Overwhelming Muslim Tide in Europe

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.examiner.com/article/european-refugee-flood-revolt-of-the-christian-laity European refugee flood; revolt of the Christian laity October 3, 2015 1:49 PM MST Timothy Whiteman Wilmington Conservative Examiner While Europe nations from the Balkans to Scandinavia are attempting to cope with at least hundreds of thousands of refugees already on the continent, the leaders of the three largest Christian Churches in all of Christendom, albeit to various degrees, are exhorting the faithful to assist the migrants. While the Pontiff of Rome, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' have expressed varying degrees of support for the migrants, the pushback is coming from an unexpected source; the Christian laity. As reported by Ilgin Karlidag of the new media Turkish Weekly news portal on Oct. 3, 2015, as the overwhelmingly Muslim tide of humanity coursing across Europe are finding that while ecclesiastical leaders may be lobbying on their behalf, the reality closer to the ground is much different. As the Turkish reporter noted, Slovakia has already announced that only Christian refugees and not Muslims will be admitted to the Central European republic. Ironically, while the vast majority of the European democracies have slowly but surely been abandoning their centuries old Christian faith, culture and heritage over the past half century, the massive infusion of adherents of Mohammed may be the catalyst to a Christian re-awakening for the ever increasingly agnostics populations. As the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported via Zee News of India on Sept. 26, 2015, despite France's Catholic hierarchy admonishing acceptance of all migrants, as well as the federal government's official refugee policy, the mayors of numerous Gallic cities, towns and villages have made it clear they would happily accept migrants. But the hitch is only if said migrants are Christians. Even among the migrants themselves, the Christian minority of routinely singled out as easy targets for the Muslim majority. As the Jewish Press cited on Oct. 1, 2015, German police have been forced to separately house Christian refugees from Muslim. As reported, "A policy of segregation has already been implemented in the German state of Thuringia after Christian migrants in asylum centers were attacked by Sunnis attempting to impose Sharia law." Examples of repression even in the refugee camps include, "Women are being forced to wear veils. Men are forced to pray. Islamists want to impose their values.” International Society for Human Rights official Max Klingberg complained that many of the refugees in Germany are actually radical Islamists. “Among the new arrivals is not a small amount of religious intensity, it is at least at the level of the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said. Explaining that even if the Middle Eastern or North African Christians are to a certain degree somewhat alien to the average nominal Christian from Minsk to Manchester, a number of elected officials explain that with a shared Christian heritage the displaced and often violently repressed Middle Eastern and North African Christian refugees would have a much better chance of assimilating than their Muslim countrymen. Even within the past number of weeks have a handful of European nations jettisoned any semblance of political correctness by clearly and unambiguously stating that if any migrants are allowed to remain, it'll be the Christians only. Hungary, Cyprus and the Czech Republic have all openly spoken against taking in Muslim refugees. Earlier this week, Cyprus announced it will allow 300 refugees sanctuary inside its borders, as long as they are Christian." Not alone, Ivan Netik, the Slovak Interior Ministry Spokesman, said Muslims “would not feel at home” in his country. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico warned that his country would not like to “wake up one day” and find Slovakia overrun by Muslims. “If a mechanism for automatic redistribution of migrants is adopted, then we will wake up one day and have 100,000 people from the Arab world and that is a problem I would not like Slovakia to have,” he stated. According to the BreakingIsraelNews.com website, "We would seek for them to be Orthodox Christians,” explained Cyprus Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos on state radio. “It’s not an issue of being inhuman or not helping if we are called upon, but to be honest, yes, that’s what we would prefer.” Hasikos, who is responsible for migration policy, added that Christian refugees would have an easier time adjusting to life in Cyprus compared to their Muslim counterparts." Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has described the influx of Muslim refugees as a threat to Europe’s "Christian roots," while Bulgaria`s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov stated he was "concerned" over a potential massive influx of migrants in the coming months. "I`m scared and the Bulgarian people are scared, if only where religions are concerned. We are Christian, they are Muslim." At least on paper, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic are overwhelmingly Catholic, while the vast majority Cypriots and Bulgarians classify themselves Orthodox Christians. Breaking from the pack of Church leaders, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church's Patriarch Neofit has called on the government to cease allowing any Muslims at all into the nation, as reported by the Reuters news service on Sept. 25, 2015. "For those who are already here, it is right for us, as Orthodox Christians and as a society, to look after as much as we can and as much as our scant resources allow us, but not any further," the Church said on its official website. Not quite done yet, Patriarch Neofit also let it be known that "The Bulgarian Orthodox people should not pay the price of our disappearance as a state." As previously cited from AFP, the Bulgarian Patriarch also stated of the current crisis, "This is a wave that looks like an invasion." http://www.examiner.com/article/european-refugee-flood-revolt-of-the-christian-laity ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Well, no surprise there.  European people spent hundreds of years fighting to free themselves of Muslim invaders. ꕤ

SLOVAKIA'S REVERSE FLOW PIPELINE TO UKRAINE & UKRAINE SELL-OFF

Economy Minister visits Ukraine, gets assurances of continued gas flow 20 Aug 2014 Flash News SLOVAK Economy Minister Pavol Pavlis visited Ukraine on August 19 and held talks with his counterpart Yuriy Prodan in Kiev. Pavlis learnt that Ukraine’s new so-called “sanctions law” won’t be used to the detriment of Slovakia, with gas flows from Russia to be provided by Ukraine as they have been until now. “This is an important piece of news for us, one that we want to take back home,” Pavlis said in Kiev, as quoted by the TASR newswire. As stipulated in a recent agreement, Slovakia has modernised the Vojany-Uzhgorod gas pipeline and is thus able to provide a reverse flow from western Europe to Ukraine. Kiev has been at variance with Russia on gas prices and on paying off its debt to Moscow for months [ie UKR IS A NON-PAYING CUSTOMER], and supplies have even been cut in the past. However, Ukraine still transits gas supplies to European customers, including Slovakia. As a result of the law approved in Ukraine last week, restrictions may in the future apply to the transit of Russian goods across Ukraine. “Slovakia is a country that has provided Ukraine with options for gas supplies very promptly under the reverse flow,” Pavlis said. “We now expect reciprocity in solidarity in that Slovakia will continue to receive gas from Russia. I have to take the minister’s [Prodan’s] word for it that the law won’t be used against Slovakia.” Prodan voiced his appreciation for Slovakia’s provision of the reverse flow and gave assurances that Ukraine will do its best not to jeopardise gas supplies. The approved law is only a framework piece of legislation that makes no explicit mention of gas or oil, said Prodan, with the decision on sanctions in the hands of the country’s national security council. Prodan added that gas supplies to Europe are fully in the hands of Russia’s Gazprom now, with Ukraine having no influence on Gazprom’s moves. Slovakia has sealed a long-term contract with Gazprom on gas supplies until 2029, said Pavlis, voicing Slovakia’s commitment to keeping to the contract. While gas supplies from Russia through Ukraine have been the subject of disputes for a long time, similar problems with oil are not expected. The issue of oil was only a marginal topic in the talks. If Slovak companies were to acquire ownership shares in Ukrainian companies operating gas pipelines, that would be their own private initiative, Pavlis further said. “The [Slovak] state certainly won’t become engaged in it. This is up to private companies,” he said. Privatisation was among the issues discussed by Pavlis and Prodan. “I’ve given the minister [Prodan] the chance to learn a lesson from our negative experience with privatisations,” said Pavlis. After the talks, Pavlis laid wreaths at a memorial to the victims of the recent protests on Kiev’s Independence Square. Both officials are set to meet again in Vojany, Slovakia, on September 2, when the reverse-flow pipeline is scheduled to begin running at full capacity. (Source: TASR) Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská from press reports http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/54997/10/economy_minister_visits_ukraine_gets_assurances_of_continued_gas_flow.html

So this is about gas pipeline investment in Ukraine's sell-off and reverse flow of gas to Ukraine, presumably, while Slovakia is what?  ... assuring itself that it will receive a gas supply via the Ukraine conduit?  Not sure about that last bit.

If I were Russia, I'd be cutting off supply to the lot of them.