As the great philosopher once said, “Well, duh.” What did they expect?
“Europeans Fear Wave of Refugees Will Mean More Terrorism, Fewer Jobs,” by Richard Wike, Bruce Stokes and Katie Simmons, Pew Research Center, July 11, 2016:
The recent surge of refugees into Europe has featured prominently in the anti-immigrant rhetoric of right-wing parties across the Continent and in the heated debate over the UK’s decision to exit the European Union. At the same time, attacks in Paris and Brussels have fueled public fears about terrorism. As a new Pew Research Center survey illustrates, the refugee crisis and the threat of terrorism are very much related to one another in the minds of many Europeans. In eight of the 10 European nations surveyed, half or more believe incoming refugees increase the likelihood of terrorism in their country.
But terrorism is not the only concern people have about refugees. Many are also worried that they will be an economic burden. Half or more in five nations say refugees will take away jobs and social benefits. Hungarians, Poles, Greeks, Italians and French identify this as their greatest concern. Sweden and Germany are the only countries where at least half say refugees make their nation stronger because of their work and talents. Fears linking refugees and crime are much less pervasive, although nearly half in Italy and Sweden say refugees are more to blame for crime than other groups.
Most of the recent refugees to Europe are arriving from majority-Muslim nations, such as Syria and Iraq. Among Europeans, perceptions of refugees are influenced in part by negative attitudes toward Muslims already living in Europe. In Hungary, Italy, Poland and Greece, more than six-in-ten say they have an unfavorable opinion of the Muslims in their country – an opinion shared by at least one-in-four in each nation polled.
For some Europeans, negative attitudes toward Muslims are tied to a belief that Muslims do not wish to participate in the broader society. In every country polled, the dominant view is that Muslims want to be distinct from the rest of society rather than adopt the nation’s customs and way of life. Six-in-ten or more hold this view in Greece, Hungary, Spain, Italy and Germany. Notably, the percentage saying that Muslims want to remain distinct has actually declined since 2005 in four out of five countries where trend data are available. The biggest drop has been in Germany, where the share of the public expressing this view has declined from 88% to 61%.
While most Europeans think the recent surge of refugees could lead to more terrorism, there is less alarm that Muslims already living on the Continent might sympathize with extremists. The percentage of the public saying that most or many Muslims in their country support groups like ISIS is less than half in every nation polled. Still, 46% of Italians, 37% of Hungarians, 35% of Poles and 30% of Greeks think Muslims in their countries are favorably inclined toward such extremist groups. On these and other questions included on the poll, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Poland often stand out for expressing greater concern and more negative views about refugees and minority groups….




abad says
Benefits, yes, jobs, no.
These Muslim refugees have no job skills to speak of and none of them are anxious to learn the language of their host nations and assimilate.
But they will be on welfare the rest of their lives.
Jack Holan says
I’m not convinced they are going to live a life style limited to welfare payments. Eventually criminal activity will take hold intensifying their neighbor’s disdain for them. We are still waiting for the 5-8K terrorists to pop out of the woodwork and murder. When this happens, I don’t think, given Europe’s history that is will be fun being a refugee in Europe.
gravenimage says
I don’t think it will be fun to be a native European–more and more this is already the case.
Why is it that so many people immediately jump to the idea that it is civilized Infidels who are threatening Muslims? It is, in reality, just the opposite.
Jack Holan says
Agree. The Barbarian can’t pretend to be Civilized but on the other hand the Civilized can easily descend to the level of the Barbarian to get their point across.
Spot On says
It is hard for me to believe how stupid this all is. Also there could be no long term financial reason, except for Arab leaders. Could this be that the politicians time horizon is so short that they are allowing short term bribes to control their own long term destiny.
In a very short time, most of Europe will be defunct and under Muslim control. Long term, Europe with be a the Middle East without the sand. European civilization will die.
Shane says
When the Muslim rape jihad and terrorism reach their peaks, non-Muslim Europeans will begin to flee to other countries. I don’t want these cowards coming to the USA; stay in Europe and fight the barbarian invaders.
JMB says
From the Australian experience;
Yes, they will be on welfare, often the sickness or disability pension at the same time as working for ISIS. They will become terrorists, they will recruit for terrorist groups.
Successful Muslims will often become the local drug boss. The less than successful ones will be involved in street crime including shoot outs. Other successful Muslims will become very questionable property developers. bribery and corruption is the norm.
Rape and groping, yes Europe is experiencing this already. here in Oz it led to a riot back in 2005 where some real men fought back.
Once white suburbs will become Muslim no-go areas. The women will wear their medieval robes. They will not integrate.
But France and Germany as well as the English midlands have experienced this for at least 40 years, have our leaders been so blind as not to see what has happened. Have lessons been learned, sadly not.
Afrostreewise says
It’s a fact islam and Muslims have promoted the culture of acquiring wealth by invading other Nations and levying extortionist tax called Jizya. At individual level, all their had work was done by slaves after conquests. It is very natural that after nearly 1400 years of such behavior, their progeny are disinclined to work because most of those who were most successful in life are most likely the “best” rapist, robbers etc
Jack Holan says
It appears after the first wave of the Hijra is a shock and beginning to change attitudes. Germany and Sweden is problematic since the beginning Chancellor Merkel has managed & manipulated the propaganda machine. Sweden is making light of the serious problems. If they continue, Fear, Economics and the barbaric behavior of the new neighbors will encourage the populace to throw these elected officials physically into the street. I hope it doesn’t have to come to that before they close the Gates paid for with a hefty price tag to Caliph Erdogan.
Jay Boo says
Even Socialist France has been willing to make it easier for employers to fire native born French and to take away overtime pay to make room for the flood of Muslim immigrants.
French President Hollande, refused to strip those convicted of “terrorism” of French nationality.
LR says
“French President Hollande, refused to strip those convicted of “terrorism” of French nationality.”
Why? That is just plain nuts! I don’t get it. One would think that would be the first thing he would want to do.
citycat says
The Islamic spread is reinforced with more Islamists to increased the breeding, and then the creeping. The tide of Islam is ever breeding and creeping, ever onwards, no matter what is happening, 24/7
Concerned Indian says
Once a person uses the word FEAR ,the term islamophobia will be used to silence that person or group.
Gatestone institute.org has given a very good article on Islam–It’s the duty of Muslims to speak out written very well by an Iranian American gentleman,Majid Rafizadeh.Please read all of you ladies and gentlemen.
gravenimage says
Here’s the story:
“It Is the Duty of Muslims to Speak Out”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8342/muslims-to-speak-out
Majid Rafizadeh is a brave Muslim apostate, and I have the greatest respect for him:
“Why I Renounced Islam, Allah, and Muhammad”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263269/why-i-renounced-islam-allah-and-muhammad-dr-majid-rafizadeh
But we cannot rely on Muslims to speak out against the horrors of Jihad and Shari’ah, because most of them embrace just these things. The author himself freely admits this.
biff says
Welcome citizen of the welfare state.
Commit a crime? Still eligible to be a citizen!
Unemployable? Still eligible to be a citizen!
Must keep bringing them in by the planeload.
Only was Democrats can create the future voters they need.
Richie says
The EU will competely collapse within 25 years
gravenimage says
Europeans are–as this story shows–starting to wake up. Don’t count them out yet!
jimmi says
Not even two years from now.
JP says
Don’t worry about the fewer jobs part. They don’t work. None of them. Literally.
gravenimage says
Europeans fear wave of refugees will mean more terrorism, fewer jobs
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More terrorism, certainly. But so few Mohammedans work that the greater concern here is that they are going to bleed their host countries dry on the dole.
David, Thailand says
As I’m sure someone once said, the number of terrorist attacks will increase in direct proportion to the number of Mohameds in the country.
Jon Sobieski says
It is always strange to read these articles and understand the writer’s viewpoint. For example, there is this subtle, inferred disparagement of those who hold negative opinions of Islam and muslims. But the facts are the facts, but also, the facts are not what the writer wants, so heshe spins this subtle bigoted, racist inference. They aren’t called bigots or racists directly, but the point is there.
ShadowLurker says
“Sweden and Germany are the only countries where at least half say refugees make their nation stronger”
Fucking Sweden and Germany are fucking Europe…. And they forgot the lube.
linnte says
There is still something bigger here that doesn’t make sense. If Europe simply needed more workers and a larger population, why not encourage their own people to have more children? Why not push for four kids per family instead of two or one? Give tax incentives and bonuses for each extra kid born. It would have been cheaper in the long run without the clash of cultures. And the could have advertised for Americans and Canadians and other non Muslim nationalities to immigrate to Europe and give those people the same benefits. If I were to have seen an ad in Smithsonian or any other rag asking for immigrants 15 years ago, I would have gone in a heartbeat! Many Americans would have! Europe is a dream for some!
Why encourage Islamic Ideology to enter a country knowing full well its destructiveness? It’s no like Europe had no idea what the Middle East is like. There is something fishy here!
sencit says
Some of us are old enough to remember the 1960/1970s. In Britain we were advised that the world was overpopulated and no responsible person should have more than two children. By ignoring this, we were being “anti-social”.
Now we are told that we have had an insufficient number of children, making immigration vital!
Do you see a plan in all of this? Some of us have long memories!
linnte says
Sencit, that same push for cutting back on having children is here in the USA also. The only thing I can think of is the New World Order. A Corporate Controlled world. If white people do not want to work for less wages, then bring in people who WILL, and eliminate the people who want a decent living wage. I always follow the money when it comes to unanswerable situations like this. How nicely everyone will be controlled under Shari’a Law! No free speech, no choice of marriage partner, total control over what we eat, no guns to protect ourselves, and no new ideas for the common man, just the same old same old five times a day prayer times and the Imam controlling what we do. I believe George Orwell named it correctly. There are already cameras outside recording everything everyone does. It makes me so sad for my grandchildren!
musalmaan says
Koran teachea (Surah 8:72-73) Muslims to enter lands where islam is not a dominant force and stir up trouble. When peoples of these lands retaliate to protect their sovereignty & culture the muslims will cry “PERSECUTION, ISLAMOPHOBIA, RACISM”.
This is happening RIGHT NOW in countries where muslims hav e migrated but are still in the minority.
Once their population touches 4% or 5% then their wants also increase as they start becoming a political force.
Britain is a case in point where there are now Sharia Courts overriding the law of the land.
berserker says
Good point. David Wood discusses this issue in his video “three stages of jihad”: https://youtu.be/ERou_Q5l9Gw
Angemon says
“Anti-immigrant rhetoric of right-wing parties”? Oh, you mean the people who said “the people you’re trying to force on us have zero marketable skills and are, because of that, unemployable” or “the unrestricted flow of ‘immigrants’ will be used to sneak in terrorists”?
Gee, I wonder where do “some” Europeans get such a “belief”? Look at, for example, Salah Abdeslam, who hid from the police in Molenbeek, with the full cooperation of the whole islamic community. The f***ker was able to go out for coffee, for f***’s sake.
Don’t worry, the word is getting out and people are waking up. Reality can only be denied so much.
Oh, they “think” that, eh? Why do you think that is? Why do you think they “think” their local muslim communities are favourable to “extremist” groups? Could it be they see their local muslim communities either remaining silent and doing nothing to prevent the spread of “extremism” or outright support the goals of the terrorists? I have no clue – all we’re supposed to know is that Italians (who faced the very real threat of an islamic invasion up to almost the 17th century), Hungarians (who were ruled by islam over a period of almost 160 years and faced rampant religious persecution), Poles and Greeks (who, like Hungarians, lived under the yoke of Ottoman rule and religious discrimination) just happen to “think” that their local muslim communities have “extremist” sympathies. They “think” that for apparently no good reason whatsoever.
Is that so? Refugees and minority groups? Are Greeks, Poles, Italians or Hungarians worried about the Syrian or Egyptian Christians living in their midst? Perhaps they’re concerned about Americans in their soil. Or Russians. Heck, maybe even British or Icelanders. Are those the “minority groups” they are concerned with? I bet that’s not the case. I bet they’re concerned about muslims, regardless of their nationality or ethnicity, because, in virtue of a long history that stretches to our current day and age, they associate muslims with violence, oppression and terrorism.
Richard Paulsen says
Not only increasing lack of jobs, increasing terror and costs, but also increasing islamization and lack of water and increasing demand of food up to some 70% globally.
Waterscarcity in the arabworld. Worsening. 1950-2050.
1950-2050 from 4,000 m3/cap/year.
1995 1,312 m3/cap/year.
2050 547 m3/cap/year. (unesco.org./water/)
Lookmann says
Europeans fear wave of refugees will mean more terrorism, fewer jobs……………….
This is not reflected in politics ,where it really matters.
After AfD’s spectacular show in regional polls ,Merkel is regaining her hold recently.
Only Wilders is keeping his party’s lead.
Hopefully the Austrian right wing party wins the October run off.
ECAW says
It’s worse than that. Head of French Intelligence says France is on the verge of a civil war:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3685561/France-verge-civil-war-sparked-mass-sexual-assault-women-migrants-intelligence-chief-warns.html
So someone’s effin’ noticed at last!
berserker says
Yes. But he is concerned about the Right-wing’s reaction to the assaults which might lead to civil war. In other words, he is not interested in the assaults per se. In his mind, if everyone were to continue with the Progressive strategy of appeasement, everything would be fine.
duh+swami says
Allah perfected their religion and sent them out to spread the good word…
And so they went creating joy and happiness in the lands…
They are still going out, by the thousand bribing joy to the word…
Hillary and Rasool Obama would increase our joy by 500$ or so0, by importation,,,,What’s wrong with that? Don’t you want to be happy?
Concerned Indian says
Today’s DailyMail tells us that only 31% Germans are worried about the migrants.Earlier we were told that most Germans are against.
It is very difficult to know how people’s opinion change.
John A. Marre says
Germany and the other European countries will be paying for their upkeep, as well as that of their multiple babies for years to come, until there is no more Europe.
Why do you think they are there? To get jobs, become productive citizens of a progressive European country, to become clear-thinking and to abandon their previous uncivilized practices?
No. They are there to take over Europe and to convert it to Islam.
abad says
What would really be nice is if the press would stop calling these Muslim migrants, refugees.
They are NOT refugees.
They should have stayed in their Islamic Paradise of Syria to begin with.
gravenimage says
Right–these are *not* refugees. They are not even migrants in the traditional sense. They are Muslim invaders.
davej says
Yes and most are sponsored by our own taxpayer supported Government.
WTF?
Who voted for this?
The answer is the Corporate Shadow Government that only cares about one thing – Sales!
So if the aging and sexually confused natives can’t produce the right numbers then lets just open the floodgates to basically anyone. I’ve heard they have big families, which is all we need to know.
The Makers of TVs, cars, diapers, ketchup and pharmaceuticals salute you, the brave new citizens.
linnte says
They are “emigrating in the way of Allah” to spread Islam. It is an army.
TheBuffster says
Well, I guess there *is* some value in knowing what the native Europeans think about the growing population of Muslims in their midst. But even more important is what the Muslim migrants are thinking.
The Muslim migrants are what they are, regardless of what the Europeans believe about them. Some migrants want to get the hell away from Islam. Some *really* don’t. The ones who don’t embrace Islam in their souls are in a tragic situation, but they are neither here nor there when it comes to the survival of individual liberty and European culture. The ones who will determine the fate of Europe are the ones who have arrived with a mission.
Meanwhile, the European taxpayer will fund their own demise.
davious says
Taking jobs? Nonsense! None of these goat-herders have any skills useful to Europe. If anything they will create jobs, by necessitating more nurses and doctors to take care of their disease, more cops to handle the increased crime, more lawyers to handle all the rape lawsuits and more social workers and politicians to manage this debacle by spending your pensions and going into massive deficit.
Carole Kotkiewicz says
That’s a huge number of people just getting up and walking away from their homes. Why are they doing that? What has happened where they lived before that they are no longer able to live there? If they are indeed an invading army, just stop feeding them and they will perish. You have to make people accountable for their actions. If you allow them to get away with murder, then that’s what they will do.