Poland: We Don’t Want Muslim Terrorists Here


Refugees Go Away! It’s a popular view here. Poland is little impacted by the refugee invasion crisis in Europe. That is because it  accepts minuscule numbers of migrants. The country has some of the most pungent views on immigration on the continent. A recent survey for the television station TVN found that two-thirds of Poles share the same hostility towards immigrants expressed by the Warsaw grandmother cited above.

According to a study in 2013 by the Centre for Research on Prejudice – a professional academic center at the University of Warsaw – as many as 69% of Poles do not want non-white people living in their country.

A vast majority believe that immigrants take work away from Poles and that their presence is detrimental for the economy. It’s a view shared more broadly in eastern Europe, despite insignificant migrant flows in all of Poland’s eastern neighbors.

“People just don’t want immigrants here,” one senior Civic Platform politician says. “They don’t understand them, they don’t like them, and believe that their maintenance is too expensive.”

Source: UK Guardian

As a result, the government has consistently protested against EU allocations for refugee quotas. The European Union suggest that next year Poland should take about 1,000.

In the spring, Civic Platform found itself under pressure from NGOs that appealed for the admission of 300 Syrian Christian families threatened with death by Islamists (but it was stressed that they were Christians, and therefore less culturally alien).

According to the UN high commissioner for refugees, Poland has pledged to accept only 100 Syrian refugees between 2016 and 2020; yes, that only 25 per year. And you can bet they will be vetted.

 



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