Posted on 07/18/2007 6:59:06 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
...The Italians, however, have a way of dealing with illegal immigrants. They regularly transform them into legal residents by granting them official papers. Since 1988 Italy has organized six amnesties for illegal aliens — the last one in 2006, when 500,000 people were given permission to stay. Most of them leave Italy shortly afterward. Since Italy belongs to the European Union and since the EU adheres to the principle of the free movement of persons, an amnesty gives immigrants the right to freely enter all EU member states. Italy allows the immigrants in so that they move out, to EU nations with more generous welfare systems.
Mr. Amato, a former prime minister of Italy as well as the former vice president of the EU's Constitutional Convention, boasts that his country has few problems with Muslims... Mr. Amato said wife beating is also customary among indigenous Italians in Sicily...
One of those attending last week's conference was the Dutch integration minister, Ella Vogelaar. Like Italy, the Netherlands has a population of about 1 million Muslims (of a total 16.5 million people). Upon her return home, Mrs. Vogelaar gave an interview to Trouw, a Dutch Protestant newspaper...
Mrs. Vogelaar, a member of the Dutch Labor Party, told Trouw that the Netherlands, while so far a country of Judeo-Christian traditions, is gradually becoming a "Judeo-Christiano-Islamic" society. She clearly considers this process beneficial...
The European left appreciates Islamism not because it is a religion, but because it is a totalitarian political ideology. The Dutch Labor Party is catering to Islamist extremists even to the point of silencing party members like the Muslim apostate Ehsan Jami...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Yes - and this is a crowd that cannot do with too many more drawbacks.
Maybe the USA can grant Muslim illegals Canadian papers.
Good article! Thanks.
btt
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