MAY 08, 2016: DAILY SUN
Since the very beginning of human civilization people have always been searching for a better livelihood, peaceful and wealthy life. On the other hand many invaders and conquerors took control of many countries and nations all over the world for gaining political power, wealth and natural resources of those localities.
People may leave their place of birth for various reasons, such as war, in search of better livelihood for being financially solvent, gaining higher status in the society and so on. In the present world a significant number of migrants are refugees and they have been bound to leave their place of birth and valuable properties simply for saving their life, for the better future of their children.
The influence of religion, culture, lifestyle and values on a person is deeply rooted and can hardly be separated from the mind despite immense hardships and deep culture shock. People always try to uphold their basic identity, religious belief and way of thinking at any cost.
During the last seven decades the Muslim are being suffered in various ways. They are being rooted out from their homeland, their resources are being looted, religious and cultural values are being contaminated and their freedom is being suppressed brutally.
In most of the cases the western super powerful countries are deliberately creating unrest in the Muslim countries for taking control over the boundless resources in the name of combating terrorism. Consequently, the ordinary Muslims are becoming homeless, taking shelter in the refugee camp in other countries.
Now it is proven that Iraq was invaded completely based on false acquisition that Bagdad was then holding weapons of mass destruction. On the other hand war in Syria and Afghanistan was also the outcome of the conflict of interest among the super powers as well as the conflict of civilizations. As an outcome of that invasion millions of people have become refugees in those countries. The influx of those refugees, especially from Syria and their desperate attempt to be migrated in Europe could not be avoided by the Europeans and are accepting refugees willingly or unwillingly. Above all, the discovery of the dead body of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy in the Turkish sea shore changed the situation dramatically.
Syria is a country of rich history and tradition. Until the mid 20th century Damascus was the cultural and business capital of the Middle East. In the civil war millions of highly educated, elite and aristocratic families have been badly affected by the war and they are moving to the Europe only because of a peaceful shelter and for a better future of their children. Many of them are very much solvent financially and also have the eligibility to contribute to the economy of Europe. They say- “we do not want money, we have money enough, we just want a shelter”.
But this is very much unfortunate that the rich countries in the Middle East are not giving shelter to the Syrian refugees except Lebanon. But Turkey, in spite of being a non Arab country, is very much sympathetic to them and preparing to build a city for those refugees.
Gradually Europe is becoming very much rigid to accept those refugees coming from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Because terrorist activities are taking place one after another in many European countries that is allegedly committed by the Muslim terrorists. Many analysts term such type of activities as a conspiracy so that no refugee could enter into Europe. But the reality is that until the western countries and the influential arm traders change their policies in the Middle-east and on the Syrian conflict- the influx of desperate migrants to the European countries could never be stopped completely.
Moreover, in many European countries where the growth of population is negative, are not being able to make the growth positive even providing couples with various attractive incentives. Because most of the people are very much reluctant to marry as well as to maintain family life. They are also not mentally prepared to sacrifice their time, energy and money for upbringing a child. So called individualism and personal freedom of the capitalist society leading them towards a complete disaster in social and family life. Therefore, they need hundreds of skilled and fresh manpower who could contribute to their economy as well as keep their economic cycle moving.
Germany accepted hundreds of thousands of refugees cordially and Germany is hopeful that they would contribute to the future growth of their economy. In the scenario of negative growth of population many European countries need skilled and qualified workers. Many highly qualified refugees might not have left their country, if there had bee no war. But the situation made them bound to abandon their better valuable possession, established business and better job. Some countries realized that reality and took the chances. Canada and Germany greeted a huge number of refugees cordially expecting that they would contribute to their economy significantly.
Consequently, the number of Muslim population in Europe, especially in Britain, Germany and French is increasing geometrically. Even in Spain we are observing the same trend from where the Muslims were completely rooted out. Many social scientists in Europe speculate that by 2040 the Muslim Population in Europe would surpass the number of native population. This is a fact the Christian world would never tolerate the domination of Muslim in Europe. But some changes are inevitable, some ups and downs are irresistible and nothing could combat that reality.
In this way consciously or sub-consciously and willingly or unwillingly or for the greater interest of their economy this is almost certain that Europe will be receiving thousands of more refugees during the coming years. As a result, in the long run, it might definitely change their demography, religious and cultural heritage, social values, politics, religious vales and many other socio-economic factors forever.
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