped, drugged, raped, tortured and murdered by four Afghan asylum seekers (aged 16, 18, 22 and 23) in Vienna. Her lifeless body was rolled in a Persian carpet and dumped next to a tree, 100 meters from the crime scene. One of the suspects is an "unaccompanied minor" (it should be noted that in Europe, even criminals in their 30s can turn into unaccompanied minors). Officials have said that the victim knew two of the suspects and had followed them voluntarily to an apartment where she was given drugs (to make her compliant), tortured, brutally raped and strangled. What a shame! These Afghans come to Austria to seek protection, but, is that the way they repay their host country? Yes, the Afghans are coming (because the Taliban forces in Afghanistan are gaining ground) and once they are in EU territory, they can apply for asylum and cannot be deported. What is Europe going to do with the next wave of Afghans? Not only Afghans - Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Eritreans, Moroccans, Tunisians and Syrians are on their way too. To be exact, millions of economic refugees from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia are coming to Europe. How many millions of them are already in Europe? How is Europe going to deal with them? Open its borders wide to welcome them or defend its borders? Building more reception centers would only exacerbate the migrant crisis and pushbacks are essential to save Europe from migrant crime and violence. But, according to V4 Report, the EU is not interested in stopping mass migration and only wants to manage migration, i.e., help to shelter migrants and deal with them financially. Euro MP, Gunnar Beck, had said that <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/525690-africans-migration-eu-german/">the EU was talking about importing up to 70 million Africans into Europe by 2035</a>. It therefore seems that the EU is ready to welcome anyone who crosses its borders.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Since most of the European migrants are aggressive, violent, strong and healthy military age males, taking in millions of them from unknown backgrounds would mean that many lives could be at stake. Do you think that they can live celibate lives? Of course not or there won't be so many migrant rapes throughout Europe. The problem is, if those who are having their wives and children around are still busy raping White women, what about those who come without their families? And they seem to enjoy raping White women very much - the Afghans who gang-raped and murdered Leonie Eltern even boasted with pals about having wild sex with her and gang-raping her! RIP Leonie Eltern, these sex perverts will be punished for their crime.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Rape can be very devastating for a woman and her life would never be the same again after her terrible ordeal at the hands of the rapefugees even if she is lucky enough to be alive after that. For the purposes of self-preservation, White women should learn to protect themselves against sexual crimes. Although they cannot protect themselves completely from the rapefugees given the fact that there are already millions of them in Europe, they can still help to reduce their risk of being raped and murdered. Most women would resist by biting, screaming, fighting and running away but find it impossible to escape because the rapefugees are too strong for them. With so many rapefugees on their way to Europe for the generous benefits, there is no end in sight to rape and White women should take charge of their own safety. Here are some tips which I hope would be useful to prevent this crime or reduce its risks.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Do not go out alone, always have someone to keep you company.</li><li>If possible, never leave the house in the wee hours of the morning or at night.</li><li>Avoid isolated areas as there would be no one to help you if you are attacked.</li><li>Be alert to your surroundings and walk only in well-lit areas.</li><li>Sometimes you have to trust your instincts - if you feel that the place is unsafe or you feel uncomfortable with it, then do not go there or leave immediately.</li><li>Do not accept drinks from strangers. If you really want to have a drink, order it yourself and watch it being poured. </li><li>Always keep an eye on your drink to ensure that no one slips anything in it. If you have left your drink unattended, even for a short while, get a new one.</li><li>When attending parties or social gatherings, stay with a group of friends whom you can trust. Do not wander off alone.</li><li>Do not simply give away your address and telephone number to strangers.</li><li>Make sure that your mobile phone is charged at all times because you don't know when you might need it.</li><li>Be careful about what you post on social media especially your location. Do not advertise your personal info on the internet.</li><li>Never follow strangers to their apartments or hotels because you do not know what is waiting for you.</li><li>Make sure you lock your doors and windows before you sleep.</li><li>When you move into a new home or apartment, change the keys and locks. </li><li>Never let a stranger inside your house.</li><li>Install a door viewer and look who is at the door before opening it.</li><li>Never accept free rides from strangers or carry strangers in your car.</li><li>Take a self defense / martial arts course.</li></ul><div>Sexual assault is a serious crime and should be reported to the police immediately. Do not suffer in silence. Remember, do not take a shower after a sexual assault and never change your clothes or wash your clothes because DNA evidence can be found on the victim's body and clothes. Seek medical help.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sexual assault is NOT the fault of the victims so do not blame yourself. Do not commit suicide because you will never have another life again.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you want to get a list of migrant rape cases described in detail, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">here</a> and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">here</a>. In the following section, I would like to share some of the latest European migrant rape cases in chronological order. You can click on the titles of each case to read more about it.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://rairfoundation.com/france-islamic-migrant-sentenced-to-15-years-for-raping-young-boy-lawyer-pleads-its-an-afghan-custom-video/">France: Islamic Migrant Sentenced to 15 Years for Raping Young Boy: Lawyer Pleads it's an Afghan Custom</a><br /></div><div>A 26-year-old Afghani migrant, Mohammed Rahman Arsala, raped a 12-year-old boy in Saint-Brieuc, on 25 August 2018. He met the boy on the bus, got off the same stop as the boy and followed him. He then grabbed his arm and dragged him to an abandoned house near a playground and attacked him. Mohammed's lawyer blamed his criminal behavior on his Afghan culture as it is customary for young boys to become sex slaves in Afghanistan.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/abuser-sex-girl-15-without-5570312">Abuser had sex with girl, 15, without revealing he was HIV positive</a><br /></div><div>A 47-year-old HIV positive Zimbabwean asylum seeker, Cloud Chunga, had unprotected sex with a 15-year-old girl who skipped school and was still wearing her uniform, in a flat in the Beaumont Leys area of Leicester, in November 2020. Photographs of the topless girl in bed with him could be found on his mobile phone. The defendant befriended the girl on a social media site and embarked on sexualised private conversations with her. He even told the girl that she was sexy and pretty and sent her lewd pictures of himself. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/knifepoint-rapist-jailed-kidnapped-teenager-20771284">Knifepoint rapist locked up after kidnapping teenager and threatening to 'dump her body'</a><br /></div><div>33-year-old Muhebullah Dadwal, who was married with children, kidnapped and raped a 19-year-old woman at knifepoint, in November 2019. He threatened to dump her body and kill her family if she went to the police.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/01/illegal-migrants-arrested-robbing-raping-69-year-old-woman/">Illegal Migrants Arrested for Robbing and Raping 69-Year-Old Woman</a><br /></div><div>A 69-year-old French woman was raped after two illegal Algerian migrants (aged 20 & 21) broke into her home in Palaiseau, Essonne, at around 3 a.m. on 21 May 2021. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/16/algerian-suspected-raping-woman-he-tried-force-marriage-citizenship/">Algerian suspected of raping woman he tried to force into marriage for citizenship</a><br /></div><div>A 29-year-old Nigerian migrant had physically abused and raped a woman whom he persuaded to enter into a sham marriage so that he could acquire French citizenship. The woman was made pregnant. In June 2021, the Algerian assaulted his victim again on the street in Le Puy-en-Velay and was arrested.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/27/raped-migrant-pregnant-woman-pleaded-help-but-passers-raped-her-too/">Greece: Raped by Afghan, Pregnant Woman Pleaded for Help But Three Pakistanis Passing by Raped Her Too</a><br /></div><div>A 25-year-old pregnant woman was raped by an Afghan migrant and three Pakistanis in the Agios Panteleimonas neighborhood of Athens on 23 June 2021. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-58501748">Manzoor Hassan: Man found guilty of raping girl he sold for sex</a><br /></div><div>41-year-old Manzoor Hassan got a 16-year-old Huddersfield girl hooked on drugs, committed serious sexual offences against her, took her to Great Northern Street (Huddersfield's red light district) and forced her into sex work for his own financial benefit. The teenager was living in a children's home when she met him.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks for reading. You may also like to read:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">EUROPE AND THE MIGRANT RAPE CRISIS</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-to-get-rid-of-europes-migrant-crime.html">How to Get Rid of Europe's Migrant Crime Zones</a></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/justice-for-denmark-other-side-of.html">Justice for Denmark: The Other Side of the Deportation Story</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/matteo-salvini-is-he-hero-or-villain.html">Matteo Salvini: Is he a hero or a villain?</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">Migrants and Crime in Europe in the Twenty-First Century</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/01/migrants-stuck-in-hopeless-situation-at.html">Migrants stuck in hopeless situation at EU border in Bosnia : who is to blame?</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/should-large-influx-of-migrants-into-eu.html">Should the large influx of migrants into the EU countries be encouraged?</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/viktor-orban-hero-of-europe.html">Viktor Orbán: The Hero of Europe</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/white-lives-matter-even-ones-being.html">White lives matter, 'even the ones being raped, stabbed and murdered'</a><br /></li></ol></div><div><br /></div></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-12605977910062014342021-07-16T21:38:00.124+08:002021-07-27T02:04:16.717+08:00DARREN EDMUNDSON: THE TRUE PATRIOT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdm4-n6QhyphenhyphenHyVpPxSA2za8tDtBvoo4WjYJ3wWUUR7X6xKzYzDrB7WVrzrbN4zVRm10HZis-LhEAzCC2UizBkaG5CXXrs8Zj4ax8istvo5il9AVo_rb7-mAKNFx80PcNkud925bJ_0Q0PQ/s599/Darren+Edmundson.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="599" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdm4-n6QhyphenhyphenHyVpPxSA2za8tDtBvoo4WjYJ3wWUUR7X6xKzYzDrB7WVrzrbN4zVRm10HZis-LhEAzCC2UizBkaG5CXXrs8Zj4ax8istvo5il9AVo_rb7-mAKNFx80PcNkud925bJ_0Q0PQ/s320/Darren+Edmundson.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">The handsome lad - Darren Edmundson</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Many people may be wondering why I am so interested in the European migrant crisis even though I am not a citizen of Europe. One reason is - I totally disagree with illegal immigration and, looking at the way the <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/05/should-illegal-entry-of-rohingyas-into.html">Rohingyas</a>, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and Indonesians are sneaking into my country, I truly sympathize with Europe because the situation in Europe is much worse than Malaysia. I am not worried about Malaysia because the Immigration Department knows how to round up the illegals and deport them. Europe, however, takes in all those who manage to cross its borders and gives them money, free housing, free nutritious meals, citizenship and many other generous welfare benefits even though they are disrupting the lives of the European citizens. Each time I read about the European migrant exodus, I couldn't help feeling that the illegals are saying this to their family members, relatives and friends, "Let's go to Europe. In Europe, you don't have to work because the fools will support you and give you a comfortable life." How sad! I grew up believing that the Whites were supreme but they are a great disappointment today.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Why am I writing about <a href="https://www.facebook.com/patriotpembrokeshire">Darren Edmundson</a> in this article? Because he is a true patriot. But what has his patriotism got to do with me since I am not a British citizen? I grew up with Winston Churchill's <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/02/how-to-learn-english-effectively-on.html">Great War Speeches</a> (one of my favorite books) as I used to practise his speeches in front of the mirror during my school days to improve my English. Maybe that was what made me feel British. His speech to the House of Commons dated 4 June 1940 used to be one of my favorite speeches and I like the last part of it very much because it is very heroic. Here it goes:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>The British Empire and the French Republic , linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air , we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender... </i>(p.28).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But, today, everything is so different - the British Empire, the French Republic and many EU countries are busy taking in millions of migrants, mostly aggressive military age males from third world countries who cannot integrate, live on social benefits and are busy raping, stabbing and killing in their host countries. Aren't the European countries supposed to defend to the death their native soil? Aren't they supposed to fight on the seas and oceans and defend their countries, whatever the cost may be? Sad to say, instead of fighting on the seas, oceans, beaches, and landing grounds and defending their countries, they are taking in millions of third world aliens and paying them to <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/white-lives-matter-even-ones-being.html">devour and destroy</a>. That is why I couldn't help weeping for Europe. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Who is Darren Edmundson and what has he got to do with Winston Churchill? Well, Darren Edmundson was formerly an electrical and mechanical engineer in the British army. He is divorced with a cute little son and is a loving father who wants his son to grow up in a safe country. I first came across his FB while I was searching for news about the European migrant crisis. Going through his FB posts reminds me of Winston Churchill as I could sense that he was fighting really hard to protect his country and keep it safe from migrants. I am sure that many British citizens can still remember the hero of Penally who was arrested during a protest outside the Penally asylum camp near Tenby and held in custody last year. That was Darren Edmundson. He was charged with resisting police and obstructing a police constable in the course of his / her duty on 21 September 2020. But why did he take part in the protest? He could have stayed at home to watch TV or take a nap that day instead of going all the way to the Penally Asylum Accommodation to be arrested. According to Darren Edmundson, "I am doing this because I am concerned for the safety of our family and our children as we don't know the background of the asylum seekers. It has been confirmed that is just 250 men. Why not women and children as well? We feel that the camp should have been used to benefit the community especially the homeless. Wales has struggled for homelessness for years." Darren is right and Donald Trump would agree with him. As what Trump has said: </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>You look at the migration, it's young, strong men. There are so few women and there are so few children. We're taking in people we have no idea who they are. They have no identification. They have no papers. They're making up papers. This could be the great Trojan horse of all time.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The magic of illegal migration is - even third world criminals in their 30s can turn into unaccompanied minors in Europe. With 250 third world military age males in the neighborhood and nothing is known of their backgrounds, anything can happen to the locals. Given the fact that migrants are busy raping, stabbing and killing in Europe, Darren's fears were not ill-founded. The group of men from Iraq and Iran even criticised the military camp saying that it was not good enough for them and complained about the food when they did not pay a single penny for their accommodation and food. They even protested about their living conditions outside their camp. Their irrational demands are nothing surprising since their contemporaries are living in luxury hotels! Perhaps they shouldn't be treated like VIPs so that they remember who they are and stop asking for too much. How many British citizens have actually been given the privilege to eat free and stay free in luxury hotels? The thought of <a href="https://homesforcathy.org.uk/2020/02/06/veteran-homelessness-asking-the-right-questions-is-crucial/">6,000 homeless veterans</a> in the UK is enough to bring Darren to tears. Do the asylum seekers have the right to complain about their free accommodation and meals when thousands of armed forces veterans are living on the streets? Standing up for this country. Stop corruption and abuses - this is Darren Edmundson's motto and that is why he is known as the real hero of Penally. Needless to say, this hero of Penally has clearly proven that he truly loves his country and his people, understands their needs and is ready to sacrifice for the sake of the nation. Luckily the PC obstruction charge against him was dropped or it would be a great injustice to him. Those who ought to be arrested are the illegals and not heroes who are defending the borders. "When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion (<a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/viktor-orban-hero-of-europe.html">Viktor Orban</a>). Going into someone else's residence without permission is a crime and the perpetrators (not the owner-occupant) must be prosecuted. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Apart from the Penally army camp, migrants are also accommodated at the Napier Barracks in Kent. The Napier Barracks had previously accommodated the British army who had no problems staying there. But, recently, the asylum seekers won a legal fight (with free legal aid) against the British government because they were too good for the barracks. To find out why the barracks are only good enough for the British army and not good enough for the aggressive males from third world countries, Darren Edmundson has made many trips to the Napier Barracks to film and interview them but it turned out that they were rather arrogant and not very friendly. What he discovered at the barracks was really disgusting. Despite the free accommodation, nutritious meals and wifi, the migrants described the barracks as unsafe, squalid, appalling and unlawful. OMG! First, they come illegally without invitation and next they demand a grand reception. I have watched videos about Napier Barracks and I don't see anything dangerous and unacceptable about this place. But, of course, it is nothing compared to 4-star hotels. Genuine refugees would be thankful to have a roof over their heads but since they are holiday makers coming to Europe to claim social benefits, only 4-star hotels are good enough for them. That was why they had to deliberately <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/29/channel-migrants-set-fire-kent-barracks-covid-outbreak/">start a fire</a> at the barracks! Well, we certainly need more people like Darren to keep us updated with migrant news. Keep up your good work, Darren. Every penny given to the freeloaders is a waste of taxpayers' hard-earned money and illegal migration should not be encouraged.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5A8FJEb0R-3-Q4oUs2NKu8_ckKOQZeXUOTIpyB5l-mVCpjS67MPTE2qIxaAwWOQ_A_Fu_9HqZHeWImq_YZd_a0r8tqNzpYbspLwnHDpEQcUqSUlBBuI_9304PJ_U8ff0sypHWuMAZ-A/s825/Dover+Demo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="825" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5A8FJEb0R-3-Q4oUs2NKu8_ckKOQZeXUOTIpyB5l-mVCpjS67MPTE2qIxaAwWOQ_A_Fu_9HqZHeWImq_YZd_a0r8tqNzpYbspLwnHDpEQcUqSUlBBuI_9304PJ_U8ff0sypHWuMAZ-A/s320/Dover+Demo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: left;">The anti-immigration protest in Dover (Photo Source: Darren Edmundson's Facebook). To stay updated on the latest migrant news, you can visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/patriotpembrokeshire">Patriot Pembrokeshire</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stevelaws19">Steve Laws</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100035399160971">Chris Johnson</a>.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Darren Edmundson is also known as the hero of Dover and has spent a lot of his precious time filming the large number of illegals that are brought into Dover each day by the UK Border Force. Dover is targeted by migrants crossing the English Channel from Calais in dinghies and there may be hundreds of them making the journey in a single day. At least <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57897601#:~:text=At%20least%20430%20migrants%20crossed,unacceptable%20problem%20of%20illegal%20migration%22.">430 migrants crossed the English Channel</a> to the UK on 19 July 2021 after 241 migrants reached the UK the day before. The UK Border Force is not only busy picking up migrants in the Channel but has also <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9653583/Home-Office-launches-probe-Border-Force-entered-French-waters-collect-asylum-seekers.html">collected them secretly in French waters</a>. When the Border Force has reached its breaking point, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/f92e073e-c3f5-4902-845e-0b07a1dfcf69">RNLI</a>) would do the job. According to British politician Nigel Farage, it is a "taxi service for illegal migration." Migrants brought ashore in Dover are loaded onto coaches and taken to 4-star hotels where a sumptuous meal is waiting for them. Despite Covid-19 travel restrictions, the number of migrants crossing the Channel continues to rise and has grown substantially this year. To stop the massive numbers of illegals crossing the Channel, Darren has joined the "defend our borders" demonstration against illegal immigration in Dover on 29 May 2021 in the hope that the mass migrant exodus which poses a serious threat to his country would be controlled and stopped. Around 80 people attended this peaceful protest and they blocked the road to the port to gain media attention of undeterred military age males that keep pouring into their country. I felt sorry for them when I watched videos about the demonstration. These are the patriots who are truly concerned about the future of their country. What would become the future of their children ten or twenty years from now if their country is overwhelmed by aggresive domineering third world males who are busy raping, stabbing and killing? Perhaps what the UK really needs now are true patriots (like Darren Edmundson) who are busy defending the borders whatever the cost may be and not those who are busy taking in migrants and treating them like VIPS. As what Darren always says, "Britain first." What a true patriot! And I sincerely hope that this true patriot will find a patriotic and loving wife in the near future. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the the enemy (Winston Churchill).</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">How many times did Facebook unpublish Darren's page? But this cannot stop him from telling the truth about the illegal invaders as he would keep creating new pages until the invasion is stopped altogether. Even his YouTube channel was taken down and he had to create a backup channel. Looks like nothing can stop him! As what Hungarian PM Viktor Orban says, "This is our homeland, our life, and since we don't have another one, we will fight for it until the very end and we will never give it up."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"We determine who we are... by what we do" (Darren Edmundson's favorite quote). Very true, Darren. The great influx of migrants into Europe can change the future of Europe if nothing is done to stop them now. China's President Xi Jinping would agree with you. According to Xi, foreign powers attempting to bully or influence China will "get their heads bashed." China knows very well what it means to be invaded because the Mongol conquest of China from 1271 to 1368 has taught the country a very valuable lesson. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongol army killed millions of Chinese and there was a drastic decline in population in China from 120 million people to 60 million people. The Mongols were not only insensitive to China's culture and values, they were also violent and destructive. These barbarians who were only interested in killing, destroying and plundering have done considerable damage to the country and China will never allow the same things to happen again in the future. Let's hope that the European countries would also bash the heads of those attempting to bully or influence them so that they would not be dominated with migrant rapes, stabbings, shootings, grenade attacks , bombings, gang crimes and no-go zones in the future. Sad to say, these have become common occurrences in Europe's migrant hotspots and must be curbed before everything is too late. "Those who do not halt mass migration are lost: slowly but surely they are consumed" (Viktor Orban). Once Europe is overwhelmed by third world aggressive aliens, it will turn into a nightmare because they are arrogant, brutal, domineering and have no intention to assimilate. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The European migrant crisis may not be as bleak as it seems to be if the European countries know how to deal with it wisely. Since migrants are pouring into Europe for the generous welfare benefits, stopping the benefits would make them think twice before they smuggle themselves into Europe. Why let them stay in luxury hotels? Just put them in canvas tents will do. After all, Europe does not owe them anything and need not provide them shelter or give them a single penny. There's no such thing as a free lunch (Milton Friedman) and they should work hard and take responsibility for their lives in their own countries. Migration is not a human right and border pushbacks are essential to discourage illegal border crossings and protect the European citizens from migrant crime and violence. If Europe really wants to help the illegals, they can be sent outside Europe, preferably to African countries like Rwanda. Paying Africa to accommodate them is certainly a much better investment than relocating them across Europe. Further, the idea of having to live in Africa is enough to drive them away. And of course the most ideal solution is, "Don't let them in, and those who are in, send home" (Viktor Orban). Europe must start deporting en masse and send them back to where they belong. using whatever means possible. By removing unwanted people from the streets of Europe, the European citizens would feel safer and live more peaceful and less stressful lives. Living in fear of being attacked by aliens anytime of the day is no joke as it can be really stressful.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Whites are greatly respected throughout the world because of their beautiful culture and values. They are the great inventors and scientists of all time. They were the first to land on the moon. I can still remember that my aunt used to be very proud of herself because she was very British and she has never spoken a Chinese word in her life. Although there were many Chinese guys pursuing her when she was studying in University Malaya, she was not interested in anyone of them and finally married a British man. To her family and relatives, she was very special and high-class because of her Britishness. When she visited us with her 3-year-old daughter many years ago, this little girl was the center of our attention even though there were many Chinese kids around. I was only 7 at that time but I couldn't help hugging her. Why? Because she is British and is special. As I have said earlier, I grew up believing that the Whites are supreme because I have been influenced by my aunt. I hope that European citizens will always remain high-class and superior instead of lowering themselves to the extent of remaining silent after being raped, stabbed and severely bullied by third world aliens. Please DO NOT go backwards. <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/white-lives-matter-even-ones-being.html">White lives matter</a>!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Whites have always been a superior race. Are they ready to become subservient to third world aliens? If yes, then they can continue to welcome migrants and treat them like VIPs. If no, then it is time to stop taking them in and start deporting those who are already there. Given their declining birth rates, the Whites can easily be overwhelmed by migrants since third world women don't mind giving birth immediately after their first period and would not stop making babies until menopause. Please click <a href="https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2940971/syrian-refugees-face-ramadan-penury-amid-lebanons-economic-ruin">here</a> to read about a Syrian man eating his meal in a tent with one wife and eleven children. If they can still afford to have eleven children when they are fleeing war and there is not enough food for the family, what about those living comfortably being supported by their host countries and don't have to work at all? They would have all the time in the world to make babies! If the migrants continue to stab, rape and kill the Whites every day, then the White population would decline even faster. Everything about Europe is so unique, beautiful, perfect and supreme, so please DO NOT CHANGE.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>. 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Closing our borders to illegal invaders or putting the lives of innocent European citizens at risk?" (Hungary PM, Viktor Orban). Photo Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/orbanviktor">Viktor Orban's Facebook</a></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Viktor Mihaly Orban, a trained lawyer, founder and President of Fidesz, a national conservative political party in Hungary, has been Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010. He was the second youngest Prime Minister of Hungary when he served the country from 1998-2002. He is also known as the savior, protector and hero of Europe for his tough immigration stance and uncompromising asylum policy. He was the first European leader to stop migrants from sneaking into the country with barbed wire and that was what made him the hero of Europe. To Europeans who are fighting a losing battle against the migrant exodus, he is their hope. As what the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/V4Report">V4 Report</a> says, Orban is the future of Europe.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">According to Orban, "European politicians, who promise a better life to migrants, encouraging them to leave everything behind and risk their lives to go to Europe, are irresponsible people. If Europe does not return to common sense, it will be overwhelmed." How right he is! Since the 2015 European migrant crisis, millions of migrants have entered Europe and, sad to say, the European migrant crisis did not end there but has continued until today. With thousands of strong, healthy, military age aggressive males from MENA (Middle East & North Africa) and South Asia (Bangladesh & Pakistan) sneaking into Europe every day, there is little room for optimism. European countries that welcome migrants are not only struggling with the continuous influx of migrants and their irrational demands but also the violent crime rises attributable to them. Given the fact that European migrants are breeding faster than rabbits, it would not take long before these countries are overwhelmed by third world citizens and cultures. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences" (Viktor Orban). In European cities dominated by migrants, rapes, knife crimes, murders, and gang crimes are inevitable. Europe is currently being <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">overwhelmed by a wave of migrant rapes</a> but these are often under reported to avoid being accused of racism. <a href="https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/number-of-sexual-assaults-by-pakistani-origin-men-increases-in-greece/">Concerns rise as men of Pakistani origin found sexually assaulting women in Greece with alarming frequency</a>. According to British politician Nigel Farage, <a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nigel-farage/nigel-farage-malmo-sweden-rape-capital-of-europe/">'Malmo is now the rape capital of Europe'</a> and, of course, this is something inevitable following the great influx of aggressive males from third world countries into European society (Please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">here</a> to view the list of European migrant rape cases). London, with the largest number of migrants among all regions in the UK, has recorded <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/knife-crime-england-london-hits-record-high-a4342451.html">15,080 knife crimes during the 12 months to end of September 2019</a>. Hungary claims <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hungary-no-go-zone-government-anti-migrant-pamphlet-london-orban-jobbik-european-union-migrant-quota-a7319856.html">London is overrun by migrants and a 'no-go zone'</a>. According to locals in Birmingham, another migrant hotspot, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/06/birminghams-knife-problem-the-city-has-become-unsafe">stabbings happen all the time</a> and the city is becoming dangerous but people are used to it. In other words, Birmingham's knife crime problem has become normalised. In Paris, there was an average of <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/nearly-half-of-paris-ghetto-criminals-have-a-migrant-background">120 knife attacks per day</a> between 2015 and 2017 with 44,000 knife crime victims every year. In Sweden, criminal gangs in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta had <a href="https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010191080813570-demonstration-of-power-criminal-gangs-impose-curfew-on-inhabitants-of-swedish-no-go-zone/">imposed 'curfew' on inhabitants of Swedish No-Go Zone</a> and threatened them with weapons to force them to stay indoors after 6 pm. Similarly, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/migrant-gangs-are-taking-over-the-role-of-the-police-in-sweden-s-gothenburg-polish-government-says-it-warned-of-such-a-scenario">migrant gangs are taking over the role of the police in Gothenburg</a> where murders, shootings and knife attacks have been the city's every day occurrences for the past two years. There were <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50339977">97 explosions in the first nine months of 2019</a> carried out by criminal gangs in low-income suburbs in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo. <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/bombs-shootings-are-a-part-of-life-in-swedish-city-malmo/a-51337737">Bombs and shootings are a part of life in Malmo</a>, a city which has more in common with Baghdad than with other European cities. Gothenburg's chief of police, Erik Nord, is warning that <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/police-chief-warns-migrant-mafia-gangs-are-turning-sweden-into-gangster-s-paradise-1.1093049">migrant mafia gangs are turning Sweden into a 'gangster's paradise'</a>. Swedish politician Jimmie Akesson has claimed that <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/08/populist-party-leader-mass-migration-has-destroyed-sweden/">mass migration and imported crime has destroyed Sweden</a> after a Swedish police officer <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9745653/Sweden-shocked-murder-police-officer-Gothenburg-suburb-amid-growing-gang-violence.html">was shot and killed in a no-go zone</a>. It seems that Belgium is not in a much better position than Sweden. In the Molenbeek district of Belgium, known for its large concentration of migrants, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/belgium-buses-diverted-from-brussels-migrant-quarter-over-violence-threat">buses are diverted from Brussels migrant quarter over violence threat</a> because they have been repeatedly pelted with stones. In Italy, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-foreign-mafia-has-come-to-italy-and-further-polarized-the-migration-debate/2019/06/25/377cf978-8235-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html">Nigerian mafia holds territory in the country from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo</a>. The foreign mafia is busy smuggling drugs and trafficking women forcing them into prostitution on Italy's streets. Well, the list is unending (You can click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">here</a> to view the list of migrant crimes in Europe). "We Hungarians are full of fear, people in Europe are full of fear because they see that the European leaders are not able to control the situation" (Viktor Orban). Orban is right, "Immigration only brings increased crime, especially crimes against women." Looking at the damage that migrants have done to the European countries that welcome them, Hungarians must be very grateful to Viktor Orban for his tough immigration stance. And, of course, Europeans fighting a losing war against illegal immigration would love to have a Prime Minister like him! "It is an obvious fact that Europeans don't want immigration but several European leaders are still forcing the failed immigration policy on them" (Viktor Orban).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC6uMqi8x3zqzsHSNUbpG3sEEE6SXkY61kmha0nMZsiMnXXdQDYtBJVo43PRhgVdA_L3eqSOCRHLTR7EZ-5doUvrAviS6XxOQvzGuAN6w_sqzLV_RwIaQUiBJv9TsA9bMdSr-BYgYyuy8/s525/asylum+crime+netherlands.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="494" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC6uMqi8x3zqzsHSNUbpG3sEEE6SXkY61kmha0nMZsiMnXXdQDYtBJVo43PRhgVdA_L3eqSOCRHLTR7EZ-5doUvrAviS6XxOQvzGuAN6w_sqzLV_RwIaQUiBJv9TsA9bMdSr-BYgYyuy8/s320/asylum+crime+netherlands.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;">According to Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, migrants are making the Netherlands unsafe with their crime and violence (Photo Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/geertwilders">Geert Wilders' Facebook</a>)<br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"In Hungary, there are no ghettos and no no-go zones, no scenes like New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Cologne. What happened in Cologne has deeply moved us Hungarians. I have four daughters. I do not want my children to be sexually assaulted like what happened in Cologne" (Viktor Orban). Hungary is not a place of ghettos or no-go zones and rapes are not normalised in this country. Contrary to some European countries where rapes, stabbings, shootings and gang crimes are common occurrences, Hungary is, generally, a very safe country. But, do be vigilant if you are a woman traveling solo because unexpected things do happen sometimes. Please read <a href="https://dailynewshungary.com/afghan-man-received-a-prison-sentence-for-rape-in-hungary/">Afghan man received a prison sentence for rape in Hungary!</a> and <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/somali-refugee-who-raped-a-hungarian-woman-arrested-in-budapest">Somali refugee who raped a Hungarian woman arrested in Budapest</a>. It should be noted that there are 5,750 refugees granted asylum in Hungary. Thanks to Orban, Hungary did not take in millions of them or it would become the next rape capital of Europe after Malmo!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Instead of supporting migrants, European families ought to be given financial aid and subsidies to encourage them to have as many children as possible" (Viktor Orban). Demographic decline has always been a problem in Europe. In the past several decades, the fertility rates in Europe have dropped gradually as more and more European couples are having fewer children. In countries like Hungary and Poland, the situation is even worse as more and more people are leaving for a better life in western Europe. It is estimated that around 600,000 Hungarians have emigrated to Western Europe in the past decade. However, taking in uneducated, aggressive male migrants from alien cultures who are busy raping and stabbing and cannot integrate is not the solution to Europe's shrinking populations. The best solution is to boost Europe's fertility rate and to have more white babies and this is exactly what Hungary has been doing. According to Orban:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Throughout Europe, there are fewer and fewer babies being born, and the European solution to this problem is migration. They want as many migrants to enter as there are White babies who ought to have been born, so that the numbers will add up. The Hungarians are seeing this from a different perspective. Instead of just adding up the numbers, we want Hungarian children. Hungary will not be a country of migrants.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Well said, Orban. Hungary must not turn into a country of migrants and disappear off the face of the earth. That is why nothing can be more meaningful than increasing the birth rate of native Hungarians and stopping its decline. Instead of spending billions of euros on migrants from third world cultures who cannot integrate (and are busy scamming the country's welfare system), why not spend the money on Hungarian families? "A nation which expects its biological survival from immigrants won't survive" (Viktor Orban). Migrants cannot replace White kids and increasing the numbers of migrants would only turn Europe into MENA and South Asia. The European culture is unique and ought not to be replaced by third world culture. Replacing White babies with fake minors, freeloaders, rapefugees, stabbers, murderers, drug dealers, and mafias from third world countries would mean that the European countries are in danger of turning into third world crime dens. Why are migrants causing so many problems in their host countries? Since high numbers of migrants are violent males, without qualifications and can only speak their native language, it is nothing surprising if they indulge in criminal activities especially if nothing is known of their backgrounds. After all, what can we expect from aggressive and uneducated third world military age males that are busy fighting each other at the migrant camps? In Birmingham, for example, nearly 50,000 of its inhabitants cannot speak English and there are high numbers of Pakistanis and Bangladeshis without qualifications. That is probably one reason why Birmingham's knife crime problem has become normalised! The magic of illegal migration is - even criminals in their 30s can turn into unaccompanied minors in Europe!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">One cannot deny the fact Orban has done a lot to defend and protect his country and people from aggressive migrants. Instead of collecting dinghy migrants at sea, sending them to 4-star hotels, and giving them free luxury homes and all kinds of welfare and generous benefits, he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/world/europe/orban-hungary-babies-mothers-population-immigration.html">encourages mothers in Hungary to have 4 or more babies</a>. Unlike some European countries that treat migrants like VIPs, in Hungary, it is always Hungarians first. How many countries in this world would actually give so many baby bonuses to their citizens to promote marriage and families? Yes, the Hungarian government is paying its citizens to start their families. This is indeed good news for Hungarians who are planning to get married. Newly married couples would receive 5,000 HUF per month for 24 months after marriage. Young couples are also offered an interest-free loan of $36,000 that would be cancelled once they have three children. Women who give birth to and raise four or more children are exempted from paying income tax for life. They are entitled to 24 weeks unpaid maternity leave followed by a non-paid parental leave of up to three years and receive maternity benefits at the rate of 70% of their average salary. For families with three or more children, there is a subsidy of $8,825 towards the purchase of a seven-seater car. Further, the construction of 21,000 nurseries would make it easier for mothers to go back to work. Even grandparents who babysit young children are given a childcare fee. Through Orban's "Family Protection Action Plan", there has been a surge in marriages in 2019. The fertility rate in Hungary has also increased from 1.25 in 2010 to 1.55 in 2018. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Hungarians living abroad are given a one-off support of 64,125 HUF per child and 85,5000 HUF for twins. They can also apply for a start-up deposit account amounting to 42,500 HUF for each child. The money, with interest, would be paid to the child once he or she attains 18. The Hungarian government is so concerned about its citizens abroad that it is offering them free flights and paying them to return to their own country. It is indeed a great honor and privilege of being Hungarian. Well done, Orban! That's the way it should be. Hungarians first. "Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens" (Viktor Orban). That's right! A good PM does not collect hundreds of dinghy migrants at sea every day and let them stay free and eat free at 4-star hotels at the expense of the taxpayers. A good PM does not offer luxury homes to migrants while the arm forces veterans are living on the streets. A good PM does not welcome millions of third world aliens into the country to rape and stab his people. A good PM would never allow migrants to turn some parts of the country into no-go zones. Hungarians should be thankful that their PM is protecting them so well. No one is perfect. Perhaps those who are not happy with Orban should ask themselves these questions:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>How do you like living in a country with open borders overwhelmed with aggressive third world migrants? (You can't even walk fast when you go to town because it is packed with migrants and you don't feel safe with their knife crimes). </li><li>How do you like being raped, stabbed, and murdered by aliens? (You can find your answer <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">here</a>).</li><li>How do you like fighting a losing battle against illegal migration? You can ask the patriots - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/patriotpembrokeshire">Darren Edmundson</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100035399160971">Chris Johnson</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stevelaws19">Steve Laws</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nigel.marcham.75">Nigel Marcham</a>. Imagine yourself desperately filming hundreds of migrants arriving at the ports every day but you cannot stop them and you are worrying about your children's future. How would you feel? </li><li>How do you like living on the streets while migrants are living in <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1293730/Somali-asylum-seeker-family-given-2m-house--complaining-5-bed-London-home-poor-area.html">luxury homes</a> and <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12804346/90-hotels-housing-migrants-by-home-office-4-star/">4-star hotels</a>?</li><li>How do you like having <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8818631/Swedish-police-chiefs-plead-resources-migrant-mafia-gangs-terrorise-country.html">40 migrant mafia clans</a> in the country? If you have seen the movie <i>The Godfather</i>, you would know what it is like (Perhaps the Swedes are used to that already).</li><li>How do you like <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/8cfa6212-4270-4962-a200-949a868c7cbe">shootings, hand grenade attacks and bombings</a> in the migrant dominated suburb where you live? (These have become regular occurrences across Sweden especially in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo).</li><li>How do you like your car being stopped by crime gangs asking to see your ID card like what is going on in Sweden? (In Sweden, <a href="https://themalaysianreserve.com/2020/09/24/criminal-clans-challenge-swedens-law-enforcement/">criminal clans are exercising their own form of justice</a>).</li><li>How do you like being forced into prostitution by the Nigerian mafia like what is happening in Italy? (<a href="https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/06/world-not-ready-for-240-million-migrants-if-nigeria-implodes-un-warns/">If Nigeria implodes, there would be another 240 million migrants</a>).</li></ol></div><div style="text-align: left;">These questions may sound scary but they have become reality in European countries that have become migrant hotspots. Orban may be right, "the EU's migration policy failed." The good news for Hungarians is: "Hungary will not become a target destination for immigrants, we will not allow it, at least as long as I am prime minister and as long as this government is in power" (Viktor Orban). Hungarians can therefore be assured that these things would never happen to them because their Prime Minister is Viktor Orban. "For us migration is not a solution but a problem, not medicine but a poison, we don't need it and won't swallow it," he said. Orban is a man of great wisdom who strongly believes that the solution to the European migrant crisis is not to distribute the illegals throughout Europe and he has done a great favor not only to Hungary but also to Europe by not taking in migrants. If not because of his anti-immigrant battles, it would not take long for Hungarians to become the minority in their own country and the European migrant crisis would deteriorate even further. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">During the European migrant crisis in 2015, Hungary, thronged by migrants, received 174,000 asylum applications. The locals complained about robberies and felt unsafe. Since millions of migrants were trying to force their way into the country, Hungary could easily be overwhelmed by them if Orban were to open the country's borders wide and welcome them. But Orban said, "All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve." Instead of welcoming them with banners, Orban built a 110-mile-long fence along its southern border with Serbia to keep out the soaring numbers of migrants and pushed them back to Serbia. He also built a second fence along the country's border with Croatia. Despite sharp criticisms from abroad, Orban had insisted that it was necessary to halt migrants who kept coming uncontrollably and his decision had not only saved Hungary but also helped to reduce the number of migrants pouring into Europe. "We should not look at economic immigration as if it had any use, because it only brings trouble and threats to European people. Therefore, immigration must be stopped" (Viktor Orban). It should be noted that the majority of illegals are only looking for a better life in the more affluent countries in Europe and do not deserve protection. Taking them in would only mean trouble and disaster. As what Donald Trump says:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>You look at the migration, it's young, strong men. There are so few women and there are so few children. We're taking in people we have no idea who they are. They have no identification. They have no papers. This could be the great Trojan horse of all time.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion" (Viktor Orban). Strong, aggressive, military age men with smart haircuts and smart phones marching into Europe like an army to claim benefits and we have no idea who they are - don't you think that there is something fishy about this kind of migration? If they are rich enough to pay a fortune to the smugglers to smuggle them into Europe, how could they call themselves refugees? Genuine refugees are stuck in the camps. They are suffering from malnutrition and are very skinny with thin, demineralized bones. But those sneaking into Europe show no signs of hunger and malnutrition - they are very strong and full of energy. Yes, we really have to agree with Donald Trump - they could be the modern day Trojan horse and their behaviors have betrayed them. On 16 September 2015, a group of aggressive migrants at the Hungary-Serbia border threw rocks and water bottles towards the Hungarian police shouting "Open the gate, open the gate." Frustrated with the new fence that prevented them from crossing the border, they surged forward and tore away a section of the fence. The police fired tear gas and water cannon to force them back but they kept surging forward again and again attempting to break through the gate. 20 police officers were injured during the riots. Thus one can see that these strong, energetic, young men were actually behaving like hooligans when they destroyed the border fence to cross from Serbia into Hungary and ought to be stopped from doing further damage to the country. Hungary should not tolerate this kind of thuggish behavior. "Considering that we are facing a rebellion by illegal migrants, police have done their job in a remarkable way, without using force. They have seized railways stations, refused to give fingerprints, failed to cooperate, and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care." (Viktor Orban). So, the migrants are not as innocent as the media portrayed them to be. Genuine refugees would feel thankful if they are given food, water, accommodation and medical care. However, fake refugees have other plans in mind and they want more than that. What is their motive? The Hungarian police should be lauded for firing tear gas and water cannon to force them back because there was no other way to stop them from rioting. Every country has the right to defend its borders. If these aggressive migrants did the same thing in North Korea, they would have been shot. Applying the "castle doctrine", a person has the right to defend oneself against intruders and it is lawful to shoot intruders who enter someone's property uninvited. Hungary has been very kind to the migrants for not shooting them even though they attempted to enter the country unlawfully and forcibly, damaged the fence, and injured 20 police officers. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"This is our homeland, our life, and since we don't have another one, we will fight for it until the very end and we will never give it up" (Viktor Orban). Taking in millions of migrants into a small country with a population of less than 10 million is madness. Since the migrants are so rough and violent, the lives of Hungarians would be in danger if they are allowed to cross the border into Hungary. What would be the fate of Hungarians if the Hungarian government has taken in millions of migrants and is still taking in hundreds of them each day? Since European migrants are so domineering and always want things to go their way, Hungarians would have to integrate into their society and embrace their <i>rape & stab culture</i>, <i>mafia clans</i>, <i>shootings</i>, <i>hand grenade attacks</i>, <i>bombings </i>and <i>no-go zones</i> just like what is going on in many European countries. And they would not be allowed to tell the truth about migrants because they would be accused of racism. As Hungary is small in size and its population is declining, it won't take too long before it is overpopulated with migrants once they start breeding in the country. Since migrants have the right to family reunions, taking in one million would mean that another few millions would be added to their numbers. With <a href="https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2940971/syrian-refugees-face-ramadan-penury-amid-lebanons-economic-ruin">eleven children per wife</a>, it would just take one or two decades for the migrants to outnumber the Hungarians. Orban can foresee the consequences that many choose to ignore and that is why he has become the savior of Hungary. Throughout the years, he has been doing a tough job stopping the influx of migrants and defending the country's borders amidst severe criticisms to save Hungarians from becoming extinct. Perhaps, Hungarians should cooperate with him and do their part to save their country by having more babies. If Orban can have five children, they can also do the same.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Those who do not halt mass migration are lost: slowly but surely they are consumed" (Viktor Orban). Although the first fence has managed to reduce the number of arrivals to a trickle, Orban would not take any chances. To further secure the country's borders, he has built a one billion euros, 100 miles high-tech fence, that could deliver electric shocks to migrants attempting to sneak into the country along Hungary's southern border with Serbia. The fence is frequently patrolled by soldiers, dogs and 3000 border police officers. Armed with heat sensors, thermal cameras and loudspeakers blasting in several languages warning migrants not to cross illegally, this fence has successfully prevented hundreds of illegals from crossing the border every day. Hungary used to be the main migrant route from the Middle East to Western Europe before Orban started to build fences along the country's borders. Given the fact that the migrant exodus is unstoppable and thousands are still attempting to cross the European borders every day, this fence is a neccessity and has played a very important role in reducing the number of migrants entering Hungary and passing through the country into Austria and Germany thus protecting the European way of life. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-centraleurope-idUSKBN20R1H0">Hungary will defend EU against migrant wave, Orban says</a>. Why is Orban taking so much trouble to defend Europe against migrants? "All of a sudden we will see that we are in the minority in our own continent," Orban had said. What does he mean? "We want Europe to be preserved for the Europeans"(Viktor Orban). That is why Europe needs him. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless" (Viktor Orban). Orban believes that migration is not a human right and he would never accept groups of aliens forcing their way into his beloved country. Most of all, he has clearly proven that Hungary is doing very well without <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">migrants and their crimes</a> and that the European countries would also do well if they follow Hungary's example. "Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future" (Viktor Orban). Yes, Hungary has a bright future without migrant rapes, stabbings, shootings, bombings, mafia clans and no-go zones. The good news is, in Hungary, one does not have to worry about being threatened or attacked by aggressive third world aliens. Europe certainly needs more leaders like Orban - without him, the migrant exodus would be much worse than what it is today. Keep up the good work, Orban! Those who love Europe are with you.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Migration is not a bad thing if migrants can integrate and respect the culture and values of their host countries and they are small in number. However, it would be a disaster for any country to be flooded with millions of domineering, military age, aggressive male migrants from third world countries who are living on welfare benefits, cannot integrate and are busy committing crimes. Under such circumstances, it is the host country that would have to integrate and embrace their culture and values. That was why Trump said that <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-trump-green-cards-20190813-mp2pfpdtevc25j24qft7enasoi-story.html">he wanted more immigrants from places like Norway</a> and not from "s---hole" countries. Perhaps it's time for Europe to reconsider its migration policies and take in migrants who can enrich the European countries and willingly respect and accept the European way of life. When in Rome, do as the Romans do - that should be the way. What about those who cannot embrace the European way of life and are busy turning the European countries into third world crime dens? "We must set up large refugee camps outside the EU with armed security and financial support provided by the Union" (Viktor Orban). What a good idea, Orban. An even better idea is - "Don't let them in, and those who are in, send home" (Viktor Orban). That's the perfect solution to the European migrant crisis.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>. 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You can visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pembrokeshirepatriots">Pembrokeshire Patriot's Facebook</a> to get the latest news on illegal immigration in the UK. Let's support the patriots.</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Recently, I read and article entitled <i>Black lives matter, 'even the ones drowning in the Mediterranean' </i>which begins with this sentence, "<i>Europe's anti-migrant stance resulted in the deaths of thousands trying to flee persecution and conflict, analysts say." </i>Is Europe really anti-migrant? Who is responsible for migrant deaths at sea? If migrant lives matter, what about white lives, even the ones being raped, stabbed and murdered by migrants? These are discussed below.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Since the European migrant crisis in 2015, millions of migrants from MENA (Middle East & North Africa) and South Asia (Bangladesh and Pakistan) have been crossing the European borders illegally because they are looking for a better life in Europe. Most of them are strong, healthy, military-aged males with smart haircuts and mobile phones who are wealthy enough to pay a fortune to people smugglers to smuggle them into Europe. Are they really fleeing persecution and conflict? Well, they look more like holidaymakers and that is why it is nothing surprising if these aggressive males turn into rapefugees while holidaying free-of-charge in Europe. Fortunately for them, Europe loves migrants and has put in a lot of effort to make life comfortable for them in their host countries. One cannot deny the fact that migrants who make it to the European countries are sometimes given better treatment than the European citizens themselves. For instance, in Germany, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/german-court-evicts-elderly-couple-from-home-to-accommodate-refugees">a 76-year-old man and his 73-year-old wife were evicted from their home to accommodate refugees</a>. In the UK, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2379478/Revealed-How-500-000-immigrants-given-social-housing-decade-number-families-waiting-list-hits-record-high.html">500,000 migrants have been given social housing as number of families on waiting list hits record high</a>. Even Somali asylum seekers, Abdi, his wife and seven children, who are totally dependent on state benefits, were given a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1293730/Somali-asylum-seeker-family-given-2m-house--complaining-5-bed-London-home-poor-area.html">£2.1 million luxury townhouse</a> because they did not like to live in a 'poor' part of London. While <a href="https://foxhole.news/2021/06/18/home-office-slammed-for-offering-new-homes-to-refugees-as-veterans-sleep-rough/">refugees are offered new homes</a> in the UK, <a href="https://www.wlm.org.uk/News/hundreds-of-armed-forces-veterans-left-homeless-and-living-on-our-streets?gclid=CjwKCAjwzruGBhBAEiwAUqMR8HchnNbE9k3la1iovVYcnmxCc53-9_4ga5F6MNdNlZVAe-SXB79wdRoC5UoQAvD_BwE">armed forces veterans are living on the streets</a>. The UK government is currently <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/15/refugee-week-uk-celebrates-taking-more-refugees-migrant-crisis-rages/">actively resettling refugees</a> and through their Resettlement Scheme, asylum seekers have been offered new homes and job opportunities in the UK. Migrants can be assured of a warm welcome when they arrive in the UK illegally. Once they arrive at the ports, there are coaches taking them to 4-star hotels where they can stay free, eat free and are given pocket money. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/18/home-office-spending-millions-putting-migrants-hotels-surge/">The Home Office is spending tens of millions of pounds putting up migrants in hotels</a>. How many UK citizens have actually been given the privilege to stay free and eat free in 4-star hotels? Migrants are very picky nowadays and they only want to stay in 4-star hotels. If they are not happy with the free wifi and free meals in the hotels, they would go on a <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/26/sky-news-desperate-migrants-in-glasgow-stabbing-hotel-unhappy-with-limited-wifi-poor-food/">stabbing rampage</a>. If they are housed in army barracks, they would be given legal aid to sue their host country for damages because the army barracks are only good enough for the army, not for them. Those accommodated at Napier Barracks even threatened to riot if they did not get what they wanted. According to the Home Office, the migrants became <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9202257/Fire-breaks-Napier-Barracks-temporary-home-hundreds-migrants.html">"aggressive, turned violent and began to set about destroying the barracks"</a>. Arson is not a bad thing after all as they would be given compensation for being accommodated at the barracks. Similarly, in Greece, Afghan asylum-seekers <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-13/afghan-asylum-seekers-jailed-in-greece-over-moria-camp-fire/100211672">deliberately set fire</a> to the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos to force their resettlement to the Greek mainland. True enough, <a href="https://www.trtworld.com/europe/germany-considering-taking-in-more-migrants-after-moria-camp-fire-39742">Germany was willing to welcome more migrants after Moria camp fire</a>. The moral of the migrant arson stories is - if you don't like your accommodation, just burn it down because you will be compensated, transferred to 4-star hotels and granted asylum status. If Europe is really anti-migrant, then it would not be overwhelmed by migrants who are behaving like spoiled brats and let them have their way. Think of it! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As of 2019, there were 1,146,682 refugees in Germany, 409,915 refugees in France, 253,787 refugees in Sweden and 61,662 refugees in Belgium. 530,000 migrants have arrived on Italy's coasts since 2015. In 2020 alone, 34,154 migrants arrived on the Italian coasts. From January to June 2021, 15,000 migrants have landed in Italy. On 10 May 2021, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/10/more-than-2000-migrants-arrive-on-italian-island-lampedusa-in-24-hours#:~:text=More%20than%202%2C000%20people%20have,Italian%20island%20to%20its%20limit.">more than 2000 migrants arrived on Lampedusa in 24 hours</a>. Italy is currently struggling to cope with the great influx of migrants. Similarly, an increasing number of migrants are arriving in Spain. In 2020 alone, 37,839 migrants arrived in the Spanish archipelago. In January 2021, more than 3200 migrants entered the Spanish territory. Like Italy, Spain is also struggling to cope with the great influx of migrants. Likewise, in Greece, migrants keep arriving by sea on the Greek islands. As of March 2021, there were 15,000 migrants on the Aegean islands but this number is likely to increase rapidly in the near future as more and more migrants are arriving each day. These are only the numbers registered with the UNHCR. Since rejected asylum seekers are not deported, the numbers are likely to be much higher. Given the great number of asylum seekers in Europe, is it fair to say that Europe is anti-immigration? Can anyone imagine what would happen if millions of Whites were to seek asylum in the Middle East, North Africa, Bangladesh and Pakistan? Would they be treated in the way they are treating migrants from these countries? Would these countries let the Whites stay free and eat free in 4-star hotels, provide free housing for them and give them money and lots of other generous benefits? Can the Whites turn these countries into no-go zones?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHm9cjtUOowWzxvwCLCjs8ZGwqGLmtVkIIAsQjySk30hKi7Gk4N2DpaVusTRpLrHsowCyjFTEzxNnxXEEhbNQW9JjrPRSTUQ4ZFK6JMU91ZTD9h7zVSImjKXlAS2O1sD5367V5XN95FA/s499/Dover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="499" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHm9cjtUOowWzxvwCLCjs8ZGwqGLmtVkIIAsQjySk30hKi7Gk4N2DpaVusTRpLrHsowCyjFTEzxNnxXEEhbNQW9JjrPRSTUQ4ZFK6JMU91ZTD9h7zVSImjKXlAS2O1sD5367V5XN95FA/s320/Dover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #800180;">Migrants arriving at Dover. Hundreds of migrants may cross the English Channel in a single day. To stay up-to-date with the latest migrant news, you can also visit</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stevelaws19">Steve Laws' Facebook</a>. <span style="color: #800180;">Do support the patriots.</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The sad truth is - whenever migrants die at sea while trying to reach Europe, Europe is blamed for their deaths even though it has never invited them to take the perilous journeys by sea. But why blame Europe for their deaths when Europe is busy welcoming them? The European politicians and NGOs are particularly helpful when it comes to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9656331/British-boats-NOT-enter-French-waters-pick-Channel-migrants-says-union-chief.html#:~:text=An%20immigration%20union%20chief%20said,controversially%20did%20so%20in%20secret.&text=Priti%20Patel%20has%20ordered%20an,waters%20to%20Dover%20last%20Saturday.">collecting dinghy migrants</a>. In its article dated 19 June 2021, the Daily Mail clearly exposes <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9702259/Exposed-Border-Force-tries-cover-missions-pick-migrants-Channel.html">how Border Force tries to cover up missions to pick up migrants in the Channel</a>. It does not matter whether they are underage or overage minors, real or fake refugees, fugitives or economic migrants. As long as they make it to Europe, they would not only be given a warm welcome by their host countries but also welfare payments, housing benefits and lots of other generous benefits. If they want more money, they can <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/372466-germany-migrant-welfare-fraud/">scam the German aid program by applyng with 'up to 12' fake IDs</a>. In Sweden, <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/police-chief-warns-migrant-mafia-gangs-are-turning-sweden-into-gangster-s-paradise-1.1093049">half of the disability benefit is fraudulently taken by migrant gangs</a>. If they want to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9654525/Sisters-lied-victims-free-three-bedroom-council-house.html">get a free three-bedroom council house</a> even though they have no intention to stay there, they can simply tell some lies and it would be given to them. Migrant mafia clans can also come to Europe <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8818631/Swedish-police-chiefs-plead-resources-migrant-mafia-gangs-terrorise-country.html">'solely for the purpose of organising and systemising crime'</a>. The deputy chief of police of Sweden, Mats Loftving, has identified 40 migrant mafia clans in the country. To say that Europe's anti-immigration stance has resulted in migrants deaths would be a misnomer because migrants make the perilous journeys of their own free will and at their own risk with the European dream in mind. They are deliberately taking advantage of Europe's lax immigration laws, open borders and generous welfare system knowing that once they get into this region, they would be given a VIP welcome and well taken care of. In other words, Europe has become their victim. Therefore, the real culprits responsible for migrant deaths at sea are the migrants themselves, people smugglers who provide them with unseaworthy boats and all those who encourage illegal immigration.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The uncontrolled mass migration of third world aggressive males into Europe is not without its consequences as it has played a major part in the migrant rape crisis, knife crimes, homicide and gang crimes in this region. That is how the situation in Europe has changed after taking in millions of economic migrants and fake refugees following the European migrant crisis in 2015. The actual migrant crime statistics is unknown as it is considered racist to discuss about it. So it seems that while migrants are enjoying their freedom in Europe, the European citizens have lost their right to feel safe and live safely.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/should-large-influx-of-migrants-into-eu.html">Should the exodus of aggressive, military-aged males from third world countries be encouraged</a>? Since German MEP Gunnar Beck has said that "the EU was talking about <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/525690-africans-migration-eu-german/">importing 70 million Africans into Europe by 2035</a>" not too long ago, I would like to share an excerpt from Dr. Albert Schweitzer's 1961 book, <i>My African Notebook </i>(below):</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>"I have given my life to alleviate the sufferings of Africa. There is something that all white men that have lived here must learn and know; that these individuals are a sub-race; they have neither the intellectual, mental or emotional abilities to equate or share in any of the functions of our civilization. I have given my life to try and bring them the advantages which our civilization must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status; white, the superior, and they the inferior, for whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equal, they will either destroy him or devour him, and they will destroy all his work; and so for any existng relationship or for any benefit to this people let white men from anywhere in the world who would come to help Africa remember that you must continually retain the status; you the master, and they inferior, like children that you would help or teach. Never fraternize with them as equals, never accept them as your social equals; or they will devour you; they will destroy you."</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">How right Dr. Schweitzer is! His advice not only applies to Africans but to migrants from MENA and South Asia as well. It is an obvious fact that when these third world citizens are invited to stay in Europe among European citizens, they start raping, stabbing, killing, and building up no-go zones. Instead of being grateful to their host countries for giving them so many generous benefits, they commit welfare fraud scams to obtain more money and properties. European citizens should therefore retain their status as the master instead of fraternizng with them to protect themselves from crime. Instead of taking in migrants from third world countries and treating them like VIPs, Europe ought to deport them and not welcome them. Most of all, never give them citizenship. Sending missionaries like Dr. Schweitzer to third world countries to help them is certainly a much better investment than taking in migrants from these alien cultures who cannot integrate. Better help them in their own countries so that they cannot devour or destroy Europe. If they can be helped, then it is ok to help them. But, if they cannot be helped and threaten to go on a stabbing spree or a raping spree, at least the Whites would not become their victims. Let them rape and stab their own people in their homeland. If they want to turn their countries of origin into no-go zones, just leave them alone if that is what they want. If worse comes to worst, the missionaries can leave the third world countries and return home. However, the situation is different if the European countries are overwhelmed by migrants and turned into no-go zones as an army is needed to evict them given their great numbers. When this happens, there would be civil war and bloodshed. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Kindness is a virtue and there is nothing wrong following the teachings of the Bible. However, kindness also has its limitations because overdoing it is not kindness anymore but stupidity. Matthew 5:39 cannot apply to migrants. When a migrant rapes a 5-year-old girl, do not offer him another one. When a migrant stabs a 15-year-old boy, do not offer him another one. Looking at the recent rape and stabbing cases makes me weep for Europe. Is this the kind of culture that the European citizens want? How many of them are fearing for their lives because their countries are no longer safe? Worrying about being raped, stabbed, attacked or murdered and taking special precautions to avoid being <i>devoured or destroyed</i> by migrants every day of their lives can be very stressful. Why should they endure this kind of life when their countries used to be safe and, once upon a time, they could move around freely without being attacked by aliens? Sweden, for instance, <a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-05-30-sweden-safest-countries-europe-most-dangerous.html">goes from being one of the safest countries in Europe to the second most dangerous</a>. According to a Swedish police chief, <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/police-chief-warns-migrant-mafia-gangs-are-turning-sweden-into-gangster-s-paradise-1.1093049">migrant mafia gangs are turning Sweden into a 'gangster's paradise'</a>. In Italy, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-foreign-mafia-has-come-to-italy-and-further-polarized-the-migration-debate/2019/06/25/377cf978-8235-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html">the Nigerian mafia holds territory in the country from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo</a>. The foreign crime group members are busy smuggling drugs and trafficking women forcing them into prostitution on the streets of Italy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Europe is currently being <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">overwhelmed by a wave of migrant rapes</a> but these cases are often under reported and the rapefugees are often treated leniently to avoid being accused of racism. A recent study shows that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6095121/Eight-10-stranger-rapes-Sweden-carried-migrants-study-reveals.html">eight out of 10 stranger rapes in Sweden are carried out by migrants</a>. According to Nigel Farage, <a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nigel-farage/nigel-farage-malmo-sweden-rape-capital-of-europe/">'Malmo is now the rape capital of Europe'</a>. Even the Pakistanis, who dare not rape so much in Malaysia, are going on a raping spree in Europe because the migrant rape culture is so rampant in this region. <a href="https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/number-of-sexual-assaults-by-pakistani-origin-men-increases-in-greece/">Concerns rise as men of Pakistani origin found sexually assaulting women in Greece with alarming frequency</a>. It seems that European rapefugees have been busy raping since the European migrant crisis in 2015. Given the fact that European migrants are dominated by aggressive males from third world countries, the rape of white women is inevitable. When it comes to rape, migrants are really desperate, brutal and violent. Perhaps those who sympathize with migrants should also sympathize with their victims as well. How is <a href="https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/teenager-raped-knifepoint-attacker-warned-20769034">Muhebullah Dadwal</a>'s 19-year-old victim going to recover after being kidnapped, assaulted, and raped twice at knifepoint in November 2019? Dadwal, a married man with children, also threatened to kill his victim and punched her when he forced her into his car in February 2020. Similarly, life would never be the same again for the 17-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted and raped by 40-year-old <a href="https://www.staffordshire.police.uk/news/staffordshire/news/2020/december/man-jailed-for-13-years-for-rape-sexual-assault-and-attempted-kidnap/">Naim Mohammed Aziz</a> in the Northwood area of Stoke-on-Trent in April 2018. What would happen to the 69-year-old French woman who was <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/01/illegal-migrants-arrested-robbing-raping-69-year-old-woman/">raped by one of the two Algerian illegal immigrants</a> who broke into her home in Palaiseau, Essonne, in the wee hours of the morning on 21 May 2021? Being raped at 69 - how could she get over that? If you are 90, don't feel safe yet because you can still be raped! In Germany, a 90-year-old woman was <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4319458/Teenage-migrant-raped-strangled-90-year-old-woman.html">dragged into a courtyard and violently raped by a 19-year-old Moroccan migrant</a>. However, young children are certainly better than grannies because they are very 'fresh' so parents should stay alert at all times. What about the <a href="https://www.thelocal.com/20181101/man-admits-sex-attack-on-young-girl-in-malmo/">10-year-old Swedish girl who was raped in Malmo</a> in October 2018 by a 30-year-old migrant from Libya? How could she grow up with this nightmare? All too often, migrant rapes are fatal because the perpetrators are rough and sexually perverted. Many of us would still remember the beautiful 19-year-old <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43498151">Maria Ladenburger</a>? If she were still alive today, she would have become a doctor and happily married with a beautiful baby. But, her whole life has been destroyed by Hussein Khavari, a fake unaccompanied minor from Iran who raped, strangled and drowned her in the river Dreisam on 16 October 2016. And who is going to compensate <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/12/syrian-migrant-arrested-rape-murder-young-french-mother/">Johanna Blanes</a>, a 24-year-old young French mother, who was raped and murdered by a Syrian migrant in July 2019? She would never be able to see her 19-month-old son grow up now and the poor child would have to grow up without his mother. Needless to say, with so many aggressive male migrants going on a raping rampage in Europe, even dead bodies are not safe. At Great Barr funeral home, a 23-year-old Palestinian, Kasim Khuram, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6656991/Burglar-23-broke-funeral-parlour-sex-corpse-jailed-six-years.html">had sex with the corpse of a woman</a> on 11 November 2018. OMG! (Since there are too many migrant rapes in Europe, it is not possible for me to list out all the cases here. To read more about the European migrant rape cases, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">here</a>). Rape is a traumatic experience as it can cause serious harm to the victims and racism is no justification for ignoring the migrant rape culture. It may take a long time to recover or perhaps never as the rape trauma can last a lifetime and continue to haunt the victims forever. Some of the rape victims may not even be alive after being raped. To protect white women from being attacked, assaulted, brutally raped and murdered by aggressive third world males, the best thing to do is to deport these rapefugees instead of sympathizing with them. What is the purpose of granting them protection when they are busy raping in Europe? Through their raping rampage, they are devouring and destroying white women.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">From 2013 to 2016, Germany's reported knife crimes have increased by 600%. <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/germany-police-statistics-show-that-murder-and-manslaughter-are-mostly-committed-by-asylum-seekers">Police statistics show that murder and manslaughter are mostly committed by asylum seekers</a>. Statistics has also shown an average of <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/knife-crime-england-london-hits-record-high-a4342451.html">more than 120 stabbing incidents a day across England and Wales</a>. In London, stabbings are on the rise and the city has become unsafe. With the largest number of migrants among all regions in the UK, London has recorded <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/knife-crime-england-london-hits-record-high-a4342451.html">15,080 knife crimes during the 12 months to end of September 2019</a>. Birmingham is another migrant hotspot. According to locals, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/06/birminghams-knife-problem-the-city-has-become-unsafe">stabbings happen all the time</a> and the city is becoming dangerous but people are used to it - looks like the Birmingham's knife crime problem has become normalised! In Paris, there was an average of <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/nearly-half-of-paris-ghetto-criminals-have-a-migrant-background">120 knife attacks per day</a> between 2015 and 2017 with 44,000 knife crime victims every year. The migrant stabbing culture has at last made its way to Europe. Instead of collecting migrants at sea, why not do something to stop their knife crime problem? The stabbing of 7-year-old <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/08/emily-jones-woman-jailed-for-life-for-killing-seven-year-old-in-bolton">Emily Jones</a> by a 30-year-old Albanian migrant at Queen's Park in Bolton on 22 March 2020 is something that no one can forget. The beautiful smile of this cute little girl can melt hearts. But, where is she now? What about her parents? Their lives would never be the same again. Similarly, Fusilier <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/two-muslim-converts-guilty-killing-uk-soldier-lee-rigby-london-flna2d11775017">Lee Rigby</a>, a British army soldier who was stabbed and hacked to death by two Nigerians, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale on 22 May 2013, would live in our hearts forever. If he were still alive today, he would have been very successful in his career and happily married with a few children and his mother would be very proud of him. May he rest in peace. Our thoughts also go out to the female police employee who was <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56862436">stabbed to death at a police station</a> by a Tunisian assailant in Rambouillet, south-west of Paris, on 23 April 2021? Her two daughters, aged 8 and 13, would have to grow up without their mother now. How sad! Sweden's <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56272565">Vetlanda stabbing attack</a>, Germany's <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5544017/Woman-24-stabbed-Syrian-refugee-Germany.html">2018 Burgwedel stabbing</a>, the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45382557">2018 Amsterdam stabbing attack</a> at the central railway station, the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-trial-chemnitz-idUSKCN1VC1QT">fatal stabbing of Daniel Hillig</a> in Chemnitz, Germany, the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38878443">Russell Square stabbings</a> in London, the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-stabbing-idUSKCN1AZ00G">2017 Turku attack</a> in Finland, the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-55622476">Reading stabbings</a> carried out by Khairi Saadallah, the <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/brussels-police-shoot-wound-knife-wielding-assailant/">knife attack incident in Brussels</a>... the list is unending (To read more about migrants and their crime stories, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">here</a>). Why are there so many stabbings targeting the Whites in Europe? To devour and destroy? Better listen to Dr. Albert Schweitzer's advice!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">White lives also matter. Instead of busy collecting migrants at sea and providing them with everything to make them comfortable in Europe, European politicians should defend the Whites as they are actually the ones being bullied by third world aliens. It should be noted that migrants are no longer the weaker race as they are smarter than many European politicians and no one dares to bully them now because they know that they have been given too many rights. In fact, many European citizens are afraid of them because they can turn out to be very hostile, cruel, and domineering. Migrant rapes, stabbings, murders and no-go zones are rampant in Europe and these clearly show that they have become the stronger race and cannot be bullied. The Whites, who are suffering in silence, are the actual victims of the European migrant exodus and should be protected from being devoured and destroyed by third world citizens. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Hungary Foreign Minister, Peter Szijjarto is right, "migration is not a fundamental human right." Every country has the right and responsibility to defend and protect its own borders. Truly, Hungary has proven that it is possible to stop migration by securing the country's borders with an impenetrable <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-hungary-fence-idUSKBN1692MH">high-tech border fence</a> that will deliver electric shocks to migrants. Although the border fence cost 1 billion euros, it is certainly much cheaper than supporting millions of migrants. In reality, Europe can still help migrants without taking them in. Why not follow Denmark's example of processing asylum claims and relocating asylum seekers outside Europe, preferably Africa, so that they cannot do anymore harm to the European citizens? There is no need to worry about their welfare and safety in Africa because they would smuggle themselves to the US or Canada if they don't like to stay in Africa. Since the majority of them don't deserve protection, it is unfair to say that such practices are irresponsible and lacking in solidarity. This is certainly Europe's best investment as it would stop migrants from taking advantage of Europe's generous welfare system and undermining the rights of the European citizens. Europe should not embrace the migrant R<i>ape & Stab</i> culture and their <i>no-go zones </i>as these would<i> </i>only put the lives of European citizens at risk and deprive them of their right to live in freedom and safety. Apart from deportations and pushbacks, sending migrants to Africa is the best solution to the European migrant crisis. Most of all, this would help to discourage them from risking their lives on dangerous routes so that Europe need not be blamed for migrant deaths anymore.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>. 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Wilson</span></span></span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">When I was writing my Ph.D. thesis, I came across James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling's </span></span></span></span><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Broken Windows Theory</span></span></span></span></i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> which was published in </span></span></span></span><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The Atlantic Monthly </span></span></span></span></i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">in 1982 and since my research focused on youth crime, this topic was included in my literature review. I find this theory very important because it clearly portrays the relationship between disorder / incivility and serious criminal offences within a community. The title of Wilson and Kelling's article, </span></span></span></span><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Broken Windows</span></span></span></span></i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">, is derived from the following example in the article itself:</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">A piece of property is abandoned, weeds grow up, a window is smashed. Adults stop scolding rowdy children; the children emboldened, become more rowdy. Families move out, unattached adults move in. Teenagers gather in front of the corner store. The merchant asks them to move, they refuse. Fights occur. Litter accumulates. People start drinking in front of the grocery; in time, an inebriate slumps to the sidewalk, and is allowed to sleep it off. Pedestrians are approached by panhandlers.</span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">What is Wilson and Kelling's message? A properly maintained property sends the signal that it is monitored and would not tolerate criminal behavior. If one of its windows is smashed and the property is not maintained, criminal behavior sets in because the perpetrators know that it is not monitored. This is the basis of Wilson and Kelling's </span></span></span></span><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Broken Windows Theory </span></span></span></span></i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">which explains the situation in Europe's crime-stricken no-go zones very precisely. Let me explain it more clearly:</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Boats packed with illegal immigrants arrive at the port every day. They are given a warm welcome by their host country and put up in 4-star hotels and later granted asylum status. With this VIP status, they are given free housing, welfare payments and lots of generous benefits. These freeloaders do not have to work because the taxpayers are supporting them. They spend their time loitering aimlessly in the neighborhood with other asylum seekers and illegals. Some of them gather in front of the train station, drag their victims to the wooded area nearby, and rape them repeatedly. The locals ask them to move, they refuse. Some of them would go on a stabbing spree whenever they feel like it. There is an average of 120 knife attacks per day. They become increasingly involved in pick pocketing, burglaries, violent robberies, open drug sale and gun toting. Gang fights occur. Murder, shootings, stabbings and rape become every day occurrences. The locals fear for their lives; the migrants emboldened. Families move out only to be replaced by more asylum seekers and illegals. Migrant gangs take over the role of the police. Buses are diverted from the crime-stricken migrant zone over violent threats after being repeatedly pelted with stones. The police and firemen refrain from entering this so called no-go zone.</span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">It is an obvious fact that signs of social disorder (drug trafficking, unemployment, loitering, intoxication, violence, rape and murder) and physical disorder (broken windows, uncollected garbage, graffiti and abandoned houses) can undermine social control and attract more serious disorders and criminal activities. When lawlessness is rampant within a community, law-abiding citizens who cannot accept crime and deviance as the normal way of life would move out only to be replaced by more antisocial and uncivilized people. Once the law-abiding citizens have been replaced by uncivilized people, the community concerned would turn into a den of vice, and, if left unchecked, would cause a lot of damage to society. Therefore, the best solution is to get rid of the den of vice when the uncivilized people in it can still be controlled. Once they have have taken control of the crime dens and cannot be evicted, it would be too late. What would happen to countries with lots of no-go zones? Would these countries turn into third world crime dens one day?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Migrant crime zones are rampant in Europe as a result of the European migrant crisis in 2015 followed by the mass exodus of millions of migrants to the region every year, and, if unchecked, would turn into no-go zones, areas where no rules apply. In Paris ghettos, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/nearly-half-of-paris-ghetto-criminals-have-a-migrant-background"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">the young migrants are increasingly involved in pick pocketing, burglaries, violent robberies and knife attacks</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">. Between 2015 and 2017, there was an average of 120 knife attacks per day. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hungary-no-go-zone-government-anti-migrant-pamphlet-london-orban-jobbik-european-union-migrant-quota-a7319856.html"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Hungary claims London is overrun by migrants and a 'no-go zone'</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">. In the no-go zones dominated by migrants, it is nothing surprising if non-residents, police, and even firemen are barred from entry. In Sweden, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/migrant-gangs-are-taking-over-the-role-of-the-police-in-sweden-s-gothenburg-polish-government-says-it-warned-of-such-a-scenario"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">migrant gangs are taking over the role of the police in Gothenburg</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">. According to the Swedish daily newspaper, Aftonbladet, "Murders, shootings and knife attacks are every day occurrences in Gothenburg for the past two years." </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>In the southern Swedish city of Malmo, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2017/09/09/swedish-firemen-let-building-burn-attacked-no-go-zone/">firefighters were forced to let a building burn to the ground</a> after glass bottles were thrown at them and the police. <span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In the capital of Sweden, criminal gangs in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta had </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010191080813570-demonstration-of-power-criminal-gangs-impose-curfew-on-inhabitants-of-swedish-no-go-zone/"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">imposed 'curfew' on inhabitants of Swedish No-Go Zone</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> and threatened them with weapons to force them to stay indoor after 6 pm. There are also increasing numbers of rapes in the district. Out of its 19,000 inhabitants, 88% of them have a foreign background. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/401512-sweden-vulnerable-no-go-zones/"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Open drug sale and gun toting</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> are not uncommon among migrant youth gangs in Swedish no-go zones. As migrant mafia gangs are terrorising Sweden, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/police-chief-warns-migrant-mafia-gangs-are-turning-sweden-into-gangster-s-paradise-1.1093049"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">they are turning the country into a 'gangster's paradise'</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">. It seems that Belgium is not any better than Sweden. In the Molenbeek district of Belgium, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/belgium-buses-diverted-from-brussels-migrant-quarter-over-violence-threat"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">buses are diverted from Brussels migrant quarter over violence threat</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> because they have been repeatedly pelted with stones. Molenbeek is known for its large concentration of migrants. The question is - How can Europe get rid of these crime zones? Perhaps, this is something that Europe has to learn from Malaysia.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzDOpsgvPtBXlq7T2vmW-f6d8XBe44P91llalfjhf-ktimK87U2C9sK9YLarG8HPE2gLjr6Mg1ftUVkeIHlFWV1V0j02eq6b-41DuIqEz0Gpkpcnnbvi8FZo5oQYTPTPIsosbyk0GQoRQ/s956/PATI.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="956" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzDOpsgvPtBXlq7T2vmW-f6d8XBe44P91llalfjhf-ktimK87U2C9sK9YLarG8HPE2gLjr6Mg1ftUVkeIHlFWV1V0j02eq6b-41DuIqEz0Gpkpcnnbvi8FZo5oQYTPTPIsosbyk0GQoRQ/s320/PATI.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">When illegals arrive either by land or sea, there is no need to send them to 4-star hotels. Make them hold their numbers in their hands, snap a photo to remember the moment, and send them to immigration detention centers to be deported (Photo source: Sel Perhubungan Raya, Divisyen Ketiga Infantri Malaysia).</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">I do not know whether the immigration officers in Malaysia have read about Wilson and Kelling's </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Broken Windows Theory</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> but the way they are dealing with the <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/05/should-illegal-entry-of-rohingyas-into.html">Rohingya refugees</a> clearly shows that they are really smart people. Or perhaps it isn't necessary for them to have knowledge of this theory at all since it is pure common sense that if the Rohingya refugees were allowed to dominate Selayang wholesale market and its surrounding areas unchecked, sooner or later, they would take control of this town if we give in to their wishes and treat them like VIPs. For years, the Rohingya refugees have taken over the stalls in the Selayang wholesale market thanks to the irresponsible local traders who rented / sold their stalls to them. Given the heavy population of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, especially in Selayang, they started to demand for their rights last year. They also asked the Malaysian Government to give them Selayang (a town in Gombak district, Selangor).Well, that was really too much. But, unlike Sweden and Belgium, Malaysia would not allow refugees or illegals to take control of any part of the country. The good news is - the Rohingya refugees have been banned from entering Selayang market and therefore cannot continue with their business. Since Selayang market is their stronghold, it seems that they have lost their main source of income. Refugees are illegal immigrants in this country and are not allowed to start a business. If they want to work, they must have a work permit. To date, they are not only barred from Selayang market but also from Pudu market as well as Seri Kembangan market, thus stopping them from doing the kind of business that they can do really well. Since the immigration officers, police and armed forces are busy rounding up the illegals day and night and detaining those without documents, many Rohingyas are in hot soup. Unlike Europe, we don't send the illegals to 4-star hotels and give them welfare benefits and citizenship irrespective of the number of years they have been residing in the country. Refugees are refugees and neither they nor their children born in this country can become our citizens. The same applies to illegals from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines. They are sent to immigration detention centers where there is no VIP treatment and will be deported to their countires of origin whether they like it or not. This clearly explains why there isn't any no-go zones in Malaysia. No-Go zones are dangerous to the country because, who knows, the asylum seekers and illegals may be training their own army in these forbidden areas. Have you heard of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA)? On 25 August 2017, the ARSA attacked 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine state, triggering a military counter-attack which resulted in more than a million Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh. Thus even the most persecuted minority in the world have their own army. In actual fact, the Rohingyas are not as innocent as the media portrays them. Do you know how they gang raped and murdered a Rakhine woman? Do you know that they have <a href="https://sputniknews.com/asia/201709041057062369-myanmar-islamist-insurgents/">burned down a monastery, a school and 37 houses in Nantthataung village</a>? Do you know that they have <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-idUSKCN1IN2DR">killed 99 Hindus near a remote village named Kha Maung Seik</a>? The moral of the Rohingya story is - never let the illegals take control of any part of the country because their motive is unknown. Weaken their fortress, don't treat them like VIPs and never give in to their wishes so that they remember who they are. Most of all, there is no need to give them free housing, welfare benefits and other generous benefits. There's no such thing as a free lunch (Milton Friedman). They should work hard and take responsibility for their lives. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Well, I really hope that Europe would learn something from the Rohingya story above. Perhaps its time for Sweden to do something to stop migrants from murdering, shooting, stabbing and raping its own citizens. Why allow migrant gangs to take over the role of the police in Gothenburg? Why allow them to harass and threaten its own citizens? Similarly, Belgium should crack down on migrant crime gangs and regain control of the no-go zones instead of avoiding these areas. Why are buses diverted from Brussels migrant quarter over violent threat? Why are the police, firemen and members of the public keeping away from these places? If the police and firemen are not allowed to enter the no-go zones, then there must be something terribly wrong going on inside these zones. What the European countries ought to be worrying about is, as what Donald Trump says:</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">You look at the migration, it's young, strong men. There are so few women and there are so few children. We're taking in people we have no idea who they are. They have no identification. They have no papers. They're making up papers. This could be the great Trojan horse of all time.</span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">How many million strong, young men from third world countries have entered Europe illegally and vanished into thin air? Where are they now? How many million rejected asylum seekers are there and where are they now? Since they are not deported, they can be anywhere. According to V4 Report, 75% of missing illegals in Northern Italy are under 18. Irrespective of whether they are real minors or fake minors, these are military age men who can pose a real threat to the European countries. What is going on in the no-go zones? Are these military age men hiding there? What is their motive? Planning an attack? Whatever the situation may be, it is dangerous not to know what is going in the migrant dominated no-go zones and the best solution is to get rid of these forbidden areas. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Applying </span></span></span></span><i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The Broken Windows Theory</span></span></span></span></i><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">, the migrant crime problems should be addressed when they are small. It is time for Europe to </span></span></span></span>fix its broken windows and stop vandalism before it's too late. How can Europe solve its migrant crisis and get rid of its migrant crime zones? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Step up pushbacks. Turn migrant boats away. Don't take them in just because they purposely damage their boats. Repair the boats and send them away. </span></span></span></span>If they damage the boats beyond repair, give them another boat and say goodbye. Tighten border controls. If they try to sneak across the land borders, the border police should teach them a good lesson so that they dare not go that way again. In the past few months, migrants outside the EU border in Bosnia have invented a new game, namely the "stay game" to cross into the European Union. How is this game played? In the first part of this game, the wives and children cross into Croatia without the fathers. After the women and children have been given refugee status, the men sneak into Croatia and purposely let the police find them so that they can join their families in the Zagreb camp. This is the second part of the game. The Croatian police should therefore come up with a new "pushback game" denying refugee status to all those in the Zagreb migrant camp who enter the country illegally and push them back to Bosnia. Just try it out for a month or two and the migrants in Bosnia would disappear.</li><li><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Punish all those who try to help migrants and sneak them across the borders irrespective of whether they are people smugglers or NGOs because it is a crime to sneak illegals into any country. In Malaysia, people smugglers and local traitors (such as taxi drivers and bus drivers) who bring the illegals into the country and drive them to their destinations are fined and jailed. In countries like India and North Korea, the illegals would be shot.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">There is no need to treat migrants like VIPs. Sending the illegals to 4-star hotels at the expense of the taxpayers is a silly joke because they should be deported immediately. Make them work and pay for their upkeep. Don't give them free lunch. Napier barracks is too good for them. They should live in canvas tents. </span></span></span></span></span></span>In Malaysia, illegals are sent to immigration detention centers when they are caught, not 4-star hotels. There is no wifi in the detention centers and whether they like the food or not, they dare not stab anyone. However, at the 4-stars hotels in the UK, migrants would <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/26/sky-news-desperate-migrants-in-glasgow-stabbing-hotel-unhappy-with-limited-wifi-poor-food/">go on a stabbing spree if they are unhappy with the "limited wifi" and "the quality of food"</a>. </li><li><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Europe may have a generous welfare system but this should not apply to migrants. According to Erik Nord, Gothenburg's chief of police, half of the disability benefit is fraudulently taken by migrant gangs. Migrants are really smart nowadays or is it because their host countries are not smart enough? It is indeed a stupid joke to play on their host countries when they purposely divorce their wives </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/police-chief-warns-migrant-mafia-gangs-are-turning-sweden-into-gangster-s-paradise-1.1093049"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">so that the Government will give them another flat</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> and then reconcile with their ex-wives and rent out the flat</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">. </span></span>But why waste money on migrants knowing that they are busy scamming the welfare system? This clearly shows how gullible Europe is! Better follow Malaysia's example i.e. don't give them a single cent.</li><li>Do not employ illegal foreign workers. The exodus will continue as long as the illegals can easily find employment in Europe. Employers hiring illegals ought to be punished. In Malaysia and Singapore, employers harboring illegal workers would be fined, imprisoned and whipped. The more illegal workers they are harboring, the more serious the offence. </li><li>Never give asylum seekers citizenship. Do you know that <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/saudi-arabia-wants-bangladesh-to-accept-rohingya/a-55187748">Rohingya refugees are not given Saudi citizenship</a> after they have lived in Saudi Arabia for more than 40 years? Even Rohingya children born in Saudi Arabia who can speak fluent Arabic are not given Saudi citizenship. Similarly, in Malaysia, we don't give them and their children citizenship no matter how long they have been living here. </li><li><div><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Deport them forcefully. When it comes to deportation, they have no right to refuse to take a Covid test to avoid being deported. The </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9625035/Asylum-seeker-raped-girl-14-avoids-deportation-Sweden-refusing-Covid-test.html"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">asylum seeker who gang raped girl, 14, and refused to take a Covid test so that he could not be deported from Sweden</span></a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"> is indeed one of the greatest jokes of the century. Malaysia has deported thousands of illegal immigrants since last year and none of them has ever dared to refuse to take a Covid test.</span></div></li><li><div><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Send the police or army to the no-go zones, evict the migrants, reconstruct and restructure these areas to destroy their fortress. In the Rohingya story above, chasing the Rohingyas out of wholesale markets had successfully stopped them from claiming their rights and presence in the country. Knowing that they are not welcome here, they dare not make any more claims.</span></div></li><li><div><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">What about migrants who are already in Europe? Is it really that difficult to get rid of them? Just do what Malaysia is doing - round them up and deport them immediately. If they are living on the streets, there is no need to give them free food, free housing, pocket money and legal aid. Treating them like VIPs would only encourage more illegals to cross the borders. Just send them to the immigration detention centers to wait for deportation. No need to persuade them to leave and offer them money. Remember, they shouldn't be there. </span></div></li><li>What about minors? It doesn't matter whether they are real minors or fake minors. Detain them and deport them together with the other illegals. If a country makes it illegal to deport minors, then it is in hot soup. Sooner or later, it would be overwhelmed by real and fake minors because they know that they cannot be deported. Bringing up children is the responsibility of their countries of origin and not Europe's responsibility. If my neighbors dump their delinquent children into my house, I would chase them out. I would not bring them up to rape me and stab me. Kindness has a limit. Overdoing it is st*pid*ty. So, there is no need for <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/spain-seeks-help-relocate-children-ceuta-migrant-crisis-2021-05-19/">Spain to seek help to relocate children from Ceuta migrant crisis</a>. Just dump them back to Morocco in the same way that Morocco has dumped them on Spain and that's the end of the story. If Morocco has no respect for Spain, Spain does not have to tolerate Morocco's border blackmail. </li><li>Close all the migrant camps in Europe and stop giving asylum status to anyone. Europe is overwhelmed by migrants already. Once they know that they have no place to go and can no longer take advantage of the asylum seeker status, the migrant exodus would stop. </li><li>Transfer all the asylum seekers as well as those who have been given asylum status outside Europe, preferably Africa. The thought of having to live in Africa is enough to drive them away. Paying Africa to take in migrants is certainly a better investment than wasting money in relocating migrants across Europe especially when they are doing so much harm to the European citizens.</li><li>Stop wasting money on legal aid for migrants. They are not European citizens and have no right to waste taxpayers' hard earned money. It does sound ridiculous that migrants are given legal aid to challenge over their 'squalid' accommodation inside the Napier Barracks just because they are used to living free in 4-star hotels and have set fire to the barracks. If the British army can live in the barracks, why can't they? Are migrants more precious than the British army? What waste millions of pounds of taxpayers' money to pay for their legal aid? That's why the illegals in Europe have turned into spoilt brats. Illegals in Malaysia dare not even show their faces for fear of being arrested and deported and they have never complained about the apartments they share with other migrants even though 30 of them are living in cramped conditions in a small apartment. Yes, 30 people sharing one small apartment would mean that they can save a lot of money on rent and they are happy with it!</li></ol></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Europe does not have the obligation to take in migrants. Since migrants are the roots of so many problems and crimes in Europe, stop welcoming them and showering them with generous benefits and </span></span></span></span>the tendency is that migrants are less likely to commit more crimes and cause further damage to the European countries. By removing unwanted people from the streets of Europe, the European citizens will feel safer and have better lives. Most of all, they don't have to worry about being stabbed or raped. Living in fear of being attacked any time can be really stressful. However, if Europe continues to ignore the damage that migrants have done to the region and continues to welcome and support them, this is a clear sign that it has accepted their 'rape & stab' culture, thus sending the message that it is defenseless and vulnerable. This would be followed by even more serious vandalism of the region.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>. You may also like to read:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">EUROPE AND THE MIGRANT RAPE CRISIS</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/justice-for-denmark-other-side-of.html">Justice for Denmark: The Other Side of the Deportation Story</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/matteo-salvini-is-he-hero-or-villain.html">Matteo Salvini: Is he a hero or a villain?</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">Migrants and Crime in Europe in the Twenty-First Century</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/01/migrants-stuck-in-hopeless-situation-at.html">Migrants stuck in hopeless situation at EU border in Bosnia : who is to blame?</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/should-large-influx-of-migrants-into-eu.html">Should the large influx of migrants into the EU countries be encouraged?</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/white-lives-matter-even-ones-being.html">White lives matter, 'even the ones being raped, stabbed and murdered'</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/viktor-orban-hero-of-europe.html">Viktor Orbán: The Hero of Europe</a><br /></li></ul><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-69119961676643524312021-05-14T21:39:00.160+08:002021-07-03T04:04:04.285+08:00Matteo Salvini: Is he a hero or a villain?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAfrlVqf7aDcfY-k7vLuU_07rBGJKPj_QIKK-Qsl_i_Z-RyJ6p2-m3AVYRZ6jJKQsaPpO3Y8PUushSXjWTYKdqKvFsxsVTBxaP8cd19y7AsoPMMwsev26TbfkbJEQWLrSQftZzn3jgVh4/s533/Matteo+Salvini.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="496" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAfrlVqf7aDcfY-k7vLuU_07rBGJKPj_QIKK-Qsl_i_Z-RyJ6p2-m3AVYRZ6jJKQsaPpO3Y8PUushSXjWTYKdqKvFsxsVTBxaP8cd19y7AsoPMMwsev26TbfkbJEQWLrSQftZzn3jgVh4/s320/Matteo+Salvini.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">The defense of the country is a sacred duty of the citizen (Matteo Salvini). Source: Matteo Salvini's Facebook.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy's right-wing League party who opposes illegal immigration into Italy and the EU, is an Italian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Interior Minister from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019. Last month, he has been ordered by a judge in Palermo to stand trial on charges of migrant kidnapping over his decision to prevent 147 migrants to dock in a Sicilian port in 2019 and keeping them at sea for 19 days. The trial date has been set on 15 September 2021 and if found guilty he could face up to 15 years in prison. According to Salvini, every Italian has a sacred duty to defend the country and he was only doing his duty. He also said that his anti-immigration policy was intended to discourage illegals smuggling across the Mediterranean and therefore helped to save lives. During his 14 months as interior minister, Salvini was known as the hero of Europe who prevented migrant boats from landing in Italy in order to stop the large influx of migrants. In a separate case, he stopped 116 Sudanese migrants aboard the Gregoretti ship from disembarking for six days but according to Italian Prosecutor, Andrea Bonomo, that incident "does not amount to kidnapping." If there is no kidnapping in the Gregoretti migrant case, why does he have to stand trial for the Palermo case when these two cases are very similar to each other? Is it a crime to protect the country's borders? How could he kidnap migrants on the rescue ship when they were free to leave? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Before I proceed any further, I would like to share what happened to Malaysia on 16 April 2020 because this incident can teach the EU how to solve its migrant crisis. On that day, Malaysia turned away a boat carrying about 200 <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/05/should-illegal-entry-of-rohingyas-into.html">Rohingya refugees</a> from entering its waters. As expected, the Malaysian Government has been criticized for using the pandemic as an excuse to turn away the Rohingyas. But, never mind what people say as long as we are doing the right thing to protect our country and citizens. For years, the Rohingyas have been entering Malaysia illegally with the help of a syndicate of people smugglers in violation of the country's immigration law. These illegal journeys are not cheap as each of them has to pay RM15,000 to the smugglers to sail to Malaysia. It seems that the Rohingyas are so desperate to come to Malaysia that they could wait for months at the Andaman Sea looking out for an opportunity to enter Malaysia waters and once they get there, they would intentionally damage their boat beyond repair so that they could not be deported. Thus we can see that the people smugglers are really doing a good job and that is why they really deserve to make big bucks. As of July 2020, there are 177,920 Rohingya refugees registered with UNHCR in Malaysia and it is estimated that the undocumented Rohingyas in this country are twice this number. Given the large population of Rohingyas already in Malaysia, I dare not imagine what will happen if more were to come. The good news is - since we turned away their boats last year, they have stopped sailing to Malaysia. The last boat arrrived in Langkawi on 8 June 2020 with 260 Rohingyas and that was nearly a year ago. Rohingya boats that could not find their way into Malaysia waters after waiting for months at sea finally ended up in Indonesia. Even though the Rohingyas tried to smuggle themselves into Malaysia from Indonesia, the tightening of border control in Malaysia has made it almost impossible for them to enter the country. Knowing how difficult it is to get into Malaysia, it seems that the Rohingyas have given up coming to Malaysia. Well done, Malaysia! Let's keep up the good work. Malaysians do not want the entire Cox's Bazar and the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) to move here. Taking in the Rohingyas is no joke with an average of 10 children per family. It is also not uncommon to see Rohingya women in Malaysia giving birth twice a year. Since August 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingyas fled Myanmar and crossed the border into Bangladesh. Three years later, <a href="https://www.savethechildren.net/what-we-do/emergencies/rohingya-crisis#:~:text=OVER%20HALF%20OF%20THE%20700,%E2%80%93%20shootings%2C%20rapes%20and%20abuses.&text=More%20than%20half%20of%20those,been%20born%20in%20the%20camp.">more than 100,000 Rohingya babies have been born</a> in Bangladesh's refugee camp, namely, Cox's Bazar. Given their stateless and uncertain future, they can still afford to make so many babies! That is why we cannot afford to take in anymore Rohingyas.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What is the moral of the <i>Rohingya Story </i>above? What can the EU learn from this story? The European migrant crisis is not a hopeless situation after all because it can easily be solved by turning away the migrant boats. That was exactly what Matteo Salvini did when he was the Interior Minister of Italy. By closing ports to migrants, he was sending them the message that they were not welcome and they would not risk taking the perilous journeys anymore if they were denied entry into the country after several attempts. If Salvini could just prevent boats and rescue ships from bringing migrants to Italy for a few weeks, they would certainly stop targeting Italy and go elsewhere. Migrants are smart people and they can easily smuggle themselves to the US because Biden welcomes them so there is no need to worry about them. Since Lampedusa is Italy's gateway to Europe, stopping the influx of migrants to this Italian island would also mean that Europe is safe from them. However, the contrary is true if there are coaches waiting for them to take them to four-star hotels where they are given free meals, pocket money and later free housing, welfare benefits and other generous benefits and most of all, European citizenship. Since 2015, millions of migrants have entered Europe and thousands are still making the journey every day. With another <a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/1857286/amp">70,000 migrants in Libya preparing to travel to Italy</a> at the moment, Europe is in very serious danger. Those who love Europe can never forget Matteo Salvini's anti-immigration policies and they are still hoping that he would demand the ports to be closed to migrants and smugglers. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Is turning away migrant boats the right thing to do? It is not only the right thing to do but also the best thing to do in order to stop people smuggling and prevent migrant deaths at sea. People smuggling, particularly migrant smuggling, is a criminal conduct and should not be encouraged in any way. Sad to say, as the people smugglers are making billions of dollars each year out of their highly profitable illegal business, the EU is turning into breeding grounds for criminals and crime. Therefore, those who are encouraging illegal border crossings is not only encouraging people smugglers to carry out their illegal business but also contributing to the EU crime trends. Since people smugglers often disregard the safety of migrants and provide them with ill-equipped, unseaworthy and overcrowded boats, their lack of business ethics greatly endangers the lives of their customers. According to Matthew Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Fortify Rights, "Sending an ill-equipped ship of refugees out to sea is unlawful and a death sentence." Who are those sending the ill-equipped ship of refugees out to sea? The people smugglers. But each time migrants die at sea while trying to reach European shores, Europe is criticized for their deaths. Why put the blame on Europe? Europe has never invited them to come to the region. Another question is - who are those giving the green light to people smugglers to proceed with their illegal and unethical business? Needless to say, the people smugglers and all those who encourage illegal immigration are the ones who have contributed largely toward migrant deaths at sea. Just imagine how many lives could be saved by stopping illegal border crossers. When Salvini was Italy's Interior Minister, his hard-line policies had not only successfully deterred migrants and smugglers from making the perilous journeys but also significantly reduced the number of migrant deaths at sea.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The definition of a refugee as someone who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, natural disaster, political oppression or religious persecution does not seem to apply in today's world. Why are millions of young, strong men from North Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Middle East smuggling themselves into Europe every year? How many countries are currently at war? Looks more like they are looking for fun in Europe - the free "holiday rape & stab package" that comes with lots of generous benefits offered by Europe is really irresistible. Who are our modern day refugees? As what the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, says:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>You look at the migration, it's young, strong men. There are so few women and there are so few children. We're taking in people we have no idea who they are. They have no identification. They have no papers. They're making up papers. This could be the great Trojan horse of all time. </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Donald Trump is a man of great wisdom who speaks the truth. Who are these young men and what is their motive? Have you watched videos of young aggressive men with smart hircuts singing happily in a boat and brandishing a knife while on their way to Europe? What are they going to do with the knife in Europe? Have you seen these young aggressive men making an obscene gesture of contempt by pointing their middle finger upward? This obscene hand gesture is equivalent in meaning to "f**k you" and probably helps to explain why there are so many migrant rapes in Europe. Do you know that these young aggressive men have the habit of burning the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/world/europe/afghan-migrants-charged-arson-lesbos.html">camps</a> and <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9204689/Ex-army-barracks-building-stands-destroyed-rioting-migrants-torched-row-conditions.html">army barracks</a> where they live free-of-charge just because they want to be transferred to four-star hotels? And do you know that migrants at a Glasgow hotel started stabbing and wounded multiple people including a police officer just because they were <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/26/sky-news-desperate-migrants-in-glasgow-stabbing-hotel-unhappy-with-limited-wifi-poor-food/">unhappy with the limited wifi and the quality of food</a>? Has it ever occurred to you that these aggressive males are going on a <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">crime spree</a>, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">raping spree</a> and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-hamburg-idUSKBN1AD1UE">stabbing spree</a> in Europe? These are our modern day refugees. It's really scary to watch videos about these aggressive young men racing through the heart of Europe like an army with their hooligan behavior. What would happen to the EU countries that are overpopulated with them? How is the EU going to accommodate all of them and cope with so many of them? Does Europe have to take in everyone who crosses its borders and provide them with free housing, welfare payments and other generous benefits? Thousands are crossing the European borders each day and it looks like this migrant exodus would never end until Europe is packed with them. Since the European migrants come from countries most affected by overpopulation, it won't take long before Europe has to deal with population explosion. When that day comes, can Europe still afford to support the minorities that have become the majority? Can migrants still enjoy the free housing, welfare benefits, health benefits and other generous benefits that they are enjoying now? Given the fact that the whites have a negative population growth rate, would the taxes they pay enough to support migrants? As migrants are already busy stabbing and raping now, would there be more stabbings and rapes if they have overpopulated Europe? Would the whites accept their raping and stabbing culture and kowtow to them or migrate to the V4 countries? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Following the European migrant crisis in 2015, many European women have been brutally raped by sexual predators from third world countries and their lives would never be the same again. Please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">here</a> to read more about the rape tactics of European rapefugees. As you go through these rape cases one by one, you will find that the European rapefugees are really aggressive as they would not only seriously injure their victims but also rape them until their genitals burst. Their victims may even be killed during the rape because of the horrific manner in which the rapes are being carried out. Needless to say, rape is certainly more enjoyable than marital sex because they cannot have extreme rough sex with their wives and cause them serious injuries every day. However, they can treat their rape victims like 'rag dolls' and laugh when they cry out in pain. If they happen to kill their victims, they can just throw the mutilated bodies somewhere. Increased immigration also boosts knife crimes as migrants are extremely skilful with a knife and their knife attacks are often fatal. Whenever they are going on a stabbing spree, they would simply stab anyone they could find so let's keep alert at all times. Because of their aggressive and violent behavior, Europe is no longer as safe as it used to be. Since I have written a detailed article about migrants and their heinous crimes in Europe I would not reiterate here. You can click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">here</a> to read this article. As I am writing this article, I couldn't help weeping for Europe. Looking at the wave of migrants crime cases across Europe, one cannot deny the fact that what Europe really needs now are patriots and leaders (such as Viktor Orban, Dominik Tarczynski and Marine Le Pen) who can bring an end to the European migrant crisis and restore Europe to its former glory. When Matteo Salvini was Italy's Interior Minister, he was known as Europe's Donald Trump on immigration and his war on migrants was a relief to Europe. However, these good times were over when his harsh migration rules were softened and amended by the new government. Let us pray that Lega would not remain as the controlled opposition forever. Salvini, when are you going to make Italy great again? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">According to V4 Report, Italy has become the EU's main migrant camp. More than 640,000 migrants have landed on Italian shores since 2014. Italy's gateway to Europe, Lampedusa, is struggling with migrant influx after 13,000 have landed during the first five months of this year (as of 13 May 2021). It seems that the situation would only worsen if the EU countries continue to take in illegals since this would encourage more arrivals. As what Salvini says, "Too many of them are dangerous for Italy and Europe." Like all Italian fathers, he wants his children to grow up in a safe country without rapefugees, stabbers, and no-go zones. With hundreds of migrants being transferred from Lampedusa to locations throughout Italy recently, what would be the fate of Italians? Would there be more crimes and No-Go Zones? If Italy does not want to remain a migrant camp, the best thing to do is stop migrant boats and rescue ships from docking in Italian ports and deport all those who are already there. Salvini, where are you? When are you going to be the hero of Europe again?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">How do we define the word "hero"? According to the <i>American Heritage Dictionary</i>, a hero is a person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life. This definition reminds me of Malaysia's immigration officers, police and armed forces who are working round the clock to round up undocumented migrants and refugees. Chasing after illegals, especially in the middle of the night, is not an easy task as illegals are rough people who know how to retaliate. The immigration officers, police and armed forces are therefore our heroes - while we are sleeping soundly, they are risking their lives to protect our country from intruders. And I am proud to say that my country does not send the undocumented migrants and refugees to four-star hotels. These illegals are not given any benefits at all, not even a single cent. They would only wait to be deported at the deportation centers. Whatever the situation may be, it doesn't sound right for any country to open its doors wide to welcome intruders and treat them like VIPs. Deportation is still the best thing for illegals because too many of them is dangerous for the country. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Given the fact that Italy has a negative population growth and 28% of its population was 65 and above (as of 2019), Salvini's fears of ethnic replacement may not be unfounded. The homes and apartments in some Italian villages have already been taken over by migrants. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-foreign-mafia-has-come-to-italy-and-further-polarized-the-migration-debate/2019/06/25/377cf978-8235-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html">A foreign mafia has come to Italy and further polarized the migration debate</a>, illicitly recruting new members among migrants. This foreign crime group is holding territory in Italy from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo and its members are smuggling drugs and trafficking women on Italy's streets. Salvini's close port approach is therefore a must because too many migrants constitute a serious threat to the country and they should be stopped and deported. Is Salvini a hero or a villain? He was the hero of Europe when he was Italy's Interior Minister. There was nothing villainous about rejecting migrant boats and the more I read about his anti-immigrant stance and draconian immigration laws, the more I respect him. Illegal entries to EU is not a fundamental right. The young, aggressive men from third world countries anticipating a "free holiday rape & stab package" in Europe do not deserve protection. Those who are in desperate need of protection are the EU citizens as they are the real victims of the migrant exodus. If given the opportunity, I am sure that Salvini would bring an end to the European migrant crisis and make all the economic migrants, illegals, rioters, drug dealers, murderers, fake refugees, overage minors, freeloaders, rapefugees, stabbers, mafias and whatnots pack their bags and be gone from Europe forever. It is not racist to deport migrants because white lives also matter - the whites have the right to a safe country. It is not hate speech to tell the truth about migrants. The media should not hide their violent crimes and stop the whole world from saying the truth. The war on migrants should start now before its too late. Stopping them is not enough - deport them and put an end to their no-go zones. Italians first - that should be the way! <a href="https://www.italy24news.com/News/54400.html">"I hope Draghi doesn't last long. I'm ready to govern with Matteo Salvini" - Libero Quotidiano</a>. Perhaps Salvini should govern with Meloni to save Italy and Europe. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>. You may also like to read:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">EUROPE AND THE MIGRANT RAPE CRISIS</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-to-get-rid-of-europes-migrant-crime.html">How to Get Rid of Europe's Migrant Crime Zones</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/justice-for-denmark-other-side-of.html">Justice for Denmark: The Other Side of the Deportation Story</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">Migrants and Crime in Europe in the Twenty-First Century</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/01/migrants-stuck-in-hopeless-situation-at.html">Migrants stuck in hopeless situation at EU border in Bosnia : who is to blame?</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/should-large-influx-of-migrants-into-eu.html">Should the large influx of migrants into the EU countries be encouraged?</a></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/white-lives-matter-even-ones-being.html">White lives matter, 'even the ones being raped, stabbed and murdered'</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/viktor-orban-hero-of-europe.html">Viktor Orbán: The Hero of Europe</a><br /></li></ol><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-10911948899282074462021-04-30T21:38:00.084+08:002021-07-03T04:05:36.991+08:00Justice for Denmark: The Other Side of the Deportation Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07NobLlfTRGAFU7Sx5_tU5JhXwR_1I84qsnmMolkRN36E0Vvv_K5u8CgVVN4be0IVySoopOsuVsvllKgQlvTl_7gQSpLGoyoWrkLzic4Iq8Ky8WCI-GLAYbfrEw7B_-QRC7Ay2bIV63o/s984/zero+asylum+seekers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="984" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07NobLlfTRGAFU7Sx5_tU5JhXwR_1I84qsnmMolkRN36E0Vvv_K5u8CgVVN4be0IVySoopOsuVsvllKgQlvTl_7gQSpLGoyoWrkLzic4Iq8Ky8WCI-GLAYbfrEw7B_-QRC7Ay2bIV63o/s320/zero+asylum+seekers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">Zero Asylum Seekers</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Recently, there have been many online articles criticizing Denmark for sending some of its Syrian refugees back now that it is safe enough for them to return to Damascus. But why criticize Denmark for telling the Syrians to return to their homeland? Denmark has already made it very clear to these people that their residence permit is only temporary and they should return home when it is safe to do so. Surely, there is nothing wrong offering them money and telling them to go home! In this article, I would like to tell the other side of the deportation story because I honestly feel that it is all so unfair to blame Denmark for sending Syrians back to Syria after the country has done so much to help them throughout the years. Just because Denmark has been supporting them for years on humanitarian grounds, this does not mean that they have the right to stay in Denmark forever. Allowing them to stay would only encourage more migrants to sneak into the EU countries and aggravate the European migrant crisis that is already getting from bad to worse. Watching videos of thousands of aggressive men from third world countries arriving on European shores like an army every day seems scary to me. What is even more scary is this is a continuing trend which has been going on for years. Each time I watch these videos, I weep for Europe as I couldn't help wondering how many Europeans would become their victims because it is very obvious from their hooligan behavior that these aggressive men are not easy to control. How many millions of them are already in Europe? What is the solution to the European migrant crisis? According to Hungary PM Viktor Orban, "Don't let them in, and those who are in, send home." Denmark is therefore doing the right thing and the best thing to help solve the European migrant crisis. If the other EU countries were to emulate Denmark, there would be zero asylum seekers and Europe would regain its former glory. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Before I proceed any further, I would like to share a real life story, <i>The Parable of Ming Ming</i>, with my readers because this story explains the situation of Syrian refugees in Denmark very precisely. Here it goes. When I was only ten, we had new neighbours, a young mother, her live-in boyfriend, and her two-year-old son from a former marriage. The toddler's name was Ming Ming and he was a cute little boy. When this family first moved in, the young mother begged my grandmother to babysit her son as there was no one to look after him when she went to work. Out of compassion, my grandmother agreed on the condition that she must get a babysitter to look after him as soon as possible. We did not ask her to pay for anything because it was understood that the situation was only temporary. Since my grandmother had a lot of housework to do, she asked me to babysit Ming Ming for her. During the first two months, I enjoyed looking after this little boy but as time passed, I could sense that something was terribly wrong. My mom had introduced several babysitters to Ming Ming's mother but she always gave silly excuses saying that these babysitters were not suitable for her son. After more than five months, Ming Ming was still with us and I told my grandmother that I would not babysit him anymore because I had no time to study. Since his mother's boyfriend was not really doing anything at all, my grandmother suggested that he should look after the toddler instead of hanging around doing nothing the whole day. Ming Ming's mother was furious and went around telling bad things about my family to the neighbors. One of the neighbors even came to us and told us how Ming Ming was being tortured by his mother's boyfriend who caned him each time he cried. The question is - how come those neighbors who criticized my family for not babysitting Ming Ming were not doing anything to help him? Since my family had looked after him for more than 5 months, it was only fair that the other neighbors should do their part. If they were so concerned of him, then they should take turns to babysit him! Sad to say, after babysitting him for more than five months, my family did not get a single cent or a word of praise from anyone but ended up being criticized by the neighbors.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Well, <i>The Parable of Ming Ming</i> seems to apply equally well to Denmark's deportation story. After supporting the Syrians for so many years, Denmark is now facing criticism for sending them back to their own country. Instead of criticizing Denmark, perhaps those who feel that Damascus is not safe should adopt a Syrian family each. Or perhaps they can buy a piece of land and build houses for them and pay for their upkeep. If they are not doing anything to help, they have no right to criticize Denmark. These people are just like the neighbors who kept pressuring my family to look after Ming Ming while they themselves did nothing to help. Even though we were under no obligation to babysit Ming Ming, we still fed him and cared for him free of charge for more than five months and that was certainly more than what a good samaritan would do. It would be really ridiculous if my family were to take over the responsibility to care for Ming Ming just because his stepfather did not look after him well. Similarly, Denmark has no obligation to take in migrants and has done more than enough for them on humanitarian grounds. It is illogical to assume that Denmark should take over the responsibility to support Syrian refugees just because their country is not doing a good job. In 2015 alone, Denmark took in 21,300 migrants and it does not seem fair that the country has to face such severe criticisms for deporting just a few hundred of them. Does it mean that once Denmark has taken them in, they are entitled to stay in the country forever? What are the consequences if they were allowed to stay? Since migrants are breeding faster than rabbits, there is an increase strain on the country's resources. Apart from security risks, it is also not easy to support them because there are too many of them. The money spent on them should be used to improve the lives of the Danes particularly when the country is facing an economic downturn due to the pandemic. It is also very unfair to the Danes who have to work so hard to pay taxes and support them. Please click <a href="https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2940971/syrian-refugees-face-ramadan-penury-amid-lebanons-economic-ruin">here</a> to read about a Syrian man eating his meal in a tent with one wife and eleven children. Even though he is fleeing war and there is not enough food for the family, he can still afford to have eleven children. What about those who are living comfortably in Europe and are being supported by their host countries? Surely they can take a few more wives and make even more babies! With a fertility rate of 1.77 births per woman as of 2020, can the Danes pay enough taxes to support migrants with a fertility rate of 11 births (or more) per woman twenty or thirty years from now if the migrant exodus to Europe continues?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So what is the problem with the Syrian refugees? After living a comfortable life in Denmark for years, it is not easy for them to go home and rebuild their country because it will take a lot of hard work to start all over again. In Denmark, everything is provided for them but once they return to their country, they will have to be very independent. There will be no more allowance and other generous benefits for them and they will have to work very hard to earn a living. So what are the similarities between their problem and Ming Ming's mother's problem? Well, Ming Ming's mother was so used to getting everything free from my family that she was extremely reluctant to pay for a babysitter for her son. Paying for a babysitter would mean that she had to work harder to earn more money and spend less on clothes and cosmetics and that wasn't a very good idea. Further, the babysitter might be staying far away and it would be inconvenient for her to send her son to the babysitter every morning and fetch him in the evenings. Therefore, the best solution for her is to make my family babysit Ming Ming free of charge. She did not want to let go the convenient life that she had enjoyed for more than five months. Well, is this what we call human nature? Similarly, returning to Syria after the war would cause the Syrians a lot of inconvenience and they would have to make lots of sacrifices because there is no free lunch in their country. Living in an advanced country in Europe is certainly more comfortable than living in a third world country. After living an easy life, it would be tough for them to let it go and get accustomed to a less agreeable lifestyle. Even as a tourist in Europe, I felt like crying each time I left even though I did not get any allowance, welfare payments or any generous benefits. What about migrants who are given VIP treatment? The best solution is, of course, to stay in Denmark forever and enjoy their allowance and other generous benefits that come with their refugee status. Is Syria safe? Please click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6BoqJVxK_I">here</a> to watch a recent video of beautiful Damascus with its gorgeous food. The things in this beautiful city are really cheap. There is no doubt that Syria is safe now.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When we see beggars on the streets, most of us would just walk past without giving second thought. This is the norm. But, we do have many kind people who would donate some money to the beggars even though they know that they may be scolded, especially by the <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/05/should-illegal-entry-of-rohingyas-into.html">Rohingya</a> children beggars, if the amount of money they donate is less than RM5. Whatever the situation may be, in Malaysia, we don't take in beggars into our homes and support them for years. Nor do we give money to migrants when we deport them because they are not our citizens. In fact, very few countries in this world would treat migrants like VIPs. However, in Denmark, migrants have been given a home, welfare payments, and other generous benefits for years and therefore we cannot deny the fact that the country has been overly generous to them. Even though Denmark is under no obligation to help them, it is giving each of them 175,000 Danish crowns ($28, 427) to go home and rebuild their country. That is a lot of money to spend on migrants so what else do they want? Many people work for their entire lives but still cannot afford to save this amount of money. Migrants can never afford to pay back what they owe Denmark so they should at least be grateful to the country for reaching out to help them when they needed help.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In <i>The</i> <i>Parable of Ming Ming</i> above, it was obvious that Ming Ming's mother had problems because she was living with a man who did not like her son and who always ill-treated him. However, instead of passing the buck to my family, she should sort our her problems and plan how to give her son a better life. If the problem was her do-nothing live-in boyfriend, then she should dump him. Or she could work harder to make more money and send her son to a babysitter. Or she could beg her family members to help her. Sending her son to my family for our free babysitting services was a bad solution to her problems. She shouldn't give problems to people who are totally unrelated to her and learn to be responsible for her own life. Similarly, the Syrian refugees should learn to deal with and solve their own problems instead of passing the buck to Denmark. What is their problem? No place to stay when they return home? With the money given to them, they can easily rent a room or an apartment or even buy / build a new house. No job? Go and look for one or they can even set up their own business since Denmark has given them a large sum of money to rebuild their country. Don't tell me that they are so used to welfare benefits that they cannot survive once they leave Denmark! Want to continue with their studies? There are lots of schools and universities in Syria. Poverty? With $28,427, they cannot be considered as poor. Many Malaysians only have a few ringgit left in their pockets by the end of the month and yet they are surviving. Not safe? There are many places that are safe in Syria. If tourists can visit Damascus now, how come Syrians cannot return home? They should be responsible for themselves and after their dream holiday in Denmark, it's time for them to wake up, face reality, work hard and start all over again. No more free lunch for them. Now that Syria is safe, they should return home to rebuild their country and stop giving lame excuses. They should also stop giving anymore problems to Denmark and remember to thank Denmark for giving them a free holiday and lots of generous benefits for so many years. A trip to Europe for two weeks costs RM10000. Many Malaysians cannot afford to save RM10000 after working for years. But, with RM10000, we still cannot afford to stay in 4-star hotels. In Europe, only refugees (irrespective of whether they are fake or real) can stay in 4-start hotels free of charge for years and get free nutritious meals because they are VIPs. Let's hope that these VIPs will stop complaining and start living independently.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9xQBVkgA94IfXi3SieTXkFV8su6zvmnQI2hQx_RQY-DKxhPUem1COdP0lfld-OoSdhil5sk_Yr5Xa7wPL5SKfKxGWehnCHBKk4BpwhjnSQiz2vUCvMPByDU5vj_HY1rmCm-LEYE2EYVU/s1239/free_lunch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="929" data-original-width="1239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9xQBVkgA94IfXi3SieTXkFV8su6zvmnQI2hQx_RQY-DKxhPUem1COdP0lfld-OoSdhil5sk_Yr5Xa7wPL5SKfKxGWehnCHBKk4BpwhjnSQiz2vUCvMPByDU5vj_HY1rmCm-LEYE2EYVU/s320/free_lunch.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">There's no such thing as a free lunch (Milton Friedman). The free holidays are over for Syrian refugees and its time to go back, work hard and rebuild their country. Their country needs them.</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">How come no one has ever criticized China, Japan, Korea and the rich Gulf countries for not taking in refugees and giving them free lunches? How come these countries are not blamed for the death of the agressive men on boats attempting to cross borders illegally? Because it is not their style to adopt refugees. Similarly, in <i>The</i> <i>Parable of Ming Ming</i> above, the neighbors blamed my family because Ming Ming's stepfather ill-treated him. But, why didn't they blame themselves and the other neighbors as well? Because it was not their style to help to babysit Ming Ming. The moral of the story is - be careful when you help others as they may become your lifetime obligation and burden. Once you stop helping them, you would be criticized by the whole world but you would not receive any praises for your acts of kindness. The people you help may also give you a lot of problems and you may even be criticized for not doing enough for them even though you have given your best to them. Instead of feeling grateful to you for your help, they may end up having hostile thoughts and feelings towards you unless you continue to give them what they want forever. This is what is happening in Denmark. Even though most of Syria is safe now, it seems that the whole world is criticizing Denmark for encouraging Syrians to go home and the Syrians are not happy with Denmark because they do not want to go home. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Given the fact that migrants are not only smart people but are also experts in smuggling themselves to their favored destinations, there is no need for Denmark to worry about their future. Once they leave Denmark, they could easily smuggle themselves into Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium, or the UK as these countries seem to welcome them. When they arrive in these countries, they could <a href="https://gulfnews.com/world/europe/migrants-mutilate-fingers-hoping-to-conceal-identity-1.502285">mutilate their fingers to conceal their identity</a> and apply for asylum. If they want more money, they could <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/372466-germany-migrant-welfare-fraud/">scam the German aid program by applying with 'up to 12' fake IDs</a>. With the $28,427 given to them by Denmark, they are filthy rich.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's aim for zero asylum seekers is truly one of the best things she can do for her country. Looking at the numerous <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">heinous crimes</a> and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">brutal rapes</a> committed by aggressive male migrants in the EU countries that have taken in millions of migrants, the Danes must be very grateful to their Prime Minister for taking this golden step. Twenty or thirty years from now, when the other EU countries are overpopulated with migrants, the Danes, feeling proud of their country with zero asylum seekers, would look back and say, "Thank you Mette Frederiksen. We have the best Prime Minister in the world." Yes, Denmark has some of the best leaders in the world who love and protect their country and people.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading. Please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a> to view the content page of this blog. You may also like to read:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/should-large-influx-of-migrants-into-eu.html">Should the large influx of migrants into the EU countries be encouraged?</a></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">Migrants and Crime in Europe in the Twenty-First Century</a> </li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">EUROPE AND THE MIGRANT RAPE CRISIS</a></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/matteo-salvini-is-he-hero-or-villain.html">Matteo Salvini: Is he a hero or a villain?</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/01/migrants-stuck-in-hopeless-situation-at.html">Migrants stuck in hopeless situation at EU border in Bosnia : who is to blame?</a></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-to-get-rid-of-europes-migrant-crime.html">How to Get Rid of Europe's Migrant Crime Zones</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/white-lives-matter-even-ones-being.html">White lives matter, 'even the ones being raped, stabbed and murdered'</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/viktor-orban-hero-of-europe.html">Viktor Orbán: The Hero of Europe</a><br /></li></ol></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-69782839774977433172021-04-09T21:39:00.266+08:002021-06-20T19:26:47.201+08:00EUROPE AND THE MIGRANT RAPE CRISIS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg39LQWOqt7zcKaY-cqJ5aKsvPLT0kqpcu7Ok7uP3_r0dS7-_Kwiy79PbLYbjKo0axGpIh1iqtUctO5T07cKxDf0P440XeE2W-6dlkSYfERvOdNOEx8F9_X1Bz8dxDjUpvX68WoeyV1xjg/s775/rapefugees_stay_away.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="775" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg39LQWOqt7zcKaY-cqJ5aKsvPLT0kqpcu7Ok7uP3_r0dS7-_Kwiy79PbLYbjKo0axGpIh1iqtUctO5T07cKxDf0P440XeE2W-6dlkSYfERvOdNOEx8F9_X1Bz8dxDjUpvX68WoeyV1xjg/s320/rapefugees_stay_away.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Videos of agressive male migrants from the Middle East, North Africa (MENA), and South Asia arriving at Europe's borders / European shores shouting and running around, throwing rocks at the police, and marching through the heart of Europe like an army, seem scary to me. These strong and healthy young men are certainly not vunerable people fleeing war, violence, or persecution to find safety in Europe. Looking at their hooligan behavior, I just cannot sympathize with them. On the contrary, I couldn't help feeling sorry for Europe for taking them in, supporting them, and giving them lots of generous benefits at the expense of its own citizens. For migrants who are seeking lots of freedom, sex, welfare payments and other generous benefits, Europe is the most ideal destination for them. That is why there is no end to the migrant exodus to Europe. More and more aggressive males from third world countries are arriving at Europe each day to seek asylum even during the coronavirus pandemic. With the surge of coronavirus infections among migrants in the camps of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe is in danger as these aggressive men flouting quarantine could cross into Croatia any time. Why are these illegal aliens cum freeloaders giving so much trouble to the EU? Why don't they just go back to their countries of origin? <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/01/migrants-stuck-in-hopeless-situation-at.html">They are not stuck in the camps of Bosnia</a> but are free to leave anytime since no one has ever invited them to go there in the first place. Instead of supporting these troublemakers, the EU should send them back to where they come from and put an end to the migrant exodus to Europe. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In their Facebook comments, many Malaysians are wondering how the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who used to sneak into Malaysia illegally can become refugees in Europe now. When did their countries go to war? Well, never mind about the war because there is no war. The truth is, there are many beautiful girls in Europe. <a href="https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/number-of-sexual-assaults-by-pakistani-origin-men-increases-in-greece/">Concerns rise as men of Pakistani origin found sexually assaulting women in Greece with alarming frequency</a>. While <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerscruton/2014/08/30/why-did-british-police-ignore-pakistani-gangs-raping-rotherham-children-political-correctness/?sh=5dd883be754a">Pakistani gangs are abusing 1400 Rotherham Children</a>, <a href="http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/5874">the Bangladeshis are having fun in Rome</a> and <a href="https://www.dhakatribune.com/world/europe/2021/01/14/bangladeshi-man-jailed-in-uk-for-rape">Portsmouth</a>. Wow, what a beautiful life with beautiful women! If the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis can be granted asylum in Europe, perhaps Malaysians who are running away from loansharks should also seek asylum in Europe! If Europe loves to take in migrants so much, why not take in Malaysia's unemployed graduates as well? Malaysia may be a small country but there is something that the EU should learn from Malaysia - ignore the NGOs and their nonsense and do what is best for the country. For instance, despite the NGOs seeking court intervention to stop the deportation of 1,086 Myanmar nationals back to Myanmar on 23 February 2021, Malaysia went ahead with the deportation. The president of PMSP (Pertubuhan Minda dan Sosial Prihatin), Ramesh Rao, had asked the Malaysian Government to <a href="https://klbroadcastmedia.wordpress.com/2020/04/25/rohingya-presiden-pmsp-mohon-kerajaan-tutup-pejabat-unhcr-di-malaysia/">close the UNHCR offices in Malaysia</a>. If the purpose of the UNHCR is to force the country to take in migrants, then <a href="https://ar-ar.facebook.com/korekmalaya/posts/desakan-tutup-pejabat-unhcr-di-malaysia1-tempoh-hari-kami-siarkan-tindakan-tinda/2805314906464671/">enough is enough</a>. According to our Minister of Home Affairs, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin, <a href="https://www.bharian.com.my/berita/nasional/2021/04/805022/malaysia-tetap-hantar-balik-pelarian">Malaysia will proceed with the deportation of migrants</a>. Malaysians do not want their country to turn into a <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/police-chief-warns-migrant-mafia-gangs-are-turning-sweden-into-gangster-s-paradise-1.1093049">gangster's paradise</a> and become the rape capital of Asia. Even <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/09/india/india-deport-rohingya-supreme-court-intl-hnk/index.html">India's top court rejects plea to stop Rohingya deportations to Myanmar</a>. Why did India call Rohingya refugees a security threat? Any idea what the Rohingyas did before they fled to Bangladesh? To answer these questions, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-rohingya-issue-justice-for-malaysia.html">here</a>. After <a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/rohingya-muslim-violence-arsa-militants-killed-100-hindus-in-myanmar-rakhine-know-about-amnesty-report-unlawful-killings-118052300668_1.html">Rohingya militants killed 100 Hindus in Myanmar</a>, India must really think twice about taking in Rohingya refugees. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If the EU could emulate India and do what is right to protect their own citizens and get rid of the illegal troublemakers, its citizens would certainly have a much better life. Perhaps it's time for the EU to give priority to its homeless and jobless citizens instead of wasting billions of euros on economic migrants and fake refugees. How many countries will actually take in so many economic migrants, rapefugees, and murderers with open arms, support them, and grant them citizenship? I grew up believing that Europe is supreme but it's a great disappointment today. "Do not resist an evil person. When a person slaps you on the right cheek, turn and offer him the other" (Matthew 5:39). Is this what the EU is doing? Does it mean that after a migrant has brutally attacked and raped a woman, he should be offered another one? Or does it mean that more rapefugees and murderers should be welcomed after what their predecessors have done?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Why do the illegal freeloaders, aggressive rapefugees and criminals keep targeting Europe? Because smuggling themselves into Europe is so easy. All they have to do is to pay for the services of the people smugglers and they will enter Europe safe and sound. Needless to say, the more they are willing to pay, the better the services will be and the more comfortable is their journey. If they are granted asylum but do not wish to stay in their host country, the money paid to the people smugglers is not wasted as they can easily <a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/1286596/middle-east">sell their passports and travel documents</a> and make a huge profit since there are many migrants waiting to go to Europe. As for those who wish to enter Europe with a fake identity, there are many German travel documents advertised for sale on social media, according to <i>Der Spiegel</i>, the German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. Therefore, migrants who have holidayed and raped until they are satisfied and wish to return to their countries of origin can easily sell off their travel documents and make some money before they leave. Where else can they find a free 'holiday rape package' that comes with lots of generous benefits? That is why so many aggressive young men are dying to get to Europe. Who doesn't want to eat free, live free, rape free and receive welfare benefits? And Europe is the only place for them. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">According to Article 31 of the Geneva Convention, asylum seekers should not be penalised for using forged or fake documents because they don't have much choice when it comes to fleeing their home country. Once they have claimed asylum, how they arrive (whether it is by boat without any travel documents or by plane with fake passports) is irrelevant. That is the reason why there is a lucrative market for fake and stolen passports and visas. Even the Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in Malaysia are doing a lucrative business selling fake passports from various countries. But of course genuine passports are still the best and that is why we have to be very careful with our passports. Once the genuine passports get into the hands of smugglers, they can be used to smuggle people across the world. The practice of renting genuine passports is very popular today and has been very successful in helping migrants to claim asylum. Further, the price is relatively low since these genuine passports will be collected from the migrants once they have arrived safely at their destinations to be used over and over again. Migrants who are willing to pay more can even <a href="https://theconversation.com/flight-mh370-and-the-desperate-demand-for-false-passports-24244#:~:text=It%20has%20emerged%20that%20two,were%20travelling%20on%20stolen%20passports.&text=The%20absence%20of%20legal%20gateways,genuine%20passports%20with%20fake%20visas.">bribe embassy staff and effectively purchase a visa</a>. Those who do not have travel documents can easily cross to Europe by boat with the help of people smugglers. The question is - why are document forgers and people smugglers still doing an illegal but lucrative migrant exodus business? Given the illegal and criminal nature of migrant smuggling, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/should-large-influx-of-migrants-into-eu.html">should the migrant exodus to Europe be encouraged</a>? Who are those who benefit from this business? Why is the EU pressured to take in so many migrants? Although millions of migrants have entered Europe since 2015, the mass exodus of migrants to Europe is unlikely to stop as millions are still on their way. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The number of migrants arriving at Europe each day is really scary and the bad news is, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/as-the-weather-grows-warmer-400-migrants-arrive-in-lampedusa-in-a-day">as the weather grows warmer, 400 migrants arrive on Lampedusa in a single day</a>. <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/matteo-salvini-is-he-hero-or-villain.html">Matteo Salvini, where are you</a>? Please do something to stop them and save Italy. If 400 migrants are arriving each day on Lampedusa alone, what about the Canary Islands and the Aegean Islands? What about those crossing the land borders? This would mean that thousands of migrants are sneaking into Europe each day and it looks like this would go on indefinitely just as it has been going on for years. With the mass exodus of aggressive young men to Europe, it has become an obvious fact that sexual violence against women is on the rise and this is something inevitable. Sweden, which used to be one of the safest countries in Europe, has now become the rape capital of Europe. A recent study reveals that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6095121/Eight-10-stranger-rapes-Sweden-carried-migrants-study-reveals.html">eight out of 10 'stranger' rapes are carried out by migrants</a> in this country. In the United Kingdom, there is an epidemic of migrant rape gangs plaguing the country. Austria, too, is suffering from an increase in sexual attacks committed by migrants since the migrant crisis in 2015. Similarly, the prevalence of sexual violence in other European countries that have taken in lots of migrants (especially Germany, Italy, and France) cannot be ignored. After all, what can we expect from aggressive males who made it to Europe for a free holiday to take advantage of its generous benefits, have fun and enjoy sex? Looking at aggressive male migrants and their hooligan behaviors in the videos, I do wonder how European women are coping with them. Living in fear of being raped or murdered is certainly not a good idea and can be very stressful. That is why MEP Dominik Tarczynski, who said that Poland would never welcome illegal migrants, has become the hero of Europe (according to countless youtube comments). I am not Polish but I am proud to hear that Poland is the safest country in Europe without rapefugees. Keep up your good work, Dominik! Those who love Europe are proud of you. Needless to say, they must be very proud of Matteo Salvini too for his anti-immigration stance. But why does he have to stand trial for defending his country from intruders? This is so unfair. Stay strong, Matteo Salvini. We are with you. And of course Hungarian PM, Viktor Orban, who said that Salvini "is a hero in my eyes" is also a hero himself and Europe certainly needs more leaders like him. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Women living in countries that have taken in lots of aggressive male migrants should learn to protect themselves as there are many rapefugees among them who are busy hunting for their preys round the clock. Migrants are smart people and they know how to take advantage of the leniency of the juvenile justice system by pretending to be children, so do be careful with the unaccompanied minors as they may be older than 30. Never invite migrants into your home as you might be drugged and raped (please refer to case 23 below). Always be alert when you are outside because you never know when they would attack you. Never go out in the wee hours of the morning or in the dark. Stay in well-lighted areas. If possible, stay at home after 7.00 p.m. Never go alone to quiet places like parks, alleys, and cemetries. Avoid going to bars and nightclubs because the rapefugees may deliberately spike your drinks and when you are drunk or high, you do not know what you are doing. Be vigilant when you are on social media sites - do not give out personal details or go out to meet strangers as they may end up as rapefugees. Do not get into a stranger's car or follow him home. Scream loudly when you are being attacked and pepper spray your attacker. When you are at home, make sure that all the windows and doors are securely locked. Why not start learning martial arts so that you can defend yourself when the rapefugees attack you? Parents with preschoolers should keep their young children safe and never leave them in unsupervised areas even for a few minutes - do you know that a <a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/01/13/pakistani-attempts-rape-koropi/#:~:text=A%20horrific%20case%20of%20seducing,and%20tried%20to%20rape%20her.">20-year-old Pakistani attempted to rape a 5-year-old girl in Koropi</a>, a town in East Attica, Greece? When you are 90, it does not mean that you are safe. Do you know that a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4319458/Teenage-migrant-raped-strangled-90-year-old-woman.html">teenage migrant raped and strangled a 90-year-old German woman as she left church after he demanded money from her and she said she didn't have any</a>? Even corpses are not safe because they can still be raped - do you know that <a href="https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2018/12/19/man-admits-having-sex-with-dead-body-at-great-barr-funeral-home/">23-year-old Kasim Khuram, with a Palestinian flag tattoo on his neck, had sex with dead body at Great Barr funeral home</a>. OMG! It does not matter whether you are 5 or 90 or whether you are alive or dead as what the rapefugee wants is to insert his penis into a vagina and it can be any vagina. It can also be any anus, so little boys are as vulnerable as women. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This article is written to commemorate the victims of the European migrant rape crisis who have died. We can never forget the beautiful 19-year-old medical student at Germany's University of Freiburg, <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/asylum-seeker-sentenced-to-life-in-jail-in-germany-over-rape-murder-of-student">Maria Ladenburger</a>, who was raped and drowned on 16 October 2016 by Hussein Khavari, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, who pretended to be a minor when he could be more than 30 years old. Nor can we forget the lovely Italian girl, 18-year-old <a href="https://europediplomatic.com/2019/03/15/italian-chopped-alive-by-nigerian-migrants/">Pamela Mastropietro</a>, who was murdered and chopped alive in Macereta, by a 29-year-old migrant drug dealer, Innocent Oseghale. Prosecutor Giovanni Giorgio did not rule out rape as Oseghale could have destroyed evidence of sexual violence by chopping her alive. Let us also remember 14-year-old <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48934331">Susanna Maria Feldman</a>, who was raped and murdered on 22 May 2018 near a railway line in Wiesbaden, Germany, by a 22-year-old Iraqi Kurdish asylum seeker, Ali Bashar Ahmad Zebari. Then, there is 16-year-old <a href="https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6071087/schoolgirl-gang-raped-and-killed-italy/">Desiree Mariottini</a>, who was drugged, gang-raped and killed in Rome by four migrants (two Senegalese, a Gambian, and a Nigerian). Not to forget the 24-year-old French mother, <a href="https://www.thelocal.fr/20190714/syrian-refugee-charged-with-rape-and-murder-of-woman-in-france/">Johanna Blanes</a>, who was raped and murdered while she was on her way home after work in the early hours of 13 July 2020, by a 32-year-old Syrian refugee. May their souls rest in eternal peace. Let us pray that the European migrant crisis would come to an end soon and Europe would regain its former glory. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Are migrants more likely to commit crimes and what are their favorite crimes? To answer this question, please read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">Migrants and Crime in Europe in the Twenty-First Century</a>. I have shared 60 heinous crimes committed by migrants in Europe in this article. Since there are too many rapes committed by the European rapefugees, I would like to share another 30 rape attacks committed by these savage beasts in the present article. Knowing the rapefugees well can give you some ideas how to protect yourselves and keep the rapefugees away. As you go through these crimes one by one, you can see that the rapefugees are not only insanely addicted to sex but they also treat women like sex objects to be tortured and then thrown away after satisfying their sexual needs. Can you imagine a 14-year-old girl being gang-raped until she is severely injured and then thrown out into the street? Can you imagine a 118 kg rapefugee on top of a 14-year-old girl trying to keep her under control while his accomplices are raping her? Can you imagine a 13-year-old girl being gang-raped by Somalis until her genitals burst? But the Somalis got off lightly and can't be deported because they have become Swedish citizens. The rapefugees are also getting smarter as they have learnt a lot from their rape experiences. To destroy their sexual attack evidence, they would take away their victims' underwear and force them to wash themselves with water. The question is - why talk about human rights to savage beasts? Why not just deport them? Put them in a boat and they will pay people smugglers to smuggle themselves elsewhere. There is no need to worry about those whose nationality cannot be determined bearing in mind that people smugglers are experts in the migrant exodus business and nothing is impossible for them. Why worry about the rapefugees' nationality when they have never worried about the lives that they have ruined?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Why are migrants complaining that the Napier Barracks in Kent are unfit for human habitation? No one has ever invited them to live there. They must have lived in 4-star hotels far too long. What a waste of taxpayers' money! But why let them stay in 4-star hotels when so many British citizens are homeless? The British taxpayers don't owe them anything and have no obligation to support them. These freeloaders shouldn't be complaining as they are living completely rent free at the barracks and are given three free nutritious meals a day when they don't deserve anything at all. If they want a better lifestyle, they should pay for it instead of setting fire to the barracks. Napier Barracks had previously accommodated the British army and they had never complained about their accommodation. If the freeloaders think that the barracks are unhygienic, unsanitary, inhumane and unfit for human habitation, then make them clean up the place since they are the ones who vandalised the barracks and messed up this accommodation. Why are they saying that the barracks do not uphold human dignity? Do they understand the meaning of human dignity? When the rapefugees are busy raping defenceless European women and children, have they ever treated their victims like human beings and uphold their human dignity?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If the government of the United Kingdom can give migrants free stays in 4-star hotels and free nutritious meals, why not give more discounts to tourists? Many tourists cannot afford to stay in 4-star hotels and are not eating well because the food is expensive. Tourism can bring money and contribute to the British economy but what can freeloaders contribute? Oh yes, freeloaders are contributing lots of babies and it won't take long before the EU countries become overpopulated! Perhaps it's time for Europe to fix its broken windows and stop vandalism - please read more about <i>The Broken Windows Theory </i>@ <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-to-get-rid-of-europes-migrant-crime.html">How to Get Rid of Europe's Migrant Crime Zones</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the following section, I am sharing 30 heinous rapes committed by the European rapefugees in chronological order. To read the complete rape stories, please click on the title of each case (in blue). To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>. You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/justice-for-denmark-other-side-of.html">Justice for Denmark: The Other Side of the Deportation Story</a>; <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/white-lives-matter-even-ones-being.html">White lives matter, 'even the ones being raped, stabbed and murdered'</a>; and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/matteo-salvini-is-he-hero-or-villain.html">Matteo Salvini: Is he a hero or a villain?</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 1: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/france-algerian-migrant-mohamed-a-sentenced-to-14-years-in-prison-for-drugging-an-raping-patient-in-french-hospital">France: Algerian migrant Mohamed A. sentenced to 14 years in prison for drugging and raping patient in French hospital</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In February 2018, a 50-year-old Algerian migrant, who worked as a nurse in the American Hospital of Paris located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, raped a patient under psychotropic treatment. He has earlier been sentenced for sexually assaulting a vulnerable person in 2012. According to the victim's lawyer, "if tomorrow the predator is outside, he will start again."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 2: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/austria-court-sentences-east-african-serial-rapist-to-just-13-years">Austria: Court sentences East African serial rapist to just 13 years</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A 30-year-old migrant from the East African island of Comoros, sexually assaulted ten women in the area in Klagenfurt, Austria, between 2015 and 2019. The African migrant loved to attack his victims from behind, pressed them forcefully against the ground, and strangled them. Prosecutor Daniela Zupanic found it difficult to put into words the heinous acts of violence that the accused has committed.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 3: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/3-turks-gang-raped-14-year-old-girl-in-belgium-city-of-lommel-prosecutors">3 Turks gang raped 14-year-old girl in Belgium city of Lommel: prosecutors</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In January 2016, a group of Turkish young men approached a 14-year-old girl and her friend offering to give them a ride home. They also convinced the 14-year-old girl to come with them. The men started touching her inappropriately in the car and raped her when they arrived in the woods. They stripped her, stomped her and hit her. The 118kg suspect even laid on her in order to put her under control. The other held her feet as the third was raping her. They dumped her at a bus stop after finished raping her. The incident took place in Lommel, a city in the Belgian province of Limburg.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 4: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/german-court-gives-probation-to-two-syrian-migrants-who-raped-15-year-old-girl-who-gave-them-german-lessons">German court gives probation to two Syrian migrants who raped 15-year-old girl who gave them German lessons</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the summer of 2016, a 15-year-old German girl, Anika, the daughter of a refugee worker, provided German lessons for two Syrian migrants, Mohamad T and Schadi A, both 24, to help them integrate. While she was drinking tea with them in a room at the Syrians' accommodation in the Luchow-Dannenberg district, Mohamad T held her arms while his accomplice stripped and raped her. They also threatened her not to tell anyone. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 5: <a href="https://steemit.com/life/@colourkiller/absurdistan-madness-from-sweden-gang-raped-girl-until-her-abdomen-burst-the-rapeists-got-significantly-reduced-sentence">Absurdistan - madness from Sweden - Gang-raped girl until her genital burst - the rapeists got significantly reduced sentence</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 14 July 2017, a 13-year-old Swedish girl was gang-raped in Vasteras, a city in central Sweden, by four Somalis until her genital burst. The Somalis also filmed their prolonged sexual violence and spread the video on social media. Three of them were sentenced to four and five months of youth care whilst the fourth need not be punished because he claimed to be a minor. The victim is said to be suffering from depression, nightmares and sleep deprivation. She is easily annoyed, always absent from school and even cut herself. The Somalis, however, cannot be deported because they have become Swedish citizens. But why can't these savage beast be deported? Just send them back to where they belong so that they cannot prey on other victims. Why talk about human rights when they are acting like savage beasts?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 6: <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/27/iraqi-migrants-accused-dragging-women-car-raping-them/">Iraqi migrants accused of dragging women into a car and raping them</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Two Iraqi migrant brothers, 33-year-old Wisam and 25-year-old Karrar, have been involved in several rapes since March 2018. Wisam raped a 14-year-old girl in his apartment on 27 March 2018. He also raped another woman in his apartment on 6 May 2019. On 18 January 2020, the two brothers and a third Iraqi man dragged 18-year-old Denise T. from Dahlem into their SUV in the Friedrichshain district in Berlin. The three suspects raped her for several hours in the car and then in their apartment. After they have finished raping their severely injured victim, they threw her into the street. On 23 February 2020, the three Iraqi migrants found another victim, 21-year-old Undine N., whom they raped repeatedly after dragging her into their SUV in the Friedrichshain district. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 7: <a href="https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/Two-Bangladeshis-arrested-in-Italy-for-allegedly">Two Bangladeshis arrested in Italy for allegedly raping student</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Two Bangladeshi nationals, Deb Sagor and Hamaet Ferdause, have been arrested for allegedly raping an Italian student in Fermo in the Marche region in central Italy on 4 July 2019.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 8: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/greece-pakistani-migrant-charged-with-raping-8-year-old-boy">Greece: Pakistani migrant charged with raping 8-year-old boy</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 19 July 2019, a Pakistani migrant raped an 8-year-old boy on the popular Greek island of Kos, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. The Pakistani man lured the boy to a field near a migrant reception center where he threatened to kill him before raping him. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 9: <a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/01/19/pakistani-raping-17-year-athens/#:~:text=A%2029%2Dyear%2Dold%20Pakistani,Sub%2DDirectorate%20of%20Attica%20Security.">Pakistani arrested for raping 17-year-old in Athens</a></b></div><div>A 29-year-old Pakistani rapist chased a 17-year-old girl, stabbed her in the neck, and raped her near Attiki Square in Athens on 23 August 2019. He raped her again in September 2019 and threatened her not to tell anyone.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Case 10: <a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/12/19/pakistani-accused-raping-two-women/">27-year-old Pakistani that sexually assaulted two women in Kos will be tried next month</a></b></div><div>In October 2019, a 27-year-old Pakistani man sexually assaulted two women in Kos, a popular Greek island. On 12 October, he approached a 41-year-old Greek woman from behind and attempted to take off her blouse. In the second incident, he followed a 30-year-old German woman, grabbed her hands and kissed her on the neck. When the German woman ran towards the sea, the Pakistani ran after her and pushed her violently into the sea. He then attempted to take off her blouse and molested her while pushing her head under water. </div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 11: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/sweden-trial-begins-for-somali-citizen-accused-of-attempted-rape-of-woman-in-her-70s">Sweden: Trial begins for Somali citizen accused of attempted rape of woman in her 70s</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 26 December 2019, a 23-year-old Somali migrant attempted to rape a woman in her 70s in Solvesborg, Sweden. The accused grabbed the woman's arms, held his hand over her mouth, and hit her until she was bleeding before pulling her down to the ground. It was alleged that he told the woman, "I will fuck you" and warned her not to scream or he would throw her in the water. The message is - even grandmothers can become victims of sexual violence!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 12: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/sweden-syrian-national-who-raped-12-year-old-girl-in-a-public-toilet-sentenced-to-gender-talks-avoids-deportation-and-jail-time">Sweden: Syrian national who raped 12-year-old girl in a public toilet sentenced to gender talks; avoids deportation and jail time</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">An 18-year-old Syrian migrant, Mustafa, raped a 12-year-old girl inside a public toilet on 27 February 2020 in the city of Boras in West Sweden. However, the Syrian migrant was given a light sentence of 150 hours of youth care. He certainly knows how lucky he is to live in Sweden! That is why more and more of his kind are smuggling themselves to Europe. Mustafa came to Sweden during the height of the migrant crisis 2015-2016.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 13: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/somali-migrant-who-raped-9-year-old-swedish-girl-won-t-be-deported">Somali migrant who raped 9-year-old Swedish girl won't be deported</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 15 April 2020, a 39-year-old Somali migrant, Ahmed M., dragged a 9-year-old girl into a bush and raped her as she was walking home from school. He also smeared her face with mud, tied her up and strangled her. The Somali migrant was prematurely released from prison on parole for raping a 12-year-old girl in 2017. The sex attacks took place in Norrkoping, a city in eastern Sweden. Since the perpetrator has already become a Swedish citizen, he cannot be deported.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 14: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/sweden-sudanese-national-who-murdered-teen-and-raped-woman-sentenced-to-life">Sweden: Sudanese national who murdered teen and raped woman sentenced to life</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A 23-year-old Sudanese national, Abubaker Mohamad Awad, raped a young woman twice and murdered 19-year-old Tommie Lindhn, who was trying to stop him from raping the young woman, on 23 May 2020. The Sudanese migrant has previously been convicted of shoplifting, drug offenses, and sexual harassment.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 15: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/african-migrant-convicted-of-raping-15-year-old-czech-girl-has-prison-sentence-extended">African migrant convicted of raping 15-year-old Czech girl has prison sentence extended</a> </b></div><div>An African asylum seeker, Abdallah Ibrahim Diallo, was sentenced to four years in prison by a Czech court for raping a 15-year-old girl in Litomerice, in the Czech Republic, on 18 June 2020. The asylum seeker grabbed his victim by the shoulder from behind, threw her into the grass, kissed her and then raped her. He also stole her cell phone. Since his nationality has not been determined yet, there is nowhere to deport him. That was the reason why this rapefugee came to Europe without any documents - he knew that he would not be deported. Why not just put him back in a boat? There is no need to worry about his nationality because he can easily smuggle himself elsewhere.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 16: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/germany-migrant-drags-47-year-old-woman-off-her-bike-and-rapes-her-at-knife-point-in-munich">Germany: Migrant drags 47-year-old woman off her bike and rapes her at knife point in Munich</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 30 July 2020, a 47-year-old woman was pushed off her bike, pulled into a corn field in Munich, and raped at knife point by a migrant. After raping his victim, the migrant took her to Feldmochinger See, the largest lake in Munich, and forced her to wash in the lake. He also took away her underwear. Police are still hunting for the rapist. Thus we can see that rapefugees are getting smarter as they know how to destroy sexual assault evidence. Not all rapefugees are arrested by the police since many of them just disappeared without a trace and are prowling around in search of their next victims.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 17: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/syrian-migrant-arrested-in-sweden-on-suspicion-of-rape-just-a-year-after-gaining-citizenship">Syrian migrant arrested for rape in Sweden just a year after gaining citizenship</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A 40-year-old Syrian man, who was granted Swedish citizenship in the summer of 2020, was arrested on 12 August 2020 on suspicion for raping a woman in her 20s in Kristinehamn, a city in south-eastern Varmland, Sweden. He is also the suspect in a separate case for attempted rape. However, he cannot be deported even if he is found guilty because he has been granted Swedish citizenship. But why grant citizenship to this kind of people? And why set the rule that this kind of people cannot be deported? Anyone who has committed a crime ought to be deported. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 18: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8636525/Italian-girl-15-raped-beach-two-unaccompanied-minors.html">Italian girl, 15, 'is raped on the beach by two "unaccompanied minors" being housed in migrant accommodation'</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 15 August 2020, a 15-year-old Italian girl was raped by two unaccompanied minors on Lignano beach in northeastern Italy while the third stood by and watched. Two were Albanians and one was Egyptian. They were aged between 16 and 17.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 19: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/two-migrant-background-men-torture-and-rape-two-boys-in-sweden-for-nearly-10-hours">Sweden: Two migrant background men torture and rape two boys in a cemetery for nearly 10 hours</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A 21-year-old Iranian and an 18-year-old Tunisian attacked and dragged two Swedish boys, aged 15 and 17, to Norra Cemetery near Stockholm, stripped them and raped them on Saturday night, 22 August 2020. The boys were beaten, tortured, and humiliated for almost 10 hours until Sunday morning. The perpetrators also stabbed their victims in the legs so that they could not escape. The 21-year-old Iranian has been convicted of arson, theft, and drug offenses. The 18-year-old Tunisian has been sentenced to juvenile detention for theft. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 20: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/italy-head-of-migrant-center-raped-by-nigerian-migrant-residing-there">Italy: Head of migrant center raped by Nigerian migrant residing there</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">29 August 2020 - The head of a migrant center in Palermo (the capital of the Italian island of Sicily) testified that she was raped by a Nigerian migrant, Hope Omnolodion, who was residing in the center where she worked. According to the victim, the Nigerian migrant had said that he wanted her and often touched her in an inappropriate manner from behind. One day, when she accompanied Omnolodion to the hospital in Partinico, 30 kilometers from Palermo, he threatened her with a knife and forced her to have sex with him.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 20: <a href="https://www.dhakatribune.com/world/europe/2021/01/14/bangladeshi-man-jailed-in-uk-for-rape">Bangladeshi man jailed in UK for rape</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A 31-year-old Bangladeshi man, Muhib Uddin, who worked at a kebab shop in Portsmouth, UK, attacked and raped a 19-year-old woman in an alleyway in Clarendon Road in Southsea on 29 August 2020. He fled the scene when locals rushed to help the victim after hearing her screams.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 21: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/20-year-old-french-student-raped-strangled-and-tortured-for-three-hours-by-migrant-with-deportation-orders-french-police">20-year-old French student raped, strangled and tortured for three hours by migrant with deportation orders: police</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A migrant in his 30s, Erjan I., who claimed to be from Kosovo, beat, raped, strangled, and tortured a 20-year-old student for three hours in her apartment in the city of Angers in western France on 31 August 2020. The suspect, who had six previous convictions for burglaries and sexual assaults since 2018, cannot be deported because Kosovo did not recognize him as a citizen. Given the eighth chance in life, who are his next victims?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 22: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/nigerian-migrant-goes-on-sexual-assault-spree-in-germany-attacks-7-and-14-year-old-girls">Nigerian migrant goes on sexual assault spree in Germany, attacks 7- and 14-year-old girls</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 7 September 2020, a 36-year-old Nigerian migrant sexually assaulted a 7-year-old girl and a social worker in his accommodation. The next day, he grabbed a 14-year-old student at a traffic light in Berg am Laim, a southeastern borough of Munich, and began touching her.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 23: <a href="https://europe.infowars.com/france-migrant-suspected-of-drugging-sexually-assaulting-woman-who-took-him-in/">France: Migrant Suspected of Drugging, Sexually Assaulting Woman Who Took Him In</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A Congolese man who claimed to be 18-years-old was invited by the victim into her home. One night in September 2020, while the suspect was preparing a meal for himself and the victim, it was said that he spiked the food with marijuana hash. After the effects of the drug set in, he hugged and kissed the victim, stripped her and assaulted her. Authorities doubted the alleged age of the Congolese man.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 24: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/sweden-syrian-man-who-filmed-himself-raping-14-year-old-is-charged">Sweden: Syrian man who filmed himself raping 14-year-old is charged</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In September 2020, a 22-year-old Syrian migrant living in Norrland in Sweden, filmed himself raping a 14-year-old girl on his mobile phone. He forced the girl to perform oral sex on him and then had sexual intercourse with her.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 25: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/syrian-intern-molests-two-4-year-old-children-in-german-kindergarten-police">Syrian intern molested two 4-year-old children in German kindergarten</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">1 November 2020 - A 35-year-old Syrian male intern sexually molested and abused two 4-year-old children in a kindergarten in Neubrandenburg, a city in the southeast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Why pushed German kindergartens to hire more migrants when they have a history of sexual assaults? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 26: <a href="https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/11/29/migrant-rapist-is-bailed-and-sent-to-live-in-a-camp/">Migrant Rapist is Bailed and Sent To Live In A Camp</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 8 November 2020, a Sudanese migrant was arrested on suspicion of raping a woman at a hotel in London where he was living at taxpayers' expense. He was then sent to Napier Barracks. The Sudanese migrant arrived in Britain aboard a small boat a few weeks prior to the rape. In another incident, a 30-year-old migrant housed at the barracks who allegedly sexually harassed a female charity worker was arrested. He was also living at the barracks on bail. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 27: <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/29/greek-police-hunt-for-migrant-chain-rapist-after-attack-on-54-year-old/">Greek police hunt migrant 'chain rapist' after attack on 54-year-old</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A migrant, believed to be a Pakistani man, attempted to rape a 54-year-old local woman while wrapping a thick chain around her neck in Kaminia in Greece. The migrant went inside a local cafe and jumped on the woman who was cleaning up after the cafe had closed for the day. The incident took place in late November 2020.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 28: <a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/12/15/pakistani-athens-held-two-minors/#:~:text=December%2015%2C%202020-,Pakistani%20man%20in%20Athens%20held%20two%20minors%20captive%2C%20gave,drugs%20and%20sexually%20assaulted%20them&text=A%20Pakistani%20drug%20dealer%20kept,for%20help%20from%20the%20street.">Pakistani man in Athens held two minors captive, gave them drugs and sexually assaulted them</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A Pakistani drug dealer kept two Greek girls, aged 16 and 17, in a fifth floor apartment on Kerameikou Street in Athens, where he drugged and raped them. He also threatened to kill them if they tried to escape. The girls managed to escape from the apartment on 14 December 2020. Police arrested the Pakistani man and found 49 packages of cannabis, 70 pills and heroin in his apartment.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 29: <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/03/25/pakistani-migrant-arrested-after-brutal-sexual-assault-on-greek-woman/">Pakistani migrant arrested after brutal sexual assault on Greek woman</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A Pakistani migrant has been arrested for assault and attempted rape of a Grrek woman, Despina Platanaki, in Ierapetra, on the southeast coast of Crete, on 19 March 2021. While attempting to rape her, the migrant also beat her and took out a knife to kill her when she was saved by a passerby. Miss Platanaki was not his only victim as police suspected that he had sexually harassed five other women.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 30: <a href="https://europe.infowars.com/nigerian-migrant-arrested-for-kidnapping-sexually-assaulting-disabled-child-in-france/">Nigerian Migrant Arrested for Kidnapping, Sexually Assaulting Disabled Child in France</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 21 March 2021, a 19-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker, who came to France as an unaccompanied minor, kidnapped an 11-year-old mentally-disabled girl, and held her against her will in a hotel room in the town of Coteau for several hours. The victim was found partially naked in the Nigerian asylum seeker's hotel room where he sexually assaulted her.</div><p><br /></p>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-24269801240842884822021-03-21T21:39:00.363+08:002021-07-06T03:02:50.096+08:00Migrants and Crime in Europe in the Twenty-First Century<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7uR_xSSZQwzih4Kzr7DRrsKfz32x9SCI1kdgOkpsbN7HkNd8Mc3_kIUjovMayAlsvKs_Ropk-bnCITTqqwtl79iTDBTayVey1NmkoxUo2hNPMKjL1afBbpezVzsqKLjtGnCizJo9Ocyc/s441/migrantcrime.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7uR_xSSZQwzih4Kzr7DRrsKfz32x9SCI1kdgOkpsbN7HkNd8Mc3_kIUjovMayAlsvKs_Ropk-bnCITTqqwtl79iTDBTayVey1NmkoxUo2hNPMKjL1afBbpezVzsqKLjtGnCizJo9Ocyc/s320/migrantcrime.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">Migrant Crime and Violence in Europe</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In my previous articles entitled <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/01/migrants-stuck-in-hopeless-situation-at.html">Migrants stuck in hopeless situation at EU border in Bosnia : who is to blame?</a> and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/should-large-influx-of-migrants-into-eu.html">Should the large influx of migrants into the EU countries be encouraged?</a> I discussed about the European migrant crisis and its impact on the EU countries. Although I am not a citizen of the EU, I feel sad for the EU countries each time I watch videos about migrant boats arriving on the shores of Italy, Spain and Greece. I just couldn't help wondering how many EU citizens would be their next victims. Can Europe cope with the large influx of migrants? Do they really deserve protection? Should Europe continue to take in a significant number of migrants every year? What will happen to its own citizens? Will migrants threaten their personal safety? Is it still safe for young ladies to travel alone in European countries that have taken in lots of migrants? It should be noted that the word "migrants" is used instead of "refugees" because the majority of them are fake refugees who are looking for a better life in Europe and don't deserve asylum. Knowing that they will receive generous benefits in Europe, they will do anything to get there. Once they get there, they will not leave because only Europe will give them free lunch. In Denmark, for example, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/justice-for-denmark-other-side-of.html">Syrian refugees are refusing to leave even though Syria is safe now</a>. Leaving Denmark would mean that there is no more free lunch for them. They would also have to work hard in their homeland. (Please read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/justice-for-denmark-other-side-of.html">Justice for Denmark: The Other Side of the Deportation Story</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">With the mass exodus of millions of migrants to Europe every year, crime is inevitable as it is impossible to do a background check on them. Migrants are smart people and they would lie about their names, ages, and nationalities so that they could benefit from the leniency of the juvenile justice system. Some would even mutilate themselves to disguise their fingerprints so that their past would be concealed forever. A parliamentary report reveals that <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/up-to-91-6-of-unaccompanied-minors-in-france-could-be-adults-reveals-parliamentary-report">Up to 91.6% of unaccompanied minors in France could be adults</a>. These <a href="https://www.dailyadvent.com/news/ec96f4335138e48d546f17bd2bf42bb0-Ultraviolent-Underage-Migrants-Causing-Havoc-in-French-Prisons">'ultraviolent' underage migrants are causing havoc in French prisons and juvenile detention centres</a>. According to a study in Belgium, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/73-of-underaged-asylum-seekers-in-belgium-are-actually-adults-study">73% of its 'underage' asylum seekers are actually adults</a>. Similarly, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2017/07/07/86-per-cent-recently-tested-underage-migrants-sweden-adults/">86 Per Cent of Recently Tested ‘Underage’ Migrants in Sweden Are Actually Adults</a>. Irrespective of whether they are adults or minors, migrants have been involved in a number of sex attacks and murders in their host countries. Given such circumstances, is it safe to welcome them to Europe? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">According to the Danish Ministry of Justice, reported rapes linked to migrant influx have increased by 196% since June 2015. <a href="https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/number-of-sexual-assaults-by-pakistani-origin-men-increases-in-greece/">Concerns rise as men of Pakistani origin found sexually assaulting women in Greece with alarming frequency</a>. The sad truth is, there has been a spike in crime in the once peaceful countries like Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and France. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42557828">Migrants may be responsible for most of a recent rise in violent crime in Germany, research commissioned by the government suggests.</a> Using data from Lower Saxony, the study conducted by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences has shown that more than 90% of the increased crime rate was attributable to young male migrants. Germany's reported knife crimes have also increased by 600% within four years, from 2013 to 2016. With the Syrian population estimated at 800,000, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/syrians-are-the-most-likely-to-commit-acts-of-violence-in-germany">Syrians are the most likely to commit acts of violence in Germany</a>. In Sweden, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/migrant-gangs-are-taking-over-the-role-of-the-police-in-sweden-s-gothenburg-polish-government-says-it-warned-of-such-a-scenario">migrant gangs are taking over the role of police in Gothenburg</a>. A Swedish daily newspaper, Aftonbladet, writes , "Murders, shootings and knife attacks are every day occurrences in Gothenburg for the past two years." And it does sound ridiculous that criminal gangs in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta had <a href="https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010191080813570-demonstration-of-power-criminal-gangs-impose-curfew-on-inhabitants-of-swedish-no-go-zone/">imposed curfew and threatened people with weapons to force them to stay indoor after 6 pm</a>. Out of the 19,000 inhabitants of the district, more than 88% of them have a foreign background! There are also increasing numbers of rapes by migrants. A study published online on 22 February 2021 by Lund University has indicated that most of the convicted rapists in Sweden are migrants. In Switzerland, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/teenage-migrants-terrorize-switzerland-with-street-fights">teenage migrants are terrorizing the country with street fights</a>. In France, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/nearly-half-of-paris-ghetto-criminals-have-a-migrant-background">Nearly half of all criminals in Paris ghettos feature a migrant background</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoF1S3G2fXP1rQ_FLT8qlr6UYoR8oSHDQ1G0wq_nAzZDYpZI_WfE-mOibM-Td6MbrbfstGvtqgYGkbSj42SjCbvHcKkuT1soi3wYPDHK7Y3GePlnEZUrwMOZpHH7A-IJIQu242G5a8SIg/s743/deport_them_not_support_them.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="743" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoF1S3G2fXP1rQ_FLT8qlr6UYoR8oSHDQ1G0wq_nAzZDYpZI_WfE-mOibM-Td6MbrbfstGvtqgYGkbSj42SjCbvHcKkuT1soi3wYPDHK7Y3GePlnEZUrwMOZpHH7A-IJIQu242G5a8SIg/s320/deport_them_not_support_them.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Rapefugees NOT welcome: Deport them, NOT support them</span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When I googled for information about migrants and crime in Europe, I was shocked to find so many rape cases. Please read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/04/europe-and-migrant-rape-crisis.html">EUROPE AND THE MIGRANT RAPE CRISIS</a> to find out more about the rape tactics of European rapefugees. It breaks my heart to see so many innocent white women being treated like rag dolls, raped and even murdered by sex maniacs from third world countries or better known as rapefugees. Why are there so many rapefugees in Europe? Looks like they are really enjoying their raping spree. As what <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/matteo-salvini-is-he-hero-or-villain.html">Matteo Salvini</a> wrote on Twitter after a Bangladeshi asylum seeker was arrested for raping a Finnish woman in Rome, "The refugee was busy raping. They are simply too many, and I'll send home a number of them." Yes, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/matteo-salvini-is-he-hero-or-villain.html">Matteo Salvini must send all of them away</a>. What are the Bangladeshis doing in Europe? There is no war in Bangladesh and Bangladeshis don't deserve protection. If Bangladeshis are eligible for asylum, gamblers who are running away from loan sharks should also seek asylum in Europe because the loan sharks would kill them! Apart from rape, there are also many crimes involving bodily harm and murder committed by migrants. It seems that migrants are very skilful with a knife and they have been busy stabbing too. But why should Europe give generous benefits and protection to them when they are doing so much damage to society? The more I read about migrants and their crimes, the more I sympathize with Europe. Tears welled up in my eyes when I read <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/german-court-evicts-elderly-couple-from-home-to-accommodate-refugees">German court evicts elderly couple from home to accommodate refugees</a> and I am writing this article because I am weeping for Europe. My heart really goes out to the European countries - in the midst of the pandemic and covid recession, they are pressured to take in migrants even though it is very obvious that migrants are doing a lot of harm to their own citizens. To protect its own citizens, Europe should tighten its borders and step up migrant deportations and pushbacks. Why allow migrants to eat free and stay for free at hotels when so many citizens of Europe are living on the streets? Instead of feeling grateful to their host countries, migrants are complaining about the hotel foods that are given to them free of charge at the expense of taxpayers! Many Malaysians have to survive on Maggi instant noodles on their Europe trip to save money but they never complain. So, why are those who get everything free of charge complaining so much? The best solution is to deport them and stop supporting them. Make them pay for their food and lodging and they will disappear in no time (You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-to-get-rid-of-europes-migrant-crime.html">How to Get Rid of Europe's Migrant Crime Zones</a> and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/06/white-lives-matter-even-ones-being.html">White lives matter, 'even the ones being raped, stabbed and murdered'</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In this article, I would like to share a list of 60 crimes (in chronological order) committed by migrants in Europe after the European Migrant Crisis in 2015. In reality, the list is unending and those who are interested to read more about migrants and the nasty things that they have done to Europe can always google for more cases on the internet as there are lots of them. Since I have gone back to school to teach and am not a lecturer in a tertiary institution anymore, I am not writing anymore research papers on crime but I hope that researchers in this field would find this article useful. To read the full crime story, you can click on the title of each case (in blue) below. Each of these stories makes me weep for Europe! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 1: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-44357383">Asylum seeker who raped student on Cardiff night out jailed</a></b></div><div>In January 2015, an asylum seeker from Egypt, 39-year-old Mohamed Amin, who came to the UK in 2012, pretended to help his 18-year-old victim to recover her phone from a drain. He then persuaded her to get in a taxi and lured her to his home where he pushed her into a shower and raped her. After this incident, Amin fled to Ireland but he was arrested in Dublin in April 2017 and brought back to the UK to face trial.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 2: <a href="https://finlandtoday.fi/how-the-rape-in-tapanila-started-an-outrage-against-somalis-in-finland/">How the Rape in Tapanila Started an Outrage Against Somalis in Finland</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 9 March 2015, a young woman was harassed by five Somali boys, aged 15-18, on the train. The boys followed her after she left Tapanila railway station and raped her in an outdoor recreation area. They were caught by the police and taken into custody - four of them were minors.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 3: <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/austria-swimming-pool-rape-theresienbad-vienna-iraqi-refugee-a7473441.html">Man who raped child in swimming pool because it was 'a sexual emergency' has jail sentence increased on appeal</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In December 2015, a 20-year-old Iraqi refugee, Amir A., who arrived in Austria in September 2015 through the Balkans, raped a 10-year-old boy in the changing rooms of Theresienbad pool in Vienna. The attacker was taken to the pool as part of the integration process into Austrian society but it seemed that his way to integrate into Austrian society was to lock the boy in the changing rooms and brutally raped him. According to the Iraqi refugee, he had not had sex for four months and his act had been a 'sexual emergency'. Amir A. worked as a taxi-driver in Vienna.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 4: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39142620">Eight Iraqis jailed for New Year gang rape in Vienna</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the early hours of 1 January 2016, eight Iraqi men, aged between 22 and 48, gang-raped a 28-year-old German teacher who was celebrating New Year in Vienna. Four of the men took her to an apartment at Rustenschacher Allee where others were waiting and they took turns to rape her and take selfies with her. The victim was heavily intoxicated and was unable to defend herself. According to her, she has been drugged by the Iraqi men. The Iraqis came to Austria in 2015 via the Balkan route and five of them were granted refugee status.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 5: <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alexandra-mezher-woman-22-stabbed-to-death-during-fight-at-shelter-for-teenage-refugees-in-sweden-a6834071.html">Alexandra Mezher: Woman, 22, stabbed to death during 'fight' at shelter for teenage refugees in Sweden</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 25 January 2016, 22-year-old Alexandra Mezher, who was working at a shelter for unaccompanied refugee minors in the city of Molndal, Sweden, was stabbed to death by Youssaf Khaliif Nuur, a Somalian migrant who claimed that he was 15. However, medical examination to determine his age after the attack has indicated that he was at least 18.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 6: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3454882/Afghan-teen-charged-raping-worker-Belgian-asylum-centre.html">Teenage Afghan migrant, 16, 'rapes worker at Belgian asylum centre two weeks after attending a course on how to treat Western women' </a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">19 Feb 2016 - A 16-year-old Afghan asylum seeker followed a female worker from a catering firm into the basement of a migrant centre in Menen and raped her, two weeks after he attended a course about how to treat women in Flanders.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 7: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-austria-rape-idUKKBN15F1HH">Austrian court sentences Afghan teenagers to prison over gang rape</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In April 2016, a 21-year-old woman was raped by three Afghan asylum seekers in a public toilet in Vienna's Praterstern station (Praterstern station is one of Vienna's main railway stations). Two of the boys were 18 and the youngest one was only 16. They followed her into the toilet cubicle and the 16-year-old boy held her down while the two 18-year-old boys raped her.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 8: <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/05/europe/nice-france-attack-victim/index.html">Death toll rises to 85 in Bastille Day attack in Nice</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 31-year-old Tunisian man living in France, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, deliberately drove a 19-tonne cargo truck into crowds of people at the Bastille Day celebration along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring 458 others. The assailant, who had been previously involved in five criminal offences for theft and violence, was shot dead inside the truck's cabin. He had a French residency permit and lived in Nice. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 9: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-attacks-germany-idUSKCN0ZY2LA">German train ax attack puts Merkel migrant policy back in spotlight</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 18 July 2016, a 17-year-old Pakistani asylum seeker, Riaz Khan Ahmadzai (also known as Muhammad Riyad), attacked and severely wounded four Hong Kong citizens on a commuter train in Wurzburg, in the Bavaria region in Germany. The fifth victim, a local woman, was seriously injured outside the train when the attacker hit her twice in the face with the axe. At least 19 people have been injured in the incident. The perpetrator entered Germany in 2015 as an unaccompanied refugee minor with hundreds of thousands of migrants and lived with a German foster family in Gaukonigshofen in the district of Wurzburg. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 10: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36880758">Ansbach explosion: Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up in Germany</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 24 July 2016, a 27-year-old Syrian refugee who was denied asylum, blew himself up and wounded 15 people with a backpack bomb outside an open-air music festival in Ansbach, Germany. Due to the dangerous situation in Syria, he was allowed to stay in a hotel, which was being used as a refugee shelter, even though he had been denied asylum.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 11: <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/syrian-refugee-arrested-killing-woman-machete-germany-police-163921559.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFqfDKT5rg7PvR642cwaNHnm7sTO8YRBPSKj8HBbYaNcMZchHUHrC0hVt8fumqTaRfakYEsEwji5eXtC3JwVzWDIOxsaJwXbpPc6VGGboiLCaxHERHeRbXBmUhZsGR5I92ahu_QyAt-DTmyWoQ88owMsHJVXcOwZSRMo-2ZR24PW">Syrian refugee in Germany arrested after killing woman in machete attack</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 24 July 2016, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee, Mohamed, killed his girlfriend, a 45-year-old Polish woman who was pregnant, and wounded two other people with a machete in the southwestern city of Reutlingen, Germany. The perpetrator, who had been arrested previously for causing bodily harm, had quarreled with his girlfriend prior to the attack.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 12: <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2778525/sudanese-migrant-asylum-raped-tourist-london-station/">SEX FIEND JAILED Sudanese migrant granted asylum in the UK raped a terrified tourist at London railway station</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A 19-year-old Sudanese sex attacker, Salah Koubar, raped a young South Korean tourist in some bushes outside West Dulwich station in South London on 26 July 2016. They met at the Freedom bar in Soho where he tricked her to go to another bar with him in Westminster but they ended up at Vauxhall station. When she wanted to call a taxi, Koubar took away her phone and bag and insisted that they should take the next bus to central London but they ended up at West Dulwich railway station. He threw her over the railings, dragged her into the bushes outside the station, and raped her. Koubar has been jailed for seven years.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 13: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/libyan-migrant-faces-3-years-in-prison-for-stabbing-belgian-priest-who-offered-him-coffee-and-a-shower">Libyan migrant faces 3 years in prison for stabbing Belgian priest who offered him coffee and a shower</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 31 July 2016, a 70-year-old priest in Belgium, Jos Vanderlee, was stabbed to death by an asylum seeker from Libya. The priest had earlier allowed him to take a shower in his house. He was making coffee for the Libyan migrant when the migrant stabbed him with a knife.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 14: <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/asylum-seeker-sentenced-to-life-in-jail-in-germany-over-rape-murder-of-student">Asylum-seeker sentenced to life in jail in Germany over rape, murder of student</a></b></div><div>An asylum seeker, Hussein Khavari, who claimed to be from Afghanistan, was sentenced to life in prison for raping and murdering 19-year-old Maria Ladenburger in October 2016. The victim was a medical student at the Unversity of Freiburg. In the early morning of 16 October 2016, as she was cycling home after she attended a party hosted by the medical faculty, she was raped and strangled by Khavari who then drowned her in the Dreisam River. Khavari arrived in Germany in November 2015 without identification documents and was granted asylum as an unaccompanied refugee minor because he lied about his age. He had earlier been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Greece for robbing a woman and pushing her off a cliff but was released on parole after 18 months due to overcrowding in the prisons. Evidence that emerged during his rape and murder trial has shown that he actually came from Iran and could be more than 30 years old.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 15: <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com//english/2017-03/09/c_136113524.htm">Swedish court orders deportation of 5 Afghan refugees convicted of gang rape</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In October 2016, five unaccompanied Afghan refugee minors, aged 16 to 17, dragged a 15-year-old boy into a wooded area in the city of Uppsala (near Stockholm) and gang-raped him at knife-point for more than one hour. The victim was also bitten, beaten, and spat on.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 16: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4008432/Iraqi-asylum-seeker-arrested-sexually-assaulting-students-Germany-just-days-Afghan-migrant-accused-raping-drowning-EU-official-s-daughter.html">Iraqi asylum seeker is arrested for sexually assaulting students in Germany just days after Afghan migrant was accused of raping and drowning EU official's daughter</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">7 December 2016 - A 31-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker, who entered Germany in 2015 and lived with his wife and two children in Bochum, has been arrested for sexually assaulting two Chinese students. In August 2016, he attempted to rape and seriously injured a 21-year-old student. In November 2016, he attacked and raped a 27-year-old Chinese woman. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 17: <a href="https://www.wnpr.org/post/police-hunting-tunisian-man-suspected-berlin-truck-attack">Police Hunting For Tunisian Man Suspected In Berlin Truck Attack</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 19 December 2016, an asylum seeker from Tunisia, 24 year-old Anis Amri, deliberately drove a stolen truck into the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 56 others. The original driver of the truck, 37-year-old Lukasz Urban, was found murdered in the passenger seat. Anis Amri, whose full name was Anis Ben-Mustafa Ben-Outhman Amri, arrived at the island of Lampedusa in 2011 on a raft. He lied about his age and pretended to be a minor and was sent to a migrant reception center on the island. He had been involved in a violent riot in Italy and served four years in prison for robbery and arson. He entered Germany from Italy in July 2015 and applied for asylum in April 2016. Using at least 14 different aliases and posing as citizens of different countries, he was a high-level drug dealer and had also taken part in a knife attack over drug dealing in Germany. Anis Amri was shot dead after firing at Italian police officers on 23 December 2016 in Milan.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 18: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5026457/Four-Moroccans-arrested-gang-rape-Canary-Islands.html">Four Moroccans are arrested over gang rape of tourist behind shopping centre toilets in Canary Islands resort popular with Britons</a></b></div><div>On 26 December 2016, four Moroccan men aged 26 to 32, gang-raped and sexually abused a tourist behind toilets at a shopping center in Puerto Rico (on the island of Gran Canaria). The Moroccans took advantage of the tourist and forced themselves on her knowing that she was incapacitated as a result of alcohol. They were arrested after a lengthy investigation.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 19: <a href="https://www.thelocal.de/20180326/trial-starts-of-asylum-seeker-over-brutal-rape-in-munichs-english-garden/">Trial starts of asylum seeker over brutal rape in Munich's Englsh Garden</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In December 2016, a 28-year-old Turkish asylum seeker, Emrah T., strangled a 45-year-old jogger with her headband and raped her when she collapsed in unconsciousness. The incident took place in a remote area of the English Garden. When Emrah T. entered Germany with his pregnant wife to apply for asylum in 2015, he lied to immigration authorities that he was Syrian.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 20: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4444016/Migrants-jailed-years-raping-woman-Sweden.html">Two Afghan migrants are jailed for up to two years for raping a woman in Sweden as their friend broadcasted it over Facebook Live</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In January 2017, two Afghan migrants and a Swedish Afghan, aged 18 to 24, were arrested for gang-raping a woman in her 30s in Uppsala (a city near Stockholm, Sweden). The victim was in a very vulnerable position as she was heavily intoxicated by alcohol and drugs. The 24-year-old Swedish Afghan was filming and livestreaming the incident on Facebook while his friends were raping her.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 21: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44399293">Stockholm lorry attacker Rakhmat Akilov jailed for life</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 7 April 2017, 39-year-old Rakhmat Akilov, an Uzbek asylum seeker, stole a truck and deliberately drove the truck at high speed into crowds along Drottninggatan before crashing into Ahlens City department store in central Stockholm, killing 5 people and injuring 14 others. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 22: <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6961999/asylum-seeker-rapist-admits-sex-attack-hull-cemetery/">SICKO RAPIST Asylum seeker who raped teen in Hull cemetery tells judge ‘yes, why not?’ when admitting sex attack</a></b></div><div>A 21-year-old asylum seeker, Ishaq Al-Noor, who came to the UK as a refugee from Sudan in 2015, raped a 17-year-old student on 4 June 2017 and attempted to rape a 36-year-old mum five months later on 15 November in the Spring Bank Cemetery in Hull. He lay in wait late at night for his victims and dragged them into the cemetery before sexually assaulting them. When the rape charge was put to him, he admitted his sex attack and said, "Guilty. Yes, I did that. Why not?"</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 23: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40998646">Moroccan suspect named over Finland stabbings in Turku</a></b></div><div>On 18 August 2017, an 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker, Abderrahman Bouanane, stabbed two Finnish women to death and injured eight other people in Puutori, a market square in the city center of Turku, Finland. The knife attacker was shot in the thigh before he was arrested following the knife attacks in the market square. Four other Moroccan men were also detained by the police. Abderrahman Bouanane had previously stayed in Germany illegally where he committed crimes under several different identities. He arrived in Finland in 2016 under a false identity. </div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Case 24: <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4396053/asylum-seeker-20-and-three-teens-arrested-for-gang-raping-polish-tourist-on-italian-beach-as-her-badly-beaten-husband-was-forced-to-watch/">'GANG RAPISTS' ARREST Asylum seeker, 20, and three teens arrested for ‘gang-raping Polish tourist on Italian beach in front of her husband before raping another woman’</a></b></div><div>A 20 year-old Congolese refugee, Guerlin Butungu, and three teens (two Moroccan brothers aged 15 and 17 & a 16-year-old Nigerian) have been arrested for gang-raping a 26-year-old Polish tourist in front of her boyfriend after knocking him unconscious and robbing him. They had also raped a 42-year-old Peruvian transsexual barely an hour after they attacked the polish couple. The attacks happened in the resort town of Rimini on 26 August 2017.</div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 25: <a href="http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/5874">Finnish tourist raped, Bangladeshi asylum seeker arrested</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 10 September 2017, a 20-year-old Finnish tourist was raped and robbed by a 23-year-old Bangladeshi in Rome. She was drinking with a friend in a Roman bar when the Bangladeshi man offered to walk her home. During the walk, he dragged her behind a bus near the Roma Termini railway station where he robbed and raped her. He also hit her over the head with a large rock. The Bangladeshi man had a humanitarian permit to stay in Italy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 26: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5856291/Afghan-child-refugee-goes-trial-Germany-murder-girlfriend.html">Afghan 'child refugee' goes on trial in Germany for allegedly stabbing to death 15-year-old girl after she ended their relationship, sparking protests over Merkel's immigration policy</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 27 December 2017, 15-year-old Mia Valentin was stabbed to death in a drugstore in Kandel, Germany, by her boyfriend, Abdul Mobin Dawodzai, an Afghan teenager who was denied refugee status, after she ended the relationship. That day, Dawodzai followed Valentin into the store and stabbed her seven times in the heart with a 20 cm knife. Although the perpetrator claimed that he was only 15, medical examination has indicated that he was at least 17.5 and that he could even be 20.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 26: <a href="https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/crime/man-raped-teen-after-luring-her-falkirk-house-promise-party-2889520">Man raped teen after luring her to Falkirk house with promise of a party</a></b></div><div>On 14 January 2018, a 27-year-old sex predator, Naser Ellase, an Iranian Kurd who arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker, invited a 19-year-old girl to a party in his house in Stewart Road in Falkirk where he attacked and raped her. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Case 27: <a href="https://europediplomatic.com/2019/03/15/italian-chopped-alive-by-nigerian-migrants/">ITALIAN CHOPPED ALIVE BY NIGERIAN MIGRANTS</a></b></div><div>On 30 January 2018, 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro was murdered in Macereta by Innocent Oseghale, a 29-year-old Nigerian migrant drug dealer. Oseghale had dropped out of a refugee assistance program and his residency permit had expired. Two other Nigerian men were also arrested by the police. Pamela Mastropietro's body, found in two suitcases by the side of a road, was severely mutilated. She died from two abdominal stabbings. Prosecutor Giovanni Giorgio did not rule out rape as Oseghale could have tried to destroy evidence of sexual violence by dismembering the corpse.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Case 28: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5505025/Failed-Afghan-asylum-seeker-arrested-killing-girlfriend.html">Failed Afghan asylum seeker is arrested in Germany for killing his girlfriend</a></b></div><div>On 12 March 2018, an unaccompanied minor refugee from Afghanistan, Ahmad S., stabbed and killed his German girlfriend, 17-year-old Mireille Bold, in her apartment in Flensburg in northern Germany. She has broken up with him and found a new boyfriend. After stabbing his victim 14 times, the perpetrator called emergency services and claimed that she had committed suicide. Ahmad S arrive in Germany in 2015 and lied about his name and age when he applied for asylum in August. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Case 29: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5544017/Woman-24-stabbed-Syrian-refugee-Germany.html">Woman, 24, fights for her life after being ambushed and stabbed by three child Syrian refugees</a></b></div><div>On 25 Mac 2018, a 24-year-old woman, Vivien K and her 25-year-old friend, Domenic, got into an argument with two Syrian boys, aged 13 and 14, in a supermarket in Burgwedel, a town in the district of Hanover, Germany. The boys were fighting inisde the supermarket and Vivien K tried to separate them. It was said that Domenic had pulled one of the boys' ears. They were surrounded by the two Syrian boys and another 17-year-old Syrian refugee, Abdalla M, on their way home. An argument started between Domenic and the Syrians and Vivien was stabbed when she tried to calm them down. Her ribs were broken and parts of her pancreas and spleen had been removed. Locals are now scared to walk in the town.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Case 30: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSKCN1U51IM">German court hands life sentence to Iraqi over teenager's rape-murder</a></b></div><div>An Iraqi Kurdish asylum seeker, 22 year-old Ali Bashar Ahmad Zebari, raped and murdered 14-year-old Susanna Maria Feldman on the night of 22 May 2018 in a wooded area near a railway line in Wiesbaden. After killing her, Ali Bashar pretended to be Susanna and sent false messages to her mother, Diana Feldman, from the victim's mobile phone to make her think that Susanna has gone to Paris. The victim's remains were found two weeks later in a shallow grave close to a railway track on the outskirts of Wiesbaden. After raping and strangling the girl, Ali Bashar returned to Iraq with his family in May 2018 but he was arrested and extradited to Germany by local Kurdish security forces the following month. Prosecutor Oliver Kuhn stated that he was probably older than what he claimed to be and was tried as an adult. Ali Bashar has shown no remorse for his actions.</div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 31: <a href="https://expressdigest.com/two-moroccan-men-arrested-after-trying-to-rape-british-holidaymaker/">Two Moroccan men arrested after trying to rape British holidaymaker</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">11 August 2018 - Two Moroccan men, who tried to rape a British tourist on the beach at Playa de las Americas in Tenerife, the largest of Spain's Canary Islands, were arrested by an off-duty police officer who was surfing with a friend. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 32: <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/german-doctor-stabbed-to-death-at-practice/a-45108969">German doctor stabbed to death at practice</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 16 August 2018, a 26-year-old man from Somalia, allegedly stabbed a German doctor to death in the south-western German city of Offenburg. The perpetrator had entered the surgery without an appointment. He had also injured an assistant.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 33: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49438847">Chemnitz trial: Syrian jailed over stabbing that sparked German far-right riots</a></b></div><div>On 26 August 2018, a 35-year-old carpenter, Daniel Hillig, was stabbed to death in a fierce fight that broke out between multiple nationalities in the eastern city of Chemnitz. Two other German men, aged 33 and 38, were seriously injured. A 24-year-old Syrian man, Alaa Sheikhi, who arrived in Germany in 2015, was found guilty of joint manslaughter and grievous bodily harm and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. </div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Case 34: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53517022">Ten men convicted over gang rape in Germany</a></b></div><div>On 13 October 2018, ten men, including eight Syrian refugees, gang-raped an 18-year-old woman in the bushes outside Freiburg's Hans-Bunte-Areal nightclub. At the time she was raped, the woman was helpless and defenseless because her drink had been spiked by a 22-year-old Syrian Kurd.</div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 35: <a href="https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6071087/schoolgirl-gang-raped-and-killed-italy/">RAPE HELL Schoolgirl, 16, ‘gang-raped and killed by four migrants who dumped her on building site to die an agonising death’</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 19 October 2018, 16-year-old Desiree Mariottini was drugged and gang raped while unconscious as she was dying in a derelict building in San Lorenzo which is known as a center for drug dealing in Rome. Four migrants, two Senegalese, a Gambian and a Nigerian have been arrested for the gang rape and murder of Desiree Mariottini. Three of them entered Italy illegally and the residency permit for the fourth had expired.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 36: <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7963611/afghan-refugee-stabbed-austrian-girlfriend-death/">Afghan refugee 'stabbed 16-year-old Austrian girlfriend to death in her bedroom'</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A failed Afghan asylum seeker, 17-year-old Saber Akhondzada, stabbed and killed his 16-year-old Austrian girlfriend, Michelle F., in her bedroom, on 9 December 2018. The Afghan refugee had escaped through a window. The incident occurred in an apartment in the Austrian city of Steyr. Akhondzada tried to make a fake identity card but handed himself in to police after seeing his photo all over the newspapers in Vienna. He was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 37: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/elderly-german-man-beaten-into-coma-by-somali-refugee-dies-after-11-month-hospital-battle">Elderly German man beaten into coma by Somali refugee dies after 11-month hospital battle</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In May 2019, a 26-year-old Somali refugee, Ali M., brutally beat a 76-year-old German pensioner, Detlef J., for no reason, while he was on his way home after visiting friends. The pensioner, who suffered severe injuries, fell into a coma and died alone in the hospital after eleven months. Due to coronavirus restrictions, his twin sons were not allowed to see him.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 38: <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/a-refugee-pushed-a-boy-under-a-train-and-reignited-germany-s-race-debate-20190731-p52cbz.html">A refugee pushed a boy under a train and reignited Germany's race debate</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 29 July 2019, a 41-year-old Eritrean man, Habte Araya, deliberately pushed a 40-year-old woman and her 8-year-old son onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train in Germany's Frankfurt railway station. The mother was able to roll over to the side and escaped death but the boy was run over by the train and killed immediately. The Eritrean citizen also tried unsuccessfully to push a 78-year-old woman onto the tracks before fleeing the scene. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 39: <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/31/europe/france-villeurbanne-knife-attack/index.html">One person was killed, 8 others wounded in knife attack outside Lyon, France</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 31 August 2019, a 33 year-old Afghan asylum seeker, stabbed nine people outside a subway station in the Lyon suburb of Villeurbanne in southeastern France. One of the victims, a 19-year-old man, was killed in this attack. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 40: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/afghan-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-double-murder-near-austrian-czech-border">Afghan sentenced to life in prison for double murder near Austrian-Czech border</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 14 October 2019, a 33-year-old Afghan man, Jamal, stabbed an employee of a refugee center in Wullowitz, Austria, who died in a hospital a few days later. After stabbing the hostel worker, he rode his bicycle to a nearby farm where he killed a 63-year-old farmer and drove away in his car. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 41: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9368097/Four-migrants-raped-14-year-old-girl-plying-alcohol-jailed-Germany.html">Four migrants who raped a 14-year-old girl at a refugee shelter on Halloween after plying her with alcohol are jailed in Germany</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On Halloween in 2019, four migrants (two 17-year-old boys and two men aged 26 and 28) from Iraq and Afghanistan plied a 14-year-old schoolgirl with alcohol and persuaded her to go to their refugee shelter in Illerkirchberg (in the district of Alb-Donau in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) where they raped her several times.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 42: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/afghan-refugee-on-trial-for-raping-11-year-old-girl-in-germany">Afghan refugee raped 11-year-old girl in Germany</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">19 Feb 2020 - A 22-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, Khudal R., has confessed to raping an 11-year-old special needs girl, in Hanover, Germany, with two other asylum seekers. He met the girl online and started chatting with her. They had their first meeting at the Langenhagen S-Bahn station (which lies north of Hanover) in September 2018 where they had sex. On their second and third meetings, two of Khudal's 19-year-old friends, Ezatullah N. and Siya A., also joined them. They took pornographic photos of the girl on their mobile phones. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 43: <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11577793/pregnant-coronavirus-nurse-rape-illegal-migrant-italy/">‘DON’T SCREAM’ Pregnant coronavirus nurse raped by illegal migrant as she waited for bus outside rail station after shift in Italy</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">8 May 2020 - An illegal immigrant from Senegal raped a pregnant nurse as she was waiting at the Corso Arnaldo Lucci Metropark bus stop behind Naples main railway station after treating coronavirus patients. He did not stop attacking her even though she told him that she was pregnant. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 44: <a href="https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/24750/french-activist-murdered-by-afghan-migrant-near-cherbourg">French activist murdered by Afghan migrant near Cherbourg</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 12 May 2020, a 63-year-old French migrant activist, Jean Dussine, was bludgeoned to death at his home in Bretteville (of the district of Cherbourg) by a 20-year-old Afghan migrant. The victim, who headed a local migrants assistance association called 'Itinerance', had been hosting migrants at his house. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 45: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8311973/Tunisian-asylum-seeker-16-arrested-suspicion-raping-40-year-old-jogger-Italy.html">Tunisian asylum seeker, 16, is arrested on suspicion of raping 40-year-old jogger in Italy</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">12 May 2020 - A 16-year-old Tunisian asylum seeker has been arrested under suspicion of raping a 40-year-old jogger on a running track in the town of La Maddalena, on an island in northern Sardinia, Italy. The asylum seeker allegedly jumped on the woman and then tried to strangle her after raping her. Two passers-by chased him off when they heard the woman screaming.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 46: <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/libyan-man-sentenced-to-life-over-uk-park-stabbings/a-56196433">Libyan man sentenced to life over UK park stabbings</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 20 June 2020, a 25-year-old Libyan refugee, Khairi Saadallah, stabbed three men to death at Forbury Gardens, a public park in the town of Reading. The three men were 36-year-old teacher at the Holt School in Wokingham, James Furlong, 49-year-old scientist, David Wails, and 39-year-old US citizen, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett. Three other victims who survived the incident were Patrick Edwards, Stephen Young and Nishit Nisudan.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 47: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-53195939">Man shot dead by police after stabbing in Glasgow hotel</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 26 June 2020, 28-year-old Badreddin Abedlla Adam from Sudan, has been shot dead by the police after injuring six people on a stabbing spree in the Park Inn Hotel, Glasgow. The 91-room hotel was housing about 100 asylum seekers and the perpetrator was not happy with the conditions at the hotel.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 48: <a href="https://www.thelocal.fr/20190714/syrian-refugee-charged-with-rape-and-murder-of-woman-in-france/">Syrian refugee charged with rape and murder of woman in France</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 13 July 2020, a 32 year-old Syrian refugee was charged with the rape and murder of a 24-year-old French mother, Johanna Blanes. Investigators found her sim card and mobile phone in her attacker's home. The victim's body was found beneath a railway line in Saint-Pierre-du-mont at around 6.00 a.m., hours after she left a nightclub to return home. According to her post-mortem report, she was strangled after being raped and had been beaten in the head and neck.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 49: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8580315/Outrage-Germany-Afghan-migrant-rapes-two-girls.html">Outrage in Germany after Afghan migrant who was arrested for 'raping an 11-year-old' was released after 12 days then 'raped another girl, 13'</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A 23-year-old Afghan migrant, Zubyr S., who had previous convictions for drug offences and fare evasion, allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl in Dortmund on 24 July 2020, five weeks after allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl. He was first arrested on 20 June 2020 but was released after twelve days as there were doubts about the 11-year-old victim's testimony. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 50: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9427517/Iraqi-failed-asylum-seeker-24-guilty-murdering-woman-32-flat-kebab-shop.html">Walking towards death: Amputation-obsessed failed Iraqi asylum seeker is seen with woman he had sex with then killed and cut into seven pieces as he is convicted of her murder</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 1 September 2020, a 24-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker, Azam Mangori, had sex with 32-year-old Lorraine Cox in his flat above the Bodrum Kebab House in Exeter, before he brutally murdered her and cut her body into seven pieces. After murdering Cox, Mangori took her mobile phone and pretended that she was still well and alive so that her family and friends would not suspect anything.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 51: <a href="https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/27355/priest-who-helped-migrants-and-the-homeless-killed-in-como-italy">Priest who helped migrants and the homeless killed in Como, Italy</a></b></div><div>On 15 September 2020, a 51-year-old Italian priest, Father Roberto Malgesini, was stabbed repeatedly to death by a 53-year-old illegal immigrant from Tunisia, Mahmoudi Ridha, in front of his home. Father Roberto was well-known for his devotion to migrants and had helped the perpetrator a lot. He served breakfast to the migrants every morning and at the time he was stabbed to death, he was supposed to provide breakfast to them. However, the Tunisian citizen dsiplayed no remorse and said, "The priest died like a dog."</div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 52: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/young-iraqi-migrant-beats-92-year-old-german-woman-to-death-police-Marktredwitz">Young Iraqi migrant beats 92-year-old German woman to death: police</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">In September 2020, a 17-year-old Iraqi male migrant was charged with manslaughter for killing a 92-year-old female pensioner who died as a result of severe injuries to her head.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 53: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/two-dead-others-injured-suspected-terrorist-attack-french-church-n1245222">French authorities say suspect in Nice church attack is a Tunisian national</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 29 October 2020, a 21-year-old Tunisian man, Brahim Aouissaoui, killed three people and wounded several others with a knife inside the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice. One of the victims, a 60-year-old woman, was nearly decapitated. The alleged attacker traveled by boat to the Italian island of Lampedusa in September 2020 and relocated to Bari, a port city on the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy, where he traveled to Nice by train.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Case 54: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dresden-crime-arrests-germany-europe-f7d824fb61135bf2748ea90c4ff655b6">Syrian man charged over deadly attack on German tourists</a></b></div><div>A 21-year-old Syrian man, Abdullah A.H.H., alleged to have stabbed two German tourists, aged 53 and 55, in the eastern German city of Dresden, has been charged with murder. The attack happened in October 2020. One of the tourists was killed in the attack while the other was seriously injured. The attacker entered Germany in 2015 together with a large number of migrants.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Case 55: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8331341/Swedish-girl-17-decapitated-Iraqi-born-boyfriend.html">Swedish girl, 17, was decapitated 'by Iraqi-born boyfriend, 23, who wrapped her head in aluminium foil' after she broke up with him in case that has shocked the country</a></b></div><div>On 14 November 2019, a 23-year-old Iraqi man, Tishko Ahmed Shabaz, murdered and beheaded his ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old Wilma Andersson, after she broke up with him. The Iraqi wrapped her head in tape and aluminium foil and hid it in a suitcase in his bedroom. Wilma's coat and handbag as well as traces of her DNA could also be found in his flat in the town of Uddevalla, Sweden. However, the rest of her body has never been found.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Case 56: <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/germany-libyan-migrant-accused-of-murdering-university-student-in-bicycle-cellar">Germany: Libyan migrant accused of murdering university student in bicycle cellar</a></b></div><div>A 26-year-old Libyan refugee, Sharif A., who came to Hamburg, Germany, in 2016, under a false identity, is believed to have murdered a schoolgirl, Viktoria L., in the bicycle cellar of the victim's apartment building in Hamburg in January 2021. Sharif A., who is known to the police for his involvement in drug and theft offenses, is said to have been stalking a young female student. He was the one who led first responders to the bicycle cellar. The victim had filed a police report against an unknown stalker last December. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Case 57: <a href="https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2164028664588/afghan-migrant-arrested-after-acid-attack-on-swiss-beauty-contest-model">Afghan Migrant Arrested After Acid Attack on Swiss Beauty Contest Model</a></b></div><div>In February 2021, a 19-year-old Afghan refugee has been arrested for allegedly spraying a 24-year-old Swiss woman, Elise T., with acid in an underground car park in the city of Neuchatel, Switzerland. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Case 58: <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/france-sudanese-migrant-kills-immigration-official-after-rejected-asylum-request/a-56632935">France: Sudanese migrant kills immigration official after rejected asylum request</a></b></div><div>On 19 February 2021, a 38-year-old Sudanese migrant stabbed and killed the immigration official of a refugee center in the city of Pau after his asylum request was rejected. The 46-year-old victim was stabbed repeatedly in the throat. The assailant has been previously convicted for knife crimes.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 59: <a href="https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/03/03/illegal-immigrants-to-appear-in-court-for-alleged-gang-rape/">Prison for illegal immigrants for gang raping Irish woman</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Four North African migrants from the Maghreb region, aged 18 to 35, who arrived recently in one of Spain's Canary Islands, Gran Canaria, by boat, were arrested for allegedly raping a 36-year-old Irish woman in Puerto Rico (on the island of Gran Canaria). The rape was alleged to have taken place on 26 February 2021 in the Agua La Perra park. The tourist from Ireland, who has been living on the Canary Islands for several years, had stopped to help the young men but, within seconds, she was gang-raped.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 60: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56272565">Sweden attack: Seven hurt in Vetlanda stabbing attack</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">On 3 March 2021, a 22-year-old Afghan man injured seven people in a 19-minute knife attack incident near the street of Bangardsgatan in Vetlanda, Sweden. Three of the victims were in critical and life-threatening condition. The perpetrator has been convicted of drug offences and other minor offences. He cannot speak English and speaks very little Swedish.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-30326230269313370632021-03-13T21:39:00.336+08:002021-07-07T01:54:42.938+08:00Should the large influx of migrants into the EU countries be encouraged?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFkNWP9BwyvFqAwVc9mf9qfLr_CzidTTj_5ky-OCT_wvl-53ZqQ1zoRSEn2FpZi3B3mt_mCx4YLSQsigJVgNDnL_RQpa8DwwtW9nOP32jTK0LTERFcJEsD6qmikWHSY-KrU7AL_ShTZyQ/s1229/migrantinflux.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFkNWP9BwyvFqAwVc9mf9qfLr_CzidTTj_5ky-OCT_wvl-53ZqQ1zoRSEn2FpZi3B3mt_mCx4YLSQsigJVgNDnL_RQpa8DwwtW9nOP32jTK0LTERFcJEsD6qmikWHSY-KrU7AL_ShTZyQ/s320/migrantinflux.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The EU is one of the hardest hit regions by Covid-19 and, sad to say, amidst the global pandemic and looming recession, it is struggling with migrants and asylum. Millions of migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia have left their own countries for the EU and many are on their way. Since they cannot get into the EU legally, they have to pay people smugglers to smuggle them into the EU. However, their determination to reach Europe at all costs has created a lot of problems for the EU countries. The problem with the European migrant crisis is - most of the asylum seekers trying to get into the EU are fake refugees who are looking for a good life in the more affluent countries such as Germany, France, and Sweden. The word "migrants" is therefore a better word to describe them. And it does sound ridiculous that most of them are males aged 18 and above. As what Trump says, "Look at what's happening all over Europe. It's a mess... When you look at that migration, you see so many young, strong men. Does anyone notice that?" Well, Trump is right and it is difficult not to notice that because it is very obvious from the youtube videos that the European migrant crisis is dominated by young and strong men. But why do they have to pay a fortune to the smugglers to get them to Europe? Why can't they stay in their own countries and contribute towards their countries' progress and economic growth? If the women and children can stay in their countries of origin, why can't these young men do the same? What is their motive?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">While the people smugglers are making a huge profit smuggling millions of migrants into Europe every year, the EU countries are struggling to overcome the unending migrant crisis as more and more migrants are flocking to Europe every day. The vast majority of them arrived by sea to Italy, Spain, Greece, Malta, and Cyprus even though quite a number of them have traveled to Europe over land. 2015 has seen Europe's worst refugee crisis when more than a million migrants entered the continent. Sad to say, the influx of migrants continues until today without a solution. As the major gateway to Europe for migrants, around 530,000 migrants have arrived on Italy's coasts since 2015. In 2020 alone, 34,154 migrants arrived on the Italian coast. From January to March 2021, 5,305 migrants arrived in Italy by sea. According to the UNHCR, the majority of them landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Located in the southernmost part of Italy, Lampedusa is a beautiful island and one of the most wonderful tourist destinations in the world. It is well-known for its numerous beaches, sparkling seas, and amazing features and is well-loved by scuba divers, nature lovers and sun bathers. Because of the influx of migrants, the tourism industry which is vital to the island has suffered losses in the past few years. Similarly, an increasing number of migrants are arriving in the Canary Islands, Spain's tourist paradise, and many of them are unaccompanied child migrants. In 2020 alone, 37,839 migrants arrived in the Spanish archipelago and 25,000 were Africans. 20,000 migrants have made it to the Canary Islands. In January 2021, more than 3200 migrants entered the Spanish territory. Like the island of Lampedusa, the Canary Islands are struggling to cope with the great influx of migrants and it seems that migrants are replacing tourists on these islands. Likewise, in Greece, migrants keep arriving by sea on the Greek islands. Many landed on the Aegean island of Lesbos despite severe overcrowding on the island. Before the fire in the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos (which the migration minister of Greece believed "began with the asylum seekers") there were about 25,000 migrants, mostly from Africa and the Middle East, living in this camp even though the camp was built to accommodate 3000 people. Due to the influx of migrants, locals have to put up with increased criminality, vandalism, and home break ins. The migrants also cut down 5000 olive trees to use as firewood, a severe attack on Greek heritage and major blow to local economy. Despite Greece's hospitality, Moria refugee camp has often been criticised for being the worse refugee camp on earth. According to a migrant from Congo, Scotti Kele, "I don't think Europe exists anymore. Look at the condition our children are in. This is living hell." What have the migrants done to Lesbos? How did this beautiful tourist attraction turn into a living hell? "This is not a life for humans. The animals have a better life," said Anas Bakour, a 23-year-old man from Syria. If he feels that Lesbos is unfit for human habitation, what is he doing there? Why not go back to Syria? After the fire, many migrants were relocated from Greece to Germany, France and other EU countries. Today, there are 15,000 migrants on the Aegean islands and there are plans to build five new and modern camps on the islands. The new Kara Tepe refugee camp on Lesbos is currently housing about 7800 migrants. However, this number is likely to increase rapidly in the near future as more and more migrants are arriving each day. What will happen to the tourism industry of the Greek island of Lesbos? Can it survive the migrant crisis?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Instead of crossing the sea, many migrants are taking a new route to Europe through Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the EU border in Bosnia, migrants are paying 7000 euros to smuggle themselves there with the intention to sneak across the borders illegally into Croatia. To sneak into Croatia, they are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Croatian police and some of them have been successful in their endeavours after many attempts. However, migrants at the Bosnia camps are unhappy with their living conditions and are complaining that they are living like animals. They also blame the Croatian police for stopping them each time they try to cross the border illegally. The question is: Is it fair to blame Croatia for protecting the EU borders? To answer this question, please read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/01/migrants-stuck-in-hopeless-situation-at.html">Migrants stuck in hopeless situation at EU border in Bosnia : who is to blame?</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Should illegal border crossings be encouraged? Which country on Earth would open its borders wide to welcome intruders? In India, border guards can open fire on suspected intruders. To prevent the transmission of the coronavirus, North Korea has issued shoot-to-kill orders at its borders. Migrants should be grateful to the Croatian police because they did not shoot-to-kill. Croatia is only exercising its right to defend its borders against intruders. Why blame the EU countries for the migrants' uncomfortable life at the EU border in Bosnia? The EU countries do not have the obligation to take in all the freeloaders from other countries particularly during these hard times when many of their own citizens are jobless and homeless. I remember reading about14-year-old Amim Hzam from Iraq and his family who tried to sneak into Croatia forty times. About one year ago, his mother and one of his siblings managed to get through and are now in Germany but he and his father and two siblings were caught by the police and were pushed back to Bosnia. According to Hzam, "I need mama, I need school but Croatian police say go back to Bosnia." He also said that he felt sad when his mother called from Germany. The question is - If his mother really cares for him, why did she leave him behind? There are lots of schools in Iraq and there is no need for him to go to Germany to attend school. If he wants to attend school in Germany, he should enter the country legally instead of trying to sneak across the borders. Can anyone imagine what will happen if everyone who wants to study in Germany sneaks into Croatia with the intention to claim asylum in Germany? Due to the new covid variants, many countries have imposed entry bans for travelers and the fact that this family is still trying to sneak into the EU clearly shows how selfish these people are. There is always the possibility that they may be carrying and spreading the new covid variants thus putting the lives of the EU citizens at risk. In a way, this story also reminds Croatia to invest more in border security and further reduce illegal entries because the migrants are too smart for them. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Because of their hospitality and generosity in accepting migrants, the EU countries are having a difficult time trying to manage the migrant crisis and given the overwhelming numbers of migrants, "it's really a mess" (as what Trump says). Knowing that they would have a good life in Europe with lots of generous benefits, migrants do not mind facing desperate journeys over land and sea to reach Europe. Countless migrants have made successful illegal entries into Europe and millions will walk in their footsteps. Taking in all the migrants is not the solution to the European migrant crisis as this would entice a mass exodus of migrants to the EU. If the EU takes in 1 million migrants, another million will follow and this situation can go on forever. When this happens, the EU will have an even greater problem, i.e., population explosion, because these migrants are breeding much faster than rabbits. What would happen to the EU following a mass exodus of migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia? Would Paris turn into an Algerian City? Would Frankfurt turn into a Turkish City? Would London turn into a Pakistani City? Would EU turn into MENA? Would there be more offenders and more crimes?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Migrants and Explosive Population Growth</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Middle East, North Africa and countries in South Asia such as Bangladesh and Pakistan have relatively high birth rates. According to the International Strategic Analysis, by the year 2050, the Middle East and North Africa is forecast to have a larger population than Europe. With a growth rate of about 2.4%, Syria has one of the highest population growth in the world and it is estimated that its population would double in about 30 years (based on a report from the United Nations). Like Syria, Afghanistan's population is also increasing rapidly and the UN forecasts that it will double in the next 15 years from around 38 million. Yemen is expected to double its population in 20 years and is likely to have more than 50 million people by 2050 (<i>The Future of Yemen</i> by Helen Lackner). According to <i>The</i> <i>Arab Weekly</i>, the population in Iraq, Sudan and the Palestinian Territories is likely to double from 2015-2050. With a population of 42 million currently, Algeria is estimated to have a population of 72.4 million by 2050. A report from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) in Washngton has shown that Africa's population will double and reach 2.5 billion by 2050. Morocco's total population has increased by 180% over the past 50 years (as stated in World Population Review). A UN report projected that Nigeria will become the world's third most populous country with a population of 300 million by 2050. Like the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, Bangladesh and Pakistan are struggling with population explosion. Bangladesh is the seventh largest country in the world in population. A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report projected that its population will reach between 230-250 million by 2050. Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world. Its current population is 223,843,061 (as of 12 March 2021) and with a growth rate of 2.2, its population will double in 32 years. With the drastic increase in birth rates, youth unemployment, food and water shortages, poverty, crime, housing problems, lack of resources, negative economic outcomes, ecological degradation, unequal access to medical care and education are inevitable in poor countries. Since population growth is highest in the countries that are ill-equiped to deal with demographic explosion, migrant exodus from these high population countries to the more affluent countries is sure to happen and has thus contributed to the European migrant crisis. What will happen to Europe if more and more people from poor and overpopulated countries were to claim asylum in the EU and continue to breed at high speed in their host countries? What will happen next if they breed until there is no more space to breed in the EU countries? Where else can they smuggle themselves? The US, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Migrants and Crime in the EU Countries</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Following the mass exodus of millions of migrants to the EU countries every year, crime is inevitable as it is not possible to do a background check on them. Migrants are smart people who know how to lie about their true identities and may end up with several names, ages, and nationalities. Some would even go to the extent of mutilating themselves to disguise their finger prints in order to conceal their sordid past. According to a parliamentary report, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/up-to-91-6-of-unaccompanied-minors-in-france-could-be-adults-reveals-parliamentary-report">up to 91.6% of unaccompanied minors in France could be adults</a>. Sad to say, <a href="https://www.dailyadvent.com/news/ec96f4335138e48d546f17bd2bf42bb0-Ultraviolent-Underage-Migrants-Causing-Havoc-in-French-Prisons">these 'ultraviolent ' underage migrants are causing havoc in French prisons and juvenile detention centers</a>. In Belgium, a study has indicated that <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/73-of-underaged-asylum-seekers-in-belgium-are-actually-adults-study">73% of its 'underage' asylum seekers are actually adults</a>. Similarly, in Sweden, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2017/07/07/86-per-cent-recently-tested-underage-migrants-sweden-adults/">86% of its 'underage' migrants are actually adults</a>. These smart people really know how to take advantage of the leniency of the juvenile justice system! But, is it safe to welcome them to Europe? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The sad truth is, many peaceful EU countries have seen a big increase in crimes following the large influx of migrants. In Switzerland, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/teenage-migrants-terrorize-switzerland-with-street-fights">teenage migrants are terrorizing the country with street fights</a>. In Germany, <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/germany-police-statistics-show-that-murder-and-manslaughter-are-mostly-committed-by-asylum-seekers">police statistics show that murder and manslaughter are mostly committed by asylum seekers</a>. From 2013 to 2016, Germany's reported knife crimes have increased by 600%. In Belgium, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/belgium-buses-diverted-from-brussels-migrant-quarter-over-violence-threat">buses are diverted from Brussels migrant quarter over violence threat</a>. In the Molenbeek district, known for its heavy migrant population, buses have been repeatedly pelted with stones. But why aren't these gangsters arrested and deported? Why allow them to create problems in the country? Similarly, in Sweden, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/migrant-gangs-are-taking-over-the-role-of-the-police-in-sweden-s-gothenburg-polish-government-says-it-warned-of-such-a-scenario">migrant gangs are taking over the role of the police in Gothenburg</a> and criminal gangs in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta <a href="https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010191080813570-demonstration-of-power-criminal-gangs-impose-curfew-on-inhabitants-of-swedish-no-go-zone/">had imposed curfew and threatened inhabitants to stay indoors after 6 pm</a>. According to Aftonbladet, a Swedish daily newspaper, murders, shootings, and knife attacks are common occurences in Gothenburg for the past two years. Well, what else can we expect from the migrant gangs? What is happening to Tensta is also nothing surprising since 88% of its inhabitants have a foreign background! However, it was difficult not to feel depressed when I read <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8818631/Swedish-police-chiefs-plead-resources-migrant-mafia-gangs-terrorise-country.html">How Sweden became a gangsters' paradise: Europe's most liberal country welcomed Middle Eastern refugees five years ago... but now it is being terrorised by migrant mafia clans - with police and politically correct government powerless</a>. It really hurts me to see such a beautiful country turning into a gangster's paradise. Why are these gangsters still allowed to stay in Sweden? Why not send them back to their countries of origin? That is the only way to save Sweden. The great Polish politician, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was right - the great influx of migrants can turn out to be uncontrollable. In fact, the actual situation is worse than what he predicted in 2015! Luckily Poland refused to take in refugees or it would end up being the next gangsters' paradise. I am proud to say that Poland is the safest country in Europe today.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As the EU countries are trying to help migrants, they should also be concerned about the safety of their own citizens. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-53195939">The Glasgow stabbings</a> incident at a 91-room hotel housing about 100 asylum seekers on 26 June 2020 was a good lesson for the EU. The male suspect, Badreddin Abadlla Adam from Sudan, has been shot dead by the police after going on a stabbing spree injuring six people in the Park Inn Hotel, Glasgow, because he was not happy with the conditions at the hotel. But why let him stay in the hotel when many locals are sleeping on the streets? Is this the way migrants repay the kindness of their host countries? On 19 February 2021, the immigration official in the city of Pau, was <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/france-sudanese-migrant-kills-immigration-official-after-rejected-asylum-request/a-56632935">stabbed repeatedly in the throat and killed by a Sudanese migrant </a>after his asylum status was rejected. Since migrants can turn out to be so violent (particularly if they do not get what they want), special precautions should be taken by the relevant authorities to prevent them from doing any harm to the EU citizens.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Perhaps those who volunteer to help migrants should be alert at all times as it is dfficult to predict what the migrants could do to them. On 25 January 2016, 22-year-old Alexandra Mezher, who was working at a shelter for juvenile asylum seekers in the city of Molndal, Sweden, was <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alexandra-mezher-woman-22-stabbed-to-death-during-fight-at-shelter-for-teenage-refugees-in-sweden-a6834071.html">stabbed to death by a Somalian migrant</a> who claimed to be 15. However, medical examination to determine his age after the attack has shown that he was at least 18. On 31 July 2016, <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/libyan-migrant-faces-3-years-in-prison-for-stabbing-belgian-priest-who-offered-him-coffee-and-a-shower">an asylum seeker believed to be from Libya, stabbed a 70-year-old priest</a>, Jos Vanderlee, with a knife as the priest was making coffee for him. The priest had earlier allowed him to take a shower in his house. On 15 September 2020, an Italian priest, 51-year-old Father Roberto Malghesi, who was well-known for his devotion to migrants, was <a href="https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/27355/priest-who-helped-migrants-and-the-homeless-killed-in-como-italy">stabbed repeatedly to death by a 53-year-old illegal immigrant from Tunisia</a>, Mahmoudi Ridha. Father Roberto brought hot breakfasts to the migrants every morning and at the time he was killed he was supposed to serve breakfast to them. The Tunisian citizen displayed no remorse even though Father Malghesi has helped him a lot. According to him, "The priest died like a dog." In another case, Jean Dussine, a 63-year-old prominent French migrant activist, was <a href="https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/24750/french-activist-murdered-by-afghan-migrant-near-cherbourg">bludgeoned to death</a> at his home in Bretteville, on 12 May 2020, by a migrant from Afghanistan. The victim headed a local migrants assistance organisation called 'Itinerance' and had been hosting migrants at his house.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It seems that knife attacks are common among migrants and even their teenagers are very skilful with a knife. On 11 January 2016, a 15-year-old Lithuanian boy, Arminas Pileckas, was <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/329243-sweden-migrant-stabbed-teenager/">stabbled to death at a school in Southern Sweden by his 14-year-old Syrian refugee classmate</a>. He was murdered with a single stab to the heart from behind by a kitchen knife. On 18 August 2017, an 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker, Abderrahman Bouanane, was shot in the leg before his arrest for his involvement in a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40998646">knife attack in Turku</a>, Finland, that killed two Finnish women and injured eight other people. At the time he was arrested, he was using a false identity, Abderrahman Mechkah. Four other Moroccan men were also detained by the police. On 27 December 2017, an Afghan asylum seeker who had been denied refugee status, Abdul Mobin Dawodzai, followed his German ex-girlfriend, 15-year-old Mia Valentin, into a drugstore and <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5856291/Afghan-child-refugee-goes-trial-Germany-murder-girlfriend.html">stabbed her seven times in the heart with a 20 cm knife</a>, in the town of Kandel in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The murderer claimed that he was only 15 years old but the age assessment that was carried out concluded that he was at least 17 and a half but most likely around 20 years old. However, he was tried as a minor.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KItYOp1JKJ2-57bX4hM89PGBLg1oVmrXytjxohFm3otl0Ku59ni8OfLtzUw2TAQZQ-hiE85NkZISwPy1IjfHzF200hPJMkgqpir4ZDaUhLx9n17ZNbfZdgEU7odVRzR9Eny2rr1SKTI/s605/rapefugees_not_welcome2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="605" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KItYOp1JKJ2-57bX4hM89PGBLg1oVmrXytjxohFm3otl0Ku59ni8OfLtzUw2TAQZQ-hiE85NkZISwPy1IjfHzF200hPJMkgqpir4ZDaUhLx9n17ZNbfZdgEU7odVRzR9Eny2rr1SKTI/s320/rapefugees_not_welcome2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">Rapefugees Not Welcome: Rape is a traumatic experience and recovery can be very painful for the victims. The European migrant crisis in 2015 has been followed by the migrant rape crisis where girls have been assaulted, raped, and murdered by migrants over the years.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Migrant sex attacks are common occurrences in the EU countries particularly after the mass migrant exodus in 2015 when 1.5 million sought asylum in Europe. Many of us can never forget the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cologne-new-year-s-eve-mass-sex-attacks-leaked-document-a7130476.html">sex attacks in Cologne</a>, Germany, during the 2015-2016 New Year's Eve Celebration. As the world was waiting for the arrival of the New Year, 1200 women were mobbed, sexually assaulted and raped by Arab and North African asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. Sex attacks also took place in other cities in German including Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover and Main but the Cologne attacks were the most serious. The New Year sex assaults were also reported in Austria, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. However, the migrant rape crisis did not just stop there but continues to happen from time to time across Europe.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Gang rape is one of the most commonly reported cases involving migrants. On 5 February 2016, Belgian police found a video about <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3433782/Police-probing-radicalised-teenager-Belgium-video-five-Iraqi-migrants-gang-raping-drunk-girl-fell-unconscious-party.html">six men gang-raping an unconscious girl</a> and five of them were Iraqi migrants. On 14 June 2017, a <a href="https://www.newsbreak.com/news/0DhsO4ve/very-low-sentences-for-african-migrants-after-bloody-gang-rape-of-13-year-old-girl-in-sweden">13-year-old girl was gang-raped in Vasteras</a>, a city in central Sweden, by three Somalis until her genital burst. On 13 October 2018, an 18-year-old woman was <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53517022">gang raped in the bushes</a> outside Freiburg's Hans-Bunte-Areal nightclub by 10 men, eight of them were Syrian refugees. The woman was helpless and defenseless because her drink had been spiked by a 22-year-old Syrian Kurd. On 26 February 2021, a 36-year-old Irish woman was <a href="https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/03/03/illegal-immigrants-to-appear-in-court-for-alleged-gang-rape/">gang-raped by four North African migrants</a> in Puerto Rico on the island of Gran Canaria when she stopped to help them. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Even children are not spared and are targeted by migrants who are looking for sex. On 2 December 2015, <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2016/10/24/migrant-who-raped-boy-10-in-sexual-emergency-has-conviction-overtunred-6211056/">a 10 year-old boy was raped by an Iraqi refugee</a>, Amir A, at the Theresienbad swimming pool in Vienna. The perpetrator claimed that it was a 'sexual emergency'. A 14-year-old German girl, Susanna Maria Feldman, was <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48934331">raped and killed</a> on the night of 22 May 2018, by 21-year-old Ali Bashar Ahmad Zebari, an Iraqi asylum seeker. Police found the remains of the victim buried in a shallow grave near the Lanches Railway line in early June. On 15 April 2020, a 39-year-old Somali migrant, Ahmed M., <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/somali-migrant-who-raped-9-year-old-swedish-girl-won-t-be-deported">dragged a 9-year-old girl into a bush and raped her as she was walking home from school</a>. He was prematurely released from prison on parole for raping a 12-year-old girl in 2017. The sex attacks have taken place in Norrkoping, a city in eastern Sweden.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It seems that migrant teen boys are as sexually active as the adults and are not left out when it comes to rape. On 19 February 2016, a 16-year-old <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3454882/Afghan-teen-charged-raping-worker-Belgian-asylum-centre.html">Afghan asylum seeker raped a catering worker at an asylum center in Menen</a>, Belgium, two weeks after attending a course on how to treat Western Women. The teenager followed his victim from a catering firm into the basement and raped her. In October 2016, five unaccompanied refugee minors from Afghanistan, aged 16-17, <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com//english/2017-03/09/c_136113524.htm">dragged a 15-year-old boy into a wooded area near the city of Uppsala and gang-raped him at knife-point for more than an hour</a>. The victim was also bitten, beaten, and spat on. A 15-year-old Italian girl was <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8636525/Italian-girl-15-raped-beach-two-unaccompanied-minors.html#:~:text=11k%20shares-,Italian%20girl%2C%2015%2C%20'is%20raped%20on%20the%20beach%20by,being%20housed%20in%20migrant%20accommodation'&text=A%2015%2Dyear%2Dold%20girl,boys%2C%20thought%20to%20be%20migrants.&text=Two%20of%20them%20raped%20her,third%20stood%20by%20and%20watched."> raped by two unaccompanied minors on Lignano beach</a>, in northeastern Italy, on 15 August 2020, while the third stood by and watched. They were aged between 16 and 17; two were Albanians and one was Egyptian. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Rape and murder sometimes go hand in hand particularly if the victim is found to be alone in the early hours of the morning. On 13 July 2020, a <a href="https://www.thelocal.fr/20190714/syrian-refugee-charged-with-rape-and-murder-of-woman-in-france/">Syrian refugee was charged with the rape and murder of a 24-year-old French mother</a>, Johanna Blanes. The victim's body was found beneath a railway line in Saint-Pierre-du-mont, at around 6.00 a.m., hours after she left a nightclub to return home. She was strangled after being raped and had been beaten in the head and neck. Her case is very similar to the case of 19-year-old Maria Ladenburger, a medical student from Freiburg, who was <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/asylum-seeker-sentenced-to-life-in-jail-in-germany-over-rape-murder-of-student">raped, strangled and drowned in the river Dreisam by Hussein Khavari</a>, who claimed to be from Afghanistan, on 16 October 2016. Maria Ladenburger was attacked on her way home from a party hosted by the university medical faculty in the early hours of the morning. Her attacker, who claimed that he was 17, was taken in as an unaccompanied minor and was placed with a foster family. However, evidence that emerged during his trial showed that he was actually from Iran and could be more than 30 years old!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">These are just some of the sickening crimes committed by migrants in Europe. To find out more about the crimes that they have committed in their host countries, please read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">Migrants and Crime in Europe in the Twenty-First Century</a>. You will be shocked by these horrific crimes committed by them.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Solution</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To stop the mass exodus of millions of migrants to Europe every year, the EU should step up deportation and stop supporting them. Migrants should only be given temporary residence permits and when the conditions in their home countries improve, they should leave. Granting them citizenship and supporting them forever is a drain on the country's resources. This is particularly true if their only contribution is making babies. The sad truth is, apart from busy making babies, they are also busy raping and committing crimes. Given such circumstances, one cannot deny the fact that deportation is the best solution to the European migrant exodus before they go out of control. Recently, Denmark has been doing a good job as it has become the first European country to deport Syrian refugees. Now that Damascus and its surrounding areas are safe, there is no need to support the Syrians anymore as it is time for them to return home and rebuild their countries. Well done, Denmark. Those who love Europe are proud of you. Looks like the other EU countries should emulate Denmark if they wish to regain their former glory. Not only Syrians but all those fake refugees, rapefugees, murderers and criminals from MENA and South Asia should be deported as well. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Instead of giving them welfare payments and other generous benefits, migrants should be made to pay for their upkeep so that they won't complain about the hotels where they are staying for free and the nutritious foods that they are eating free of charge at the expense of the taxpayers. Once they learn that there is no such thing as a free lunch, they will disappear automatically. To stem its decline in population, the EU does not have to take in aggressive males from third world countries who would bring chaos, destruction, and fear to its people. Instead of wasting so much money on migrants, why not offer baby bonus to the EU citizens (without a migrant background) to boost birthrate? I am sure this would benefit lots of EU families. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Pressuring the EU countries to accept migrants at a time when Europe is plunged into a deep covid recession is a great injustice to them. The EU migrant exodus cannot solve the problems of overpopulation, poverty, and joblessness in the migrants' countries of origin. If there are problems in these counries, their leaders should work together to overcome these problems so that their citizens can live better lives. Making babies after the first period right up to menopause can endanger women's health. Having lots of children when the family is financially not viable can be very stressful. Population increase also degrades ecosystems and endangers the earth. Needless to say, poverty, pollution, global warming, famine, limited resources, joblessness, and migration are inevitable in countries plagued by overpopulation and these can only be overcome through family planning NOT illegal migration. Given the many negative consequences of population explosion, perhaps it is time for the poor and overpopulated third world countries to make family planning accessible to their citizens to save themselves and the world they are living in. Most of all, they should stop giving problems to the EU who does not have the obligation to take in migrants. The EU is not responsible for what is happening in MENA.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Taking in every migrant that crosses its borders cannot solve the European migrant crisis. The EU countries should think twice before granting citizenship to migrants if they do not want to deal with population explosion in the near future. I remember watching a video about a migrant from Pakistan who said that he wanted to go to France so that he could have a good life there. No doubt life in Europe is good because there is no population explosion and there are lots of resources, opportunities, and generous benefits for everyone. But as its population increases and resources turn scarce with the influx of migrants, its citizens will soon have to apply Darwin's law, Survival of the Fittest, and compete with everyone around them for food, space, and jobs like what is happening in the poor MENA countries.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>. 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Migrants on Lesbos: 'Europe does not exist. This is hell.' BBC News.</div><div style="text-align: left;">2. 'This is not a life': migrants stranded on Greek island. Reuters.</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. 'I need mama, I need school', migrant child stuck in Bosnia appeals to EU. Reuters.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-19068984561391192892021-02-28T20:29:00.167+08:002021-03-21T02:49:19.673+08:00Growing Up with English Literature (Those Good Old Days)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAhOt5oFmxpKp5n_ZRA7EzuyX3ZRIN5Fg3nnhalPfkhAzzEtr-hMB3jcQf5q31idnleWTOQ1_b3_xxM0gKlPdZd86TV-UbTuSWH7XGYu27_JdypCFZR-gH4Z2aJzTDTmK6avQNByJzc8I/s2048/20210306_203137.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAhOt5oFmxpKp5n_ZRA7EzuyX3ZRIN5Fg3nnhalPfkhAzzEtr-hMB3jcQf5q31idnleWTOQ1_b3_xxM0gKlPdZd86TV-UbTuSWH7XGYu27_JdypCFZR-gH4Z2aJzTDTmK6avQNByJzc8I/s320/20210306_203137.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Paradise Lost </i>(John Milton), <i>The Great Gatsby </i>(F. Scott Fitzgerald), <i>Moll Flanders </i>(Daniel Defoe), <i>Kim </i>(Rudyard Kipling), <i>Ivanhoe </i>(Sir Walter Scott), <i>North and South </i>(Elizabeth Gaskell), <i>Tom Jones </i>(Henry Fielding) & <i>The Woman in White </i>(Wilkie Collins).</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In my previous article entitled <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/02/how-to-learn-english-effectively-on.html">HOW TO LEARN ENGLISH EFFECTIVELY ON YOUR OWN</a>, I wrote about how I learnt English on my own with the help of my parents. As an independent learner, what I needed was a strong learning foundation to get started. Once my parents have built a solid learning foundation for me, I could thrive on my own and the rest is history. Dear parents, do you know that you can do the same for your children because you are the best teachers in the world? In this article, I would like to share how I continued to deepen my English mastery after I have succeeded in learning the language and introduce some of the best literary works that have ever been created.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My family wasn't rich but I had the advantage of growing up surrounded by books because my dad was an avid reader and had an almost complete collection of the timeless English literature classics in his personal library. When I was a little girl, I used to go to his personal library and stared at the books on the shelves. When I saw my dad reading, I wanted to join him but he said that I was too young to read those books and that he would let me read them when I have grown up. But it did not take me very long because I did not have to grow up to read those books. At the age of thirteen, I have already begun to read those books and since then English Literature has become an essential part of my life. How did it begin? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFstXelO_Xy-ORt9rGyaojmPDz3Bt1B64YbkQdofGQmak83jNBqTKb6D8nuTxDadTaYNfS41ib5V2WT7cti0kIoSY9IESIxHfwktmpDubSaDNq1gVA-zZjmUFuoFj9Ji4g0zuYVl7bCks/s2048/20210302_205258.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFstXelO_Xy-ORt9rGyaojmPDz3Bt1B64YbkQdofGQmak83jNBqTKb6D8nuTxDadTaYNfS41ib5V2WT7cti0kIoSY9IESIxHfwktmpDubSaDNq1gVA-zZjmUFuoFj9Ji4g0zuYVl7bCks/s320/20210302_205258.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Louisa May Alcott's <i>Little Women</i> & <i>Good Wives</i></span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When I was in Form One (13 years old), my mom bought me the simplified versions of Louisa M. Alcott's <i>Little Women </i>and R.D. Blackmore's <i>Lorna Doone</i>. These books were very familiar to me because I have seen them for years on my dad's bookshelves. Since I liked the stories, I started reading the complete and unabridged versions of these novels belonging to my dad and was very proud of myself because I had no problems reading the original texts. It was after reading these original texts that my interest in English Literature actually began. Since I liked <i>Little Women </i>very much, I also read <i>Good Wives</i>, <i>Little Men</i>, and <i>Jo's Boys</i>, the sequels to this novel. <i>Little Women </i>and <i>Good Wives</i> will always have a special place in my heart because they were so compelling that I couldn't help going back to my favorite passages in this books. I have read these books again and again until I could memorize certain passages in them because I loved everything about the stories. Why did I read these books so many times? Why did I memorize passages from these books? Lincoln did the same but, of course, at that time I did not know that he educated himself this way. I only knew that this method of learning helped me to absorb the vocabulary and style of the writers so that I could improve my language skills. Since my ambition was to become an actress back then, I even wrote my own movie script of Little Women and Good Wives (two novels in one movie) and imagined myself acting in the Chinese version of this movie with my favorite actor, Chin Han (who acted in Taiwanese dramas such as<span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span color="var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary))" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-size: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-font-size, var(--yt-navbar-title-font-size, inherit));">煙雨濛濛, </span></span><span color="var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary))" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-size: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-font-size, var(--yt-navbar-title-font-size, inherit));"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">庭院深深 and </span></span><span color="var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary))" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-size: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-font-size, var(--yt-navbar-title-font-size, inherit));"><span style="font-family: georgia;">幾度夕陽紅</span></span><span color="var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary))" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-size: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-font-size, var(--yt-navbar-title-font-size, inherit));"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">). </span></span>I also liked to fantasize in class about being an actress whenever I found the lessons boring. I could still remember that the best time to dream in class was during History and Civics lessons. The History teacher had the habit of making the whole class read the whole chapter aloud together while she wasn't in the class. My classmates dared not stop reading (even though not everyone of us would read) because she would sometimes chat with the teacher in the class next door and would punish us if she did not hear us reading. As for the civics teacher, we nicknamed her Sleeping Beauty because she loved to sleep in class and asked us to do our own work, probably because civics wasn't a very important subject during those days. Those were the good old days and I will always cherish every moment of it. School life was great and my classmates and I really had a lot of fun in class. From the moment I stepped into school, I knew that it was going to be another amusing day.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOQUxet8aTtkriO9ZNpxo5RNvHD695ftw-vIXliJvCBznKAH2uMlh9_J_PDnLg6qEu8nQPaeJ3RpiLmmgKww3-q8rFmiHlti0dcN28OgDB21ymFgmayq-oZwNG0uvEFiXJcdUwuofa3Zo/s2048/20210227_213218.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOQUxet8aTtkriO9ZNpxo5RNvHD695ftw-vIXliJvCBznKAH2uMlh9_J_PDnLg6qEu8nQPaeJ3RpiLmmgKww3-q8rFmiHlti0dcN28OgDB21ymFgmayq-oZwNG0uvEFiXJcdUwuofa3Zo/s320/20210227_213218.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i>The Complete Works of Jane Austen</i> & <i>The 70 Best Tales of Edgar Allan Poe</i>. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The following year, when I was in Form 2, was another wonderful year for me. I started the year reading the simplified version of Jane Austen's <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>. After reading the simplified version of this novel, I went to look for the complete and unabridged version in my dad's library because I remembered seeing it there. As though <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> wasn't enough for me, I went on to read the complete and unabridged versions of <i>Emma</i>, <i>Sense and Sensibility</i>, and <i>Mansfield Park </i>which I found in my dad's library. As usual, I wrote my own movie scripts based on these novels and imagined myself acting in these movies. When I had the money, I bought the <i>Complete Novels of Jane Austen </i>and it has become one of my most prized possessions. The next book that caught my attention was Pearl S. Buck's <i>Portrait of a Marriage </i>- the novel which brought the works of Pearl S. Buck into my life. This was followed by <i>Voices in the House</i>, <i>The Hidden Flower</i>, <i>Pavilion of Women</i>, <i>Imperial Woman</i>, <i>The Angry Wife</i>, <i>Come, My Beloved</i>, <i>Letter from Peking</i>, B<i>right Procession</i>, <i>Satan never Sleeps</i>, <i>Fighting Angel</i>, and <i>God's Men</i>. I have written several movie scripts based on her works and my favorite was <i>The Hidden Flower</i> and I believed that I would get the chance to act in this movie one day playing the role of Josui Sakai. The works of Jane Austen and Pearl S. Buck will always bring back beautiful memories of my Form 2 days. The books may be a bit old now but every page of them is a reminder of those good old days when I used to have a lot of fun in school. Those days were filled with laughter and happiness as my classmates were always doing something worth laughing at. That was the time when I had no worries, no problems, and no fears - only beautiful dreams.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJRtQXkxWtEE7XUyiVxkJ1_vE0J8smMOoOiSEGK_tWlK3f0s3gGiQ4J0zsq423ZpOOzeZGCopB5QyWqncOWSrGiBeMdroawcFWqPa0w0z43GTSsEVr_u8KV-DwIF-bx3uDxgdVxCTsAZc/s2048/20210302_211442.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJRtQXkxWtEE7XUyiVxkJ1_vE0J8smMOoOiSEGK_tWlK3f0s3gGiQ4J0zsq423ZpOOzeZGCopB5QyWqncOWSrGiBeMdroawcFWqPa0w0z43GTSsEVr_u8KV-DwIF-bx3uDxgdVxCTsAZc/s320/20210302_211442.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;">My dad was a great fan of Pearl S. Buck. Here are some of Pearl S. Buck's novels in his collection - <i>Pavilion of Women</i>, <i>The Angry Wife</i>, <i>Satan Never Sleeps</i>, <i>Come, My Beloved</i>, <i>Letter from Peking</i>, <i>Voices in the House</i>, <i>Bright Procession </i>& <i>God's Men.</i></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When I was in Form 3, I seldom read novels because I had to study for my Form 3 examination. After my Form 3 examination, I went around begging for old maths and science textbooks in English and spent my holidays reading these books to improve my maths and science vocabulary because I have been learning these subjects in Malay. Throughout that year, I have only read one novel - Emilie Loring's <i>I Take This Man</i>. I did not write movie scripts anymore that year because I was no longer interested to become an actress. I wanted to become a surgeon and that was why I wanted to improve my maths and science vocabulary.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXWnQFCzSumwot1w5O_tLBxofDwB7LiPxEfXezRsKPaM1amFNKCZrDP0eEBSJxo5ZF_U1JhhuM_n3Nqgk1x-Ww64B9R70BIhYWa0mKtlZcTREKHlsgBryLH5ilfKNKCwZHe0McV8lFiIs/s2048/20210306_191431.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXWnQFCzSumwot1w5O_tLBxofDwB7LiPxEfXezRsKPaM1amFNKCZrDP0eEBSJxo5ZF_U1JhhuM_n3Nqgk1x-Ww64B9R70BIhYWa0mKtlZcTREKHlsgBryLH5ilfKNKCwZHe0McV8lFiIs/s320/20210306_191431.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;">Emily Bronte's <i>Wuthering Heights </i>& Charlotte Bronte's <i>Jane Eyre</i></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitr9KgLR-07kS_YDruxTxHCf9ZXZlHY4K16x2VKL2TCCOTsQQv-XKBN-rU7CBSycjAZ5hkHVLuvgQR0UJiwb3y6oeWtpLnPhHsn3VFHYududMYRNfNTsNkfDIG-zyrnS77bGDFhVOrzvc/s2048/20210305_201136.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitr9KgLR-07kS_YDruxTxHCf9ZXZlHY4K16x2VKL2TCCOTsQQv-XKBN-rU7CBSycjAZ5hkHVLuvgQR0UJiwb3y6oeWtpLnPhHsn3VFHYududMYRNfNTsNkfDIG-zyrnS77bGDFhVOrzvc/s320/20210305_201136.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Tenant of Wildfell Hall </i>and <i>Agnes Grey </i> by Anne Bronte</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I started reading the Bronte sisters' works when I was in Form 4 (16 years old). I have read <i>Jane Eyre</i>, <i>Villette</i>,<i> Shirley</i>, <i>Wuthering Heights</i>, <i>The Tenant of Wildfell Hall</i>, and <i>Agnes Grey</i> so many times that I can still memorize some passages from these novels. That year, I have also read the novels of Daphne du Maurier - <i>My Cousin Rachel</i>, <i>The Parasites</i>, <i>Kiss Me Again Stranger</i>, <i>The Scapegoat</i>, <i>Mary Anne</i>, and <i>The Progress of Julius</i>. And of course I will always remember John Mantley's <i>Woman Obsessed </i>and Charles Dickens's <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i><i> </i>because I read these novels so many times when I was in Form 4. Although I did not write movie scripts anymore, I couldn't help feeling that these novels would make very good movies. Form 4 was my honeymoon year as I did not have to sit for any public exams. While my classmates were busy reading Mills & Boons (romance fiction) in class, I was busy enjoying the beauty of English Literature.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9SSxx8QVErSPW4LRvQLR6hDs7qwVP8km9acNVHc_RMYdyUYxuN2rIKdAHPDPu_GAQ3y8ECIsUWBjC8IB7SyokxOg4GGaV6oPpdir8aFF9eQbB_Y-c9EJKEEPCaePn1uEKT3m-RGviUwY/s2048/20210306_184713.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9SSxx8QVErSPW4LRvQLR6hDs7qwVP8km9acNVHc_RMYdyUYxuN2rIKdAHPDPu_GAQ3y8ECIsUWBjC8IB7SyokxOg4GGaV6oPpdir8aFF9eQbB_Y-c9EJKEEPCaePn1uEKT3m-RGviUwY/s320/20210306_184713.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;"><i>Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters </i>by Jane Dunn & The works of Daphne du Maurier (</span><i style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">The Progress of Julius</i><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">, </span><i style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">Jamaica Inn</i><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">, </span><i style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">My Cousin Rachel</i><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">, </span><i style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">The Scapegoat</i><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">, Mary Anne</span><i style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">, The Parasites </i><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">& </span><i style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">Kiss Me Again, Stranger</i><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">).</span><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUgUcpVujj6z_Alw4pbex7Q7Bs19dOCcXISgMMuugS31wPUBOouKEl8IskjqLXED8U-tm9OukPLpEUCKidGhyie_jFYCzC6xpT5s6tCPWcWleimHP-nzPDsaba48Avz7o3wdv0EnJcfZI/s2048/20210305_190402.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUgUcpVujj6z_Alw4pbex7Q7Bs19dOCcXISgMMuugS31wPUBOouKEl8IskjqLXED8U-tm9OukPLpEUCKidGhyie_jFYCzC6xpT5s6tCPWcWleimHP-nzPDsaba48Avz7o3wdv0EnJcfZI/s320/20210305_190402.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span><div style="color: #800180; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i>A Tale of Two Cities </i>by Charles Dickens and <i>Woman Obsessed </i>by John Mantley</span></div><div style="color: #800180; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">I did not read any novels when I was in Form 5 because I had to sit for my SPM (Form 5 examination) but after my Singapore trip, one month after the examination, I started reading all over again. While waiting for my SPM results, I read Daphne du Maurier's </span><i style="color: black;">Jamaica Inn</i><span style="color: black;"> several times before I went on to read the novels of Charles Dickens. </span>Lower 6 was another honeymoon year for me and I really read a lot that year. These include the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUFaPrDg0KMSDuIUi8sOhTiUWyCasIdroPqvqUHEOimblRfzPA5ptTXLmSo6tceagfe9LHQMOZFYFfqcthfunlkUz30uHGAR65F6BPKFbultMk2ttcA62FXc-HMg_n5DOAnT6rnmQYn1A/s2048/20210306_182614.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUFaPrDg0KMSDuIUi8sOhTiUWyCasIdroPqvqUHEOimblRfzPA5ptTXLmSo6tceagfe9LHQMOZFYFfqcthfunlkUz30uHGAR65F6BPKFbultMk2ttcA62FXc-HMg_n5DOAnT6rnmQYn1A/s320/20210306_182614.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;">Some of the works of Charles Dickens - <i>Little Dorrit</i>, <i>Hard Times</i>, <i>The Christmas Books (A Christmas Carol</i>, <i>The Chimes </i>& <i>The Cricket on the Hearth</i>, <i>Great Expectations</i>, <i>Nicholas Nickleby</i>, <i>Oliver Twist</i>, <i>The Pickwick Papers</i> and <i>David Copperfield</i>.</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9pHVz9ALxgedpS1yGV_DvVsCRvF1tSMosMBzKwV2lnnW8fBwKIMsiZ_SY5HUPDD42oKzwThJO4jCA_u4uRl3j8l4MsIrcaB1IAPnkXAclthLy5CpaF2NB7JkK8sDqXdEA6SupESJcHU/s2048/20210227_212237.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9pHVz9ALxgedpS1yGV_DvVsCRvF1tSMosMBzKwV2lnnW8fBwKIMsiZ_SY5HUPDD42oKzwThJO4jCA_u4uRl3j8l4MsIrcaB1IAPnkXAclthLy5CpaF2NB7JkK8sDqXdEA6SupESJcHU/s320/20210227_212237.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>The Complete Works of William Shakespeare </i>& <i>The Complete Sherlock Holmes</i> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCk8GmE0p5NEipJtbhsIR48It4V7LHIqvH9u1iwN8htWHEsU6724eHsynXNs94OOVGhTJGW4PpUZ4EL1-lzg3v4ZInCv3JgaWaOHV8V__p3mAFN-EVXpJ3sBVZY1ll53o0MHO0Hs3CBY/s2048/20210227_212809.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCk8GmE0p5NEipJtbhsIR48It4V7LHIqvH9u1iwN8htWHEsU6724eHsynXNs94OOVGhTJGW4PpUZ4EL1-lzg3v4ZInCv3JgaWaOHV8V__p3mAFN-EVXpJ3sBVZY1ll53o0MHO0Hs3CBY/s320/20210227_212809.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span><div style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: center;"><i>The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde</i> & <i>The Great Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</i></div><div style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">After my STPM (Form 6 examination), I continued with my reading and it was then that I began to read the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, Alexandre Dumas and D.H. Lawrence. It seemed to me that they were my dad's favorite writers as I could find an almost complete collection of their works in his library. I admit that at first I wasn't really interested in their works - I read these novels because there were lots of them in my dad's library. However, after getting started with them, I couldn't stop reading until I have read everything I could find about these writers. My love for English Literature has continued through the years thanks to my dad's literature classics collection - these priceless novels have given me a good start in English literature at an early age.<span style="color: #800180;"> </span>Literature is life and I have learnt a lot about life from the literary works.</div><div style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUEmoz_brM86G6KaVIBDifjMX7Ni-YwNGMmtfx5BhnC2dpDu71Ix8jnZXEN5ATBLxgd_q4GNqTWc3ws_joP_9RfokLbpVzWoJGGEWD-NJx79E1ajsQtL-V5mVwKJo3a-4caWSNdyX-Gtw/s2048/20210305_184212.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUEmoz_brM86G6KaVIBDifjMX7Ni-YwNGMmtfx5BhnC2dpDu71Ix8jnZXEN5ATBLxgd_q4GNqTWc3ws_joP_9RfokLbpVzWoJGGEWD-NJx79E1ajsQtL-V5mVwKJo3a-4caWSNdyX-Gtw/s320/20210305_184212.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left;">Some of W. Somerset Maugham's novels in my dad's personal library - <i>The Razor's Edge</i>, <i>South Sea Stories</i>, <i>The British Agent</i>, <i>Mrs. Craddock</i>, <i>The Summing Up</i>, <i>Up at the Villa</i>, <i>The Narrow Corner </i>and <i>Catalina</i>.</div><div style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-7p6NofhFgfENUxmoYTt5fZbvH3NNL2oU9wgPwRC2ZIQ1dQle9hrOr15oApvWDpRIFS6QPg7tBKcIVIzvp_Amyy8oG_FIDfsHtD9HHFdCqlqSrl5ZeFqdnpiCHJioIi_gn2S5XmdgJuY/s2048/20210306_212302.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-7p6NofhFgfENUxmoYTt5fZbvH3NNL2oU9wgPwRC2ZIQ1dQle9hrOr15oApvWDpRIFS6QPg7tBKcIVIzvp_Amyy8oG_FIDfsHtD9HHFdCqlqSrl5ZeFqdnpiCHJioIi_gn2S5XmdgJuY/s320/20210306_212302.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Camille</i>, <i>The Count of Monte Cristo</i>, <i>The Regent's Daughter</i>, <i>The Lady of the Camelias</i>, <i>Marguerite de Valois</i>, <i>The Vicomte de Bragelonne</i>, <i>The Queen's Necklace </i>& <i>The Man in the Iron Mask </i>by Alexandre Dumas.</span></div></span><div style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3xdJOwfgKjOFteYA8gMdUD2z86KA0qHNl49MYGEzkrJJcP5FLygzbxQr2X8evWq3ExDtsWjAtTYdJDJNb849ta2By9C5okBAJ5wcsMJTu1yg1u1o4LFd9anqxTTS5GRilJslF4eln_QM/s2048/20210305_193326.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3xdJOwfgKjOFteYA8gMdUD2z86KA0qHNl49MYGEzkrJJcP5FLygzbxQr2X8evWq3ExDtsWjAtTYdJDJNb849ta2By9C5okBAJ5wcsMJTu1yg1u1o4LFd9anqxTTS5GRilJslF4eln_QM/s320/20210305_193326.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Some of the works of D.H. Lawrence - <i>Lady Chatterley's Lover</i></span><span style="text-align: left;">, <i>Aaron's Rod</i></span><span style="text-align: left;">, <i>The Rainbow</i></span><span style="text-align: left;">, <i>Love Among The Haystacks</i></span><span style="text-align: left;">, <i>The Ladybird</i></span><span style="text-align: left;">, <i>The Plumed Serpent</i></span><i style="text-align: left;">, The Lost Girl </i><span style="text-align: left;">and <i>Kangaroo</i>.</span></div></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">While doing my teaching practice in a small town in Perak, I brought along <i>The Complete Novels of Jane Austen,</i> <i>The House of the Seven Gables </i>and <i>The Scarlet Letter </i>with me. I enjoyed reading these books over and over again and they were my best companions in those days.<i> </i>Since teaching and learning with children's literature is an important tool for teaching English, I also brought along some children's literature books to be used as teaching aids. These include <i>Stories by O'Henry, The Red Badge of Courage</i>, <i>Frankenstein</i>, <i>The Scarlet Pimpernel</i>, <i>Dracula</i>, <i>White Fang</i>, <i>King Solomon's Mines</i>, and <i>Robinson Crusoe, The Secret Garden</i>, the novels of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain. Giving children access to these stories can help them develop a love and passion for reading. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDVSco-iYW7P_TBrTpcDM09P9gKPYgC2ZE4VEX0domgNn3wcFhR_YWVHXryEcUxk2pIZQ8r-xnPTMN0HnwVVQex_5HLdpzxgkrXpBIctZD5okOJX7_J-SIjALeGk_3hu4oDFhZbT8gKiE/s2048/20210306_191016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDVSco-iYW7P_TBrTpcDM09P9gKPYgC2ZE4VEX0domgNn3wcFhR_YWVHXryEcUxk2pIZQ8r-xnPTMN0HnwVVQex_5HLdpzxgkrXpBIctZD5okOJX7_J-SIjALeGk_3hu4oDFhZbT8gKiE/s320/20210306_191016.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The House of the Seven Gables </i>and <i>The Scarlet Letter </i>by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbXJTYCE4I9g-YlCVve9ssLtBSN9Cnt-j9FSOsHhwYIHA45G7pZDFCEiTIEKTziobs-bypdeJwFf_LDED5tTa9axr5AdLxXQ6ZfgXxJRrEonzDsKoU0FF0ca4SOUHcd5Y6p4CZ5HPP-8/s2048/20210306_192452.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbXJTYCE4I9g-YlCVve9ssLtBSN9Cnt-j9FSOsHhwYIHA45G7pZDFCEiTIEKTziobs-bypdeJwFf_LDED5tTa9axr5AdLxXQ6ZfgXxJRrEonzDsKoU0FF0ca4SOUHcd5Y6p4CZ5HPP-8/s320/20210306_192452.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Stories by O'Henry, The Red Badge of Courage </i>(Stephen Crane), <i>Frankenstein </i>(Mary Shelley), <i>The Scarlet Pimpernel </i>(Baroness Orczy), <i>Dracula </i>(Bram Stoker), <i>White Fang </i>(Jack London), <i>King Solomon's Mines </i>(H. Rider Haggard), and <i>Robinson Crusoe </i>(Daniel Defoe)<i>.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HhJc8wuZ4ROK-pBwoDo6IebRSPTyQX0PXp8M42lCCx-Gos4m4hphLddtm-pXioBZ50aeD7FPVeS2SW6BgxOReULPbVWCuMwKSvwkuUQ_yUsFRVKQ1gFhXmIWADT2moBTVVYt2JwxwVo/s2048/20210306_194155.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HhJc8wuZ4ROK-pBwoDo6IebRSPTyQX0PXp8M42lCCx-Gos4m4hphLddtm-pXioBZ50aeD7FPVeS2SW6BgxOReULPbVWCuMwKSvwkuUQ_yUsFRVKQ1gFhXmIWADT2moBTVVYt2JwxwVo/s320/20210306_194155.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>The War of the Worlds</i>, <i>The Invisible Man</i> & <i>The Time Machine</i> by H.G. Wells; <i>Journey to the Center of the Earth</i>, <i>Around the World in Eighty Days </i>& <i>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea</i> by Jules Verne; <i>The Jungle Book 1 & Captain Courageous </i>by Rudyard Kipling.<br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1u_yLKvBM-cpzl_VABX1wncC3DCgK3yG5dAW4QjGTj3q8W1EN5XDKBD_LntC-r786UliWPdpWXTBceoSgqh7NJyNu_kZGJjRdtMDk0rIIrDnSiVr_ETiuv1-mt5V2-1Z_zNkrZn6Tsw/s2048/20210306_195944.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1u_yLKvBM-cpzl_VABX1wncC3DCgK3yG5dAW4QjGTj3q8W1EN5XDKBD_LntC-r786UliWPdpWXTBceoSgqh7NJyNu_kZGJjRdtMDk0rIIrDnSiVr_ETiuv1-mt5V2-1Z_zNkrZn6Tsw/s320/20210306_195944.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Treasure Island</i>, <i>Kidnapped</i>, <i>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</i> & <i>The Black Arrow</i> by Robert Louis Stevenson; <i>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i>, <i>The Prince and the Pauper </i>& <i>Tom Sawyer </i>by Mark Twain; <i>The Secret Garden </i>by Frances Hodgson Burnett.</span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Because of my background in English Literature, I decided to pursue a Masters Degree in English Literature after having completed my Bachelor of Education in TESL. Well, the time I spent reading these novels was not wasted after all! The good news was - I did not have to read so much because I have already read most of the novels in the MA students' reading list. As a part time MA student and full time teacher, this really helped me to save a lot of time. Needless to say, growing up surrounded by books does have a great deal of educational advantage for me. What I loved about the MA Program was its reading list. The moment I got the reading list, I quickly went to the bookshops to get the books and what made me feel proud was I already have most of the books in the list.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-eEnuGjLRt9OmxLPrRomXEi2nYb246YupzIqN4CWc0ViSYf4t4nFby1As_OsK-tP3FGwNpIEBjaGIpJOMjsGGTiVTWh8LEZ07xbry829R9B1Chh4VUwJkhbm1o3P3zWjJFS1_nh7VmY/s2048/20210302_204414.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-eEnuGjLRt9OmxLPrRomXEi2nYb246YupzIqN4CWc0ViSYf4t4nFby1As_OsK-tP3FGwNpIEBjaGIpJOMjsGGTiVTWh8LEZ07xbry829R9B1Chh4VUwJkhbm1o3P3zWjJFS1_nh7VmY/s320/20210302_204414.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;">My MA Thesis focused on the works of Thomas Hardy - <i>Far from the Madding Crowd</i>, <i>The Woodlanders</i>, <i>A Pair of Blue Eyes</i>, <i>Jude the Obscure</i>, <i>The Trumpet-Major</i>, <i>The Mayor of Casterbridge</i> & <i>Tess of the d'Urbervilles</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFOK5ExxQVrzqmE4SDu8allDMfvoMKTYNdzu2t2Fo8BzKrm5HMcMhp5qOeXTfp-lR4y9oTT-e-dy12abKW9eFe_a8oZORzB8RIYh8MFwbm1MqQZLd0YSpE0-KwYLt09zpw8gOCt9gWSKQ/s2048/20210306_204358.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFOK5ExxQVrzqmE4SDu8allDMfvoMKTYNdzu2t2Fo8BzKrm5HMcMhp5qOeXTfp-lR4y9oTT-e-dy12abKW9eFe_a8oZORzB8RIYh8MFwbm1MqQZLd0YSpE0-KwYLt09zpw8gOCt9gWSKQ/s320/20210306_204358.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;">The Secret Agent</i><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><i style="text-align: left;">Nostromo</i><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><i style="text-align: left;">Lord Jim</i><span style="text-align: left;">, <i>Heart of Darkness</i>,<i> The Rover</i>,<i> Victory </i>& </span><i style="text-align: left;">Under Western Eyes </i><span style="text-align: left;">by Joseph Conrad.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFdHqoJQJdNiaeRENWGP2TnzwP6VU7wxmV8XVIJIy9XoeCxaWA8cp1nsUjd58RxYK6Ie9Vh34ln_5qwb4Iq-PkYWxJg6mpZDLiqzON59HAslooicn-bvHT7dKaGxk1673wHsOJbrPSMg/s2048/20210306_200954.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFdHqoJQJdNiaeRENWGP2TnzwP6VU7wxmV8XVIJIy9XoeCxaWA8cp1nsUjd58RxYK6Ie9Vh34ln_5qwb4Iq-PkYWxJg6mpZDLiqzON59HAslooicn-bvHT7dKaGxk1673wHsOJbrPSMg/s320/20210306_200954.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>To the Lighthouse</i>, <i>Mrs Dalloway</i>, <i>Orlando </i>by Virginia Woolf; <i>The Mill on the Floss</i>, <i>Adam Bede</i> & <i>Middlemarch </i>by George Eliot; <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i> & <i>Dubliners </i>by James Joyce.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqVi5YyXSbjYioUo9ghjAouKUv4x_9gQGed1i-1RNFAsKhlK6edchgBfd51vXMu2_4PLJnFadPsVMPxpxrbCUfL4BY0lucy461XqV3oFzDUSSjMpBOTgtHMCFM6i72aq5caLG2AjLrwHM/s2048/20210306_205633.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqVi5YyXSbjYioUo9ghjAouKUv4x_9gQGed1i-1RNFAsKhlK6edchgBfd51vXMu2_4PLJnFadPsVMPxpxrbCUfL4BY0lucy461XqV3oFzDUSSjMpBOTgtHMCFM6i72aq5caLG2AjLrwHM/s320/20210306_205633.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>The Aspern Papers </i>(Henry James); <i>Joseph Andrews </i>(Henry Fielding); <i>Barchester Towers </i>& <i>Framley Parsonage</i> (Anthony Trollope); <i>The Red and the Black </i>(Stendhal); <i>The Rainbow</i>, <i>Women in Love </i>& <i>Sons and Lovers </i>(D.H. Lawrence).<i> </i></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Reading is fundamental to our lives because it brings joy to our hearts and helps to expand our imagination. Apart from improving our language and communication skills, it also improves our memory and concentration and sharpens our critical thinking and analytical skills. Studies have shown that reading can prevent Alzheimer's disease and dementia. It also reduces stress and gives us inner peace. Sad to say, many Malaysians just don't read. Even undergraduates who are doing their literature assignments would simply look for summaries of the literary texts online just to complete their assignments - they are not interested to read the original texts. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Literary works are a reflection of humanity and the world we live in. They help us to understand ourselves as well as the people and events in various societies. They teach us about the way people live, their beliefs, cultures, and traditions at the time these works were written so that we can empathize with their feelings and thoughts. In a way, this also helps to broaden our horizons and make us more sensitive to the feelings of the people around us. The lessons we learn from the characters and the stories of their lives (irrespective of which era they belong) are still relevant in today's world because human hearts do not change. The classics have stood the test of time and readers can be assured that they are reading something of value</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Parents should make reading an essential part of their children's daily routine. Introducing classics into the children's lives from a young age will enhance their social and cognitive development, mental health, and wellbeing. As they experience the lives of the characters in the stories, they will have a greater understanding of how to make sense of their own lives as well as the lives of others. The best time to read is during school days when there isn't much to do or to worry about. Once this habit is inculcated in the children, they will become lifelong readers - smarter, more analytical, and better at life. However, if they never get the chance to get started with literature at all, it is most likely that they will never read a single literary text in their lives. What will happen if they don't read? They will grow up lacking in language and communication skills. Their cognitive growth will also be affected as their thought processes, problem solving and decision-making skills are very limited. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-learn-french-efficiently-on-your.html">HOW TO LEARN FRENCH EFFICIENTLY ON YOUR OWN</a> and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/10/how-abraham-lincoln-inspired-me-to.html">How Abraham Lincoln Inspired Me to Pursue My Ph.D.?</a> To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-78736760683210818342021-02-13T21:19:00.232+08:002021-03-10T03:16:23.377+08:00HOW TO LEARN ENGLISH EFFECTIVELY ON YOUR OWN<div style="text-align: left;">Today is the second day of Chinese New Year but instead of going out with friends and visiting relatives, I stay at home and enjoy myself in my own way. Although the SOP for family reunion dinners for Chinese New Year now allowed up to 15 close family members, I don't even dare to sit at the same table with my brothers and would rather eat my meals alone. It doesn't matter how many people are there at the same table - if one of them is infected with the Covid-19 virus, the others will get it too. This is also the first time I celebrate Chinese New Year without buying any new clothes and new shoes but since I have bought so many clothes and shoes in the past, it does not matter to me. I certainly won't risk my life going to the shops to buy non-essential items. It seems that the Coronavirus Pandemic has changed the way I celebrate Chinese New Year but it is not a bad thing because I can relax at home in a peaceful and calm environment. Since change is inevitable, we have to find positive ways to deal with it. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Covid-19 has not only changed the way we live but also the way we educate our future generations. In many countries, schools remain closed due to the pandemic and many children receive no education because they cannot access online learning. We do not know how long this situation will last but we certainly cannot allow our future generations to hang around each day doing and learning nothing. What if the pandemic could last seven more years (according to the Bloomberg Report)? Surely we cannot let the children waste seven years of their lives just like that! Although some parents are thankful that their children can help them at the stalls, this should not be the way they educate their children. In this article, I would like to share how one can be educated without going to school and without access to the internet with special reference to the teaching and learning of English as a second language.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am sure many of us can still remember how <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/10/how-abraham-lincoln-inspired-me-to.html">Abraham Lincoln</a> educated himself even though he had a turbulent childhood and grew up in abject poverty. Although he had only attended school less than twelve months throughout his entire life and his formal schooling ended when he was fifteen, that did not deter him from acquiring knowledge. He had walked to borrow every book within fifty miles of his home and read all the books he could lay his hands on. He worked on his father's farm in the day and read by the light of the fireplace in the night. He also carried a book with him and read whenever he had the time. According to Professor Emerton, "He was no longer at school, but was simply educating himself by the only pedagogical method which ever yet produced any results anywhere, namely, by the method of his own tireless energy in continuous study and practice" (Carnegie, p. 237). Lincoln had always considered his education to be defective as there was little inspiration that he could get from his mentors and daily environment. However, his remarkable struggle to overcome adversities and stunning work of self-education had brought him great success. The inspiring story of Abraham Lincoln, an entirely self-taught man, has thus proven that self-education is possible as long as one is ready to put his mind and heart to it. I have followed his example and found that it worked very well for me. But of course this would mean that we must learn and master the art of self-discipline and self-control. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9DeY65ubn8Vcr6MmpnAbZ-uVOYKxOwDssmGTGG4EMpmkJXqIUXYPE1RfEiPkmodzXhqeFwwVPzitN8t7syU8zTQ-mdCpOCDTIvFKMxs3mRWielivrLwmwVIqS77dRCdkvsUechIESaKc/s2048/20210214_212509.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9DeY65ubn8Vcr6MmpnAbZ-uVOYKxOwDssmGTGG4EMpmkJXqIUXYPE1RfEiPkmodzXhqeFwwVPzitN8t7syU8zTQ-mdCpOCDTIvFKMxs3mRWielivrLwmwVIqS77dRCdkvsUechIESaKc/s320/20210214_212509.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Children's Britannica</i> Volume 11 & Volume 12</span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When did I begin learning English and how long did it take me to learn the language from scratch? Frankly speaking, I have never attended kindergarten and my formal schooling only started when I was seven. I lived with my grandmother in Ipoh and returned to Kuala Lumpur just before I entered primary school. At the age of seven, I couldn't speak a word of English or Malay and on the first day of school, I spoke to my Malay class teacher in Chinese. But one year later, I was able to converse very fluently with my teachers and friends in English and Malay. At the age of eight, I loved to read English picture books and had always looked forward to go to the bookshops to choose my favorite stories. When I was 9 years old, I received the first English letter from my 11-year-old cousin brother and since then we have been writing to each other. It seemed that writing just came naturally to me and I have never considered it to be a problem at all. I didn't read picture books anymore when I got my 16 Volume Set of <i>The Young Children's Encyclopedia </i>on my 10th birthday because these books really kept me busy. I have read and re-read this encyclopedia set several times. When I was eleven, I started reading Enid Blyton's works and the Hardy Boys novels - something which many of our present day graduates cannot afford to do. At thirteen, I was already reading the complete and unabridged works of Louisa M. Alcott (<i>Little Women</i>, <i>Good Wives</i>, <i>Jo's Boys</i>) and R.D. Blackmore (<i>Lorna Doone</i>). However, that was only the beginning of my interest in classic literature books. I went on to read the complete and unabridged novels of Jane Austen and Pearl S. Buck the following year. This was followed by the works of Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Daphne du Maurier, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, etc. By the time I completed secondary school, I have already read most of the classic books and my 20 Volume Set of <i>Children's Britannica</i>. I was also an avid letter writer (since I entered secondary school) and the letters I wrote to my friends could sometimes be as long as 7 or 8 pages. But how did I master the English language when I couldn't speak a word of English at the age of seven? Who were my mentors?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_hJmQreAoDwizha4uXs5vIOWJVaObaH3tNRKarMYoHKHVPwRH49v_6bXIgBtFIvyIcj-N_tyAsRQBtBIXInD-2jlkoBJavUZ8SOElyFMh8PRavXZg03mEySbFpbJZvZMHN0rEcm90aJs/s2048/20210214_210616.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_hJmQreAoDwizha4uXs5vIOWJVaObaH3tNRKarMYoHKHVPwRH49v_6bXIgBtFIvyIcj-N_tyAsRQBtBIXInD-2jlkoBJavUZ8SOElyFMh8PRavXZg03mEySbFpbJZvZMHN0rEcm90aJs/s320/20210214_210616.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Mouse-deer and the Swordfish</i></span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">During my early primary school days, my mom and dad used to teach me to read. Apart from the English Readers, they also bought lots of picture books for me. During those days, these picture books were my prized possessions. Among my favorite picture books were <i>Mouse-deer and the Swordfish</i>, <i>The Ugly Duckling</i>, <i>Thumbelina</i>, <i>Hansel and Gretel</i>, <i>Cinderella</i>, <i>Aladdin and the Magic Lamp</i> and <i>The Emperor's New Clothes</i>. My parents did not read to me but I had the habit of reading my favorite picture books over and over again to myself until the words, phrases, and sentences in them become a part of my speech and writing. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6sfWYbZw3RlvCY5yW7HZB0m31h2WetpnBaH-pLoZcSuxlK7hyFAXpULQzwNtDteyAOvqhpHGY7o60LjvmPmCOY5rqNrGJkXWKVS1nfzuW3b4IElHe9lDIKGtMyJgCfto72VQzeseVZGE/s2048/20210214_213452.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6sfWYbZw3RlvCY5yW7HZB0m31h2WetpnBaH-pLoZcSuxlK7hyFAXpULQzwNtDteyAOvqhpHGY7o60LjvmPmCOY5rqNrGJkXWKVS1nfzuW3b4IElHe9lDIKGtMyJgCfto72VQzeseVZGE/s320/20210214_213452.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i>The Young Children's Encyclopedia</i> Volume 11 & Volume 12</span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As I became more and more familiar with the language, I began to read <i>The Young Children's Encyclopedia</i>. At that time, I somehow felt uneasy repeating the sentences after my parents and preferred to read on my own. I only sought their help when I didn't know how to pronounce certain words. I did not ask my parents to tell me the meanings of the words anymore as I preferred to refer to the dictionary. I am the kind of person who cannot go on reading whenever I come across a word that I do not understand and I can never feel at peace until I have written the new word and its meaning in my vocabulary book. I used to bring along my vocabulary book everywhere and checked whether I could still remember the words in it from time to time. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrnFaEAuIuLoI9fc8fQLe_t110NnKOtQV_WoCAuJBu5r7GlLAeA_8cWWsgqaYt6wmxJRWpJ-KYXF9oH0vsAH5pwVWGnEqMY_5O7mQ_a2mxCtoe2mG1KGlq3ciGAwoGp5jF6iIl410-UTc/s2048/20210219_173422.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrnFaEAuIuLoI9fc8fQLe_t110NnKOtQV_WoCAuJBu5r7GlLAeA_8cWWsgqaYt6wmxJRWpJ-KYXF9oH0vsAH5pwVWGnEqMY_5O7mQ_a2mxCtoe2mG1KGlq3ciGAwoGp5jF6iIl410-UTc/s320/20210219_173422.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Anytime Tales</i> & <i>Mr. Pink-Whistle Interferes</i></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLJcXp1J9dT8ohoK4IJ0iree8HGZr5XCU4j6wqSlLwDHHA1Goo0gEcQMB749CYem9nPr8DQjBlQTFFvv8CkuCdmCwdRIJ7xImVTSL_Ybf14jM31pbKMuXUwjQXqHSE-XUy0bcy3f13P-0/s2048/20210214_211028.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLJcXp1J9dT8ohoK4IJ0iree8HGZr5XCU4j6wqSlLwDHHA1Goo0gEcQMB749CYem9nPr8DQjBlQTFFvv8CkuCdmCwdRIJ7xImVTSL_Ybf14jM31pbKMuXUwjQXqHSE-XUy0bcy3f13P-0/s320/20210214_211028.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Naughtiest Girl is the Monitor</i> & <i>Five Go Down to the Sea</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifhNrHxooNB8zdTK3UNAMcpOguXzq4r7Qti915sWBkyhHYc8J6Snkft9cDAjA701WMhe5Jk-yf9pYctzDLpgVy4MXXV9oOdgZLKAw4Eq5liBK_Bn5UmfHO6426A9JNU4f8r6rAC-vFDys/s2048/20210214_211235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifhNrHxooNB8zdTK3UNAMcpOguXzq4r7Qti915sWBkyhHYc8J6Snkft9cDAjA701WMhe5Jk-yf9pYctzDLpgVy4MXXV9oOdgZLKAw4Eq5liBK_Bn5UmfHO6426A9JNU4f8r6rAC-vFDys/s320/20210214_211235.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Those Dreadful Children</i> & <i>The Secret Seven</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: left;">When I was eleven, I already had sufficient vocabulary to become an independent reader and need not trouble my parents anymore. I suddenly craved for Enid Blyton's books and spent the next two years of my life reading her works. My first Enid Blyton books were <i>Anytime Tales</i>, <i>Toyland Tales</i>, <i>Mr Pink Whistle Collection</i>, and <i>The Amelia Jane Collection. </i>Some of my favorite Enid Blyton books include <i>The Secret Island</i>, <i>Those Dreadful Children</i>, <i>The Circus of Adventure</i>, <i>The Adventurous Four Collection</i>, <i>The Naughtiest Girl Collection</i>, <i>The Famous Five Collection</i>, <i>The Secret Seven Collection </i>and <i>Malory Towers Collection</i>. I was also a great fan of <i>The Hardy Boys Series</i>. It was at this stage of learning that I discovered I had finally mastered the English language. Although it was my mom who first taught me to read, my English language skills had already surpassed hers. To summarize my entire experience - my parents helped me to build my foundation in English and with this foundation, I taught myself to master the language. It was just as simple as that! But, of course, learning did not just stop there. Thanks to my father and his timeless literature classics, I fell in love with English literature at the tender age of thirteen. While my schoolmates were busy reading <i>Mills & Boons </i>(romantic fiction books), I was busy reading classic literature books. I also read the <i>Children's Britannica </i>and studied the <i>New American Bible </i>(You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/02/growing-up-with-english-literature.html">Growing Up with English Literature</a>, an article about learning English through literature).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Zad47Om_OG81ZWz6UEDZwG05ZyAByX1GGIcJt4kW4Y5z_jxgcoLxk1h1WjYr1DW4_xJJSbdGWaNFhC2_O_KcHY5BDUqPtCMeSKFD6orjLpK74SP7EyfvZWtyXXuz9cWiN1Z-L5FLPLc/s2048/20210219_173107.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Zad47Om_OG81ZWz6UEDZwG05ZyAByX1GGIcJt4kW4Y5z_jxgcoLxk1h1WjYr1DW4_xJJSbdGWaNFhC2_O_KcHY5BDUqPtCMeSKFD6orjLpK74SP7EyfvZWtyXXuz9cWiN1Z-L5FLPLc/s320/20210219_173107.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The Hardy Boys: <i>Hunting for Hidden Gold</i> by Franklin W. Dixon</span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But what did I do at school? During those days, our teachers used to ask the whole class to read the entire chapter together followed by group and individual reading. Reading in groups does have its disadvantages - some of us read too slowly while others read too fast. I did not like reading in groups and had to pretend to read - moving my lips without making a sound (Since I had already read the whole book at home, I thought it did not matter). After reading, the teachers would discuss the comprehension questions with us and we had to write the questions and answers in our comprehension books. And I was always the first one to hand in my schoolwork. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiESGXrQcArf-N9RdR1x09SFYZwVLBANsuTJKHGC78sV84e_xG3J_x6TgeRIo6tKhr46VRUG4I9stZJkXfhgfv6MS_tACCJE6Gsk4kpwYRQulI6IbwCHSZ1XnNGX8w8qvs0Of8yuaVnHGc/s2048/20210220_214818.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiESGXrQcArf-N9RdR1x09SFYZwVLBANsuTJKHGC78sV84e_xG3J_x6TgeRIo6tKhr46VRUG4I9stZJkXfhgfv6MS_tACCJE6Gsk4kpwYRQulI6IbwCHSZ1XnNGX8w8qvs0Of8yuaVnHGc/s320/20210220_214818.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">Wren & Martin's <i>High School Grammar & Composition</i> is one of the most renowned and widely used reference books on English Grammar. The language is simple and easy to understand. It is the Bible of English Grammar.</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Since grammar is the foundation for language learning, I will now share how I "acquired" my English grammar. The word "acquired" is used here because I have never learnt English grammar during my school days. It just came to me naturally. At the age of twenty, I didn't know the meaning of definite & indefinite articles, subject-verb agreement, present continuous tense, past continuous tense, present perfect tense and past perfect tense even though I was able to construct my sentences correctly. How did I get to know about all these tenses? After my Form Six Examination (STPM), I started giving tuition and that was when I came across some grammar notes at the back of one of my dictionaries. It was like a new discovery for me and I was really excited about it. So, I decided to read more and find out more about English grammar - it was indeed an eye-opening experience. If only I had known about grammar earlier, that could have prevented the confusion that I went through in learning the language during my early primary school days. Looking back, I couldn't help feeling that my students are luckier than me because I always make sure that they know their grammar rules. I have the habit of going through their essays with them and telling them where they have gone wrong. But, who taught me English grammar? Nobody. I had to discover it myself. My parents only taught me to read - they have never mentioned anything about grammar!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwFeBlh9IuMCZhBNdI1w5bUnU3z7FzDCPYuAPyu17ZsbVxFwET9fvAC3hqxusgm7L8sWMADIZhrTcgecZm-xU7oz2cCfbPaC0Mf4tFXPyeqzbdjI2bZYN87YQnZjmXyyOFhvpdfina7ns/s2048/20210221_212614.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwFeBlh9IuMCZhBNdI1w5bUnU3z7FzDCPYuAPyu17ZsbVxFwET9fvAC3hqxusgm7L8sWMADIZhrTcgecZm-xU7oz2cCfbPaC0Mf4tFXPyeqzbdjI2bZYN87YQnZjmXyyOFhvpdfina7ns/s320/20210221_212614.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Fundamentals of English Grammar Workbook</i> (by Betty Schrampfer Azar and Donald A. Azar), Longman & <i>Grammar Builder Book 1</i>, (by Farida J Ibrahim, Adibah Amin and Rosemary Eravelly), Cambridge Unversity Press</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdIRtjVRbhbC7J_qSHnVI46lsDu1VC62OE89zNcKwV1PJ7oTfWkkdX5CIpTKqv8SgeWJinblrY0yxbclby2ddaYkBUD1oL3eYLhGaSEbdS6tebCprp9XmANJ8iE4ITJPdNyPWA6JbIFQc/s2048/20210213_215033.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdIRtjVRbhbC7J_qSHnVI46lsDu1VC62OE89zNcKwV1PJ7oTfWkkdX5CIpTKqv8SgeWJinblrY0yxbclby2ddaYkBUD1oL3eYLhGaSEbdS6tebCprp9XmANJ8iE4ITJPdNyPWA6JbIFQc/s320/20210213_215033.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Grammar Builder Book 2 </i>&<i> Book 3</i>, Cambridge University Press</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG-HKLV_M0HaNF5455mrBR_PxSsujjeVOLQnie6aCizhHyvodrOmTZwj_nqzz5Gv0AhX99iR5w7H4C39buEujNyttVrGKUXsWIGTw-C74_2gl6Dhv_NW5FlyKuBgIx6FBJz6Dc1qlPLk/s2048/20210214_211840.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG-HKLV_M0HaNF5455mrBR_PxSsujjeVOLQnie6aCizhHyvodrOmTZwj_nqzz5Gv0AhX99iR5w7H4C39buEujNyttVrGKUXsWIGTw-C74_2gl6Dhv_NW5FlyKuBgIx6FBJz6Dc1qlPLk/s320/20210214_211840.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Grammar Builder Book 4 </i>&<i> Book 5</i>, Cambridge University Press</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: left;">Conscious learning of grammar rules and error correction are a great way to learn a new language. As an English teacher, I have always emphasized on the importance of learning English grammar because I believe that those who do not know basic grammar rules will often find it difficult to construct grammatically correct sentences. The natural approach to learning a second language does not apply to all as it may take years for the learners to decipher the correct usage of grammar rules. This will not only confuse them but also make learning more difficult for them. They may even end up not knowing any grammar rules at all despite years of learning English. That is why it is necessary for beginners to get some English grammar reference books (above) and improve their grammar skills by doing the exercises given in these books. Parents who feel that their children are not learning anything at home during the Movement Control Order (MCO) can always get some grammar reference books for them. If the children can complete the exercises in one of the books recommended above, they have made a quantum leap in learning English. Since answers are provided at the back of the books, they can easily check their answers themselves. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGuZQSTRJWaI0jJtk7WiWDG3sE3OLOAonHwbcY-piamYQYObMt4t5NWmtpX1iu-jL1lrKWS0QH2-lno4mVXJL-jMsjdn3yshAkXQrHqIz0xfGUQ68x1Y2dKkJ-C3oPuwrk2UKuHWn1ak4/s2048/20210214_012640.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGuZQSTRJWaI0jJtk7WiWDG3sE3OLOAonHwbcY-piamYQYObMt4t5NWmtpX1iu-jL1lrKWS0QH2-lno4mVXJL-jMsjdn3yshAkXQrHqIz0xfGUQ68x1Y2dKkJ-C3oPuwrk2UKuHWn1ak4/s320/20210214_012640.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English</i></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So how are you going to learn English effectively on your own? Can everyone follow my style? If not, there are still many other ways to learn on your own. Those who have no knowledge of English at all can begin their language learning journey with an audio course and learn some essential words, phrases and conversations for every day life. These CDs can easily be found in the bookshops. After learning some basic English words, phrases, and sentences, you can consider expanding your vocabulary using a picture dictionary. Also get a copy of the <i>Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English</i> as its pronunciation table can help you with the pronunciations. Read lots of picture books. Singing English songs helps so do get some CDs with lyrics and practise singing yourself. Buy movies with English subtitles because you will learn lots of new English words, sentences, and conversations from them. Try watching the same movie several times and you will soon get used to the way the language is spoken. When you come across any new words in the movies, do remember to look for the meanings of these words in the dictionary. To improve your English speaking skills, you can practice your speech in front of a mirror. I used to do that with Abraham Lincoln's <i>Gettysburg Address </i>and Winston Churchill's <i>Great War Speeches.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptm_bcduaZO5LcpJizCvcPCkd1-4HKiC9effvL_kRuwJq0qbZ2eHJTSC7JY8xy45_jT6z0UBg0zglBXcR9QJTm7Zur-TWIEIx9uYMUL8VVatk3N8nmWep39l3F10RkQqa8olFaACxASc/s2048/20210308_195937.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptm_bcduaZO5LcpJizCvcPCkd1-4HKiC9effvL_kRuwJq0qbZ2eHJTSC7JY8xy45_jT6z0UBg0zglBXcR9QJTm7Zur-TWIEIx9uYMUL8VVatk3N8nmWep39l3F10RkQqa8olFaACxASc/s320/20210308_195937.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Great War Speeches </i>by Sir Winston Churchill</div></span><i><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Once you have mastered English grammar and learnt enough words, phrases, sentences, and conversations for you to get along in your daily life, then it is time to start reading some children's books - I would recommend Enid Blyton's books because the stories are interesting and the language used is simple and easy to understand. When you come across any words that you don't understand in these books, do not skip these words but find their meanings in a dictionary. You can consider keeping a pocket vocabulary book where you can write these words and their meanings in it. If you feel that you have forgotten the meanings of some of these words, you can always refer to your pocket vocabulary book again. The good news is - when you find that you can read a few of Enid Blyton's books without any problems and you can understand the meanings of all the words in it, you have succeeded! But don't become complacent yet. You can always do better than others so let's continue reading and become lifelong readers. Remember, the moment you stop learning, you are going backward rather than forward.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAn1VFxhLboTCjTvWgpsa9DGeMWbDzXLfX5lIF-IOTONjQO8KpvwhkV24b2Y8W3kCDe9bqvrsgj1ipHEczvL-OV0K-g113B2rmFn-FrwL8fwGhVfI0SgsrFmBOvxNDGkTyHDwgsljgUxk/s753/vocab.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="753" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAn1VFxhLboTCjTvWgpsa9DGeMWbDzXLfX5lIF-IOTONjQO8KpvwhkV24b2Y8W3kCDe9bqvrsgj1ipHEczvL-OV0K-g113B2rmFn-FrwL8fwGhVfI0SgsrFmBOvxNDGkTyHDwgsljgUxk/w400-h125/vocab.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;">This is how your vocabulary book should look like</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Apart from Enid Blyton's books, there are many classic children's literature books that are worth reading. Reading carefully selected stories from the children's world of classics are beneficial for English learners as this is an excellent way to increase their language proficiency. Here are some of the must-read children's classic novels that I like to share with my students. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6PixBGPnVCoXBv54R4H8G6oatSJbCyXlf81wEL4C0HvKrzfUwRKcK2rCSYs-IzbJFkkTxsReTN6svz0a1L85evloaxDMoFbS73kZ6rm6wHxI0P3tC9HC3NU5JRf7YyJpsxbdElJd7fE/s2048/20210309_210024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6PixBGPnVCoXBv54R4H8G6oatSJbCyXlf81wEL4C0HvKrzfUwRKcK2rCSYs-IzbJFkkTxsReTN6svz0a1L85evloaxDMoFbS73kZ6rm6wHxI0P3tC9HC3NU5JRf7YyJpsxbdElJd7fE/s320/20210309_210024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #800180;"><i>Fairy Tales </i>(Hans Christian Andersen), <i>Heidi </i>(Johanna Spyri), <i>Black Beauty </i>(Anna Sewell), <i>Peter Pan </i>(J.M. Barrie), <i>The Water-Babies</i> (Charles Kingsley), <i>What Katy Did </i>(Susan M. Coolidge), <i>A Little Princess </i>& <i>The Secret Garden </i>(Frances Hodgson Burnett).</span></span><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMtdHc2AxMPzYQeaIcUx8GTWWfw4Zn85CDcHe1GAjyU3SvZNXWzdCoZc6zQbktv4nHJosPCUpfCLuRimCUUVRlNXzMB97utoG7M-940w5KzEMZS_yPJxvoGWy-XONz57aHOuOcWkCD-kw/s2048/20210309_210519.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMtdHc2AxMPzYQeaIcUx8GTWWfw4Zn85CDcHe1GAjyU3SvZNXWzdCoZc6zQbktv4nHJosPCUpfCLuRimCUUVRlNXzMB97utoG7M-940w5KzEMZS_yPJxvoGWy-XONz57aHOuOcWkCD-kw/s320/20210309_210519.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><i>The Wind in the Willows </i>(by Kenneth Grahame) & <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland </i>(by Lewis Carroll)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhFCK_6V6FYDnINuDCSEU4csuP0rPPaQNJMKhiWzlKXpO91E7Ko-JERR21-9qrnD6HmumH0IrwvyFMWkoX5XzvtTC7PZ7EDL18k22Y5llQI5OacwSGopozFLFuYcISNNtsgGc9_UGUd0/s2048/20210306_210649.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhFCK_6V6FYDnINuDCSEU4csuP0rPPaQNJMKhiWzlKXpO91E7Ko-JERR21-9qrnD6HmumH0IrwvyFMWkoX5XzvtTC7PZ7EDL18k22Y5llQI5OacwSGopozFLFuYcISNNtsgGc9_UGUd0/s320/20210306_210649.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><i>The Swiss Family Robinson </i>(by Johann David Wyss) and <i>The Coral Island </i>(by R.M. Ballantyne)</span><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you wish to improve your essay writing skills, you can also buy some essay writing books as these are must have references if you want to write well. Reading these sample essays can give you some ideas in essay writing that will be helpful during an examination. Concerned parents should get some of these books for their children so that they can brush up on their writing skills during the MCO instead of idling away their time.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDIxixQL1P2hMHnC33Tv8Q-jID_ThguvxrUNd7OQ28aLdC3_OYWYeAcp3c5QPv3z5wQL_h7a_HP_dDdKHKXIGcdZCV9ZxduPb3F8EtTgNiloIiVm9FbdNPF8Zk3rH1B1v4g0a1qFUt74/s2048/20210213_214851.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDIxixQL1P2hMHnC33Tv8Q-jID_ThguvxrUNd7OQ28aLdC3_OYWYeAcp3c5QPv3z5wQL_h7a_HP_dDdKHKXIGcdZCV9ZxduPb3F8EtTgNiloIiVm9FbdNPF8Zk3rH1B1v4g0a1qFUt74/s320/20210213_214851.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Essay Writing Books</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo-qzxfBFp0FwTwlxOGJ8fMctKUAq_OntJrtY7bGdmi-AJCFIAmTrMxTWm8gIEljylooaOY_WkWdDCRqoXhGjVfePf29RPRrmdOunKalVBx81tyqpu6_8uePp0juDJPMyIpuie3IlfVgA/s2048/20210213_214807.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo-qzxfBFp0FwTwlxOGJ8fMctKUAq_OntJrtY7bGdmi-AJCFIAmTrMxTWm8gIEljylooaOY_WkWdDCRqoXhGjVfePf29RPRrmdOunKalVBx81tyqpu6_8uePp0juDJPMyIpuie3IlfVgA/s320/20210213_214807.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>Effective PT3 Writng</i> & <i>SPM Model Essays and Summaries (English 1119)</i><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: left;">Once you have mastered the English language, you will need a better dictionary if you intend to become a lifelong reader. My favorite dictionary is <i>The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language </i>published by Houghton Mifflin Company. It has more than 350,000 entries and meanings illustrated by over 34,000 written examples and by nearly 4000 photographs and drawings. It is one of my most prized possessions and has been keeping me company for many years. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHgUSBDFM2BfW8w4vF765Y9atujecy5qEtKG6NMhZJv394e16xfb6kbPh0nC0e5_s_-uts_zN1iB1Hw3byKyRzPtZ2nhtVS4yIDAlPj7p7n6DDzIDTV22XtdlT1udGSyNwmayywGJPN9E/s2048/20210218_020021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHgUSBDFM2BfW8w4vF765Y9atujecy5qEtKG6NMhZJv394e16xfb6kbPh0nC0e5_s_-uts_zN1iB1Hw3byKyRzPtZ2nhtVS4yIDAlPj7p7n6DDzIDTV22XtdlT1udGSyNwmayywGJPN9E/s320/20210218_020021.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language</i></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you wish to expand your vocabulary and improve your writing, you can get a thesaurus. It is a great reference tool to locate synonyms and vary your choice of words. I would recommend <i>The Everyman Roget's Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases</i>, <i>Webster's New World Dictionary and Thesaurus</i>, and <i>Webster's New Roget's A-Z Thesaurus</i>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5mxjmc2nUkkqXMjiKGVh0XHkggj9H9lDZQXCG-_2A6iS0NYdOSpv_IBJhOyvo67Nsbr7RfrrdXqvV3WgLa1UE6ZhOHFsbO65wnf5lMaaEQq7kIGZIg_10Ht7LsQgphdULqhibUPTGvBo/s2048/20210218_020603.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5mxjmc2nUkkqXMjiKGVh0XHkggj9H9lDZQXCG-_2A6iS0NYdOSpv_IBJhOyvo67Nsbr7RfrrdXqvV3WgLa1UE6ZhOHFsbO65wnf5lMaaEQq7kIGZIg_10Ht7LsQgphdULqhibUPTGvBo/s320/20210218_020603.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>The Everyman Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases </i>& <i>Webster's New World Dictionary and Thesaurus</i></span><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjutsgRT8iPqzgw_2M2sVsEQD5FMZz1Pi3X2Tf3QVyQMX7kvH3CfGDhHleHJp3Zt5LGYt_Q_0yZ3DRZVbfGq-aAyg0RPPtitWHs62R99dFxryPXo4mPtK5unj8Wc-lY_1oNJd7MHbN5zm8/s2048/20210219_180651.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjutsgRT8iPqzgw_2M2sVsEQD5FMZz1Pi3X2Tf3QVyQMX7kvH3CfGDhHleHJp3Zt5LGYt_Q_0yZ3DRZVbfGq-aAyg0RPPtitWHs62R99dFxryPXo4mPtK5unj8Wc-lY_1oNJd7MHbN5zm8/s320/20210219_180651.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Webster's New Roget's A-Z Thesaurus</i></div></span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: left;">Self-education gives us a lot freedom and flexibility as we can choose when, what, how, and where to learn. Most of all, it helps us become more resilient and independent and this a good thing because students who are overly dependent on their teachers cannot go very far. If I have been dependent on my teachers, my knowledge of the English language may just be limited to what is in the textbooks. How many teachers will actually tell you about the works of Louisa May Alcott, Pearl S. Buck, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Daphne du Maurier, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton, and most of all, William Shakespeare? Many teachers don't like to read and they have never read anything by Pearl S. Buck, Jane Austen, or Thomas Hardy. They only read what they have to teach and, normally, one chapter ahead of their students. How can they talk about books they haven't read? The use of mother tongue in English language classrooms is also not uncommon. Since children should be exposed to the English language as much as possible during English lessons, too much mother tongue can hinder learning. To gain mastery over the English language, we have to go beyond textbook / classroom learning which can be achieved through self-education. This is particularly true during the coronavirus pandemic when many children are staying home from school. Let's not waste anymore time but adapt to change and master the art of self-education. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Parents need not worry that they may not be good enough to teach their children English at home. They only need to help their children build a strong foundation in the language and the little ones will do the rest. My mom had limited English proficiency but she helped me to build a very strong foundation in English and the rest is history. Do you know who were Abraham Lincoln's mentors? Caleb Hazel and Zachariah Birney in the forests of Kentucky, Andrew Crawford and Azel Dorsey along Little Pigeon Creek in Indiana. They were scarcely educated teachers who eked out a meager existence traveling from one place to another, teaching those who could afford to pay in cash or in commodities. But, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is known to be the greatest speech in the world. Remember the parable of the silver pieces? As what Jesus says, 'Those who have will get more until they grow rich, while those who have not will lose even the little they have (Matthew 25:29). In other words, those who manage their lives well and know how to make the most of what has been given to them will be greatly rewarded. On the other hand, those who do nothing will lose everything. Stay safe and motivated!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-learn-french-efficiently-on-your.html">HOW TO LEARN FRENCH EFFICIENTLY ON YOUR OWN</a>; <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/11/teaching-learning-french-by-association.html">TEACHING & LEARNING FRENCH BY ASSOCIATION</a>; and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/10/how-abraham-lincoln-inspired-me-to.html">How Abraham Lincoln Inspired Me to Pursue My Ph.D.?</a> To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">References:</div><div style="text-align: left;">1. How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking. Dale Carnegie.</div><div style="text-align: left;">2.. The New American Bible. Thomas Nelson Publishers.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-88322129492645301682021-01-30T21:09:00.244+08:002021-02-11T00:29:32.453+08:00How to Enjoy Delicious Healthy Meals at Home and Save Money<div style="text-align: left;">When I was a little girl, I used to sit on the balcony to read. Since my flat was facing a restaurant kitchen, the restaurant workers tasting soup from a soup ladle and stirring the pot of soup with the same was a familiar sight to me. It was also nothing unusual to see big fat rats running in and out of the restaurant kitchen especially at night. My mom saw the rats too and she knew how the restaurant workers were doing their taste-test but she did not mind and we continued to buy food from that restaurant. Although I did not like it, I had no choice but to conform to the social norm because I had no money to buy my own food. My mother also liked to buy fried noodles and porridge at the morning market, tau foo far (soy bean pudding) and curry noodles at the nearby stalls, coconut tarts, curry puffs, and fried bananas at the weekly night market. These were my favorite foods and I have enjoyed eating them for years until my mom fell ill and I had to buy these foods myself. That was when I began to understand the meaning of food hygiene and food safety. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">At the morning market, I got the shock of my life when I saw how the fried noodles were served. The hawker put the noodles on a layer of plastic which was on top of a layer of newspaper and wrapped them. Well, using newspaper as the second layer in wrapping food was fine but under that layer of newspaper was another layer of plastic followed by another layer of newspaper and so on. In other words, the hawker has arranged the plastic and newspaper alternately, one on top of the other, and it was obvious that the plastic coming into contact with the newspaper on top of it and below it would have been contaminated. Can anyone imagine how many people have read these newspapers? What if one of them had skin disease or TB? Next, the hawker put her hand into a plastic bag to open it before she put the porridge in it. Did she wash her hands before that? No, she has just collected money from one of her customers. From that day onwards, I never ate her fried noodles and porridge again even though I still bought them for my family members.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Like the porridge seller, the tau foo far seller also put his hand into the plastic bag to open it before putting the tau foo far in it. Well, I did not eat his tau foo far that day but took it home and gave it to my brother. He ate the tau foo far and said, "big germs eat small germs" which meant that he was the big germ that ate the small germs in the tau foo far. The next time I went to buy tau foo far, I brought my Corning Ware with me and asked the seller to put the tau foo far in it. With his thumb sticking in my Corning Ware, the tau foo far really washed his thumb clean for him that day. So, again I gave the tau foo far to my brother who ate it happily. He did not mind when I told him that the hawker washed his thumb with the tau foo far. As for the curry noodles, the same thing happened because it seemed that the hawkers could not open the plastic bags without putting their hands into these bags first. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Similarly, when I went to the night market to buy food for the family for the first time, I was shocked to see the hawker taking the coconut tarts with his bare hands and putting them in a plastic bag. And he has just collected money before that! The curry puff / fried banana seller was even worse. Instead of using plastic bags, she just took the curry puffs and fried bananas with her bare hands and wrapped them in a newspaper. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQ-uzyomWeIy33sGqsnp83HgxQgZ9Kyx1FJnaYmWjVnBl12yGpOZ5mKKQbfKvKR7rD22tAGstLCVvI17Ig-Dimp370Yz7zjz-pNAu8XcYx8ggjETq2ipIQ37OPDNZWX4dolAnjINKgAs/s2048/20210130_213740.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQ-uzyomWeIy33sGqsnp83HgxQgZ9Kyx1FJnaYmWjVnBl12yGpOZ5mKKQbfKvKR7rD22tAGstLCVvI17Ig-Dimp370Yz7zjz-pNAu8XcYx8ggjETq2ipIQ37OPDNZWX4dolAnjINKgAs/s320/20210130_213740.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">My first set of recipe books (Family Meals, One-course Meals, Curried and Spiced, Vegetarian Food, Healthy Asian food, Oriental Banquets, Quick Meals in a Wok, Oriental Seafood, Asian Cooking for Beginners & Snacks and Party Food) by Charmaine Solomon, the Queen of Asian Cooking in Australia</span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After these unpleasant experiences, I became very particular about food cleanliness. I started to cook my own food after coming back from the Teachers' Training College and have been eating only the food that I cook myself since then. I can still remember the day I bought my first set of recipe books (above), non-stick wok and stove. During those days, Charmaine Solomon's recipe books were like a Bible to me. At that time, I could not cook very well but after years of cooking various kinds of dishes through trial and error, I have become a super chef now. And with all the cooking videos on the internet today, I am having the time of my life trying out new recipes every day. The meals that I cook are not only tasty and nutritious but also very fresh and hygienic. They are also much cheaper compared to restaurant meals. Who says that you cannot eat a luxurious meal at home? You certainly can have five-star meals at home if you have good mentors and are willing to learn. Who are my mentors? Marion Grasby @ Marion's Kitchen, Natasha Kravchuk @ Natasha's Kitchen, N'Oven, and Yummy's Kitchen. These are really five-star mentors who make life more colorful for me with their mouth-watering videos and I love all their recipes. Not to forget my first cooking mentor, Charmaine Solomon, who inspired me to cook through her wonderful recipes. Although I am not a millionaire, I can still enjoy good food and I consider this a great blessing. Eating five-star foods in the comfort of my home while watching my favorite videos is really heavenly! "To eat is a necessity but to eat intelligently is an art" (Francois de la Rochefoucauld). I am glad that I have learnt the art of enjoying life to the fullest. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Of course I do eat out but this is an extremely rare occasion. When was the last time I ate out? Well, that was somewhere in December 2019 (today is 30 January 2021) when my former colleague, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/07/marriage-after-50-what-do-you-need-to.html">Geraldine</a>, drove me and two other friends to see her new house. I brought my tupperware, spoon and fork that day because the sight of food particles sticking to the plate, spoon, and fork in the restaurant can make me vomit. I thought of going to a mixed rice restaurant and "tapau" some dishes in my tupperware but Geraldine brought us to a restaurant selling all kinds of noodles. I had no choice but to order curry noodles since that was my favorite. OMG! I nearly fainted when I saw the seller picking the yellow noodles with his hands after collecting money from one of his customers. His curry noodles were not cheap either - I had to pay RM9 for a small bowl of yellow noodles which I did not eat. The problem was - I just couldn't put the noodles in my mouth because the way he kept picking the noodles using his hands was really nauseating. Deep in my mind, I was thinking of my home-cooked purple potato curry pan mee and I felt like crying. I quarreled with Geraldine because of that. What a terrible day!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX-4t887RCB6p-Mq_l0a2X2GJgcpN-1aysEBmlCgnikhQESDXMmPpiuFOyP75qP3rGr15bFtaTkhHpMe0zX9eczvtZWW5IO_K01kglZT5m65Xt_fKGzO7laC_X1GUCPoATQjG6hnvLZI4/s2048/20210131_213746.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX-4t887RCB6p-Mq_l0a2X2GJgcpN-1aysEBmlCgnikhQESDXMmPpiuFOyP75qP3rGr15bFtaTkhHpMe0zX9eczvtZWW5IO_K01kglZT5m65Xt_fKGzO7laC_X1GUCPoATQjG6hnvLZI4/s320/20210131_213746.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;"><div style="text-align: center;">My favorite beetroot, kelp seaweed, and purple potato pan mee</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the photo above, you can see my favorite beetroot, kelp seaweed, and purple potato noodles. They are very nutritious and do not contain preservatives and coloring. At RM9.20, I can get the whole packet, not just a small bowl of yellow noodles. I don't like to eat yellow noodles because of their high levels of boric acid and benzoic acid which can cause cancer and kidney failure. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">During the early days of my teaching career, I always volunteered to teach in the afternoon session so that I could cook and eat first before going to school. Since the afternoon session started at 1.00 p.m., I always had ample time to cook and enjoy my meals those days. Fridays were the best because school started at 2.45 p.m. and by 7.00 p.m., I was already on my way home to cook a delicious five-star dinner. But, since I started teaching in the morning session, I have to get up a little bit earlier to cook. I usually have noodles for brunch because I don't have much time to cook in the morning. However, I never get tired of eating noodles because my mentors have shared their best noodles recipes with me. Some of these recipes include <i>Spicy Garlic Prawn Spaghetti</i>, <i>Rice Vermicelli with Prawns</i>, <i>Singapore Stir-fried Rice Noodles</i>, <i>Chinese</i> <i>Soy Sauce Chicken with Noodles</i>, <i>Korean Kimchi Vegetable Noodles</i>, <i>Steamed Fish with Noodles</i>, <i>Vegetable Hakka Noodles</i>, <i>Special Hokkien Noodles</i>, <i>Rice Vermicelli with Chicken and Potato</i>, and <i>Creamy Miso Mushroom Spaghetti</i>. Cooking is an art and much would depend on our creativity. I have also invented lots of new noodles recipes myself using my favorite pan mee. I like to add lots of vegetables, meat, and prawns to the noodles. To save time, I prepare my ingredients the night before and put them in the fridge. Recently, I have been baking lots of cakes and cookies. My favorite cakes / cookies include <i>Eggless Chocolate Steam Cake</i>, <i>Banana Chocolate Chip Cake</i>, <i>Chocolate Semolina Cake</i>, <i>Eggless Chocolate Poke Cake</i>, <i>Chocolate Sponge Cake</i>, <i>Mango Cake</i>, <i>No Bake Chocolate Biscuit Cake</i>, <i>Chocolate Pound Cake</i>, <i>Chocolate Banana Steam Cake</i>, <i>Oreo Biscuits Cake</i>, P<i>eanut Cookies, </i>and <i>Chocolate Chip Cookies.</i> (Do you know that a 1kg chocolate cake costs at least RM69 in Kuala Lumpur? But how much do the ingredients cost? If you bake it yourself, you can save a lot of money). I have been making biscuits and puddings too. Since I don't have the time to eat at home in the mornings, I bring my noodles, cakes. cookies, biscuits, and puddings to school where I can eat when I am free </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As for dinner, I will cook one or two dishes and eat without rice. Most of the time, I only cook one dish but I cook a lot because I don't eat rice. If it is a meat dish, I will eat it with lettuce and tomatoes. If I have the mood to cook two dishes, I will cook one meat dish and one vegetable dish. What do I normally cook for dinner? <i>Steamed Soy & Ginger Fish</i>, <i>Steamed Fish with Walnuts</i>, <i>Crispy Fried Fish with Sweet Sour Sauce</i>, <i>Poached Fish with Peanuts</i>, <i>Stir-fried Fish with Mustard Cabbage</i>, <i>Stir-fried Chicken and Capsicums</i>, <i>Chicken with Corn and Cashews</i>, <i>Chicken and Pineapple</i>, C<i>reamy Herb Mushroom Chicken</i>,<i> Chicken with Almonds and Broccoli</i>, <i>Thai Chicken with Snow Peas</i>, <i>Stir-fried Chicken Broccoli Mushroom</i>, <i>Stir-fried Prawns with Vegetables and Oyster Sauce</i>, <i>Green Beans with Prawns</i>, <i>Prawns with Asparagus Tips</i>, <i>Mapo Tofu, Stir-fried Eggs with Vegetables</i>, <i>Braised Shiitake Mushrooms</i>, <i>Steamed Potatoes, Potato Curry with Tamarind</i>, <i>Braised Bean Curd and Vegetables, </i><i>Spinach and Pumpkin, </i><i>Chinese Garlic Broccoli, Spicy Cauliflower</i>, Cabbage / <i>Green Peas in Coconut Milk</i>, <i>Thai Eggplant Curry</i>, <i>Stir-fried Snake Beans and Cashews</i>, and <i>Bean Curd with Peanuts / Peas. </i>These are just some of my favorite dishes. There are a lot more and the list is unending (Do you know that these dishes can cost you a fortune in the restaurants?). If I am on diet, I will eat salads. Some of my favorite salads are <i>Vietnamese Salmon Salad</i>, <i>Avocado Corn Salad,</i> <i>Avocado Tuna Salad, Broccoli Cauliflower Salad</i>, <i>Creamy Broccoli Apple Salad</i>, <i>Chicken and Cucumber / Cabbage Salad, Red Cabbage Salad with Apple, </i>and <i>Hot and Sour Prawn Salad</i>. I love good food but I suppose I am the only food connoisseur who seldom eats in restaurants. Why?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am sure many of us still remember what happened nearly two years ago when the workers at <a href="https://www.feedme.com.my/bangsar-popular-banana-leaf-restaurant-uses-dirty-pothole-water-to-wash-dishes-caught-on-viral-video/">Raj's Banana Leaf</a> restaurant in Bangsar used dirty pothole water to wash dishes. Or perhaps Malaysians forgive and forget easily. Well, three months ago, a chef at a cafe was filmed <a href="https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2020/10/28/kuala-lumpur-cafe-apologises-after-customer-films-chef-using-bare-fingers-t/1917177">using his fingers to taste-test a dish</a> in the kitchen. On 2 June 2018, a video illustrating <a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2018/06/375851/watch-rats-swarm-food-ingredients-restaurant-kitchen-netizens-gag">rats swarming food ingredients in a restaurant kitchen</a> has surfaced on the internet. Did the restaurant owners learn a lesson after that? On 20 February 2020, <a href="https://www.malaysiaworldnews.com/2020/02/21/three-dirty-restaurants-full-of-rats-ordered-to-close-for-14-days/">three dirty restaurants full of rats </a>were ordered to close for 14 days. However, seeing rats running around in the restaurant is nothing compared to <a href="https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/2020/07/24/jijik-wanita-kunyah-bangkai-tikus-dalam-pek-makanan-dari-pasaraya-terkemuka/">eating rats</a>! What about recycled food? What would you do if you find yourselves eating recycled food? Please read <a href="https://www.malaysiantalk.com/Complaints/beware-mamak-shops-selling-recycled-curry">Beware mamak shops selling "recycled" curry</a> and <a href="https://lobakmerah.com/restoran-mamak-di-kulai-jaya-basuh-makanan-untuk-dimasak-semula-dengan-kuah-baru/">Restoran Mamak di Kulai Jaya Basuh Makanan Untuk Dimasak Semula dengan Kuah Baru</a> (which means Mamak Restaurant in Kulai Jaya washed and re-cooked leftovers). Recently, a video entitled <i>lebihan sisa makanan orang tak habis dicuci dicampur dimasak semula, kedai mamak</i> (which means "mamak restaurant cooking recycled food from customers' plates") has gone viral and I find this video very disturbing. You can watch this video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yEoVyfkueU&feature=youtu.be">here</a>. These are just some of the more recent dirty restaurant cases in Malaysia. You can always find more on the internet.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH8_Wr7IrL5KcL8UKKEgyvIKvv0nRxtyVstWyfWKgLEfrjUFWCh_L3FRTsKhgOPNtmfegJlnP1_pOR_lBHYVPUIcxSsQOG_dJg0NRKEDxooh-Bsi599cylTKgRBiUCikes7wFCRnxnckc/s808/yarl+restaurant.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="808" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH8_Wr7IrL5KcL8UKKEgyvIKvv0nRxtyVstWyfWKgLEfrjUFWCh_L3FRTsKhgOPNtmfegJlnP1_pOR_lBHYVPUIcxSsQOG_dJg0NRKEDxooh-Bsi599cylTKgRBiUCikes7wFCRnxnckc/s320/yarl+restaurant.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #800180;">A crow infested outdoor kitchen of a mamak restaurant in Kuala Lumpur (Photo source: Miscellaneous Information Website). Luckily bird flu is not so common nowadays.</span><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I thought that only the poorest people in the Philippines eat <i>pagpag</i> but it seems that Malaysians are also eating this <i>Filipino delicacy </i>in the restaurants. What is <i>pagpag</i>? <i>Pagpag</i>, in Tagalog, means leftover food from restaurants scavenged from dumps and garbage. The food is then washed, cooked and sold to the poor. It is okay if the customers choose to eat <i>pagpag </i>because they want to save money but serving them <i>pagpag </i>without their knowledge and charging exorbitant prices for the recycled food is really too much. It should be noted that eating <i>pagpag</i> is bad for health as it can lead to stunted growth in children, food poisoning, and diseases such as Hepatitis A, cholera, and typhoid.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Do Malaysians mind eating dirty foods? Well, <a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/community/2016/10/07/report-dirty-restaurants-dbkl-wants-customers-to-file-complaint-on-unhygienic-eateries-so-that-an-in/">they do not care about the things that they cannot see</a>. Perhaps, they don't mind as long as they have a place to <i>lepak </i>(hang around). When they see a rat scurrying by, they will put their feet up and squeal but after a few minutes, they cannot remember the cute little rodent anymore. That is why the restaurant business is a lucrative business. Many mamak restaurants open as early as 5.30 a.m. and operate until midnight. Sometimes I do wonder why there are so many people hanging around at the eateries late at night when they are supposed to be at home, sleep early, and prepare for work the next day. Is this a healthy habit? Eating a late night dinner is bad for health as it can lead to poor digestion and other gastric issues because the body's metabolism slows down at night. But why do Malaysians love to <i>lepak mamak </i>(hang around in mamak restaurants) until late at night? Perhaps it's not just the food alone as it seems more likely that they are looking for a place to meet up with friends and chat. It is no wonder the eateries have become Covid-19 infection hotspots. The more they interact with each other and the longer the interaction, the higher the risk of Covid-19.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Since the coronavirus outbreak began, I have developed a phobia about restaurants. Why? According to the US health authorities, going to restaurants is much more dangerous than working in an office, shopping, or taking public transport. Restaurants are Covid-19 superspreaders because social distancing is almost impossible in the restaurants with the people sitting so close to each other without masks. Even before their food is ready, they have already taken off their masks and are busy chatting with each other. Once they start chatting, they tend to forget about social distancing. As though 4 people per small table are not enough, they have to combine the tables and chat in groups. Under such circumstances, a social distance of 1m is not possible - 0.5m or less is more likely. That is one reason why the Covid-19 cases are soaring. Each time I see people eating and chatting happily in the restaurants, I feel very worried about Covid-19. To stop restaurants from driving Covid-19 infections, indoor dining should be banned and only takeaway food allowed not only during the Movement Control Order (MCO) but until the Covid-19 pandemic is over.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">With 5,728 new Covid-19 cases today, perhaps it's time to prioritize home-cooked meals as it is the world's healthiest, safest, and most hygienic meals. Studies have indicated that those who eat home-cooked meals regularly tend to be happier and healthier than those who eat out. They also live longer. Eating home-cooked meals can also boost our immunity and help to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Those on a tight budget will agree that cooking is an important skill for saving money as it helps to cut food spending since restaurant foods are not cheap nowadays. But most of all, there is no need to worry about getting Covid-19 because home is the safest place on earth. With so many new covid cases emerging each day, let us do our part to protect ourselves from the pandemic. Stay safe!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/05/cutting-your-own-hair-at-home-is-easy.html">Cutting Your Own Hair at Home is Easy, Fun, and More Hygienic - Stay Safe</a> and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-to-enjoy-meaningful-and-healthy.html">How to Enjoy a Meaningful and Healthy Lifestyle at Home during the Coronavirus Pandemic</a>. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-2063342448085441282021-01-16T21:39:00.230+08:002021-07-03T04:08:59.337+08:00Migrants stuck in hopeless situation at EU border in Bosnia : who is to blame?<div style="text-align: left;">I've just read an article entitled <i>Refugees stuck in hopeless situation at EU border in Bosnia</i> and I am wondering what the Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are doing there. When did they become refugees? How do we define "refugees"? According to the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, a refugee is a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or prosecution. But what kind of danger or prosecution are they trying to escape from? As far as I know, they are only leaving their own countries to look for a better life in other countries. So I consulted the American Heritage Dictionary to get a better definition of this word. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a refugee is one who flees in search of refuge, as in times of war, political oppression, or religious persecution. The question is - are these people at the EU border in Bosnia fleeing from war, political oppression or religious persecution? If they are merely looking for jobs and better living conditions, then "migrants" is a better word for them.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Migrants from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East who are looking for better lives in the EU are stuck in Bosnia-Herzegovina after being pushed back by the Croatian police. It is now winter and they are freezing in the cold weather due to lack of facilities. When a fire broke out in the Lipa Camp, believed to have been started by the migrants themselves, their living conditions deteriorated further. Wrapping themselves in blankets and sleeping bags and surviving on meagre food parcels, their conditions are said to be alarming. A migrant from Pakistan, Kasim, said, "We are living like animals. Even animals are living better than us! If they do not help us, we will die." Who invited them to the EU border? Nobody but themselves. Why burn the camp when they need shelter and create problems for others? To rebuild the Lipa Camp, the EU has been kind enough to allocate an additional <span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">£</span></span>3.5 million to Bosnia and Herzegovina so that these migrants would not be left without shelter during the winter.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To get to the EU border in Bosnia is not cheap as each of these migrants has to pay 7000 euros to the smugglers to get them there. It seems that human smuggling is in great demand today and the smugglers are really making big bucks out of this trade. But why take so much trouble to reach the Bosnia camps and "live like animals"? If the migrants can afford to pay 7000 euros to the smugglers, why not make good use of the money and start a business in their own countries? In this way, they can also contribute towards their countries' progress and economic growth. No, they won't die. All they have to do is to go back to their countries of origin and stop making trouble for the EU especially during the coronavirus pandemic when every country is having its own problems.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What will the EU do to help migrants stranded in Bosnia waiting to cross the border into Croatia? In actual fact, the EU has done a lot for the migrants already and it is unfair to say that they are not doing enough for these people. Despite these hard times, the EU has allocated around <span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: georgia;">£</span>85.5 million to Bosnia to help the migrants at the Bosnian camps even though they are not EU citizens. And <span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: georgia;">£</span>85.5 million is a lot of money to spend on the migrants at a time when the citizens of the EU countries are suffering because of the pandemic. To be fair, this significant amount of money should be paid by the migrants' countries of origin and NOT the EU. Why should the EU support these migrants? The EU taxpayers' money should be spent on the EU taxpayers and not migrants from other countries. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It should be noted that the EU is not a dumping ground for refugees and migrants. They have their limits and the world cannot expect them to take in everyone who wishes to achieve their EU dream. Perhaps the EU should stop supporting the migrants and see what happens next. These migrants are smart people - they will flee immediately when there is no food and shelter so there is no need to worry about them. They won't die. If they cannot enter the EU, they will find a new target, perhaps the US or Canada this time. For years, the Bangladeshis and Pakistanis have been targeting Malaysia. Ever since Malaysia began to curb foreign workers and the influx of illegal immigrants, the EU has become their new target! That is why there are so many of them at the EU border in Bosnia now.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am writing this article because I really feel sad for the EU countries as they are struggling with a surge of Covid-19 cases and the situation is getting worse. As of today, the number of confirmed covid cases in Germany increased by 18,678 to 2.04M and its death toll rose by 980 to 47,121. France's covid toll has passed 70,000 with the number of confirmed covid cases increased by 21,406 to 2.89M. Italy's toll has already passed 80,000 with the number of confirmed cases increased by 15,446 to 2.37M. As recession deepens, triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, the EU countries are being burdened with the migrants. How sad! With so many people dying, out of work, and homeless during this pandemic, the EU's priority should be their own citizens and not migrants from other countries who are taking advantage of their generosity. Perhaps it is time for countries like China, Korea, Japan, as well as the rich Gulf countries to share the burden of the global refugee / migrant crisis.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/should-large-influx-of-migrants-into-eu.html">Should the large influx of migrants into the EU countries be encouraged?</a> Throughout the years, the EU has been taking in lots of refugees and because of that, migrants who want better living conditions also take this opportunity to seek asylum in the more affluent EU countries. What will happen if the EU starts taking in all the migrants at its borders? Needless to say, this will certainly lead to a mass exodus of millions of migrants with their families to the EU. If one million migrants make it to the EU, another million will follow and this will continue indefinitely. When this happens, the EU will have to deal with population explosion as these people are breeding at high speed. What will become of the EU following a mass exodus of the migrants? Can anyone imagine Paris turning into a Bangladesh City or Frankfurt turning into a Pakistan City? It is possible when there are too many migrants in the country (Please read <a href="https://eturbonews.com/12077/tourist-icon-peril-truly-asia-chinatown-or-bangladesh-town/">Tourist icon in peril: “Truly Asia” Chinatown or Bangladesh town?</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">With the exodus of migrants to the EU, crime is inevitable as it is impossible to do a background check on them. Further, they may not be telling the truth about themselves as they often lie about their names, ages, and countries of origin. If these migrants could behave like hooligans and burnt their camp at a time when they were freezing and needed shelter in order to pressure the EU to take them in, what is it that they dare not do? The destruction of the Moria Camp in Greece by fire which the migration minister of Greece believed "began with the asylum seekers" is just another example of how violent the migrants can turn out to be. So, is it safe to take them in? However, they finally got what they wanted when the prime minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, offered to take in 1000 refugees after the camp was destroyed. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijgvqR5Q12JnCc1wLCRXme8GCqttLor9CqUla_RPhRGAzFY_9QW6nBN8B4BcIuNO__vfPR7wZDVH0BtzZRzpi6pWN6SYEyOHSmNgsxohm9eCqKOZA_Ls2s0Lezt5fXBdH_ERDKc5OKseo/s786/bangla_passport_business.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijgvqR5Q12JnCc1wLCRXme8GCqttLor9CqUla_RPhRGAzFY_9QW6nBN8B4BcIuNO__vfPR7wZDVH0BtzZRzpi6pWN6SYEyOHSmNgsxohm9eCqKOZA_Ls2s0Lezt5fXBdH_ERDKc5OKseo/s320/bangla_passport_business.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">The Bangladeshis' fake passport business. In this photo, you can see fake passports from various countries (Photo source: Kementerian Dalam Negeri, KDN).</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What can the migrants do to the EU? Since Malaysia is home to 1,000,000 Bangladeshis (as of 2018) and more than 100,000 Pakistanis, let me share some of the things that they have done to Malaysia. The Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are professionals when it comes to producing forged immigration documents such as fake passports and fake work permits. And they are doing a lucrative business here charging RM150 for each fake passport and RM300 for each fake work permit. They are also selling fake Covid-19 test results. Surely, they can make lots of money if they carry out this kind of business in the EU! When it comes to rape, the Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are certainly not exempted (<a href="https://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/159811/rape-pakistani-charged/">Rape: Pakistani charged</a>). Even children and the handicapped are not spared. Please read <a href="https://selangorjournal.my/2020/08/three-pakistani-men-bangladeshi-national-charged-with-raping-sexually-assaulting-11-year-old-girl/">Three Pakistani men, Bangladeshi national charged with raping, sexually assaulting 11-year-old girl</a>; <a href="https://www.astroawani.com/berita-malaysia/bangladeshi-man-detained-on-suspicion-of-raping-handicapped-girl-94556">Bangladeshi man detained on suspicion of raping handicapped girl</a>; and <a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2016/02/19/bangladesh-national-beaten-up-for-alleged-rape/">Bangladeshi caught raping teen in cybercafe toilet</a>. Sometimes, the victim is killed after being raped (<a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/pakistanis-detained-over-rape-murder-in-malaysia/story-qeY3LmORriXV0G9xfURJkN.html">Pakistanis detained over rape, murder in Malaysia</a>). The same applies to murder as it is as popular as rape. Please read <a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/06/12/12-bangladeshi-men-held-for-murder-at-vegetable-farm">12 Bangladeshi men held for murder at vegetable farm</a>; <a href="https://www.malaysiantalk.com/News/bangladeshi-wanted-over-nepali-roommate-murder">Bangladeshi wanted over Nepali roommate murder</a>; and <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1018030/pakistani-charged-with-killing-us-pastor-in-malaysia">Pakistani charged with killing US pastor in Malaysia</a>. It is not uncommon for the Bangladeshis to kill their own people over trifles (Please read <a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/crime-courts/2017/10/287195/killed-over-kuih-bangladeshi-trader-charged-murder">Killed over kuih: Bangladeshi trader charged with murder</a> and <a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/crime-courts/2020/07/612254/bangladeshi-sent-gallows-over-housemates-murder">Bangladeshi sent to gallows over housemate's murder</a>). What is even worse is that after entering the country illegally, they still have the guts to kill, dismember the corpse and dispose it (<a href="https://www.theborneopost.com/2011/09/09/bangladeshis-rounded-up-over-grisly-murder-charged-with-illegal-entry/">Bangladeshis rounded up over grisly murder charged with illegal entry</a>). And of course kidnapping cannot be omitted since it is a lucrative business. Please read <a href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/bengali/story-killed-02132019133636.html">Malaysian Police Raid Targets Bangladeshi Kidnapping Ring</a>; <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/608156/malaysia-busts-group-of-pakistani-kidnappers">Malaysia busts group of Pakistani kidnappers</a>; <a href="https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2014/01/13/five-pakistanis-charged-with-kidnapping/598519">Five Pakistanis charged with kidnapping</a>; and <a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2014/01/13/court-pakistani-kidnap-sodomy">Five Pakistanis charged with kidnapping pensioner, one claims trial to sodomy</a>. Do they come to Malaysia to work / study or sell drugs? Please read <a href="https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2017/12/12/bangladeshi-student-nabbed-for-peddling-ganja-at-private-university/1531231">Bangladeshi student nabbed for peddling ganja at private university</a>; <a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/01/03/police-arrest-bangladeshi-man-on-new-year039s-eve-for-allegedly-trafficking-drugs">Police arrest Bangladeshi man on New Year's Eve for allegedly trafficking drugs</a>; <a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/crime-courts/2018/04/359965/pakistani-drug-mule-nabbed-19-packets-heroin-stomach">Pakistani drug mule nabbed with 19 packets of heroin in stomach</a>; <a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/635900/22-pakistanis-arrested-in-malaysia-drug-raid">22 Pakistanis arrested in Malaysia drug raid</a> and <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/619217">Malaysia nabs two Pakistanis with heroin worth $36M</a>. OMG! The list is unending. And one more thing - just google "Bangla suka kacau bini orang" which means "Bangladeshis like to disturb people's wives" and you will find many articles, videos, and even Facebooks about this issue (in Malay). Please click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b77n_y7TOKM&list=FLRTqTqUdAv60VhpxFZ7miEw&index=178">here</a> to watch the video of a Bangladeshi man being beaten up for disturbing somebody's wife (You may also like to read <a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/crime-courts/2019/07/505799/i-will-kill-you-im-afghanistan">'I will kill you, I'm from Afghanistan!'</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In Sweden, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-019-00436-8">the murder rate has quadrupled due to migration</a>. It has <a href="https://www.greennet.org.uk/network/news/sweden-has-worst-rape-conviction-record-europe">the worst rape conviction record in Europe</a> and the number of rapes has also quadrupled in the past 20 years. And what's more, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764">most of the country's convicted rapists are foreign-born</a>. In Austria, there was a staggering <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/741840/Outrage-as-migrant-rapes-soar-by-133-in-just-ONE-YEAR">133% increase in the number of sexual assaults committed by migrants in 2016</a> and most of the suspects were from Afghanistan. In 2017, there had been <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45419466">447 killings and murders by asylum seekers and refugees in Germany</a>. Last year, there was an <a href="https://rmx.news/article/article/germany-rape-cases-in-berlin-rise-alarmingly-nearly-half-of-suspects-are-migrants">alarming increase of rape cases in Berlin</a> and nearly half of the suspects were migrants. In Italy, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-foreign-mafia-has-come-to-italy-and-further-polarized-the-migration-debate/2019/06/25/377cf978-8235-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html">the Nigerian mafia are smuggling drugs and trafficking women</a>, deploying them as prostitutes on the streets of Italy. According to Finland's leading newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, "<a href="https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/wednesdays_papers_rape_statistics_and_migrant_violence_debate/8496423">Finland is one of the least safe countries in Europe for women</a>." Reported cases of rape committed by immigrants, mostly from the Middle East and Northern Africa, are about eight times higher than that of native Finnish people. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Many of us can never forget what happened in Cologne, Germany, during the 2015-2016 New Year's Eve Celebration. While everyone was waiting for the New Year to start, more than 1200 women were sexually assaulted, raped, and mobbed by North African and Arab asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. 3% of these perpetrators were unaccompanied refugee minors. Even a policewoman was sexually assaulted. These Arab and North African young men surrounded the women, groped their breasts and buttocks, put their hands in their pants or underneath their skirts, introduced their fingers in vaginas, went through handbags, robbed, molested and raped them. They also harassed passers-by and went around stealing mobiles phones, jewelry, and wallets. According to Holger Munch, president of the German Federal Crime Police Office, "There is a connection between the emergence of this phenomenon and the rapid migration in 2015." The shocking truth was - half of the New Year's Eve perpetrators identified had arrived in Germany in 2015. Is that the way refugees and migrants repay their host countries? In Frankfurt last July, groups of young men were seen attacking the police and the majority of these rioters were immigrants. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">How much can we trust the migrants? Are they telling the truth about their backgrounds or merely lying through their teeth to get asylum status and gain access to the benefits that come with it? In October 2016, Hussein Khavari, who claimed to have come from Afghanistan, raped, strangled, and drowned a 19-year-old medical student from Freiburg, Maria L. Ladenburger. And he knew that she was alive when he drowned her in the Dreisam River. Hussein Khavari, who arrived in Germany without identification documents, had earlier been convicted of attempted murder in Greece for robbing a woman and pushing her off a cliff. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was released after 18 months on parole on 31 October 2015 due to overcrowding in the prisons. He fled to Germany via Austria the following month and since he claimed that he was 17, he was taken in as an unaccompanied minor and was placed with a foster family. However, evidence that has emerged during his rape and murder trial in Germany has shown that he is actually from Iran and could be more than 30 years old. Each time I watch videos about migrants at the EU border in Bosnia, I couldn't help wondering how many of them are walking in the footsteps of Hussein Khavari. Given the fact that accepting refugees and migrants can lead to insecurity, crime, and decadence, the EU should really tighten its border controls (To find out more about what the migrants have done in Europe, please read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2021/03/migrants-and-crime-in-europe-in-twenty.html">Migrants and Crime in Europe in the Twenty-First Century</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Those who want to work or study in the EU should enter the EU legally instead of trying to sneak across the borders. According to 25-year-old Raheel Zafar, a migrant from Karachi, Pakistan, he has attempted to walk from Bosnia to Croatia six times but was stopped, beaten, and robbed by the Croatian police at the border each time. Can he blame the Croatian police for that? Every country has the right to defend its borders. Even North Korea has issued shoot-to-kill orders at the Chinese border to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, may countries have imposed entry bans for travelers and his act of sneaking into the EU clearly shows how selfish he is. Who knows, he might be carrying the new strain of Covid-19 and this could endanger the lives of the EU citizens. Whatever the situation may be, it is illegal to enter Croatia without permission and Zafar should be thankful that the Croatian police did not shoot-to-kill. Although he couldn't see any future in Pakistan, this is not an excuse for him to cross the border into Croatia illegally. Ashfaq Ahmed, from Kashmir, Pakistan, who dreams of studying medicine in Germany, said that they are not animals and the Lipa Camp is no place to live. Well, what he should do is to go back to Pakistan and apply for medical university in Germany. If his application is approved, he can enter Germany legally and there is no need for him to live in the Lipa Camp. Can anyone imagine what will happen if everyone who wants to study medicine in Germany sneaks into Croatia with the intention to claim asylum in Germany? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The EU countries may be very generous but taking in all the migrants at its borders is not the solution to the migrant crisis as more and more will be flocking to these countries. In the end, the EU citizens will suffer the adverse consequences brought to them by the migrants. Putting pressure on the EU to take in migrants is therefore a great injustice especially at a time when Europe is plunged into a deep covid recession. The best solution is for the migrants' countries of origin to take responsibility for them instead of kicking the ball to the EU. If there are problems in the migrants' countries, then these problems should be solved within the country so that the people can have better lives instead of victimizing the EU. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Illegal border crossings should not be encouraged as migrants can create a lot of problems for their host countries. In countries with lots of migrants, rising crime rates are inevitable. Life may also be more difficult for the local citizens as they have to compete with the migrants for food, water, shelter, and jobs. During the coronavirus pandemic, migrants bring viral infections with them thus increasing the risk of Covid-19 transmission. For instance, the Filipinos and Indonesians sneaking into Sabah during the coronavirus pandemic have caused a Covid-19 spike in Malaysia from 1 case on 1 July 2020 to 4,029 cases on 16 January 2021 (Please read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/09/illegal-immigrants-huge-threat-to.html">ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS A HUGE THREAT TO MALAYSIA'S CORONAVIRUS WAR</a>). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What can be done to stop illegal border crossing? In Singapore, the punishment for illegal immigration are a prison sentence of up to 6 months and not less than 3 strokes of the cane or a fine of not more than $6000 if the perpetrator cannot be caned. That is why no one dares to overstay their permitted time in Singapore. If only the EU could emulate Singapore, they would have no more problems! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>. 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Refugees stuck in hopeless situation at EU border in Bosnia. dw.com.</div><div style="text-align: left;">2. 'We will die': Hundreds of refugees freezing in Bosnia Camp. Al Jazeera.</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. EU allocates additional <span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: georgia;">£</span>3.5m for refugees and migrants in Bosnia. Europost.</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. EU officials call for humane conditions for migrants at Bosnian camps. dw.com.</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. A refugee crisis brews in Bosnia's bitter winter. Al Jazeera.</div><div style="text-align: left;">6. 2000 men 'sexually assaulted 1200 women' at Cologne New Year's Eve Party. Independent.</div><div style="text-align: left;">7. Afghan migrant convicted of killing German medical student. The Seattle Times.</div><div style="text-align: left;">8. Germany: Frankfurt reaches a 'new level of violence' as migrants riot, hurl stones at police. Remix.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-28906712509186047152020-12-31T04:38:00.140+08:002021-01-03T20:26:03.647+08:00How to Leave the Past Behind You and Move Forward<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_k9xQNL7yXWAdcXWtJVv-go-cuVAWijurY35fdRl7j7-QTQbJr8bhdZAc4U79ZKeRzyc4ZgnUVcWf5lerQ3IiYN4z50kL5hkdbBpGwecZ_Lt66CyyfBexAgiT_yB5J0WGYQpXn52MNw/s1332/20151103_183100B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_k9xQNL7yXWAdcXWtJVv-go-cuVAWijurY35fdRl7j7-QTQbJr8bhdZAc4U79ZKeRzyc4ZgnUVcWf5lerQ3IiYN4z50kL5hkdbBpGwecZ_Lt66CyyfBexAgiT_yB5J0WGYQpXn52MNw/s320/20151103_183100B.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">Every cloud has a silver lining</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Time really flies and before I know it, today is already the last day of the year 2020. Many things have happened this year and the saddest thing is, of course, the coronavirus pandemic which has killed 1,803,473 people (as of 30 December 2020) and deprived countless people of their regular income. 2020 is a year of struggles, uncertainty, suffering, and death. Let us pray and hope that the vaccines can do something to save the human race in the coming year so that life can return to normal again for everyone. Irrespective of whether something good or bad has happened this year, life is a journey that must be traveled. "Life moves on and so should we" (Spencer Johnson). Although it is not easy to start a new life during these hard times, leaving the past in the past and moving forward with courage and determination is still the best choice that one could make in the coming New Year. In this article, I would like to share an inspirational poem with my readers entitled <i>Letting Go</i> by an unknown author.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Letting Go</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go doesn't mean </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to stop caring;</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>It means I can't do it </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>for someone else.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>not to cut myself off...</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>It's the realization that </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I can't control another...</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is not to enable,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but to allow learning </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>from natural consequences.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to admit powerlessness,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>which means the outcome </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>is not in my hands.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is not to try </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and change or blame another,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I can only change myself.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is not to care for, </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but to care about</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is not to fix, </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but to be supportive.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is not to judge,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but to allow another </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to be a human being.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>not to be in the middle</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>arranging all the outcomes,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but to allow others </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to affect their own outcomes.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>not to be protective,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>It is to permit </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>another to face reality.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>not to deny, but to accept.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>not to nag, scold, or argue,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but to search out </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>my own shortcomings</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> and correct them.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>not to adjust everything </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to my desires,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but to take each day as it comes</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and cherish the moment.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is not to criticize </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and regulate anyone,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but to try to become </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>what I dream I can be.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>not to regret the past,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but to grow and </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>live for the future.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To let go is </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to fear less </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and to love more.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> - Author Unknown</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Let us learn from natural consequences, correct our shortcomings, face reality, accept the present, live each day as it comes, cherish every moment of it, and strive to become what we dream we can be. Do not regret the past but grow and live for the future. Below are 5 real life stories of what it means to put the past behind and move forward. The names of the protagonists have been changed and the stories have been modified slightly to conceal their real identities. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 1: Taking Refuge in the Past to Escape the Present and the Future Makes Life More Miserable</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">One of my friends, Patricia, who grew up during the 1970s, is still keeping the old photos of Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, John Denver, Charlie Chin, Chin Han, and Alan Tang. She also has an excellent collection of the songs and movies of that era. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that but the problem with her is she seems to be living in the past and is making use of these things to bring her back to the past. In other words, she seems to be so obsessed with the things of the past that she does not have much interest in the things of the present. Even some of TVB's best dramas of the year such as <i>The Dripping Sauce</i>, <i>Forensic Heroes IV</i>, <i>The Exorcist's Second Meter</i>, <i>On-lie Game</i>, <i>Flying Tigers II</i> and <i>Al Cappuccino</i> do not appeal to her. And she always says that the songs of today are nothing compared to those of the 1970s.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When I asked her why the past is so important to her, she said that there was a certain kind of atmosphere in the past that she cannot find today. The weather, the people, her life, feelings and environment are all so different now and she really yearns for those good old days when the world was a much better place. Sometimes she would go back to the schools that she formerly attended and the places that she used to go during her school days to relive her past experiences. But what I don't understand is how someone who grew up in poverty could miss her childhood days so much? Why is she taking refuge in the past when she is doing quite well now? The answer probably lies in the fact that she misses the people who were so dear to her like her parents and grandparents as they could be the only ones who have ever cared for her but they are all dead now. Now that she has grown older, her life is certainly different from her childhood experiences since her work environment and school environment are altogether two different things. This is probably what she meant when she said that the atmosphere and environment are so different today. Is it because she is afraid to live in the present? Is it because she is worried about the future? Or is it because of loneliness? Would she be happier if she is married as she doesn't seem to be very happy now? "The past is a closed door" (Margaret Atwood) and instead of hiding behind a closed door, perhaps she should live fully in the present and have faith in the future. Holding on to the past would only prevent her from experiencing happiness in the present moment. "In the process of letting go, she will lose many things from the past, but she will find herself" (Deepak Chopra).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">When one door closes, another opens;</div><div style="text-align: center;">but we often look so long and so regretfully</div><div style="text-align: center;">upon the closed door that we do not see</div><div style="text-align: center;">the one which has opened for us.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> - Alexander Graham Bell</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn't the end of the world, it's the beginning of a new life" (Unknown). Letting go of the things and people that we never want to leave behind does not mean forgetting them. Yesterday's beautiful moments are today's beautiful memories. Instead of dwelling in the past, I dare say that a better option for Patricia is to turn those good old days into beautiful memories. Life changes and everything changes with it. Comparing the past with the present cannot help her to build a better life - moving forward is still the best thing to do. "A very wise man once told me that you can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future" (Jodi Picoult). How right he is! That is exactly what Patricia should do. I am sure that once she finds something better, she will not be so obsessed with the past anymore. Her life actually isn't that bad as she is financially stable. All she needs to do is to look at the world from a different perspective, accept the present, have faith in the future, and be thankful for what she has. The past is only a memory and being obsessed with it does not lead her anywhere. The present is reality and she has to face it whether she likes it or not. And the future, well, it is in her hands as she is the author of her own story! And I sincerely hope that Patircia will write a beautiful story about her life in the near future.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 2: Feeling Bitter Years After a Divorce Can Ruin Your Life</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Nancy has been divorced for more than ten years and her children are already attending college. But after so many years, she cannot stop hating her ex-husband as she still feels cheated by him and is very bitter, angry, hurt, depressed, and spiteful about what happened. It was a high conflict divorce and she still finds that she cannot talk to him nicely face to face - they just cannot be friends. She still yearns for the beautiful memories of the marriage life she used to have and has been hunting for a man who can give her back what she has lost. This is a very dangerous thing to do particularly when she is turning to online dating as she may end up being a victim of love scams. However, after years of hunting men, she is still single and that makes her even more depressed and miserable. Whenever she talks about her husband, she will start cursing him and is always telling bad things about him in front of their children. Because she cannot put the past behind her, she has been stuck in the pain of a bad divorce all these years. The choice is hers, of course, as she is the one who decides her path.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Perhaps Nancy should learn to forgive since hating someone is so painful and it only hurts her even more. In learning to forgive, she can break herself free from the emotional pain of divorce and move forward. Moving forward does not mean that she has to go men hunting - maybe she should pay more attention to her children and be a good mother. Instead of losing her temper and scolding her children for nothing because she is always moody and grouchy, she should control her bad moods and emotional outbursts. There is nothing wrong looking for new love but going all the way out to hunt for men is a little bit too much as this kind of behavior can hurt her children. Instead of hunting for men, a better option for her is to become more active in her temple or maybe she can join the YMCA or do some kind of social work and, who knows, she may bump into a good man accidentally. She can also take the opportunity to improve herself and discover her true potentials instead of staring at the ceiling when there is nothing to do as this would only make her feel empty. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Today expect something good to happen to</div><div style="text-align: center;">you no matter what occurred yesterday.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Realize the past no longer holds you captive.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It can only continue to hurt you if you hold</div><div style="text-align: center;">on to it. Let the past go. A simply</div><div style="text-align: center;">abundant world awaits.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> - Sarah Breathnach</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If Nancy is a wise woman, she should live to prove to her ex-husband that her life is better without him instead of showing him that she is in bad shape without him. Holding on to old grudges all the time and plotting to win him back are meaningless when she sees no chance as it hurts her even more. She should keep and open mind, let go and move on instead of attaching herself to this situation. Whether she is happy or sad, life goes on, so why not choose to be happy? Life would be more meaningful if she focuses on the things that she can change instead of what has already happened. She cannot win her husband back but she can take another direction in life and create a better and happier future for herself and live with dignity and great expectations. "Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light" (Bryant McGill).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 3: Lonely Elderly Woman Feels She Has Nothing to Live For</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">One of my mom's best friends, Margarita, used to have a loving husband and two lovely children. During her younger days, many of her friends were jealous of her because of her good fortune. But now, all those beautiful moments of her life are no more. After her husband died and her children got married, she is left alone in a bungalow. Since her daughter is in Australia, she seldom gets to see her and as she cannot get along with her daughter-in-law, she can only see her son when he visits her during the festive seasons. The last time I visited her, she was weeping because she was very sad and lonely. Her daughter-in-law does not like her husband and children to visit her and has the habit of beating up the children each time after they visit their grandmother. Today, her grandchildren treat her like a complete stranger because they seldom get the chance to meet her.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Margarita said that she was only waiting for death every day because she had nothing to live for. She weeps and mourns for the past because she cannot let go of those good old days when she had everything. Gone are the days when her husband always doted on her foolishly like a slave for he is dead now. Gone are the days when her son always obeyed her because he has married a queen control and dare not disobey his wife. Gone are the days when her daughter was very close to her because she is now married and is living with her family in another country. But does it mean that Margarita has nothing to live for right now? She has a lot of money and a big house - these are great blessings as she does not have to worry about her livelihood. At her age, she is considered healthy as she can still move around. Instead of complaining, perhaps she ought to feel grateful as there are many jobless and homeless people in this world who do not know where their next meal is coming from. The sad truth is, most women are dependent on their husband and children for happiness and once the people who are dearest to them are no longer with them, they don't know what to do. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Incredible change happens in your life</div><div style="text-align: center;">when you decide to take control of what</div><div style="text-align: center;">you do have power over instead of</div><div style="text-align: center;">craving control over what you don't.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> - Steve Maraboli</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Being old and alone does not mean that there is nothing to live for. Loneliness and sadness should not be a burden to life as one grows older. Margarita can still live a happy and meaningful life if she could change her mindset and attitude. Change is inevitable in life and she has to adapt to this change whether she wants it or not or she will be consumed by it. Since she cannot bring her husband back to life, force her son to dump his wife or her daughter to come home, the only thing she can do is to accept her present life. After all, she wasn't a good daughter-in-law herself and it is probably not wrong to say that she should accept it as her karma. Somewhere in her past she also had trouble getting along with her mother-in-law.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It is not difficult to find happiness alone especially for rich old ladies like Margarita as much would depend on whether she wants to create happiness for herself or not. Instead of weeping and mourning for the past or cursing her daughter-in-law, she can keep herself busy by watching TV, reading, going for a walk in the park, or taking a trip to another city or country. Or perhaps she can join tai chi classes, learn a new language, or play a musical instrument. As she participates in these activities, she also gets the chance to meet people her own age and make new friends. When she sees that her friends are also having problems with their "queen control daughter-in-laws" she may not feel so bitter anymore knowing that she is not suffering alone. As they share stories of their "queen control daughter-in-laws" with each other, they will feel a weight lifted from their shoulders and thus relieve themselves of this burden. It is always never too late to make new friends, learn new things and make good changes in life. As she keeps herself occupied, she will begin to feel that she has a lot of things to look forward to. Needless to say, living a happy and fulfilling life would also mean that she can live longer.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Case 4: The Rape Victims And Their Different Pathways</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Caryn and Yuki were colleagues. Both were beautiful young ladies and they were doing very well at work. However, it was how they lived their lives after they were raped which was the deciding factor of their fate. After Caryn was raped twice by people she knew, her mental condition became very unstable as she could not recover from her unwanted sexual encounters. Because of her mood swings, her boyfriend could not tolerate her and left. She lost her job and had to live on charity. She even put on a lot of weight and by the time she was in her 40s, she had a full head of gray hair. Not long after that, she was found dead in her home but police found no evidence of foul play. It seemed that she died naturally just like that. How sad! May her soul rest in eternal peace. Yes, she is now at peace and enjoying herself in heaven.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Caryn, however, was not as unlucky as Yuki even though she was gang raped. She was not ashamed of what happened to her and was ready to face the consequences. She did not brood over her unwanted sexual encounter but left it in the past as she moved forward. She continued to do very well at work and has become a successful businesswoman today. Still beautiful, fit, and youthful today, she is now happily married to her boyfriend of twenty years. I have always admired Caryn because she is the kind of woman who does not give up easily and always puts in a lot of effort to strive for success. She is ambitious, resolute, determined, adamant, and persistent.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let go, Why do you cling to pain? There</div><div style="text-align: center;">is nothing you can do about the wrongs</div><div style="text-align: center;">of yesterday. It is not yours to judge.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Why hold on to the very thing which</div><div style="text-align: center;">keeps you from hope and love?</div><div style="text-align: center;"> - Leo Buscaglia</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The difference between Caryn and Yuki is - Caryn could leave the past behind and move forward whilst Yuki could not do so. Yuki's mind focused on her negative experiences in the past and that was why her life was going downhill. Dwelling on her painful memories, she created unnecessary pain and suffering for herself thus giving herself a lot of stress and tension. If only she knows how to replace her painful memories with positive and happy thoughts, her life would be different. Caryn, on the other hand, focuses on living in the present as she loves her life and her job. Although there were some busy bodies who kept discouraging her and reminding her of the past, they failed to stop her from moving forward because she has chosen not to obsess herself with negative thoughts, worries, and fears. Her detachment from the past has therefore made way for a new life, happiness and love. And success comes to her one after another as she continues to dream and work hard for the future. She has clearly proven that although she cannot change the past, she can change the future. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Conclusion</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Everyone deserves a happy and fulfilling life. Holding on to the past and refusing to let go would mean that the door to a new life and new opportunities would remain shut. Those who cannot put the past in the past will never be able to enjoy their present because they cannot move forward. To be happy, one has to accept the present circumstances and situation and have faith in the future. For those who are going through a difficult phase of life, do not despair as it will be over before you know it. Every cloud has a silver lining. When life takes someone or something from you, someone or something better will come your way if only you can let go. You will see light at the end of the tunnel so don't lose hope in the midst of despair. But first you have to conquer the darkness with complete faith. Happy New Year 2021!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading. You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2010/04/salutation-to-dawn.html">SALUTATION TO THE DAWN</a>, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-have-lived-by-this-sentence-by-dr.html">Footprints in the Sand</a>, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/11/is-marriage-really-necessary-and.html">Is Marriage Really Necessary and Important in Today's World?</a> and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/10/how-abraham-lincoln-inspired-me-to.html">How Abraham Lincoln Inspired Me to Pursue My Ph.D.?</a> To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-27006317019186207012020-12-11T21:19:00.073+08:002020-12-22T17:45:52.053+08:00The Beautiful Hands of a Priest (Father Anthony Ho)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqJrCVvYH2Fe77V22211iFs8IwC94TVOGiKGtja8mVmsNgHrs4E5JdTKAPszf_3Ui1_kIAUF8oACJIBE5uyKEqz1Wm7wwPN78oOVx6hOwQUmwFIKyMi7N3WLimxFWciXB0MYS1hnBgUxE/s589/Father+Anthony+Ho.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="589" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqJrCVvYH2Fe77V22211iFs8IwC94TVOGiKGtja8mVmsNgHrs4E5JdTKAPszf_3Ui1_kIAUF8oACJIBE5uyKEqz1Wm7wwPN78oOVx6hOwQUmwFIKyMi7N3WLimxFWciXB0MYS1hnBgUxE/s320/Father+Anthony+Ho.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Fr. Anthony Ho Ting Yiu</span></div><p>When I first came across <a href="http://fatheranthonyho.blogspot.com/">Father Anthony Ho's blog</a> more than 11 years ago, I found it very unique and interesting and I have been following him on his blog ever since. What is so special about his blog? It is special because it is the blog of a Catholic priest who values his vocation and proudly shares his priestly life with the world. Through his blog, I can find the life of Christ - a life of sacrifice and service that can make a difference in others' lives. Every article in it is written deep from his heart - the heart of a priest who wants to tell the whole how proud he is to be on call all the time to serve the faithful from their cradles to their graves. I don't deny the fact that I envy him because he is living the kind of life that I would love to live but I can't as I am a woman. At the same time, I have been observing him and time really flies - before I realize it, more than a decade has passed. 11 years from then, Father Anthony Ho is still proudly serving God and His people wholeheartedly and although I still envy him, I feel that I must write something about him. What a beautiful experience to be called to a life of holiness and to walk in the footsteps of Christ - nothing can be more meaningful than that. In a way, Father Anthony Ho's life also reminds me of a beautiful poem entitled "The Beautiful Hands of a Priest" written by an unknown author:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">The Beautiful Hands of a Priest</span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;">We need them in life's early morning,<br />we need them again at its close;</div><div style="text-align: center;">We need their warm clasp of true friendship,</div><div style="text-align: center;">we seek them while tasting life's woes.</div><div style="text-align: center;">At the altar each day we behold them,</div><div style="text-align: center;">and the hands of a king on his throne</div><div style="text-align: center;">are not equal to them in their greatness;</div><div style="text-align: center;">their dignity stands alone.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And when we are tempted and wander</div><div style="text-align: center;">to pathways of shame and sin,</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's the hand of a priest that will absolve us,</div><div style="text-align: center;">not once but again and again.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And when we are taking life's partner,</div><div style="text-align: center;">other hands may prepare us a feast,</div><div style="text-align: center;">But the hands that will bless and unite us,</div><div style="text-align: center;">are the beautiful hands of a priest.</div><div style="text-align: center;">God bless them and keep them all holy</div><div style="text-align: center;">for the host which their fingers caress,</div><div style="text-align: center;">What can a poor sinner do better than</div><div style="text-align: center;">to ask him to guide thee and bless?</div><div style="text-align: center;">When the hour of death comes upon us,</div><div style="text-align: center;">may our courage and strength be increased.</div><div style="text-align: center;">To see, raised above us in blessing</div><div style="text-align: center;">the beautiful hands of a priest!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Around 1963, Father Crowley of Dunsallagh gave the words of this poem to Tom Linehan and the Clare singer put a tune to it and recorded it in a song. This poem clearly tells us how important our priests are in our lives because we need them from the moment we come into this world until the hour we breathe our last. In today's world, it is not easy to find single, celibate, and devout men who can live the life of Christ and who don't mind working for long hours with low pay to serve God's people. If we can come across one, then he is indeed a great blessing from God. In this article, I would like to share the amazing and wonderful life of a Catholic priest, Father Anthony Ho.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Father Anthony Ho is a Chinese priest of the Archdiocese of Vancouver. His father grew up in Hong Kong and his mother grew up in Macau. They attended Catholic schools and that was one reason why they became Catholics. Father Anthony Ho was born in Hong Kong in 1976 where he attended a Catholic high school run by the Salesians of Don Bosco and that was when he began to consider a vocation to the priesthood. The Salesians of Don Bosco, also known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales, was founded in 1859 by John Bosco, an Italian priest Saint, and named after the a 17th Century bishop of Geneva, Saint Francis de Sales. With the motto "Da mihi Animas caetera tolle" which means "Give me souls, take away the rest", the society was initially intended to help poor children during the Industrial Revolution. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzp3eTnOpOf1Fj96d2U_C3YEd4ArBwvgqtIpnaJeU7nAa1WpmQ2vBdKZ9pS0rZRVFTsXDs1lB216A0LKvoxZdkgMVs594XhPclvQsAICUH2p8-XmSzzqly8ocbW9Rk9ALEAGtXb1R1g5I/s876/Father+Anthony+Ho+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="876" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzp3eTnOpOf1Fj96d2U_C3YEd4ArBwvgqtIpnaJeU7nAa1WpmQ2vBdKZ9pS0rZRVFTsXDs1lB216A0LKvoxZdkgMVs594XhPclvQsAICUH2p8-XmSzzqly8ocbW9Rk9ALEAGtXb1R1g5I/s320/Father+Anthony+Ho+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">Father Anthony Ho's ordination</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Father Anthony Ho and his parents and younger sister moved to Canada in 1993. He served as a Catechism teacher and prayer group leader before he attended the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), a polytechnic in Burnaby, where he studied Computer System Technology. In 1998, he entered the Seminary of Christ the King, a beautiful and healthy community to prepare for priesthood, in the Archdiocese of Vancouver. He was ordained a priest on 30 May 2006 at St. Anthony's Parish in Vancouver. His mother died of cancer in 2001 while he was studying to become a priest. Before she passed away, she promised him that the first thing she would do when she entered heaven was to pray that he would become a good priest. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When asked why he has chosen the Catholic Priesthood, Father Anthony Ho said that he loved the lives of the saints and their writings. His involvement in various religious activities such as altar serving and the Legion of Mary also had a role to play in helping him to discern his vocation. In a way, he was also attracted to the Catholic priesthood through his devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and to Our Lady.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Father Anthony Ho was an assistant pastor at 3 different parishes for 6 years before he became a pastor. He was a pastor in another parish for 5 years before he was assigned to <a href="https://sjaparish.ca/">St. John the Apostle</a> Parish in Vancouver. It is now his 4th year at his current parish. What kind of priest is he? After observing him more than 11 years, my conclusion is, he is the kind of priest who loves his vocation and pours his heart into his parish ministry every moment of his life. In other words, he is not a priest for himself but gives himself fully and completely to lead and serve us. According to him, helping people to pray and teaching them about faith is a very meaningful thing to do. He enjoys teaching the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) and is especially happy whenever he is preparing to welcome new members into the Catholic Church. As "Father" to everyone, he strongly believes that the duties of a priest is not only to look after the spiritual needs of the faithful but also to reach out to non-Catholics.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The life of a priest is not a bed of roses as there are always lots of things to do in the parish because he is needed all the time by everyone and everywhere. Father Anthony Ho is certainly not an OP (ordinary person) because his hands are always full. He is the one who started the Chinese Mass Community in his current parish. He is also leading several prayer groups and Bible study groups in English and Cantonese. His prayer groups are not just ordinary prayer groups as these are intended to promote the messages of the Divine Mercy and Our Lady of Fatima. And please do not assume that the RCIA is easy to teach as it has to be taught in 3 different languages - English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. As though these are not enough, he is also writing a weekly article for <a href="https://bccatholic.ca/authors/father-anthony-ho">The B.C. Catholic</a> Multimedia Catholic News and giving a short <a href="https://fll.cc/audio-segment-type/frhotalk/">weekly radio talk show</a> on the Sunday Gospel in Cantonese. Wow! Where does he find the time to so so many things? He is truly a most extraordinary man called to an extraordinary ministry!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Father Anthony Ho is not the kind of priest who would waste his time looking for a girlfriend and pestering the Popes to allow him to get married. Where is he going to find the time for that? He is the kind of priest who believes in perfect chastity in priestly celibacy as it enables him to love God and Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament with an undivided heart. According to him, "priestly celibacy is a source of fruitfulness for spiritual fatherhood and that the focus of priests should be on God and souls." How right he is! As what St. John Vianney says, a priest is an <i>alter Christus </i>and he should do what Jesus did. And doing the works of Jesus means that his top priority should be the salvation of souls and not his <a href="https://bloggerpriest.com/2011/01/12/the-father-cutie-scandal/">sex scandal</a>. The unmarried man focuses his life on the Lord's affairs and is concerned with serving the Lord but the married man focuses on the world demands and is concerned with pleasing his wife (1 Corinthians 7:32-33). Sad to say, there are many people who want to become priests but do not understand the role and importance of priestly celibacy. Perhaps they should turn to Father Anthony Ho for advice.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Father Anthony Ho is of the opinion that: "Developing a deep friendship with Jesus in the Holy Eucharist and with Our Lady is the source of happiness and strength for priests. By being faithful to our daily prayer and daily duty, we grow in holiness and bring many blessings to the people." Yes, Jesus and Mary are the source of happiness and strength for priests - not <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2018/01/corrupt-religious-leaders-pastors-and.html">sex</a>, <a href="https://kstp.com/news/in-the-churchs-name-pastors-face-questions-about-purchase-million-dollar-lake-home-resurrection-life-ministries/5478624/">lakefront homes</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44305873">private jets</a>, <a href="https://www.blackenterprise.com/chicago-pastor-steals-1-million-from-church-funds-to-buy-a-new-bentley/">luxury cars</a>, and <a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/10/singapore-church-leaders-convicted-fraud-pop-music-venture">pop music</a>. What the faithful would love to see is a true priest who grows in holiness as he brings them closer to God - not a priest who <a href="https://bloggerpriest.com/2011/01/12/the-father-cutie-scandal/">quits the Catholic Church to get married</a> or <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/03/beware-of-greedy-selfish-and-money.html">embezzles Church money for his personal use</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Father Anthony Ho is a man taken from among men to serve God's people and to lead them to union with God. As a shepherd tends to his scattered flock when he is with them, so I will tend my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered when it was cloudy and dark (Ezekiel 34:12). Priests must be joyful and stubborn and do not mind taking risks to seek out those who are most distant from God just as what Jesus has done (Pope Francis). And that is why Father Anthony Ho has devoted himself entirely to his special mission as a priest. The word "entirely" here means "all he has" and not just 30% or 40% because his focus is only on God and souls. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In this final paragraph, I would like to share a piece of Father Anthony's invaluable advice with the faithful: "A good prayer life and knowedge of the Catholic faith are very fundamental to our spiritual life. Friendship can only be deepened by spending time together and by communicating. So, we must spend time with Christ and communicate with Him each day. Daily prayer is like food and drink for our soul. We need prayer to deepen our friendship with Christ." That is why he is always busy helping us to deepen our faith and our relationship with Jesus for the salvation of our souls. If only we can have more priests like him, the world would be a much better place for everyone. To those who wish to join the Catholic priesthood, why not seek some invaluable advice from Father Anthony Ho? I am sure you will be inspired by him and become good priests too. Who knows, you may one day change many lives by God's grace!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2009/10/father-oc-lim-our-priest-lawyer.html">FATHER OC LIM - OUR PRIEST LAWYER</a>, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/02/cardinal-robert-sarah-christian.html">Cardinal Robert Sarah: The Christian Priesthood Is in Mortal Danger</a>, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-pope-benedict-xvi-clarifies.html">WHY POPE BENEDICT XVI CLARIFIES, REAFFIRMS, REINFORCES AND DEFENDS CELIBACY?</a> and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/01/from-depths-of-our-hearts-priesthood.html">From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy, and the Crisis of the Catholic Church</a>. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-81338917882847631182020-11-28T21:09:00.125+08:002020-12-05T19:33:43.350+08:00Is Marriage Really Necessary and Important in Today's World?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGHlhedPYH7o67b_xIgPW5Js-2asB4WXNVC9IfuRGaWZiCromWetgKt8kLNuBmULJEBLRaSMgbPRD_YE9XN3Zui86gTFmRYrtzhH-LjOYCB7cePfJRrucU5WKtZzrOhcdBQ8_lzxhJ5H4/s844/Marriage+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="545" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGHlhedPYH7o67b_xIgPW5Js-2asB4WXNVC9IfuRGaWZiCromWetgKt8kLNuBmULJEBLRaSMgbPRD_YE9XN3Zui86gTFmRYrtzhH-LjOYCB7cePfJRrucU5WKtZzrOhcdBQ8_lzxhJ5H4/s320/Marriage+1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;">One of Geraldine's retired teacher friends was nearly scammed by an unemployed young Nigerian who claimed to to be a Finnish engineer.</span></div><p>One of my former colleagues, Geraldine, always calls me to complain about 3 of her friends, 2 retired teachers and a divorced former librarian, who are already in their 60s and 70s, but still desperately looking for love in the wrong places. She cannot understand why these women are still so desperate for a man when they are already in their twilight years and should be living peacefully. The retired teachers nearly got scammed but their stinginess saved them. However, they have not learnt their lessons yet and are still busy looking for love everywhere. As for the divorced librarian, she still goes around looking for a man like an obsessed teenager. She even shook her breasts in front of the guys and talked to them in a seductive voice in the express bus - that reminds me of the girls in my school bus during my school days but they were only teenagers then. Does a woman in her 70s still have the mentality of a teenager? I don't understand these women either as I can only think of my long dead grandmother each time Geraldine calls to tell me about her desperate friends. When my grandmother was in her 60s, she was busy taking care of her grandchildren, sewing, washing, and cooking for all us even though my grandfather was no longer around. She had never spent a second of her life looking for love in the wrong places during her twilight years and I really can't imagine her doing that. If my grandmother were to look for a boyfriend, my cousins and I would surely laugh till our stomachs ache. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKhqpwcH6bsd5HPb_spO7PRR0KjM49I1mZni0Z8l1ks_p1vFqJxYy8uortA3mafwqR0WumoNErQmAXRlzEE4MBC55YKAkCedDzKDg0cqajzg_aTgvAjuVYT1YliRVjJ4EQiAshr8v8ujg/s628/Marriage+4B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="542" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKhqpwcH6bsd5HPb_spO7PRR0KjM49I1mZni0Z8l1ks_p1vFqJxYy8uortA3mafwqR0WumoNErQmAXRlzEE4MBC55YKAkCedDzKDg0cqajzg_aTgvAjuVYT1YliRVjJ4EQiAshr8v8ujg/s320/Marriage+4B.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;">Geraldine's 72-year-old friend shook her breasts in front of the guys in the express bus when they were going on a trip.</span><p>The case of a 67-year-old grandmother, Jette Jacobs, from Australia, who was murdered when she travelled to South Africa to meet her Nigerian lover, 28-year-old Jesse Omokoh, whom she met online, clearly showed that even our seniors are very vulnerable to romance scams. This Australian grandmother had sent more than $100,000 to her Nigerian lover who proposed to her before her trip. Then there was the case of another Australian grandmother, 54-year-old Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto, who was duped into drug trafficking after falling for an internet romance scam. The recent case (dated 23 August 2020) of a 68-year-old widow in Johor who lost RM257,172 to an online love scam syndicate after her so-called lover promised to marry her is another example of how desperate a woman can be when it comes to love. Women are most dangerous to themselves when they are desperate to be loved (Vanessa PA Evelyn). These cases can happen again and again unless they can understand that life is not just about marriage and learn how to make the most out of their lives instead of wasting their time seeking men. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDthe-uYmMt4p6QIPHsYTZSphDEHtuWrnQ7zUn-QzKPDcLHQ4ji1KI1-MvsGiBH3_LRj8D7BtwD9JtYyShM2mxvjx12crccRZeRNy5t3SnTz9TnWnQvHbeJ6DzSgL6gnQC7SIbMIFsrY/s839/Marriage+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="545" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDthe-uYmMt4p6QIPHsYTZSphDEHtuWrnQ7zUn-QzKPDcLHQ4ji1KI1-MvsGiBH3_LRj8D7BtwD9JtYyShM2mxvjx12crccRZeRNy5t3SnTz9TnWnQvHbeJ6DzSgL6gnQC7SIbMIFsrY/s320/Marriage+2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Geraldine's former colleague, a 67-year-old divorced teacher, signed up with online dating. Her 60-year-old friend, a retired teacher from Penang, nearly got scammed by a young Nigerian guy.</span></div></span><p>And the quest for love goes on. Despite the many romance scams making use of the same tricks over and over again throughout the decades, many women are still falling for this type of scams. Even teachers who are supposed to set good examples for their students are not exempted as they are ready to make unconditional sacrifices when it comes to love because love conquers everything. In a case dated 12 April 2020, a 42-year-old teacher from Pahang lost RM100,000 in an online romance scam despite travel restrictions during the movement control order (MCO). What made her believe that her lover from Indonesia could enter Malaysia to meet her in Kuala Lumpur during the MCO? The answer is - love is really blind. In another case dated 19 May 2020, a teacher in her 40s from Sibu, lost RM4000 to one Jeffrey Ben Mayne who claimed to be a London architect. He had promised to marry her in Malaysia. In a more recent case dated 11 July 2020, a 37-year-old teacher from Kepala Batas, lost RM112,000 to a love scam syndicate after falling in love with a man who claimed to be a US soldier. He had promised to come to Malaysia and marry her but he never did (You can click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/10/victims-of-facebook-love-scams.html">here</a> to read more about the victims of Facebook love scams). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWpWN9f1eaz9eKSNkWqiHXsx3HIz8ghOhHOitLr8Rw1ZvgXLOU-dG6yBZb6x-_N8NAro2Ca3mTa-KMSVYauHET583iMYyjLOTllnF1YbeHOrGcVnEO41YQsqq_SS1KLeIFW-zJHpkyyc/s820/Marriage+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="546" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWpWN9f1eaz9eKSNkWqiHXsx3HIz8ghOhHOitLr8Rw1ZvgXLOU-dG6yBZb6x-_N8NAro2Ca3mTa-KMSVYauHET583iMYyjLOTllnF1YbeHOrGcVnEO41YQsqq_SS1KLeIFW-zJHpkyyc/s320/Marriage+3.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet;">A piece of good advice from Geraldine, "Better be a spinster than to be scammed of all our money. No need to be desperate. No need to go online or chase / seduce men, young or old. We must have our dignity."</span><p style="text-align: left;">If grandmothers and teachers are desperately seeking love, what about our young girls? On 18 July 2020, a 16-year-old girl from Ipoh threw her newborn baby, with his umbilical cord attached, from her 2nd. floor bedroom window. On 16 July 2020, a teenage college student from George Town was charged with murdering her newborn baby. She threw her baby from her 13th. floor apartment unit. On 13 May 2020, an 18-year-old shop assistant from Bayan Lepas threw her newborn baby girl from her 4th. floor flat unit. Her baby was lucky enough to survive the incident. Giving birth secretly at home, these unwed mothers had no choice but to throw their newborn babies away. Is this what we call the price of love? What is love? Irresponsible sex? It is very obvious that when these girls fell in love, they did not think of the consequences. Once, a 15-year-old student came to see me. She said that she was very sad because all her friends had boyfriends but she could not find one. Although I advised her to study first and get a boyfriend after she has completed her studies, I could feel that she would not listen to me.</p><p style="text-align: left;">During the early days of my teaching career, I met one of my friends at Kota Raya Complex on a Saturday night when I was doing my shopping alone. I always enjoy shopping alone because there is no need to rush and I can go anywhere I want. If there is someone with me, I would normally end up not buying anything at all. When this friend saw me shopping alone, she shouted in such a way that could make anyone feel guilty. Here it goes: "Aiyah... Are you sure you are alone here? Don't you know that today is Saturday? How can you be alone on a Saturday night? Well, for this kind of woman who does not want to be seen without a man on a Saturday night, her husband and children are her entire world and her only life purpose. The problem is, if her husband leaves her or dies, her whole world comes crumbling down because she cannot live without a man. To fill the vacuum in her life, she would desperately look for love everywhere and become an easy target for romance scammers. The reality is, love scammers know very well what women want and how desperate they are - that is why they are doing a lucrative business.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Is marriage so important that one cannot live without it? Does happiness mean carrying a child in your arms, playing with your children, holding hands with your husband when you go shopping, cooking and washing for your husband and children, going on family outings, sex, and kisses? Most women, irrespective of their age, love doing these things because their entire world is made up of their husband and children. But, I don't think I would enjoy doing these things at all, not even a bit. Why? Looking at my friends' rebellious teenage children, I feel thankful that I don't have to raise one. I would be really furious if I have a teenage son who keeps asking me for money to spend on his girlfriend and loses his temper when I refuse to give him the money he asks for. When I go shopping, I don't like people to pressure me to hurry and certainly feel more comfortable when I am alone. Although I am a good cook, I only cook one dish per meal, sit on the sofa in front of the TV and eat direct from the wok. No rice for me, of course, because one dish is enough. The advantage is - there is no need to cook so much and wash so much because I really hate to wash the pots and pans, plates and bowls. Talking about washing clothes, once a week is more than enough for me. The problem with me is - I can only wash my own clothes because I would feel like vomiting if I wash other people's clothes. What about family outings? I always have lot of things to do that I would be very thankful if I could find some time to be alone on the beach or in the parks with my own thoughts. And of course, sex and kisses are totally out of the question because I don't like people to touch me. Do I sound like a spoilt child? Well, I would rather be a spoilt child than a distressed and pitiful wife. Since I am so used to my carefree, worry-free, and burdenless lifestyle and am living my life to the fullest, I really cannot feel the importance of marriage. Getting married may not be a good thing for me after all because it will take away my freedom and perhaps turn me into a sulky, depressed and angry wife.</p><p style="text-align: left;">When I was just a little girl, I used to ask my mother why she got married and her answer was - she wanted someone to look after her when she grew old. That is probably one of the major reasons why people get married but the question is - how many children will actually look after their elderly parents? My grand aunt lived alone in a bungalow and died in a nursing home because none of her 4 children wanted to live with her. Although my mom's best friend has 2 children (a son and a daughter), she is also living alone because her daughter married an Australian and her daughter-in-law cannot get along with her. Her husband has already passed away many years ago leaving a lot of money in the bank for her. I can only hope that she would not be a victim of romance scammers. Well, it seems that my mother has given me a very bad answer because getting married does not guarantee that one will not be alone during the twilight years.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Getting married also does not mean that one will live happily ever after because divorce and extramarital affairs are extremely common nowadays. Suffering in silence while your husband is having an affair and raising the children alone after a painful divorce are certainly not enjoyable. Should these things happen in one's life, isn't it better not to get married at all? As for me, I choose not to take any risks because I am having a wonderful time now and I don't want things to change for the worse. Simple things like shopping for Christmas and New Year, buyng myself a present, cooking a nice dish for myself, eatings longans while watching TV, going for a walk in the park, watching my favorite movies and TVB dramas, lying on my bed and reading my favorite books, listening to my favorite songs, and going for photography can make me very happy because I know how to value life. So, why bring a man into my world to destroy me when I am living a blissful life? Frankly speaking, even if I were given a husband now, I really don't know what to do with him!</p><p style="text-align: left;">Well, I am not writing this article to discourage marriage. To those who have found their soulmate and are leading a happy family life, I would say that it is good for them. As for those who are still single, divorced, or widowed, do not think that it is the end of the world just because you don't have a man and are feeling lonely. Do you know that loneliness is a luxury? Life can be really peaceful when you are living alone. That is when you can find inner peace and discover your true self. Living alone also means that there is no one to make you angry, no worries, no arguments, no insincerity or affectedness, and, most of all, you are free to do whatever you want and this kind of freedom is really amazing. I never like people to disturb me, dirty my house and misplace my things and that is why I feel more comfortable being alone. Boredom has never found its way into my life because I always have lots of things to do. My advice is - when you are living alone, do not sit and mourn the whole day because you cannot find a man or life will be very miserable. Life is too short to be sad or wasted. The most important thing is how to fill your life with meaningful things - these things need not be complicated. Simple luxuries in life like learning how to cook by watching youtube, buying a new TV, decorating your home for Christmas, or waiting for the sunset on the beach are enough to make you feel happy if you know how to appreciate life. These things are certainly more meaningful than going for men hunting and getting into trouble. Having a man by your side does not mean that you will be really happy as he may bring more pain than joy.</p><p style="text-align: left;">To those women who can afford to give away millions to love scammers, don't you think that this amount money can make you very happy if you spend it on yourself? Giving the money away for some loving words which are not true is a sinful waste of money when the money can be used in a more meaningful way. The loving words expressed in broken Nigerian English certainly do not worth a single cent! As for the grandmothers who are desperately looking for love, don't you think that your grandchildren deserve your love and money more than the Nigerian scammers? Why not spend the money on the grandchildren and make them happy? As for the young girls, study first and love later. Do not trust men easily and never let them ruin your life.</p><div style="text-align: left;">Being single and living alone does not mean that there is no life. Believe me, your life can be very interesting if you know how to live wisely and bring meaning to it. How can this be done? Easy. Follow these rules:<br /><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Rule 1:</b> Love yourself, don't rely on someone else to do it. Never depend on anyone for your happiness but yourself.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Rule 2:</b> Give yourself the best of everything and make the best of everything. Life is too short to limit yourself.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Rule 3:</b> Live in the moment and cherish every second of the day as it comes. Do not feel sad because God has given you this wonderful life to enjoy yourself. If you spend the days of your life without enjoying yourself, you will regret when you look back at your life.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you can follow these rules, you have found the key to true and everlasting happiness. These are also my golden rules for eternal happiness, freedom, and inner peace. Looking at myself in the mirror every morning, I feel so proud of myself for being single. Why? I may not be able to maintain my slim figure and youthful looks if I were married because weight gain after childbirth is inevitable. I may not have a Ph.D. if I have a family because there would be no time to focus on my thesis. And who knows, I may have become a bitter single mother and jilted wife today with a sagging figure and gaunt appearance if I have chosen marriage. Oh No! I would rather live to pamper myself every day.</div><p style="text-align: left;">If I were to live my life again, I would still travel the same path that I have traveled all these years. I would still choose to be the pure and perfect bride of Christ because He would not destroy my life or turn me into a bitter, distressed, and pitiful woman. In Him, there is only peace and love. I am very happy because my life has never been contaminated by any man, I am healthy, I have achieved my doctorate degree, and I am free to do whatever I like to do without having to please anyone. And I am glad to say that I am having the time of my life now. Life is short, treasure it, for you will not pass this way again.</p><p style="text-align: left;">You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/11/will-your-husband-divorce-you-and-marry.html">Will your husband divorce you and marry his lover?</a>, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/07/marriage-after-50-what-do-you-need-to.html">MARRIAGE AFTER 50: WHAT DO YOU NEED TO CONSIDER?</a>, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/08/how-long-should-widower-wait-to-remarry.html">How Long Should a Widower Wait to Remarry After the Death of His Wife?</a>, and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-lines-of-marriage-and-how-they.html">THE LINES OF MARRIAGE AND HOW THEY AFFECT YOUR LOVE LIFE</a>. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-65635697587106073182020-11-06T21:28:00.050+08:002020-12-02T01:32:15.800+08:00Will your husband divorce you and marry his lover?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTgdsx7JRAdYT6nJYQk7pj2vQOpyGnMN3IxLkFmhtTq9vWpNy390N9TUXZzNa7UKBwrMnPRwHWAhGeHR7v7K1lmU_RU9g2XdggzyIUYVJg13gr8xZFUWgzYjWpxLegkxfnvAlHfbJbOuE/s1225/love%2526relationship.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="1225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTgdsx7JRAdYT6nJYQk7pj2vQOpyGnMN3IxLkFmhtTq9vWpNy390N9TUXZzNa7UKBwrMnPRwHWAhGeHR7v7K1lmU_RU9g2XdggzyIUYVJg13gr8xZFUWgzYjWpxLegkxfnvAlHfbJbOuE/s320/love%2526relationship.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Third party interference in a marriage is an issue which everyone prefers to ignore in the hope that it is not true and everything will be fine. Many women do not mind suffering in silence because they dare not confront their husbands for fear of losing them. They will rather keep one eye close as long as their husbands know the way home and have no intention to divorce them. This is because divorce can be very painful for a woman especially if she has given herself entirely to her husband and family. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Although I have never been married before, this does not prevent me from observing what is happening to other people's marriages. As a keen observer, I have come across many marriages that ended on the rocks due to third party interferences. The recent article dated 6 September 2020 entitled <a href="https://ohmymedia.cc/wanita-sarat-hamil-tanpa-si-suami-diceraikan-talak-3-demi-perempuan-lain/">"Wanita Sarat Hamil Tanpa Si Suami," Diceraikan Talak 3 Demi Perempuan Lain</a><i> </i>(Husband Divorced Heavily Pregnant Wife<i> </i>for Another Woman) made me feel sad even though I did not know this woman. The other woman refused to leave her husband no matter what and her husband did not want to wait until the baby is born to divorce her. I hope that she will face the future bravely and find happiness one day. In this article, I would like to share three real life stories about marital infidelity that I have been observing for years, or to be exact, more than 20 years. The descriptions of the main characters in these stories have been slightly modified to conceal their real identities.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">Case 1: Woman struggled to raise her children after being dumped by lover</span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;">Shirley used to be a very beautiful girl during her younger days but she was really unlucky to have fallen in love with Nick, a married man with 2 children. Nick told her that he no longer had any feelings for his estranged wife and promised to marry her 'one day' but little did she know that his 'one day' would mean 'never' (even an outsider like me could see that he was only taking advantage of her but at that time she was so blinded by his love that she would listen to no one). Believing that he would marry her one day, Shirley quit her job and went to live with him. She built many wonderful dreams of a blissful marriage life in the air while waiting for him to fulfil his empty promises. For 12 years, she waited for him to divorce his wife and marry her but all he could ever do was to make more empty promises. It seemed that the issue of divorce was entirely out of discussion. Nick was actually enjoying the companionship of both his wife and mistress. Shirley felt cheated but the arrivals of their sons left her without a choice but to continue living with him in the hope that his empty promises would come true one day but they never materialized. It wasn't easy for her to bear the criticisms of her neighbors, relatives, and friends but all she could ever do was to turn a deaf ear to them.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As the years went by, Nick's attitude towards her changed and they began to quarrel. Their heated arguments soon led to a complete estrangement between them. It was only then that Shirley began to realize that he wasn't the man for her and it was meaningless to live with him any longer. She left him and brought her two sons with her. It was not easy for her to start a new career at that age - if she did not quit her job and went to live with Nick, she could have better career prospects today and has probably married a decent man. No doubt, she has learnt a lesson after all but this lesson was far too expensive because she has given up her bright future for a worthless man. However, for the sake of her sons, she must learn to be independent and brave the storm.</div><p style="text-align: left;">On the other hand, Nick's wife has also learnt a very important lesson - keep one eye closed when your husband is fooling around as long as he knows how to come home. Needless to say, she was not happy with the presence of another woman in her husband's life for so many years but her patience and tolerance had helped her to win her husband back without the need of confrontation. Today, she does not have to share her husband with anyone anymore. At his age, Nick is a faithful husband and perfect family man who is enjoying the warmth of family love. Every cloud has a silver lining - it does not matter what her husband did to her anymore because they are going to have a blissful marriage life in the future. After Nick's extramarital affair, he would probably love and cherish his wife even more.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Case 2: Husband dumped wife for a woman 20 years younger</span><br /></span></b><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Not everyone is as lucky as Nick's wife because some men do not know their way home after fooling around and Zoey's husband, Kenny, is such a man. Both Zoey and her husband are successful entrepreneurs and they have 4 children. But, when Zoey first met her husband, he was only a poor man and since she had a rich father, she decided to help him set up his own business. Because of her care and concern for him, they soon fell in love and got married not long after that even though Zoey's parents did not really approve the marriage because they felt that their daughter was too good for her husband.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For 20 years, their marriage was a blissful one as there was no third party interference. But the presence of Selina changed everything. Selina was a young entrepreneur in her 20s who had business dealings with Kenny's company. The bad news for Zoey was these business dealings later transformed into a romantic relationship between Kenny and Selina. At 48, Kenny looked young for his age whilst his wife looked more like his mother. With 4 grown-up children, he probably wanted to look for some new excitement in his life and since Selina was young and beautiful, he couldn't find any reason why he shouldn't fall in love with her especially when the girl was already showing some interest in him. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So Kenny divorced his wife and married Selina. Together they started a new family and a very blissful one too. Too bad for Zoey, she still hasn't found her new love today. At her age, the chances of her finding true love are depressingly slim. What was Zoey's greatest mistake? She should have looked for tell-tale signs of her husband's affair before it was too late but she just trusted him too much until the situation got out of hand. Although she did not mind her husband keeping a secret mistress as long as he did not divorce her for the sake of the children, he could not keep his marriage vows anymore because Selina did not want to be his secret mistress. The young and beautiful Selina wanted to be legally married to Kenny and she did not like the idea of sharing her husband with Zoey. </div><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">Case 3: Husband dumped wife and old lover to marry his new lover</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;">As the third party in an affair, Linda was not as lucky as Selina as her life has been completely destroyed by this affair even though Lucas' wife left him in the end. Linda and Lucas worked in the same company. At the time they first met, Lucas was already married with 2 children. Despite of his affair with Linda, Lucas was still very much in love with his wife and he was a responsible father. However, he kept assuring Linda that he would divorce his wife and marry her and this went on for many years. Known as the 'third party' and marriage wrecker, Linda did not have a very good reputation but she endured all criticisms because of her love for this man. </p><div style="text-align: left;">Lucas' wife finally couldn't stand her husband anymore and divorced him. She left for another country with their 2 children and since then Lucas has never heard from them again. Linda, who was pregnant, was very happy because Lucas has finally decided to marry her. However, her happiness did not last long because Lucas fell in love with another girl, in her early 20s, while on a business trip abroad. This beautiful young lady was the daughter of a rich man and it seemed that she was the best choice for him at that time. Why? Linda was already in her mid 30s and she was not as rich as this young lady. Could she blame Lucas for dumping her? What has he done? He only wanted to have the best of everything for himself. When news of his marriage reached Linda, she was so devastated that she had a miscarriage. Today, Linda is still single as she no longer has any confidence in any relationship. </div><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Conclusion</span><br /></span></b><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Based on the cases above, one cannot deny the fact that the secret to get a man hooked is to be his ideal woman and the best among the best. Being a woman is therefore not easy as there is always the possibility that she may have to compete with another woman for her husband's love. And of course her husband will choose the better one between the two of them. In Case 1, Nick did not wish to divorce his wife because there wasn't much difference between his wife and mistress as they belonged to the same kind - both were housewives of around the same age. What's the purpose of getting rid of one woman and then marrying another woman who is more or less similar to the first wife? Isn't it better to enjoy the best of both worlds? As for Case 2, Kenny's decision to leave his wife for a woman 20 years younger may not be unreasonable, or at least that was how he felt. His first wife looked much older than him as she did not age well and was getting old and unattractive. Given a choice, he would surely choose a younger and more beautiful wife. In Case 3, Lucas let his first wife decide what she wanted with their marriage as it was difficult for him to choose between two women of the same kind - both were beautiful career women of about the same age. However, when a much younger, richer, and more beautiful woman came into his life, he realized that she was the one he was looking for and immediately married her. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As I am writing this article, I couldn't help feeling how fortunate I am because I don't have to compete with other women for a man's love. OMG, that's really stressful. I only want to be myself and live a happy and carefree life doing the things I like to do each day. I don't want to be a jilted wife. I don't want to shed tears for a worthless man. I don't want to be a single mother and bring up the children alone. I only want to enjoy life and be happy. I have always been very happy being single that I don't understand why so many women are hopelessly searching for love. Even single, widowed, and divorced women in their late 60s and 70s are busy seeking love. Some have fallen in love with romance scammers and lost their life savings in the name of love. One of my former colleagues always calls me to complain about this retired teacher, still single in her 70s, behaving like a teenager who is so obsessed with the opposite sex. And she doesn't know that everyone is laughing at her behind her back! Is marriage so important that women cannot live without it? Does marriage really bring happiness? Given the fact that divorce and extramarital affairs are so common nowadays, I dare say that life is more meaningful if we live happily for ourselves instead of just living to please a man. I will never let a man walk into my life and make me sad. I will never let my life be contaminated by a worthless man. I only want to be the pure and perfect bride of Christ. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Divorce brings heartache, pain, and misery - those affected have no choice but to move on. That's life. Of course a better way to look into a relationship is to study the palm as it can foretell the problems in a relationship. A broken marriage line is an indication of divorce or separation due to third party interference. A marriage line which forks at the end is an indication of one's carelessness in the relationship and for being so naive as not to know what is going on in the marriage until everything becomes too late. An island on the marriage line is also a bad omen as it indicates a troubled marriage. Perhaps early problem detection can help to save a marriage. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To view pictures of the lines marriages, please read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-lines-of-marriage-and-how-they.html">THE LINES OF MARRIAGE AND HOW THEY AFFECT YOUR LOVE LIFE</a>. You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/11/is-marriage-really-necessary-and.html">Is Marriage Really Necessary and Important in Today's World?</a>; <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/07/marriage-after-50-what-do-you-need-to.html">MARRIAGE AFTER 50: WHAT DO YOU NEED TO CONSIDER?</a>; and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/08/how-long-should-widower-wait-to-remarry.html">How Long Should a Widower Wait to Remarry After the Death of His Wife?</a> To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-11554188623327828112020-10-11T21:19:00.122+08:002020-10-17T19:23:46.154+08:00Is the Catholic Church to Blame for Overpopulation in the Philippines?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvxVmvxHix7_CrnxS569n9IpCd5-7ISmppMeRJO7FaMjzexW6W9HCmXpQ3yc1_7YQFBnyI2wG7CA3y6ZKmkxvTdXwIbuwUUMpxzu5iQsXnlzga6dLE5DSAKamtt6hcR3fYXNrJdjpRKxg/s1475/IMG_0796B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1475" data-original-width="1106" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvxVmvxHix7_CrnxS569n9IpCd5-7ISmppMeRJO7FaMjzexW6W9HCmXpQ3yc1_7YQFBnyI2wG7CA3y6ZKmkxvTdXwIbuwUUMpxzu5iQsXnlzga6dLE5DSAKamtt6hcR3fYXNrJdjpRKxg/s320/IMG_0796B.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">The Roman Catholic Church is the first and original Christian Church</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">It has never occurred to me that the Philippines is so densely populated until recently when the Sabah travelers brought the Covid-19 virus to Peninsular Malaysia causing a sudden spike in cases in the whole country at the time when Malaysia was winning the coronavirus war. That was when I started doing some research on this country and discovered the real life stories of its slum dwellers and homeless people. Extreme poverty and overpopulation left them without a choice but to seek for better lives in Malaysia. To date, there are about 800,000 Filipinos living in Malaysia (according to 2013 Philippine government estimates but the accurate number is likely to be much higher given the fact that they have been sneaking into the country almost every day all these years) and the majority of them are illegal immigrants. Although there are many Filipinos in Malaysia, most of them live in Sabah. For years, they have been sneaking into Malaysia to find work but their illegal entry into the country during the coronavirus pandemic has become a serious threat to the country. The Philippines has the highest number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia and the new strain, G614, found in this country, is 10 times more infectious than the original strain, D614, from Wuhan. The recent case of a Filipino man who sneaked into Sabah again on 5 September 2020 via Rat Lanes after being deported to the Philippines on 27 August 2020 is a nightmare for Malaysians because he was the one who started the 'Sea Cluster' in Sabah which, to date, has more than 100 infections. With so many trouble makers like him bringing the G614 strain from the Philippines, many new clusters have been detected in Sabah thus putting the lives of Malaysians at risk. Sneaking in and out of the country via Rat Lanes whenever they like, the Filipinos are potential virus carriers that could make Malaysia's coronavirus war much more difficult to fight. On 1 July 2020, there was only one new Covid-19 case in Malaysia but sad to say, we have 561 new cases today. <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Why are the Filipinos so desperate to come to Malaysia? Why do they keep sneaking into the country illegally even though they know that they are not welcome here and will be deported? The Philippines is the second most populous country in Southeast Asia after Indonesia and the thirteenth most populous country in the world. It has the highest population growth rate in the region and its population is estimated at 109 million as of June 2020. With 4.5 million homeless people, 20 million people living in slums, and 54% poor families, joblessness and poverty are inevitable particularly during the coronavirus pandemic. Overpopulation makes their situation even worse as their crowded and cramped living conditions can easily enhance the transmission of infectious diseases. Overcrowding also makes it difficult for them to have proper washing, cleaning, cooking, and toilet facilities. Surviving on food made of garbage, known as pagpag, is a common practice for those in extreme poverty as it is the daily staple food of the poor but this unhygienic food can lead to malnutrition, stunted growth, and diseases. Given such dire circumstances, it is no wonder why Malaysia has become a lucrative destination for them. Since Malaysians like to employ illegal workers because they are inexpensive, hardworking, and obedient, getting a job here is not a problem for them and they can easily make a decent living. Life in Malaysia can be heavenly as there is no overcrowding here and they do not have to consume pagpag anymore. In actual fact, many of them are living better lives than the unemployed locals. <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Overpopulation and poverty are both inseparable as it is an obvious fact that rapid population growth will result in homelessness, disease, food shortages, water scarcity, and joblessness. Recently, I have been watching videos about homelessness and poverty in the Philippines and it really shocked me to see so many poor slum dwellers and homeless families eating pagpag as their daily meal. Although millions have lost their jobs during the pandemic, procreation still plays a pivotal role in the lives of these people. What is even more shocking is that these families have many children and these innocent children have to grow up lacking in everything only to repeat the life cycle of their parents. Even poor, unmarried teenagers give birth to one child after another although they know that their future is so uncertain. I remember watching a video about a Filipino woman with her 8 children (7 girls and 1 boy) and the younger ones were crying because they were hungry. When interviewed, she said that she would love to have another boy in the family and would keep trying for another son. What's the purpose of having another son when she can't even afford to send the only boy in the family to school? Then there was this video about a Filipino woman and her 12 children living under the bridge - they were so poor that they have never eaten a proper meal in their lives. But why bring so many children to this world to suffer from the day they make their first cry until the day they breathe their last? What kind of future will they have given their destitute circumstances? In one of the videos, it really broke my heart to see a little girl crying while being interviewed because her parents could not afford to buy her the toys that she wanted. Needless to say, no one likes to live in the slums / on the streets and eat pagpag all their lives and the poor do have the choice to prevent this from happening to their next generation. But why do they still choose to bring so many children to this world to suffer the same fate as them? Children are not blessings from God if they have to live their lives in the slums or on the streets and survive on pagpag as their way of life. Poverty can cause a lot of damage to the children as it deprives them of their life chances. <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">One cannot deny the fact that the only solution to overpopulation and poverty is population control. To this effect, the Catholic Church has often been blamed for making the country's overpopulation crisis worse because of its opposition to contraception like condoms and birth control pills, abortion, and family planning. According to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, "We are the fastest growing population and I squarely blame the Catholic Church. They think that spewing out human beings by the millions is a gift from God." The question is - are the super baby makers in the Philippines really that obedient to the Church? Needless to say, the commandment, "Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it" (Genesis 9:7) has been fulfilled extremely successfully because it is very popular with them. But what about the fifth commandment - Thou shalt not kill? According to the Wikipedia, the Philippines has the highest murder cases in Southeast Asia with 9784 recorded cases as of 2014. Has the Catholic Church ever said that they can kill? And what about the seventh commandment - Thou shalt not steal? Robbery, pick-pocketing and bag-snatching are not uncommon in the Philippines particularly in crowded places and there have been many instances when tourists were killed while being robbed. In January 2017, Philippine policemen robbed and extorted money from three South Korean golfers who went to the Philippines to play golf. In July 2017, a British man, Tarek Naggar, was gunned down outside a bar when he refused to hand over his wallet. Also in July 2017, a New Zealander, Simon Rawlinson, was shot dead at a market and his bag (containing his documents, money, and laptop) was taken by the perpetrators. Did the Pope say that they can rob? My advice is, do not travel alone to the Philippines, be careful with your handbag / wallet and never withdraw cash after dark because tourists are lucrative targets.<br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">When God says, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the Earth", everyone is happy to carry out this commandment since the time of Adam and Eve. So when the Catholic Church forbids contraception, abortion, and family planning, there is no problem of obedience. Why? Because these rules are easy to follow - the baby makers don't mind because it is something they want to do anyway and enjoy doing since children are supposed to be blessings from God. But of course God also gives them a brain to think whether they should make lots of babies when they can't even afford to feed themselves. With the brain that God has bestowed upon them, they ought to know that extreme poverty can hurt children and should therefore prevent its damaging impact through various methods of birth control. The question is - why can't they use their brain efficiently to think how not to make babies when they can't afford to give them a decent life? However, when they need money, it seems that there is no need to obey God's commandments anymore and this is also the time they make the best use of their brains. With the brain that God has given them, they can think of many innovative techniques to steal or pick-pocket or even rob from others. They are also becoming more creative with credit card fraud. Why? Because God cannot stop them from making money if that is what they want to do. And of course, when they want to kill somebody, they don't need to obey God's commandments just because they want to do it and therefore must do it. Also, there is no reason why they can't have access to contraceptives when they can have easy access to methamphetamine hydrochloride and marijuana. Although the Catholic Church is against artificial contraception, most Catholics prefer to ignore its teachings about birth control. In the Philippines, contraceptives are legal and are easily available in pharmacies. However, drugs are illegal, more expensive and not as easily available as contraceptives but why is illegal drug use so prevalent in the Philippines? As what Jim Rohn says, "If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse." So, is it fair to blame the Catholic Church for the rapid population growth in the Philippines? Are the people really that obedient to the Church? Looks more like they are just doing what they want to do irrespective of what the teachings of the Church may be.<br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The more common crimes in the Philippines include kidnapping, human trafficking, prostitution, illegal drug trade, and domestic violence. And don't forget that their juvenile delinquents, including those as young as five years old, are already </span><a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/philippines-problem-children-committing-brazen-juvenile-crimes-11563464" style="text-align: left;">committing some of the most brazen crimes</a><span style="text-align: left;">. Did the Catholic Church say that it is alright to commit such crimes? NO. But why are they still doing it? Because it is beyond the power of the Church to stop them from doing things that they want to do. And one more thing, they are particularly creative when it comes to sneaking into Malaysia illegally via Rat Lanes and have discovered many secret lanes for a safe journey to the country. Their brains also suddenly get so brilliant when they want to escape from the temporary detention centers in Malaysia while awaiting deportation. They are therefore not as ignorant as they seem to be and can really think creatively and innovatively when it comes to doing things they want to do. So, let's stop blaming the Catholic Church for the high population growth in the Philippines because the Church cannot control them. <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">As we all know, there is a shortage of priests in the Catholic Church throughout the world and the Church is recruiting many young men to be priests. However, the sad truth is, even the Philippines with its overpopulation crisis is facing an acute shortage of priests. Why? Sad to say, their young men would rather live in the slums or on the streets and make babies instead of becoming priests. If the Filipinos are really so obedient to the Church, I am sure there would no shortage of priests in their country. What the Catholic Church needs now are real men who can become real priests and not baby makers as there are too many of them already. But why is it so difficult to find celibate priests who can live the life of Christ? Is making babies really that important? Sometimes, I do wonder how people can make so many babies in the slums and on the streets - I mean do they feel comfortable there? I don't know how they feel but I do feel sad each time I watch videos about their lives. Needless to say, if Catholic priests were allowed to marry, I am sure that all the baby makers who cannot afford to feed themselves and their families would queue up for this 'job' from Luzon to Davao City because they need money to feed their families. Thank God, these kinds of men will never become priests!<br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">To those real men who can become real priests, why not join the priesthood and serve the Church. Life is certainly more meaningful as a priest than making babies in the slums or on the streets. I really pity the children - it is grossly unfair for them to grow up as slum dwellers or street children eating pagpag and watching their parents make babies every day and then repeat their parents' lifecycle when they grow up. Life is meaningless if one's life purpose is to make babies, eat pagpag, and live in destitution. My dear brothers in Christ, let's become real priests and change the world. Let's make this world a better place for everyone. The world needs you. When I saw the boys playing and living on the tombs (in the graveyard) in one of the videos about the Filipinos living with the dead, I was wondering how they could still look so cheerful. If I were one of them, I would have left home immediately to become a priest. I don't want to watch my parents make babies every day and live in an overcrowded space with so many family members. I don't want to eat pagpag every day. I don't want to grow up and make lots of babies and let them live in degrading conditions. I don't want the whole family to starve and suffer with me. I don't want to be a burden to the world. I would rather take up my cross and follow Jesus and live a real and meaningful life and help to ease the burden of the world. As for my dear sisters in Christ, is there any meaning in life if your purpose is to make babies after your first period right up to menopause in degrading conditions? What is the purpose of making babies in the slums and graveyards, on the streets, and under the bridge when you cannot afford to feed them? Why not emulate Mother Teresa and do something for the world? Remember what Jesus said? "I give you my word, there is no one who has given up home, brothers or sisters, mother or father, children or property, for me and for the gospel, who will not receive in this present age a hundred times as many homes, brothers and sisters, mothers, children and property - and in the age to come, everlasting life" (Mark 10:29). <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">It should be noted that the Popes have never encouraged Roman Catholics to breed like rabbits, serve pagpag to their children and make them grow up without a proper shelter. As what Pope Francis said after his visit to the Philippines, "Parenthood is about being responsible" and, of course, being responsible means that parents should not have more children than they can afford to feed. Parents have the responsibility to give their children healthy food and not food from garbage dumps. They should not make them live in places that are unfit for human habitation. They must make sure that their children have the best education and help them to become responsible citizens. Since children learn their life lessons from observing what their parents do and their experiences in their environment, parents should provide good examples to their children, let them grow up in a decent environment, and give adequate attention to them. What will the children learn if they have to live in an overcrowded space with their family members and watch their parents make babies every day? What kind of skills will they learn if they cannot afford to attend school and have to master the art of street / slum survival? Will they be healthy eating pagpag as their meal of the day? Since the problems of overpopulation and poverty are the consequences of irresponsible sex and neglectful parenting, it's time for the baby makers to think whether they should breed like rabbits when they don't have a proper place to live and can't even afford to feed themselves. Needless to say, reducing family sizes is the best thing that they can do for their families. Always remember this - Where there's a will there's a way. Instead of blaming the Catholic Church for overpopulation in the country, perhaps the relevant authorities should make the baby makers understand the meaning and importance of responsible parenthood.<br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">You may also like to read </span><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/01/from-depths-of-our-hearts-priesthood.html" style="text-align: left;">From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy, and the Crisis of the Catholic Church</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/02/cardinal-robert-sarah-christian.html" style="text-align: left;">Cardinal Robert Sarah: The Christian Priesthood Is in Mortal Danger</a><span style="text-align: left;">, and </span><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2011/02/should-catholic-priests-be-allowed-to.html" style="text-align: left;">SHOULD CATHOLIC PRIESTS BE ALLOWED TO MARRY?</a><span style="text-align: left;"> To view the content page of this blog, please click </span><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html" style="text-align: left;">here</a><span style="text-align: left;">.</span></p><div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">References:<br />1. Duterte blames Philippine Church for rapid population rise. Union of Catholic Asian News.</div><div style="text-align: left;">2. Highest in 5 years: 13.1 million families considered themselves poor in Q4. CNN Philippines (dated 23 January 2020).</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. Crime in the Philippines. Wikipedia.</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. The Philippines' little delinquents, committing some of the most brazen crimes.</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. Pope Francis: No Catholic need to breed like 'rabbits'. BBC News.</div><div style="text-align: left;">6. The New American Bible. Thomas Nelson Publishers.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p></div>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-54057642967470037992020-09-29T21:29:00.115+08:002021-01-21T03:24:49.939+08:00ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS A HUGE THREAT TO MALAYSIA'S CORONAVIRUS WAR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxQZCTamamrUHE37h_UEzuvBAi0pXC2w3a5oyS6vGjJtqpJE2HEDFh_I6GVyNKomwXlCzI6M8RDLaZ2nH6-iWZE0IV4y4NFwXVh2gkr-9cIf8T5erjcMz1ERiy3VDZ3YaSXKv3AlRQnA/s600/illegals.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxQZCTamamrUHE37h_UEzuvBAi0pXC2w3a5oyS6vGjJtqpJE2HEDFh_I6GVyNKomwXlCzI6M8RDLaZ2nH6-iWZE0IV4y4NFwXVh2gkr-9cIf8T5erjcMz1ERiy3VDZ3YaSXKv3AlRQnA/s320/illegals.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">Indonesian illegal immigrants hiding in a banana plantation at Kampung Tawau Lama waiting for transport to go to their destinations after sneaking into the country by sea. The bad news is - Indonesia's Covid-19 cases have surpassed China (Source: Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia Facebook).<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;">For months, since the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO) on 18 March 2020 until now, I dare not go shopping at all to avoid any risk of infection by the virus. For the first time in my life, I have never bought any clothes, shoes, handbags, watches, books, and artificial jewellery for months. I have really saved a lot of money during these months because apart from food, I have nothing else to buy. Prior to the MCO, I used to visit all the shops in Bukit Bintang area every weekend looking for things to buy but I have never been to this area since the MCO. I prefer not to go out and will avoid it whenever I can particularly because I feel very uncomfortable wearing a mask. As someone who loves shopping, life has been very miserable for me but being hopeful that the coronavirus crisis would come to pass one day does help to brighten up my day. When Malaysia's Covid-19 cases dropped to one on 1 July 2020, I thought that life would go back to normal again very soon. Yes, Malaysia has been very successful in battling Covid-19 and was winning the war.<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">However, the recent increase of new Covid-19 clusters involving illegal immigrants with more than 100 new cases per day is really scary. It seems that these unwelcome guests are still trying to sneak into the country in the midst of the pandemic bringing the virus with them thus creating new sources of infections. Needless to say, these illegal immigrants pose a serious health threat to Malaysia and have done a lot of damage already. The recent case of a detainee at the Tawau Temporary Detention Center in Sabah who sneaked into Sabah again via Rat Lanes on 5 September 2020 after being deported to the Philippines on 27 August 2020 raise concerns over Covid-19 infections involving undocumented migrants. His wife was tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 September 2020 and was hospitalized. Two of his close contacts were also tested positive for Covid-19 and that was how the 'Sea Cluster' started in Kunak, Sabah. Thus one can see how much damage an illegal immigrant can do to the country. With the highest number of Covid-19 cases in South-East Asia, the Philippines is the worst hit country in the region. The new strain, G614, found in the Philippines, is ten times more infectious than D614, the original strain from Wuhan. With so many unwelcome trouble-makers like him in Sabah, many new clusters have been formed and the Sabah travelers have brought the infections to Peninsular Malaysia. <br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Thanks to our Malaysian Armed Forces, Royal Malaysia Police, Immigration Officers, Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, Malaysian Civil Defence Force, Malaysian Border Security Agency, and the General Operations Force for their unrelenting efforts to tighten the country's border control and prevent the Covid-19 outbreak. These frontliners have been doing a great job and if not because of their tireless efforts to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country by sea and via Rat Lanes, the Covid-19 situation here would be much worse. The problem is there are still many illegal immigrants sneaking into Malaysia almost every day and every one of them can turn out to be a new source of Covid-19 infection. What's wrong with their countries? Why can't they stay in their own countries? Why is everyone coming to Malaysia? Is it because <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/06/there-is-gold-everywhere-in-malaysia.html">There Is Gold Everywhere in Malaysia</a>? To date, millions of illegal immigrants have left their countries to look for an opportunity to succeed in Malaysia, something that is hard to find in their own countries. It seems that there are jobs waiting for the illegal immigrants in Malaysia even though many Malaysians have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus outbreak!<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">In this article, I would like to share some of the most recent "illegal entry" cases based on the information that I obtained from the Facebook of Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia (Immigration Department of Malaysia). These cases (dated from 1 August 2020 to 29 September 2020) clearly indicate that many illegal immigrants still risk their lives to get to Malaysia almost every day even though they know that they are not welcomed here. Why? Because they know that Malaysia is the land of opportunity. Their predecessors have proven to them that anyone who comes here can become successful through hard work and determination. Since Malaysia is everyone's favored destination, it really deserves this reputation - the land of opportunity. <br /><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 1 (27 September 2020)</span><span> </span><span style="color: #800180;"> <br /></span></b>A 24-year-old female agent, 2 male agents aged 20 and 24, and 5 Thai men were arrested by the General Operations Force in Tumpat. The Thai nationals, aged 28 to 33, were on their way to Endau, Johor, to work as fishermen. According to Superintendent Azhari Nusi, their car was coming from the direction of Kampung Simpangan and heading towards Kampung Jubakar when they were asked to stop but they tried to flee and sped off. The officers then gave chase and arrrested them (Source: <a href="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3542790915787338&id=138683329531464">Ejen wanita, 2 tekong, 5 PATI ditahan</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 2 (25 September 2020) <br /></span></b>A 70-year-old taxi driver was arrested for trying to smuggle 3 Indonesian women (aged 37 to 40) into the country (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/138683329531464/posts/warga-emas-3-pati-ditahankota-tinggi-cubaan-warga-emas-berusia-70-tahun-membawa-/3535808476485582/">Warga emas, 3 PATI ditahan</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 3 (21 September 2020) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Footsteps on the beach led to the discovery and arrest of 8 illegal immigrants from Indonesia (6 men and 2 women, aged 18-49) who disembarked on Desaru Beach, Johore (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/138683329531464/posts/kesan-tapak-kaki-bongkar-patikuala-lumpur-kesan-tapak-kaki-di-pesisir-pantai-mer/3521695251230238/">Kesan tapak kaki bongkar PATI</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 4 (20 September 2020) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">The bodies of 6 illegal immigrants who were drowned while attempting to sneak into the country were found on Teluk C Beach near Bandar Penawar in Kota Tinggi, Johor (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TENTERAKITA/videos/op-benteng-6-mayat-pati-ditemui-enam-orang-dipercayai-pendatang-asing-tanpa-izin/371234470930948/">6 Mayat PATI Ditemui</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 5 (20 September 2020) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">2 Indonesian human trafficking agents (aged 50 and 59), 14 Indonesian men (aged 25 to 43) and 14 Indonesian women (aged 20 to 53) were arrested in Sabak Bernam by the General Operations Force while they were sneaking into the country (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/imigresen/posts/dua-tekong-darat-dalang-penyeludupan-pati-ditahansabak-bernam-pasukan-gerakan-am/3519431284789968/">Dua tekong darat dalang penyeludupan PATI ditahan</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 6 (19 September 2020)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">An illegal Indonesian woman, aged 45, who was arrested by the General Operations Force at a shrimp pond area at Sungai Nipah, Simpang Lima, was tested positive for Covid-19. Also arrested were 12 Indonesian men and 12 Indonesian women aged 21 to 45, and 2 Bangladeshi men, aged 24 and 26. It was believed that they sneaked into the country by boat (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/138683329531464/posts/seorang-pati-dicekup-pga-positif-covid-19sabak-bernam-seorang-pendatang-asing-ta/3518047941594969/">Seorang PATI dicekup PGA positif Covid-19</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 7 (19 September 2020)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">A human trafficking agent and 5 illegal Thai nationals (1 man and 4 women), aged 19 to 44, was arrested by the General Operations Force at Salor, Kota Bharu. When asked to stop, the four-wheel drive sped off but were nabbed after a 17km car chase from Pangkalan Haram Jitong. According to Superintendent Azhari Nusi, the agent has been ordered to drive the illegal immigrants to Kota Bharu (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/imigresen/photos/tekong-darat-lima-pati-ditahanrantau-panjang-pasukan-gerakan-am-pga-batalion-7-k/3517901111609652/">Tekong darat, lima PATI ditahan</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 8 (18 September 2020)</span></b> <br />4 illegal immigrants from Cambodia who sneaked into the country were on their way to Kota Bharu to work were when they were arrested by the General Operations Force near Pangkalan Haram Kampung Kebun, Pangkalan Kubor. A 65-year-old local man, who was driving them to their destination in his Proton Saga at a fee of RM100 per person, was also arrested (Source: <a href="https://ms-my.facebook.com/imigresen/posts/tekong-empat-pati-warga-kemboja-dicekuptumpat-empat-pendatang-asing-tanpa-izin-p/3512587645474332/">Tekong, empat PATI warga Kemboja dicekup</a>). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 9 (17 September 2020) </span></b> <br />77 illegal Indonesians (53 men and 18 women aged 17 to 58, 2 children aged 1 and 3, a skipper and 3 crew) were arrested near Pulau Ketam while they were sneaking into the country by boat. Three of them tried to jump out of the boat but were caught. The boat was sailing from Tanjung Balai, Indonesia, to Port Klang (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/138683329531464/posts/77-pendatang-asing-termasuk-tekong-kru-bot-ditahan-cuba-menyusup-masukshah-alam-/3511478105585286/">77 pendatang asing termasuk tekong, kru bot ditahan cuba menyusup masuk</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 10 (13 September 2020) <br /></span></b>20 illegal immigrants from Indonesia (13 men and 7 women, aged 24 to 40) were arrested by the General Operations Force at Sungai Nipah, Kampung Sungai Haji Dorani at Sungai Besar not long after they arrived by boat (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/imigresen/posts/20-pati-baru-mendarat-dicekupsungai-besar-cubaan-20-pendatang-asing-tanpa-izin-p/3495515407181556/">20 PATI baru 'mendarat' dicekup</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 11 (9 September 2020)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Malaysian Army arrested 13 illegal immigrants (8 men and 5 women, aged 20 to 54 years old) at Bandar Penawar, Kota Tinggi, who have been abandoned by their skipper and did not know how to swim ashore (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/BuletinTV3Official/posts/3995934207088397">Tekong 'cabut', PATI ditangkap</a>). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 12 (30 August 2020) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">13 Indonesian illegal immigrants (5 men, 5 women, and 3 boys, aged 7 to 58) who sneaked into Tawau early in the morning were arrested by the Marine Police Force at Kampung Hidayat Batu 4. At the time they were found, they were hiding on the potato farm - an illegal immigrant transit den (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/imigresen/photos/helah-pati-tidak-berjayahelah-sekumpulan-13-pendatang-asing-tanpa-izin-pati-yang/3450618405004590/">Helah PATI tidak berjaya</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 13 (28 August 2020) <br /></span></b>11 Indonesian illegal immigrants (8 men, 2 women, and one child, aged 2 to 45) were hiding in a banana plantation at Kampung Tawau Lama when they were arrested by the Marine Police Force at 5.30 am. They sneaked into the plantation via Tawau sea border and were waiting for transport to go to their destinations. One of them had a passport but the other 10 did not have any documents (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/138683329531464/posts/pati-warga-indonesia-sembunyi-di-kebun-pisang-ditahantawau-pasukan-polis-marin-p/3444138188985945/">PATI warga Indonesia sembunyi di kebun pisang ditahan</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Case 14 (24 August 2020)</b> </span> <br />The Marine Operations Force arrested a 45-year-old illegal Indonesian man at a palm oil farm in Kampung Tinagat, Tawau, believed to be an illegal immigrant transit den, at midnight. However, the other illegals managed to escape into the nearby forest. A few hours later, 6 illegals (2 men and 3 women, aged 20-57, and a four-year-old child) were arrested at Jalan Batu Puyung while a 28-year-old local man was driving them to their destinations. All the illegals were undocumented and believed to have entered the country via Rat Lanes (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/138683329531464/posts/penduduk-tempatan-jadi-dalang-seludup-patiladang-kelapa-sawit-di-kampung-tinagat/3432371736829257/">Penduduk tempatan jadi dalang seludup PATI</a>). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 15 (22 August 2020)</span></b> <br />A local woman, aged 33, was arrested at a roadblock for smuggling 3 undocumented Bangladeshi men (aged 30-36) from Kuala Lumpur to Keteri, Perlis, at a fee of RM450 (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/imigresen/posts/wanita-tempatan-jadi-tekong-daratseorang-wanita-tempatan-sanggup-mengambil-upah-/3425392164193881/">Wanita tempatan jadi tekong darat</a>). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 16 (10 August 2020) <br /></span></b>A local man and 9 Thai men who sneaked into the country via Rat Lanes were arrested by the General Operations Force at Jalan Kampung Bagus, Rantau Panjang. At the time they were arrested, the local man was driving the Thai nationals to Selayang to work in his Toyota Alphard. The local man admitted that he was paid RM350 for each illegal immigrant and thus a total of RM3150 for this trip (Source: <a href="https://www.sinarharian.com.my/article/96051/EDISI/Kelantan/Tekong-darat-raih-habuan-RM350-bagi-seorang-PATI">Tekong darat raih habuan RM350 bagi seorang PATI</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 17 (6 August 2020)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">2 local men, human trafficking agents believed to be under the influence of drugs, and 6 illegals from Myanmar (2 men and 4 women), were arrested by the General Operations Force at Kampung Tok Bilal, Panyit, Machang. According to Superintendent Nor Azizan Yusof, they tried to flee and sped away in their Mitsubishi Pajero when the officers ordered them to stop at Kampung Bukit Tandak, Rantau Panjang. However, they were arrested after police car chase. The Myanmar nationals, believed to have sneaked into the country via Pangkalan Haram Sungai Golok, did not have any documents (Source: <a href="https://www.hmetro.com.my/mutakhir/2020/08/607652/cubaan-seludup-pati-gagal">Cubaan seludup PATI gagal</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Case 18 (1 August 2020) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">4 Indonesian women (aged 27 to 37) were arrested by the General Operations Force at a palm oil farm at Taman Kenari, Sungai Sembilang, in Kuala Selangor for sneaking into the country illegally. They arrived here by boat and disembarked on Jeram Beach (Source: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/138683329531464/posts/kami-mendarat-di-pantai-jeram-pati-indonesiaempat-wanita-warga-indonesia-ditahan/3360868243979607/">'Kami mendarat di pantai Jeram' - PATI Indonesia</a>). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;">Can anyone imagine what will happen if all the illegal immigrants mentioned above manage to sneak into Malaysia bringing the coronavirus with them? OMG! Luckily they were arrested instead of moving around freely inside our country and transmitting Covid-19. Gone are the days when foreigners could come and go whenever they liked. Thanks to our Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, and our Minister of Defence, Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob, for their continuing efforts to stop illegal immigration. <br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Transmitting Covid-19 to another person is a serious crime particularly during the coronavirus pamdemic and it's time for heavier punishment to stem illegal immigration. In Singapore, the punishment for illegal immigrants and their agents are mandatory caning (not less than 3 strokes) and imprisonment. Perhaps, Malaysia should do the same too so that the illegals will not play 'hide-and-seek' with us again. Giving the illegals a free ride home is a waste of time and money as the deported illegals will sneak back to Malaysia again and again. Drastic action must be taken so that they will think twice before sneaking into the country. <br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/05/should-illegal-entry-of-rohingyas-into.html">Should the illegal entry of the Rohingyas into Malaysia be encouraged?</a> and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-rohingya-issue-justice-for-malaysia.html">The Rohingya Issue: Justice for Malaysia and Bangladesh</a>. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-28861282134480566462020-09-19T21:28:00.085+08:002021-04-10T19:37:50.339+08:00The Rohingya Issue: Justice for Malaysia and Bangladesh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKfSmOdthxkx5dcJPG4kL6ZNCiY-UFCH3ILOsUioOqnDXe6R2DXJcS_l_bEDBMFXrvXtcKAz2PpMAgwR71mCRu32voBOhwchxue_v7z76DWRFzV3mHjXw2aEUN9w6wQl2ve737SabDDqs/s598/rohingya_boat2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="431" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKfSmOdthxkx5dcJPG4kL6ZNCiY-UFCH3ILOsUioOqnDXe6R2DXJcS_l_bEDBMFXrvXtcKAz2PpMAgwR71mCRu32voBOhwchxue_v7z76DWRFzV3mHjXw2aEUN9w6wQl2ve737SabDDqs/s320/rohingya_boat2.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">More than 260 Rohingya refugees arrived in Malaysia by boat on 8 June 2020 </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; text-align: left;">(Source: Friends of Immigration Facebook)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Many years ago, my aunt used to tell the whole world that my uncle (her brother) did not care for his aging father. She also kept telling me that she was a very filial daughter as she always bought lots of her father's favorite foods for him each time she visited him. In my heart, I was saying, "If you feel that uncle does not care for grandfather, why don't you let grandfather stay with you?" When my mom asked her this question, she started giving all sorts of lame excuses for herself. I used to visit my uncle during the school holidays and I would not deny the fact that he has done his best to look after his father even though he was a poor man. Since there were only two rooms in his flat, he had no choice but to let his father sleep in the living room. However, my grandfather has never gone hungry and my uncle's wife always ensured that he took his bath and changed his clothes. <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">W</span><span style="text-align: left;">hy am I telling this story? Because there are many criticisms of Malaysia and Bangladesh for not doing enough to help the Rohingya refugees from people who are doing nothing to help them and these people keep reminding me of my aunt. Recently, there have been many online articles about Rohingya boats being turned away as though it was Malaysia's fault and written in such a way that Malaysia was to be blamed for those who perished at sea. But what about the half a million Rohingya refugees living in Malaysia now? As of July 2020, there are 177,920 Rohingyas registered with UNHCR in Malaysia and it is estimated that the undocumented Rohingyas are twice this number. Given the the large population of Rohingyas working and residing in Malaysia, is it fair to condemn Malaysia for turning away Rohingya boats that tried to sneak into the country illegally in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic? Surely, Malaysia has done more than enough for them all these years. How many countries in this world can accept so many Rohingya refugees? The answer is - only Malaysia and Bangladesh. However, even Bangladesh is criticized for its overcrowded refugee camps just because it is kind enough to give the Rohingyas a place they can call home at the expense of its tourism industry. <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I do not start this blog to write about the Rohingyas as I am not interested to know what they have been doing in Malaysia even though I know that they have been sneaking into the country illegally for years. It seems that everything has been going well for them all these years as they have no problem sneaking into Malaysia by sea, via Thailand, and through the Rat Lanes after disembarking in Indonesia. Once they have arrived in Malaysia, they could easily join the locals, find a job and start a new life. Many of them have started their own business and are living comfortably even though they do not have any documents. The clever ones would marry any grandmother or great-grandmother who comes along in order to get their PR. Prior to the Movement Control Order (MCO), there was no issue about the Rohingyas being left to die at sea because Malaysia was kind enough to allow all the Rohingya boats to disembark. However, since the MCO, the issue about the Rohingyas being left to die at sea keeps recurring so frequently that I am really tired of reading this kind of articles online. That is why I am writing this article today - to seek justice for Malaysia and Bangladesh. <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">So what is the problem with the Rohingyas now? They have nowhere to go because Malaysia cannot afford to take any more Rohingya refugees due to the novel coronavirus pandemic and a struggling economy. Because of this, Malaysia is criticised for sending them back to sea. Why only Malaysia? Why not Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, China, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Korea or Japan? Since Malaysia is already saturated with the Rohingya refugees, perhaps it's time the other countries do their part to help them. In a way, those who criticize Malaysia for turning the Rohingya boats away are also encouraging the illegal smuggling of refugees thus putting their lives at risk. Anyone in their right senses would not encourage the ruthless human traffickers who completely disregard human life to prey on the Rohingyas and smuggle them from Bangladesh and Myanmar into Malaysia for monetary gain. How many of them would perish at sea during the journey? What would happen if their boats capsize? Blame Malaysia again? By turning their boats away, Malaysia is sending a message to the Rohingyas that they are not welcome here and they would not risk their lives to come here again knowing that they would be rejected. Malaysia did the right thing by giving them a very clear warning that no more Rohingya boats would be allowed to disembark. <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">On 25 June 2020, when 100 Rohingya refugees were rescued by Indonesian fisherman in Aceh, and again on 7 September 2020, when nearly 300 Rohingya came ashore in Aceh, the Indonesian community was praised for rescuing them. What about Malaysia who has been taking in countless Rohingya refugees throughout the years? I am sure Malaysia also deserves to be praised too. Let us praise Malaysia for its generosity, compassion, and kindness for allowing half a million Rohingyas to make their homes in this country. Malaysia has already done a lot for the Rohingyas and it is unfair to force it to take in all the Rohingyas from the refugee camps in Bangladesh. Why did I say 'all the refugees'? Moving around freely in Malaysia is certainly better than living in the refugees camps in Bangladesh! It should be noted that once Malaysia has given the green light, not only the Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh but also those from Myanmar would rush to Malaysia because it is their favored destination - a safe haven for Rohingyas. The Indonesian authorities need not worry about the Rohingya refugees in Aceh because they will try to sneak into Malaysia. Even their own people are sneaking into Malaysia almost every day and the Rohingyas can easily join them. According to Chris Lewa of the Arakan Project, although the Rohingyas were grateful to Indonesia for saving their lives, they did not intend to stay there. When he visited them a few days after they were rescued from the sea, they were already inquiring how they could get to Malaysia. (Please read </span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/fr/node/255794#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20Rohingya%20refugees%20have,a%20bid%20to%20reach%20Malaysia." style="text-align: left;">Rohingya refugees vanish from Indonesia</a><span style="text-align: left;">). Similarly, the Rohingyas would not stay long in Thailand even if they manage to get there as their ultimate destination is Malaysia. Thus, as the Rohingya boats keep sailing to Southeast Asia, Malaysia is their only victim and if they are encouraged to do so and Malaysia is forced to accept them, the entire Cox's Bazar as well as the refugee camps in Myanmar would be moved to Malaysia in no time. Is this fair for Malaysia? <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">As what Confucius says, "Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude" but to repay kindness with evil is a gross injustice. How do the Rohingyas repay Malaysia's kindness? Do not be deceived by Rohingya women who arrive in Malaysia crying with a baby on their arm as they can easily turn into the masterminds of robbery gangs. Earlier this month, a Rohingya woman, Norjahan, and her accomplices, known as the </span><a href="https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/09/02/cops-launch-hunt-for-rohingya-woman-who-masterminded-robberies-burglaries-i/1899554" style="text-align: left;">blue Alza robbery gang</a><span style="text-align: left;">, were arrested by the police for being involved in a series of robberies and burglaries. Among the crimes committed by the Rohingyas in Malaysia include </span><a href="https://www.thesundaily.my/local/three-ethnic-rohingya-arrested-for-housebreaking-IC2466587" style="text-align: left;">Three ethnic Rohingya arrested for housebreaking</a><span style="text-align: left;">; </span><a href="https://www.thesundaily.my/local/nine-rahman-gang-members-nabbed-in-kuantan-YF1601991" style="text-align: left;">Seven Myanmar Nationals nabbed in Kuantan for house break-in cases</a><span style="text-align: left;">; </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/06/09/cops-arrest-two-rohingya-men-over-house-break-ins-in-kulai" style="text-align: left;">Cops arrest two Rohingya men over house break-ins in Kulai</a><span style="text-align: left;">; </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/news/2020/05/13/cops-arrest-five-foreigners-suspected-of-being-involved-in-house-break-ins-in-ampang" style="text-align: left;">Cops arrest five UNHCR cardholders suspected of being involved in house break-ins in Ampang</a><span style="text-align: left;">; </span><a href="https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2018/08/27/five-rohingyas-detained-in-connection-with-multi-state-crime-spree/1666532" style="text-align: left;">Five Rohingyas detained in connection with multi-state crime spree</a><span style="text-align: left;">; </span><a href="https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2018/06/26/cops-nab-myanmar-man-woman-over-grab-drivers-murder/1645749" style="text-align: left;">Cops nab Myanmar man, woman over Grab driver’s murder</a><span style="text-align: left;">; </span><a href="https://www.thesundaily.my/local/rohingya-woman-killed-in-pasir-puteh-stabbing-incident-CD2603235" style="text-align: left;">Rohingya woman stabbed to death by her husband</a><span style="text-align: left;">; </span><a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/05/594640/rohingya-teen-charged-murdering-step-daughter" style="text-align: left;">Rohingya teen charged with murdering step-daughter</a>; and <a href="https://www.nst.com.my/news/crime-courts/2020/11/640771/rohingya-man-charged-raping-underage-girl">Rohingya man charged with raping underage girl</a>.<span style="text-align: left;"> It seems that the Rohingyas are very professional at house break-ins, rape, and murder. If they could kill 99 Hindu villagers in Rakhine State in one or two massacres, murdering a Grab driver is nothing at all. But what can we expect from people who can even murder their own family members? </span><a href="https://www.thedailystar.net/editorial/news/crimes-the-rohingya-camps-1722538" style="text-align: left;">Crimes in the Rohingya camps</a><span style="text-align: left;"> in Cox's Bazar are rampant and, needless to say, bringing the Rohingyas here would also mean bringing their crimes into this country. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWYe-F1NxNmVfsdSFGR_uEnpwC00W3XzaW4r0A19AQV8A1IS_VQT-P9lKAaypO4I_fCMZCcjdlxvZEsSHsWqhMbUOFfHRBDE3az3bfhe8f43wm6NHWJgQLYNg3LhYVObvu4cfwVesg3w/s457/norjahan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="406" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWYe-F1NxNmVfsdSFGR_uEnpwC00W3XzaW4r0A19AQV8A1IS_VQT-P9lKAaypO4I_fCMZCcjdlxvZEsSHsWqhMbUOFfHRBDE3az3bfhe8f43wm6NHWJgQLYNg3LhYVObvu4cfwVesg3w/s320/norjahan.jpg" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Norjahan, the mastermind of blue Alza robbery gang </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">(Source: Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia)</span></div><div style="color: #800180; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">According to many online articles, the Rohingyas are the most persecuted minority in the world but is that the entire truth? What did they do in Myanmar before they fled to Bangladesh? Do you know that this most persecuted minority actually <a href="https://sputniknews.com/asia/201709041057062369-myanmar-islamist-insurgents/">burned down a monastery, a school, 37 houses and decapitated all the Buddha statues in the village of Nantthataung</a>? Please also read </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44206372#" style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Myanmar Rohingya militants massacred Hindus, says Amnesty</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;">;</span><span style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-idUSKCN1B507K" style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">At least 71 killed in Myanmar as Rohingya insurgents stage major attack</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;">;</span><span style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">and</span><span style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-military-idUSKCN1PD0P7" style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Rohingya insurgents attack police in western Myanmar, wounding six: state TV</span></a><span style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;">.</span><span style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">What are they doing in Cox's Bazar's refugee camps now? Please read some of their latest cases dated this year @</span><span style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/refugee-camps-coxs-bazar-rohingyas-tangled-crimes-1951517" style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar: Rohingyas tangled up in crimes</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;">;</span><span style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://www.ucanews.com/news/killing-of-rohingya-robbers-sparks-concerns-in-bangladesh/87362#" style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Killing of Rohingya robbers sparks concerns in Bangladesh</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;">;</span><span style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/bengali/gun-fight-03022020175649.html" style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Bangladeshi Forces Gun Down 8 Rohingya Criminal Suspects near Refugee Camps</span></a><span>;</span><span style="color: #800180;"> and </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/9/several-killed-in-gang-war-at-rohingya-camps-in-bangladesh" style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Several killed in 'gang war' at Rohingya camps in Bangladesh</span></a><span style="color: #800180;">.</span></span><span style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">To understand more about the Rohingyas, please read</span><span style="color: #800180; text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://rohingyaaremurderers.blogspot.com/">Facts that the world needs to know about Rohingya</a>.<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Needless to say, hosting more than 1 million Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar is a dangerous task for Bangladesh. Cox's Bazar, well-known for its beautiful beaches and coastal town, is one of the most visited tourist destinations in Bangladesh. However, the Rohingyas, with their crimes of stealing, robbery, extortion, drug trafficking, human trafficking, rape, and murder have caused a decline in the revenue of its tourism industry. But what is even worse is that Bangladesh is often criticised for its overcrowded refugee camps and landslides that put the lives of the Rohingyas at risk. It should be noted that Bangladesh is not a rich country as jobs are scarce and millions of Bangladeshis have come to Malaysia to work. Poverty and homelessness are prevalent and many Bangladeshis are living in mud houses and slums. Given such circumstances, one cannot deny the fact that the Bangladesh Government has been extremely generous to the Rohingyas and has done its best to accommodate them. The refugees camps are overcrowded because the Rohingyas are breeding too fast despite the unfavorable circumstances that they are in and it is unfair to blame Bangladesh for that. </span></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;">To reduce overcrowding in Cox's Bazar's refugee camps, Bangladesh has spent US$280 million to build quality houses, shops, schools, hospitals, mosques, roads, playgrounds, and protection embankments on Bhasan Char Island so that the Rohingyas can live more comfortably. Given the fact that 5 million Bangladeshis are homeless and three quarters of its population live in mud houses, US$280 million is a lot of money to spend on the Rohingyas. However, Bangladesh's plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to the modern township on Bhasan Char is again criticized because it is a floating silt island. But what about the famous floating silt island, Koh Panyee, in Phang Nga Bay, Thailand? Its residents have no problems living there and they are also very proud of this beautiful tourist destination. The floating football field built by the children of this island who later became successful football players is clearly a reminder that "nothing is impossible to a willing heart" (John Heywood). If so many families can live happily on this floating silt island in Thailand, how come the Rohingyas cannot move to Bhasan Char? Is it because of their drug smuggling business? The relocation of Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char would mean that they cannot smuggle drugs into Bangladesh anymore. Perhaps those who criticize Bangladesh for its overcrowded refugee camps and floating silt Bhasan Char Island should consider sending planes to Bangladesh to fetch the Rohingyas and take them to their own country. And don't forget to send some planes to Malaysia too as there are nearly half a million Rohingya refugees residing here! </div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Forcing Malaysia to accept all Rohingya boats and forcing Bangladesh to make the refugee camps more comfortable for the Rohingyas cannot solve the refugee problems. Malaysia and Bangladesh are not affluent countries and it is a great injustice to put the burden of Rohingya refugees on them. The Rohingya problem is not solely the problem of Malaysia and Bangladesh. Taking in the Rohingyas out of kindness and sympathy does not mean that they have assumed responsibility for the livelihood of these refugees. The burden of Rohingya refugees should be shared by the whole world. If every country in this world could take in 10,000 Rohingya refugees, then there shouldn't be any problems at all. If traveling by sea is too dangerous for the Rohingyas, then sending a plane to fetch them is the best solution! Malaysia and Bangladesh have done their part and now it is the turn of the other countries to help the Rohingyas. How long are they going to remain in the refugee camps in Bangladesh? How long are they going to stay in Malaysia and for how many generations? Looks like they are not going anywhere because it seems that no one wants them. If the Rohingyas really have nowhere to go, the best thing for them to do is to return to Myanmar since Myanmar is ready to accept them. Perhaps Malaysia should consider placing all the Rohingya refugees in camps just like what Bangladesh is doing - this is one way to stop them from sneaking into this country. </div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>You may also like to read </span><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/06/there-is-gold-everywhere-in-malaysia.html">There Is Gold Everywhere in Malaysia</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/05/should-illegal-entry-of-rohingyas-into.html">Should the illegal entry of the Rohingyas into Malaysia be encouraged?</a><span> and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/09/illegal-immigrants-huge-threat-to.html">ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS A HUGE THREAT TO MALAYSIA'S CORONAVIRUS WAR</a>. To view the content page of this blog, please click </span><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html">here</a><span>.</span></p></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-11539432517605055952020-08-30T21:09:00.003+08:002020-12-02T01:33:30.411+08:00How Long Should a Widower Wait to Remarry After the Death of His Wife?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I was tidying up my old photo albums and looking at the old photos, I did not know why I suddenly started thinking of my beautiful cousin sister, Alice (not her real name), and the days we spent together when we were kids. Well, I really miss those good old school holidays when we used to play with paper dolls and our plastic cookware sets. The last time I saw her was the day when she sent me to the bus station after I visited her in another state. Since then, both of us have been very busy with our work and studies and we never met again. A few years from then, I was shocked when I got news of her death - she died in an accident on the day she went to get her graduation gown. At that instant, I really could not believe what I heard and memories of her came flooding back. She was a very ambitious woman and studied so hard for her degree. She even delayed motherhood for a few years until she has completed her studies. But when that day finally came, she left us so suddenly. Sometimes I do wonder where she is and what is happening to her. Is she in heaven or if reincarnation does happen, is she reborn in another body?<br />
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Alice is the kind of woman who always puts her husband first. When she married Andy (not his real name), there was no wedding reception on the groom's side even though Alice's mother held a grand wedding banquet for her. But, of course, Alice did not mind as she loved her husband very much. She even offered to pay for the Government housing loan via monthly salary deduction as she did not want her husband to be burdened with it - that was what she told me. When Alice died in the accident, apart from the lump sum insurance payout, Andy also automatically inherited the house without having to pay for anything as the loan balance was paid by insurance. It was a brand new house but Alice would never get the chance to stay there. She has not yet moved to her dream house.<br />
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Alice did not have an easy childhood because my uncle was a poor man. During her student days, she had to give tuition and work at a shoe shop to earn some pocket money. I felt very sad for Alice because after all her hard work, she died at such a young age when her life was just beginning to change for the better. There were so many things that she planned to do but she would not get the chance to do them now. However, I felt even sadder when I heard that her husband remarried and had a baby in less than two years after her death. No doubt their marriage ended the moment Alice died and Andy was free to remarry but he should at least wait for three years before remarrying. Why three years? To show some respect for his deceased wife. Of course there is no right or wrong amount of time to remarry but what was the hurry? He was still very young then and surely three years were nothing compared to what Alice has done for him! If he could not even wait for three years and was in a hurry to remarry, I dare say that their marriage was worthless and meaningless. I wonder how he could fill his mind with thoughts of another woman so soon after his wife's death. He should feel sad because he has lost a good wife instead of enjoying a romantic relationship with another woman. Was it because he did not love her enough? Or was there someone else already waiting for him? He is a very handsome man and since there are very few male teachers in the schools, I wouldn't be surprised if he has lots of secret admirers.<br />
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Can Andy mourn for his wife while being in love with another woman at the same time? Sounds ridiculous to me because these two women can never co-exist in his heart. How can a man love two women at the same time? When it comes to love, it is either one or the other but not both as a man who says that he loves his deceased wife and second wife equally is inviting trouble. We cannot deny the fact that women are jealous by nature and even though Alice is dead, Andy's new wife would never be able to share her husband with another woman irrespective of whether she is alive or dead. How would she feel if Andy keeps thinking of Alice and keeps looking at her photos from time to time? What would she do if Andy keeps talking about Alice and telling her much he misses his dead wife? Can his new wife tolerate his love for his first wife with a smile on her face saying that she does not mind? Can he mourn her for eternity? Can his love for her remain strong even after her death? To avoid trouble and arguments, the best thing to do is not to mention his first wife again because she is already the past tense or there would never be peace in the household. That is the truth of it. Try asking around and the conclusion is nobody likes her husband to keep the things that belonged to his dead wife or even talk about her - as though someone who is dead is gone with the wind.<br />
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Is it really that difficult to wait for three years before remarrying after the death of a beloved wife? My godfather remarried almost immediately after my godmother died when he was already in his seventies. So what does his 50 years of marriage to my godmother mean to him? Why was she so easily replaceable by another woman? Marriage was her everything but it seemed to have ended completely the moment she died. What was she living for all her life? Was it worth living for a man who could simply replace her with another woman? Being a very active person, my godfather used to participate in different kinds of activities which provided him with lots of opportunities to meet single, divorced, and widowed women. My godmother once told me that he had some lady friends and he always behaved in a gentlemanly way in front of them even though he did not normally behave like that. Needless to say, if one of these ladies has targeted him and asked for his hand in marriage, it was not easy for him to say 'no' to her particularly when they have known each other and have been good friends for many years. However, he died not long after his second marriage.<br />
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For most people, love and marriage are essential aspects of their lives and they would find their lives meaningless without being attached to someone. I have come across many women who always say that marriage is their everything. But does life have meaning if you live just for that one person who forgets about you and moves on with someone else as soon as you're gone? Does true love mean eternal love? Most people would say 'yes'. Does eternal love really exist? What have we learnt from Alice and my godmother? Love is not forever. If marriage isn't forever, is it worthwhile? If you can find someone who wants to marry you, go ahead and get married. If you cannot find a life partner, do not go all the way out and disgrace yourself just to get one. Sad to say, many women and grandmothers and even great-grandmothers are busy looking for love online and making themselves <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/10/victims-of-facebook-love-scams.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">victims of romance scammers</span></a>. Some of them are so desperate that they don't mind buying love with money. Life is certainly more than that. DO NOT sit and mourn all day long just because you do not have a man in your life and NEVER spend all your time desperately looking for a man because, who knows, he may bring you more pain than joy. There are many things that you can do to make yourself happy such as baking a chocolate cake, buying yourself a new pair of shoes, visiting your favorite countries, or simply going for an evening walk whilst enjoying the beauty of nature. Reach out to help the poor. Remember Mother Teresa? She is not married but she would never be forgotten and would always be the most loved and most talked about woman long after she has died. And of course she lived a meaningful life!<br />
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If you were to ask me whether remarriage after spousal death is the right thing to do, my answer is a big NO. Marriage does not end with the death of a spouse - it goes on forever and contnues in heaven. As what Jesus says to Simon Peter, "Whatever you declare bound on earth shall be bound in heaven" (Matthew 16:19). Since marriages take place in Church, they should last eternally beyond death and go on forever in heaven. Death is just a temporary parting period and couples who believe in the eternity of marriage would eventually meet each other again in heaven and live happily ever after. This is the kind of marriage that is worth more than all the treasure in this world - it brings meaning to life.<br />
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You may also like to read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/11/will-your-husband-divorce-you-and-marry.html">Will your husband divorce you and marry his lover?</a>; <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-lines-of-marriage-and-how-they.html" target="_blank">THE LINES OF MARRIAGE AND HOW THEY AFFECT YOUR LOVE LIFE</a>; <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/11/is-marriage-really-necessary-and.html">Is Marriage Really Necessary and Important in Today's World?</a>; </span><span>and</span> <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/07/marriage-after-50-what-do-you-need-to.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MARRIAGE AFTER 50: WHAT DO YOU NEED TO CONSIDER?</span></a> To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>.<br />
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<br />Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-6058809626486506342020-08-18T21:08:00.003+08:002021-01-05T17:22:29.417+08:00The Nativity Museum in LourdesThose who have been to Lourdes would probably still remember the Musee de la Nativite<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span>or Museum of the Nativity (Nativity Museum) as there were lots of things to see in this beautiful museum. Located at 21 Quai Saint Jean, 65100 Lourdes, the Nativity Museum was devoted to one of the most popular themes in Christianity, namely the birth of Jesus. Visitors to this museum were always busy taking photos because there were so many photos to take. It was an extremely interesting museum with so much to learn that being there for just one day would not be enough.<br />
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My tour of the museum began with the biblical scenes depicting the life of Jesus from the annunciation, visitation, the birth of Jesus, and the flight into Egypt to the finding in the temple. These scenes from the life of Jesus, as told by the New Testament, were beautifullly illustrated and displayed in the museum through a series of fourteen tableaux.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">In a dream, an angel appeared to Joseph to convince him that he should trust Mary</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">The Flight into Egypt</span></div>
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Want to know what life was like in Palestine during the days when Jesus walked on earth? The Nativity Museum provided some good answers to this question through its scale model, a physical representation portraying the Jewish Palestine in the time of Jesus. It should be noted that during the days of Jesus, Palestine was part of the Roman Empire. During those days, Jewish Palestine was ruled by Herod the Great.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Life in Palestine as Jesus would have known it</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">How people made a living in Biblical times</span></div>
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On the ground floor, there were a number of animated diorama automatons illustrating the daily lives of the inhabitants of the Pyrenees in the 19th Century. These realistic scenes of the Pyrenees could really take us back to the past. That was what Lourdes was like during the apparitions.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Trades in the Pyrenees in the 19th Century </span></div>
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My visit to the Nativity Museum ended with two beautiful life-size Biblical scenes, namely, the Nativity of Jesus and the Flight into Egypt.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">The Nativity of Jesus Christ</span></div>
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It was a great privilege to visit the Nativity Museum because it was so unique and interesting with so much to see and learn. It has always been one of my favorite museums. However, I was shocked to learn that the museum has been closed permanently when I visited its website recently after reading the article entitled <i>One in 8 museums may permanently close due to the pandemic - Insider</i>.<br />
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I do not know for what reason it shut down but I hope that it would reopen again one day. What is left now are the photos that I took in this museum and I am writing this article to tell the whole world that this beautiful museum once existed and will always live in our hearts. And I am also looking forward to its reopening in the future. Lastly, let us pray that the coronavirus pandemic would be over soon and everything would go back to normal again.<br />
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To find out more about the numerous museums in Lourdes, please read <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-museum-of-lourdes.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Museum of Lourdes</span></a>. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>. There is a complete list of my articles about Lourdes on this page.<br />
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<br />Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-64267682899906829622020-08-09T20:39:00.001+08:002020-08-23T01:20:34.448+08:00THE MUSEUM OF LOURDESLourdes is well-known for its numerous museums. These include the <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2010/03/cachot-dwelling-place-of-soubirous.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cachot</span></a>, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">M<span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368;">usée de</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lourdes</span></span> (Museum of Lourdes), Museum of Saint Bernadette, Nativity Museum, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2010/05/castle-of-lourdes.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Castle Fort Pyrenean Museum</span></a>, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2010/08/petit-lourdes-museum.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Petit Lourdes Museum</span></a>, <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2009/10/inside-waxworks-museum-musee-de-cire.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Musee de Cire Lourdes</span></a>, Grevin Museum, Gemmail Museum, Moulin Lacade - Maison Paternelle de Sainte Bernadette (<a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2010/02/bernadettes-fathers-house-lacade-mill.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Lacade Mill</span></a>), Moulin de Boly - Maison Natale de Bernadette (<a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2010/02/bernadettes-birthplace-boly-mill.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Boly Mill</span></a>) and <a href="https://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2009/10/lourdes-pilgrimage-going-up-calvary.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Way of the Cross</span></a>.<br />
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Located at 11 rue de <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">l'égalité</span></span>, 65100 Lourdes, Musee de Lourdes or the Museum of Lourdes (Lourdes Museum) delved into the history of Lourdes and has provided a good presentation of 19th Century everyday life in Lourdes. In this treasure house of great knowledge, visitors could travel back in time to the past and discover how the modest country-town of Lourdes looked like during the time of the apparitions when Bernadette Soubirous was only fourteen years old. They could also see the traditional skills and crafts, the ancestral trades and occupations, the old streets of Lourdes with the old shops and houses, as well as the clothing style and the lifestyle in Lourdes during that era. Needless to say, the Lourdes Museum was an ideal place to learn about the history, civilization, beliefs, morals, art and architecture of ancient Lourdes. The life-size reconstruction of this little French town has enabled the visitors to gain valuable insights into the social, cultural, economic, political and religious practices of the inhabitants of this miraculous place more than 150 years ago.<br />
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I love Lourdes and I love the Lourdes Museum with its vivid illustrations of old Lourdes just the way it was in the time of Bernadette back in 1858. Being in the museum was like a real encounter with what life was in Lourdes during a forgone era. At that instant, I couldn't help placing myself in the shoes of Bernadette and imagining what my life would be like in a different era. It was indeed a very informative museum filled with local knowledge that could make history come alive for the visitors. Needless to say, knowing the history and culture of Lourdes made me appreciate this place even more. In a way, learning about the history and culture of Lourdes has not only brought me closer to this place but also to God. Why? Lourdes rose to prominence because of the apparitions in 1858 and I found it very meaningful to experience what life was like during the apparitions as though I was a part of it albeit for a short while. That kind of experience was like an encounter with God. As I reflected on my own life, I also found peace and tranquility in my heart and soul.<br />
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In this article, I would like to share some of the photos which I took in the Lourdes Museum during my visit to this memorable place. Every photo tells a unique story and provides rich insights into the history of Lourdes. They are proof that the Museum of Lourdes was one of the best museums in Lourdes.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"> Women in Nineteenth-Century Lourdes</span></div>
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The Lourdes Museum was an excellent place for pilgrims and was really worth visiting. Visiting the museum was a great way to find the old Lourdes that has become history. Although some museums may close permanently due to the coronavirus pandemic, I pray that the Lourdes Museum would survive these hard times and continue to be with us forever.<br />
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Thanks for reading. If you like this article, you may also like the other articles about Lourdes. You can find a complete list of these articles <a href="http://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>.<br />
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<br />Dr. Lavinia Taihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090014155614451811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761405237484050546.post-50715139284104200972020-07-26T20:38:00.003+08:002020-08-22T18:45:27.515+08:00LOURDES: THE PIC DU JER AND THE FUNICULARThe Pic du Jer, which overlooks the town of Lourdes, is a summit in the Hautes Pyrenees. It can be reached by a historic funicular railway in about 15 minutes on a scenic and interesting journey. At an altitude of about 1000 meters, one can get an astounding view of the town of Lourdes, Pau, Tarbes, and the peaks of the Pyrenees from the summit of Pic du Jer. The funicular railway, one of the first to be built in France, was designed by the engineer, Chambrelent, built by Compagnie du Funiculaire du Pic du Jer, and inaugurated in June 1900. Linking the summit of Pic du Jer to the town of Lourdes at its base, it is a must-visit attraction in Lourdes. Located at 59 avenue Francis Lagardere, 65100 Lourdes, the Pic du Jer is recognizable by its big cross which lights up at night. One can get to it by taking the Little Train of Lourdes from the town of Lourdes.<br />
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The Pic du Jer is a good place for hiking, climbing, and mountain biking but as I was not interested in these things, I had rather enjoy myself and relax while admiring the fantastic panorama. Since I went to Lourdes on my own and had two weeks to discover and explore this place, I was free to spend as much time as I wanted on Pic du Jer. It is the kind of place where you can take some time off to experience inner peace, reflect on your life and find your life purpose. There was also something very calming about looking at the shrubs and trees as these could help to relieve stress. What is the 'top of the mountain feeling' like? Once on the summit, there was this kind of rare and wonderful feeling in me which could not be described by words. Standing on the summit and listening to the sound of silence, I had this unique feeling of great elation, deep peacefulness, tranquility and serenity. At that instant, I only wished that I could stay there forever. It was really an unforgettable experience for me.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">A scenic view of the town of Lourdes on my journey to the summit of Pic du Jer</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Beautiful mountain views from the train</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Scenic view of the Pyrenees from the summit of Pic du Jer</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Le Haut de Lourdes - the Restautant of Pic du Jer</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">View from the top of the world</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">The town of Lourdes at the base of Pic du Jer</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Clouds over the Pyrenees mountain</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">A beautiful view of natural scenery from the summit</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">An astonishing view from the summit</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Saying goodbye to Pic du Jer with a heavy heart</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Descending from the summit of Pic du Jer</span></div>
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Thanks for reading. You may also like to read <a href="http://the%20castle%20of%20lourdes/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Castle of Lourdes</span></a>, <a href="http://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2010/03/cachot-dwelling-place-of-soubirous.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Cachot</span></a>, and <a href="http://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/2010/12/lourdes-grotto-of-massabielle.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Grotto of Massabielle</span></a>. To view the content page of this blog, please click <a href="http://passionofchrist-lechemindecroix.blogspot.com/p/my-blog-posts.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>. There is a complete list of my articles about Lourdes on this page.<br />
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