If Hindu and Buddhist and Christian migrants are considered along with Muslim migrants, then there may be some remote plausibility to this. But with Muslim migrants already committing murderous jihad terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino over the last few months and causing strife all over Europe, this study is just another nakedly dishonest attempt to render the public complacent about Muslim migration.
“Experts say more immigration could create a ‘decrease’ in terrorist attacks,” by Priyanka Mogul, International Business Times, February 17, 2016:
Immigration is not believed to be the source of terrorism, according to new research from the University of Warwick. On the contrary, the study found that more migration could create a decrease in terrorist attacks, rather than an increase.
The report, Does Immigration Include Terrorism?, was published in the Journal of Politics and is based on analysis of terrorism in migration flows between 145 countries between 1970 and 2000. It found that migrants bring new skills, knowledge and perspectives to the country they arrive in, which stimulates technological innovation and, in turn, stimulates economic growth.
Vincenzo Bove, associate professor at the University’s politics department, said: “Our findings shouldn’t be surprising. If we subscribe to the belief that economic development is linked to a decrease in extremism then we should expect an increase in migration to have a positive effect.”
Bove and co-author Tobias Bohmelt from the University of Essex measured the average number of terror attacks in a country in a given year and took into consideration the level of migration to identify whether there was a link between the two. They established that countries with the highest level of exposure to the diffusion of terrorism are those with migrants from regions with high terrorism incidents.
While ruling out migration as a direct cause of terrorism, the study indicated that migration could be a driver of terrorism in some circumstances. The report found that there was an increase in terrorism in countries that accepted migrants from places where terrorism was rampant. Countries that accepted migrants from places with low levels of terrorism activity did not suffer a large amount of terrorist attacks themselves.
Despite this, the research highlighted that only a small minority of migrants from high-terrorism countries could be associated with an increase in terrorism. When they were associated with it, it was often in an indirect way. Researchers explained that discriminate immigration laws on terror-prone countries was not advisable as security agencies would fail to identify the “organisers of terrorism”.
Bove explained: “Terrorist organisations often exploit migrant networks and migrant communities as a recruitment pool. We hope that policymakers will not enforce immigration laws in an indiscriminate way as this may lead to the loss of the positive impact of migration.”

Angemon says
If you have an epidemic of terrorists in your country and start treating them in a way that makes them look for refuge in any other nation, you decreased terrorism in your country. On the other hand, the countries who took in your terrorists can’t say the same…
balam says
The Muslim Immigrants are like the SNAKES ,some more lethal than the others. You have to experience living beside them in their Muslim countries to know better. If you are bitten by a SNAKE once ,which you allowed in your house then it is downright insane to trust more of them to enter your house.
Shane says
Even this feeble study makes the point that “the research highlighted that only a small minority of migrants from high-terrorism countries could be associated with an increase in terrorism.” How about taking no immigrants from countries where support for jihad and barbaric sharia law are popular? I am talking about Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and about 50 other Muslim countries. There is no reason for any Western country to take any immigrants from these backward Muslim countries where the people do not share our values and where jihad against the infidels is a popular idea.
underbed cat says
Immigration is not the source of terrorism, unless you have a migration that is determined to set up their own communities,purchase properties with foreign funds, belong to the world wide legal system and follow it, have a common connective tissue of the ideas found from reading a particular book . Especially one that may call for slaying or taxing people who don’t follow the book,but also forbid acknowledgement and misdirection of said commands, face possible fatal punishment from the related legal laws of said books if you use speech or words to describe said doctrine…if you get the drift, if you don’t then read the commands and the books that confirm the laws. And it must be viewed as a race, even though it certainly just ideas from a book of commands, that may have been forcible put upon the very race diverse, so you can shame and criminalize those who are curious or concerned. In this case, knowledge is inversely proportional to power threat. Very clever.
somehistory says
There is a concept in Criminology that says if crime is decreased in an area due to extra police and other procedures being put in place…lighting, etc….it will just displace the criminals and they will choose to commit their crimes in less protected areas. So crime goes down here and up there.
If more criminals…moslims who flaunt the laws of the lands to which they are being drawn…are allowed in, the only place terrorism will decrease is in the moslim lands they are leaving. Empty Syria of moslims and there won’t be terrorism in Syria. The acts of terrorism…much of it rape…will then take place, as it is in fact happening now, in the lands that are accepting large numbers of these ones who disrespect everyone and their persons due to islam.
Those making the claims of the article are short on honesty.
Hope says
That the Muslim migrants “bring new skills, knowledge and perspectives to the country they arrive in,” is an undisputed fact. Murder, rape, intolerance, hatred, abuse of women, and a supremacist attitude are just some of the skills and beliefs inherent in the practice of Islam. Gosh, what country would turn down a chance to import more of this delightful ideology?
gravenimage says
So true…
Mark Swan says
Good one Hope
Westman says
The “report” is completely outdated. Using it to predict the future of the current migrants is absurd. Most of the ME migrants from 1960 to 2000 were skilled, many were professionals; mosl were vetted – the upper eschelon. The ME immigrants since 2013 have been largely unskilled, poorly educated, and poorly vetted.
Using this old report on immigration would be about as useful as making stock investments based on pre-2008 trends.
The 2012 through 2016 statistics would be the most relative to the current migration and that points to more violence in the future of Europe. It also points to a “diaspora” of ME Christians.
خَليفة says
I can imagine a plumber trained at the University of Warwick trying to unclog a toilet bowl which is full to the rim with water, diarrhea and vomit. The standard multicultural leftist solution is to flush the toilet again.
livingengine says
The key words in this story are “associate professor “.
pdxnag says
Perfect opposite of the Rule of Numbers in Islam. Unless? Terror goes up like an upside down U chart as the Muslim percentage goes up until the number of attacks go down as the Infidel population flees or has been exterminated. One must visualize the endgame of zero Infidels remaining to see no terror attacks on (local) Infidels. The pious will then have to migrate (hijrah) to satisfy their tyrant creed.
Matthieu Baudin says
These masters of disinformation are a particularly nasty bunch.
Mark Swan says
Yep
Yann says
I’m afraid they’re right. The moment you have 100% of European population replaced with Muslim immigrants, there will be no more terrorist attacks against Europeans (because there will be no more Europeans), so they’re absolutely right.
mortimer says
Islam supports disinformation if it promotes Islamic supremacism.
Allah “Best Deceiver” or “Schemer”
The Koran openly states many times that Allah is the “best deceiver” (waAllahu khayru almakireena).
A number of hadiths encourage disinformation if promotes Islamic supremacism.
Narrated Um Kulthum bint Uqba: That she heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “He who makes peace between the people by inventing good information or saying good things, is not a liar.”
-Sahih Bukhari 3:49:857
Disinformation is ‘bull****’ that promotes a political agenda. Most of Islam is such ‘bull****’. Allah promotes Arab supremacism through Mohammed.
dumbledoresarmy says
Got Muslims? Got Jihad.
More Muslims? More Jihad.
There is just no way to get around that. The correlation is undeniable.
If the UK had never let in any Muslims the 7/7 / 2005 attacks on London could not have happened.
If there were no Muslims resident in France *at all* and none allowed to visit, the murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, and the mass murder at the Bataclan, could not have happened.
To avoid mass murderous jihad attacks, avoid letting in Muslims, because the Muslim ummah colonies are the sheltering, nurturing sea within which the jihadis swim and from which, ceaselessly, they emerge.
If the governments of assorted western countries – whether in Europe or beyond – feel they need immigrants, then I am sure that there are hundreds of thousands of Egyptian Coptic Christians who would just *love* to be fast-tracked outta the daily hell of life in Muslim Egypt. And then there are the Christians from Iraq and Syria, most of whom by now have, sadly, decided that there is no future for them in their ancestral indigenous homelands except… death, death, and more death. If the world’s infidels are not prepared to help their fellow infidels establish a defensible sovereign state – **with no Muslims permitted to remain or reside therein** – somewhere in Syria or Iraq or in Mont Liban, then … time to sign up with Barnabas Fund’s “Operation Safe Havens” and do for the persecuted Christians of Syria and Iraq as the Jews of Israel did for the persecuted and mortally-threatened dhimmi Jews of Yemen and Iraq and Syria and Algeria and Morocco and Egypt, back in the day. Let’s have a Christian version of Operation Eagle’s Wings or Operation Magic Carpet. Groups like Barnabas know where all the bona fide displaced Christians are; they know who they are and where to find them and have the means to ‘vet’ them and weed out imposters.
STOP importing Muslims. START importing Syrian and Iraqi – and, too, Coptic – Christians. Throw in the Yazidis as well, and the few remaining Mandaeans, another tiny and dreadfully persecuted non-Muslim minority.
In Australia the Copts and the Assyrians – and older refugees from Jihad genocide and from the living death that is Dhimmitude, such as the Armenians, and Maronite Christians – have assimilated and integrated and are thriving… and causing no particular problems at all. Many are, indeed, embracing the opportunities offered with gratitude and loyalty. They have the odd ‘bad apple’ – as all non-Muslim communities do – but such bad apples are most assuredly not acting on the basis of their religious upbringing, which is Christian and forbids things like theft and fraud.
I would rather take in 300 000 Assyrian Christians than even *one* more Muslim.
Charli Main says
Could not agree more. Non Muslim immigrants, being driven out of their ancestral, Middle Eastern homelands, by the Muslim invaders of their countries, cause next to no problems in their new host Country. Muslims on the other hand, are “fleeing” the Middle East for purely economic reasons and to expand the Ummah, cause nothing but problems.
خَليفة says
Ditto..
DFD says
dumbledoresarmy says: “…..I would rather take in 300 000 Assyrian Christians than even *one* more Muslim.”
Wholehaertedly agreed. If we were to do that, against the wishes of Obama, Merkel & Co., we should also train them and equip them. For free or pay later, with oil.
gravenimage says
Dumbledore’s Army wrote:
Got Muslims? Got Jihad.
More Muslims? More Jihad.
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That says it all, DDA.
I agree that we should be giving asylum to the *victims* of Islam, not the ravening Mohammedans.
mortimer says
The ‘new research’ from the University of Warwick seems to be based on the ‘grievance theory’ of cultural Marxism: i.e. the underprivileged, post-colonial peoples have a legitimate complainant against the former colonial powers and in the last 60+ years it is the former colonial powers that have held back the post-colonial countries. It is therefore just for the former colonial powers to open the floodgates and allow their countries to be massively changed, for the former colonial countries to lose their countries and become just like the countries they ‘held back’ from progress as their just punishment.
This theory justifies the cultural suicide of Europe and of Europeans.
Charli Main says
I believe that Department of Trade figures have shown that Britain´s Indian and Chinese communities, with their global trading links, generate some 30 billion pounds for the Country annually.
Generally, the contribution made by Britain´s Muslim communities is to breed and suck off the benefits system. Now, by lumping Muslim immigrants into the same pot as all other immigrant communities, we get the myth of all the astounding “contributions” that Muslims make to Britain
Brilliant piece of disinformation by the Hug a Muslim brigade. Herr Goebbels would of been green with envy at this masterpiece of deception.
gravenimage says
Yes–not all immigrants are the same.
Westman says
The molestation attacks on New Years Eve in Germany are a direct proof of Stanley Milgram’s 1960’s experiments on human nature. They were mob attacks in which the group or “micro society” reinforced and approved the actions of the individual; which was based on Quranic and Sunnah attitudes toward infidel females.
The ridiculous application of this outdated study/report to the present situation will ultimately result in further cynicism toward social engineering “experts” and leadership. Apparently, no matter how cynical you become, you can never keep up.
The liberals are similar to capitalists in wanting to use other people and their money. The serious difference is the capitalists just want to make profits with other people’s money, while the liberal social engineers want to build a unsustainable fantasy world and pay for it with other people’s money while cramming it down their throats.
Singh the Sikh says
The experts would have taken consignance from Muslim-infested countries like Pakistan, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Palestine to name some. These countries are a sea of tranquility with Muslims of different sects living side by side in total harmony. No such things as bombing of places of worship and other public places where people congregate. Blood and gore on the streets, dismembered body parts and severed heads unheard of. Yup, the west has a lot to learn about peace, prosperity and progress from Muslims so let’s just open the borders wide open and ring them all in, then settle back and enjoy life.
Singh the Sikh says
Cognizance
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious, Singh.
Max Richard says
Islam ist NICHT eine Religion des Friedens, sondern die Religion der Unterjochung. Das verraten Dir die Muslime erst, wenn Du konvertiert bist! Watch this movie (5. Jan 2016, 14min)
Sorry, liberals. There’s only ONE interpretation of Islam — Muhammad’s =>
https://youtu.be/Ln5fVgM0gLQ
billybob says
That was excellent! I have added that link to my collection to spread far and wide. By the way, this woman must be arabic, and perhaps an ex-Muslim, by the sound of her ability to pronounce Arabic names.
Max Richard says
Muslim migrants will bring disaster in every non-Muslim civilization. Why? It’s their duty to convert any unbeliever to Islam. Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace: Muhammad’s life is the proof. Muhammad was an extremely brutal man! Jesus wasn’t!
Sorry, liberals. There’s only ONE interpretation of Islam: Muhammad’s => (15 min; Published on Jan 5, 2016 => https://youtu.be/Ln5fVgM0gLQ
Gamaleil says
If you don’t consider mass rape terrorism and you don’t consider riots in which buildings are set aflame terrorism and if you don’t consider violent enforcement of Shariah terrorism then perhaps one could argue that only a minority of immigrants are terrorists. Only a minority slam planes into buildings. If you look at how much Muslims fill the welfare roles I don’t see how you can say they contribute to the economy, they are a huge drag on the economy.
underbed cat says
They contribute money to the people who open the gates, and close their eyes….or need political cash, in some cases.Which eventually destroys the gate keepers who took the cash. (Sort of outreach cash)
ECAW says
Fine work from the University of Laputa here.
Michael Copeland says
“Migration and crime are very much linked.”
Elif Ozmenek Carmikli,
Head of Turkey’s International Strategic Research Organisation
“If we don’t want Mohammedan murders, we should stop importing Mohammeds.”
Daniel Greenfield
DFD says
Why didn’t I think of that?
duh_swami says
Do cone headed academics ever read Islamic literature before making lofty pronouncements?
Herman says
That was a rhetoric question!
underbed cat says
The cone headed academic professors ask their muslims students or the mb teachers for information, which to the academic is going to the source…..without the knowledge that a true muslim is obligated to misdirect.( Been there, heard that) So they never get off the merry go round of deception, and don’t have a clue about the curious definition of words that have a convoluted meaning such as “justice”, “peace”, “jihad”democracy etc….Actually reading books on sharia law, the koran meant for “muslims” would be a start…or reading about civilization jihad, and the massive number of organizations and foreign money flow that are present to assist the goals of the caliphate.
Oppressaphobe says
This could be called “peace through acquiescence,” instead of “peace through strength.”
Have we not considered other tactics like just giving them our countries?
If we want peace at all costs, then we could just destroy our borders, criminalize all western thought and behaviors, continue the persecution of Christians and the islamization under the caliphate.
Since we are going to veer so far off of the tradition values like borders, laws, individual freedom, etc…
why not draw this out to its ultimate conclusion and get it over with?
Muslims want to over-take and dominate the west, so if we want peace and no terror attacks, we must simply acquiesce.
On the other hand, if we are people of conviction and character, we simply apply our laws, obey common sense and stand and fight, without wavering to the enemy or appeasing them by doing studies that justify our ignorance and weakness.
Oppressaphobe says
What would happen if we just told the U.S. congress and all the bureaucrats in Washington,
“o.k. guys, you can all go home now. Mohammed here is going to be our new supreme leader. Now if you could just get out of our way so we can face Mecca and pray. Oh and stop over at the U.N. and tell them they can all go home now too. Ditto for the IMF, the EU, etc.. It’s been swell but Mohammed here is all we need now.”
Do you think our leaders might act differently if THEIR way of life was threatened? Maybe they need to think their actions through to their logical conclusions.
We wouldn’t have to worry about paying taxes, listening to Bernie Sanders drool or paying down the deficit. We could stop talking about the Iraq war finally. No more Hollywood garbage piped out into our childrens’ heads.
It’s time for our leaders to put on their thinking caps–they have been coasting for too long. They are constantly procrastinating and dragging their feet like a thirteen year old asked to take out the garbage.
Oppressaphobe says
Last one out turn the lights off!
Oppressaphobe says
I would buy popcorn, perhaps my last, and watch the meltdown of Hollywood under sharia law.
So let’ just keep on justifying our Islamic- appeasement tactics with studies payed for with the working mans taxes.
And just imagine a world without beyonce…yes, what a wonderful world that would be!
Shane says
Yes, when you add crimes like rape, sexual assault, honor killings, and pedophilia to terrorism, it becomes clear that Muslim immigrants from backward Muslim countries are much more likely to have a negative impact on a Western country than other non-Muslim immigrants.
Herman says
Be aware when “experts” are commenting on issues
And mozlims will be mozlims, no matter how much education they get:
(it is in their belief system to cast terror onto the infidels)
-the WTC mozlim-murders had university degrees
-the San Bernardino mozlim-murders were university students
-the Fort Hood mozlim-murderer was a psychiatrist
Just three examples.
And they are always so nice, aren’t they?
Here a read about it:
http://www.christianpost.com/news/when-muslims-betray-non-muslim-friends-and-neighbors-141389/
DFD says
I just love statistical studies. Particularly when taken out of context by generalizing and comparing apples and tomatoes.
I wonder if those who made the study, those who commissioned it, and those who read it – and base decisions on it, are aware of the plight of the statistician:
He drowned in a river the average depth of which was 2ft/61cm….
Damn problem is, the ordinary people do the drowning
Oppressaphobe says
Ain’t that the truth!
We have to keep rubbing the leaders nose in the crap that drops out of them. A dog that can’t be trained is good for nothing.
DFD says
Oppressaphobe says: “… rubbing the leaders nose in the crap that drops out of them. A dog that can’t be trained is good for nothing.”
Rubbing their noses? Hmh. I think the bare minimum required is massive, OPEN, civil unrest. If that doesn’t work, there will be civil war. Take a look at European history. In Germany there’s already a lot, not reported though, the UK is catching up, see http://tinyurl.com/juxpryf Not reported either…
In Germany they warn and talk about civil war since 2009. The German army prepares and practices for years anti- or counter insurgency war.
“…. a dog that can’t be trained…” Are you talking about the bitch in the Reichstag? 🙂
Oppressaphobe says
We have to find ways of holding officials accountable, short of the guillotine.
I always begin with the premise that the people have allowed the politicians to run rough-shod over them by simple neglect of civil duties.
Ex.: Americans vote in a far-left liberal whose voting record should have tipped the average voter off that he was far left, regardless of what he said.. People who tried to point out his radicalism where castigated and called racists, etc..
An engaged and educated electorate would have avoided the sharp left turn, understanding that this does not represent most americans.
But failing the first test, that he should not have been elected, and re-elected, we can challenge him at every turn. I’m in favor of impeachment, simply to slow him down. Failing that, we still need to challenge his every move, like the appointment of a judge. We wouldn’t have this problem if we had impeached. So you have look at your options at every point and do everything you can to oppose them because silence is complicit agreement.
I believe Obama was sent to the senate to oppose everything that traditional americans believed in. I think he was hand-picked by muslims to infiltrate our government. With this kind of guerilla warfare, you have to do everything you can to stop it, while trying to expose it at the same time.
DFD says
Oppressaphobe says: “…An engaged and educated electorate would have avoided…”
Indeed. I believe for a long time that politics and political structures, as well as propaganda methods should be taught in school. At least for two, if not three years. For 2 or 3 hours per week.
In other words, inoculate and educate. Though, I sadly doubt that the political ‘classes’ of whatever persuasion would agree to that.
Myxlplik says
The rationalization behind killing your own culture with low birth rates, due to global over population, also tends to result cognitively in immigration as justification of the maintenance of domestic population.
If you espouse limited population growth, through family planning, you should also rationalize a lower population instead of destroying your culture through immigration, or at least be very careful in your selection process.
I don’t believe it’s possible to be overzealous in the selection process, so I disagree with the articles main point. I think that careless immigration will lead to war and destruction, when coupled with low birth rates.
DFD says
I think there are other reasons than ‘population replenishment. For, if this were the true reason, than ‘they’ would have imported immigrants from places such as the Philippines, people who are easy assimilated, and keen to do so. Christian culture, with a solid (due to Spain) grounding in Roman Civilization. They work for minimum wages, and the operative word being *work*. Unlike those lazy bums.
The public is being lied to to for a long time. Correction, loooonnnnnggggg time.
gravenimage says
“Experts”: More immigration could cause decrease in terrorist attacks
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Uh huh–and presumably this is also the case where the immigrants in question are pious Muslims coming in from an active Jihad zone…sarc/off
This is just what an alcoholic tells himself–the only cure for that terrible hangover is some more “hair of the dog”…
DFD says
Hi gravenimage, just reading up on ‘backdated issues’ and came across one of your recent posts/replys:
“Yes–destruction is easy. It is building something good and decent that is hard.”
Agreed from my heart, depth of which can be gauged that I reply in here, off-topic as it were. BTW, you mentioned once that you were supportive of PEGIDA. Are you aware that PEGIDA is now in the US? If not
https://twitter.com/pegidausa
https://www.facebook.com/usa.pegida/
If you are aware, sorry for troubling you
gravenimage says
DFD wrote:
Hi gravenimage, just reading up on ‘backdated issues’ and came across one of your recent posts/replys:
“Yes–destruction is easy. It is building something good and decent that is hard.”
Agreed from my heart
…………………………
Yes, DFD–here is a wonderful quote from Winston Churchill:
“To build may be the slow and laborious task of years, to destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day”.
Of course, what Islam is doing is very much worse–not a thoughtless but a *deliberate* destruction of Infidel achievements.
More:
BTW, you mentioned once that you were supportive of PEGIDA. Are you aware that PEGIDA is now in the US? If not
https://twitter.com/pegidausa
https://www.facebook.com/usa.pegida/
If you are aware, sorry for troubling you
…………………………
Actually, I *wasn’t* aware of this–thank you so much for the information, DFD! I will check this out further.
Great to hear from you.
Carolyne says
This reminds me of last year’s record breaking cold-weather. We were told it was cold because it was hot. This argument is ridiculous. The more Muslims, the more violence. Period.
Oppressaphobe says
When people are not grounded, up is down, hot is cold, more is less, etc…That seems to be the state of things right now so it is important talk with other people so you can’t get turned around by the propaganda.
It’s a daily battle just to keep your sanity in times like these, but just like anything else in life, you have to keep plugging away. What are your alternatives?
The main thing to hold onto is freedom and personal liberty, regardless of the cost. It must have been hard for those who fought the American revolution to hang in there, with all those who were willing to take the easier road. There would be no beacon of freedom in the world without America.
Peter Brockley says
EXPERTS? From math, X is an unknown quantity, and from hydraulics, a spurt is a drip under pressure.
Hindu Nastik says
Let them take in one Sikh with his krupan (blade) as immigrants for every Moslem and the Moslems will fall in line as they do on the India-Pakistan border.