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Greek islanders protest against mass migration: “We want our islands back, we want our lives back”

Jan 24, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

They could just as well have been chanting: We want our free societies back, we want Europe’s future back.

“Greek islanders strike against migrant camps,” DW, January 22, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios are the frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis. Islanders have run out of patience, demanding their government empty the overflowing reception camps and return their islands to them.

Residents of the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios went on strike on Wednesday, angry at the overflowing migrant camps.

Under the slogan “we want our islands back, we want our lives back,” the islanders shut stores and closed public services, as people demonstrated on the streets, waving Greek flags.

DW correspondent Max Zander tweeted that there was a “massive” turnout at the anti-migration policy protest in Mytilini, Lesbos.

Trade unionists and regional lawmakers demanded that the Greek government immediately transport the thousands of migrants stranded at camps to the mainland after registration. Some of the camps are at 10 times the intended capacity.

Protest organizers said they are also seeking more information on the government’s announcements that it will build more camps on the islands.

‘Our island can no longer be the site of lost souls’

“We can’t continue to put up with this situation in our small town,” said Giorgos Stantzos, mayor of Vathy, the main town on the island of Samos.

“Our island can no longer be the site of lost souls and suffering people,” the regional governor of the northern Aegean Sea region, Kostas Moutzouris told Greek broadcaster ERT Open….

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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 2:36 pm

    I would bet there is plenty of room in Iraq for those migrants since so many Christians have left the country. But if not, there should be room in Saudi Arabia or maybe Libya or Algeria or Morocco. Aren’t there about 57 different Islamic majority countries? Am I to believe that Muslims do not take care of their own?

    • Just Venting says

      Jan 24, 2020 at 4:28 pm

      You believe correctly. Certain cultures tend to be very tribal. Letting in another group from a different tribe can be politically dangerous and may lead to serious instability. Jordan’s issue with the “West Bank” refugees in 1970 is a good example. Besides, certain political blocks need permanent refugees and permanent victims so the UN will force members to send in billions of dollars that will be redirected to Swiss Banks, mistresses, and villas.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 24, 2020 at 5:43 pm

        Muslims destabalize any Infidel nation. That is what the “Hijira”–immigration in the way of Allah–in intended to do.

    • Ursula says

      Jan 25, 2020 at 12:48 pm

      The objective is to conquer non-Muslim nations. They know exactly what they’re doing. Saudi Arabia is funding all of it.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 25, 2020 at 6:20 pm

        Saudi Arabia isn’t behind *all* of this–but certainly they are funding a great deal of it. Ursula, they are certainly no allies of ours.

    • Murad says

      Jan 25, 2020 at 2:13 pm

      Why should muslims take care of their own: EU will be very upset if it does not do its inherent duty to islam and the great population replacement. EU is born with a tendency to surrender to islam. It’s a greatest thing. Not honor. EU has no honor.

    • Elizabeth says

      Jan 26, 2020 at 1:21 am

      No, they do not take care of their own unless it is same tribe or such. And yes, there are 57 Muslim countries who are not welcoming them at all. They invade the West as a means to outbreed us Whiteys. I have no respect for our White women who go to bed with the heathens.

  2. FYI says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 2:54 pm

    Those in favor of mass islamic immigration:

    pope francis and the Vatican,the UN immigration lobby,the Leftys,the treasonous Quisling Politicians,Mr Soros..

    To political islam,the Lefties are the best option for supporting them and giving them access to the political arena.

    It is important to know who and what is destroying Europe.

    “Europe is for Europeans”
    The Dalai lama

    The Dalai lama is surely a wise man and knows from experience what happens when your homeland{Tibet in his case} is overrun and invaded.

  3. jewdog says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 2:56 pm

    I feel sorry for the ladies of Lesbos, what with the Sharia prohibitions on homosexuality.

  4. Crusades Were Right says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 3:19 pm

    Here’s why opposition efforts to Third World / Mohammedan mass migration to the West are DOOMED TO FAILURE:

    Normie: “Gee, what’s up with all this mass migration? It’s not good for us – the government should stop it.”

    Anti mass migration politician: “They won’t stop it – they’re FOR it. You need to vote for politicians who OPPOSE it.”

    Normie: “You mean I should vote for those FAR RIGHT RACISTS?”

    Anti mass migration politician: “What makes you think they’re ‘far right’ and ‘racist’?”

    Normie: “BECAUSE THEY OPPOSE MASS MIGRATION! Don’t you watch TV or read the papers?”

    lol

    • James Lincoln says

      Jan 24, 2020 at 6:47 pm

      Crusades Were Right,

      Courageous citizens need to be okay with the left erroneously referring to them as “far right racists”.

  5. Steve says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 4:18 pm

    God Bless them, Democrats want exactly the same here and it’s here already sadly, buckle up America

  6. tim gallagher says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 4:31 pm

    Bravo to these Greek islanders, and it’s about time. Now if only this would become a huge mass movement throughout Europe, where people have been treated so badly for so long with their virtue signalling politicians flooding their countries with barbaric Muslim invaders.

    • Alexander Newcomb Spence Coldwell says

      Jan 27, 2020 at 5:55 am

      Exactly. I wonder whether Merkel, the supreme driver of EU quotas of “refugees” / “asylum-seekers”, has seen this dilution of indigenous populations as a kind of penance for Nazi war crimes — but ironically by the introduction of peoples as anti-Semitic as the Nazis

  7. Just Venting says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 4:35 pm

    I suspect that Greece’s near (very near) neighbor to the East will be looking at ways to annex those islands in the same manner as north Cyprus. Greece cannot defend itself and NATO will become the new League of Nations. If there are any doubts about the new, self-appointed caliph next door, just look into what happened to the Greeks living in Turkey at the end of WW1 and continuing up into the 1950’s.

    • GreekEmpress says

      Jan 24, 2020 at 4:59 pm

      I am in agreement with you, Just Venting.
      Erdogan persists in constant provocations: violating Greek air space, illegal activity regarding the gas drilling off the coast of Cyprus, and threatening rhetoric meant to intimidate the Greeks.
      I don’t put anything past Erdogan. They invaded northern Cyprus, they’ll try something similar again.

      • The unexpected voice says

        Jan 25, 2020 at 2:58 pm

        Yeah Islamic supremacist dictator like Erdogan counld’t be trusted.

    • SAFI says

      Jan 24, 2020 at 5:22 pm

      Heh heh what makes you “suspect” that? Is it because just earlier this morning Turkish government came forward demanding that Greece demilitarize its islands?http://www.haaretzdaily.com/turkey-demands-greece-demilitarize-16-aegean-islands-amid-gas-drilling-dispute/
      Seems like Erdogan wants to establish another “safe zone” in their neighbors territory like he did in Syria but this time to west. You know in order to resettle “refugees”. Except this time the “refugees” have already been ressetled. In some of those islands the muslim “refugees” already outnumber the inhabitants (with all that means for the islanders’ daily lives). So with his colonists already in place I imagine it won’t be very difficult for Erdogan to win an annexation referendum (a la Crimea)

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 24, 2020 at 5:46 pm

      Yes–Turkey is a great threat to Greece.

  8. Crusades Were Right says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    “Residents of the Greek islands of Lesbos…..went on strike”

    I support the industrial action take by the Lesbians.

    Never thought I would say that! lol

  9. Duke says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 4:44 pm

    Crusade 2.0

  10. Jack Cade says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 5:16 pm

    First, turf any politician who supports Islam. Then we can rid ourselves of Muslims.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 24, 2020 at 5:49 pm

      We all need to pressure our governments to end Muslim immigration, Jack. What these Greek islanders are doing is exactly right.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 5:42 pm

    Greek islanders protest against mass migration: “We want our islands back, we want our lives back”
    …………….

    Kudos to these patriotic Greeks for speaking out!

    • black adder says

      Jan 25, 2020 at 4:15 am

      It’s too late now. They should have done that a long time ago.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 25, 2020 at 6:37 pm

        Please don’t preach surrender here, black adder.

        Today Greece is 2% Muslim. Why should all the native Infidels there have to bow to them?

  12. Jake says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 6:00 pm

    Their government supported the Muslim world against Israel for decades. I guess this is their repayment.

    • black adder says

      Jan 25, 2020 at 4:13 am

      You are right. These same islanders that are now protesting, were welcoming the refugees back in 2015. They also massively voted for a left wing party that promoted mass migration to the country.
      I have lived there for a whole year (2015-2016) and I know what I am talking about. Their stupidity is beyond words.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2020 at 6:40 pm

      Yes–this was disgusting, Jake. But how is Greece being conquered by the Muslims going to make Israel safer? Of course, it is not. This kind of schadenfreude only aids Islam.

  13. roberta says

    Jan 24, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    I passed some years on the Greek islands, at that time they were a good honest people.
    But yes, their was a communist/socialist in most all of them. The price of ignorance I guess.
    How could a country of tourism, fishermen, sheepherders, and bread bakers know what the EU had in store for them? Steep price.

  14. Andreas Spiracopoulos says

    Jan 25, 2020 at 4:39 am

    I am afraid I cannot agree with the interpretation of the rallies in Lesbos. ( I am Greek, and , of course, speak the language).
    For starters, out of the 3 deputies of the district of Lesbos, the voters there have given one seat to the communist party, one to SYRIZA (the neo communists that governed for almost 5 years, and one deputy of the so called right wing party – it is as right wing as I am the king of Spain, but that is another matter).
    In the previous election , all 3 seats went to the extreme left , yes the one that maintained, and still does, that the sea has no borders.
    So how come they have changed so radically? They did not .
    They are asking for the decongestion of their island (in Greek : αποσυμφορησις), NOT the sealing of the border.
    That is, for the speeding up of the process that the current “right wing” government has put in place, namely, to transport all the invaders to the mainland, as soon as they arrive. This policy has, predictably, increased the flow of the invaders to just about the government’s capacity of transport, more or less 300-400 per day at Lesbos.
    Of course the backlog of about 20.000 people has remained, and they still linger about.
    The Lesbians are asking for :
    – The backlog to be dealt with.
    – Increase the capacity of transport to the MAINLAND.
    – “Solidarity” from Europe, NOT in the sealing of the border, but in opening up their border further and getting all of those “refugees” out of the island and on to Germany , Holland and so on.

    What they are NOT asking for are the only things that can stem the flow:

    – Seal the border
    – Get rid of all those NGOs that are effectively ruling Lesbos (They are even going around in fake police cars!)
    – Protect Greece, and leave it to the Greeks.

    They just want the invaders off their islands and on to the mainland. Nobody has explained to them that those are not their islands , they are GREECE’s islands liberated by shedding rivers of blood. They just live there as part of the Greek people.

    As far as they are concerned, we might as well start a ferry service from Turkey to the mainland and be done with all this . (This is, by the way , what the government has practically done, albeit with a stop over at Lesbos. Whoever makes it to the island wins a free ticket to the mainland).

    I have served on Lesbos, and so has my brother (You can say we are , both, Lesbians). Back then it was difficult to get in the fashionable bars and restaurants as a soldier, they did not like us jareheads you see..
    These people have mobilised , under the guidance of the communists, for the right to pay 9% VAT and not 24% like the rest of us. They do not want to pay the taxes that are , partly, used, to finance their defence. They do not like the soldiers who are drafted away from their families and friends and stationed there to defend them.
    Some years ago , when all this started they were happy to get the NGO money , rent their houses to the NGO people, at exorbitant prices thereby raising the rents in the market for everyone else, army officers, civil servants, middle class people of all kinds.
    Of course, with all those invaders there, cutting down the olive groves, desecrating the churches, slaughtering and grilling sheep and goats (always in a halal fashion of course) and defecating on the streets and beaches, tourism went waaaaay down. May be they should have thought about that before.

    Those islands are my fatherland. The people that live on them are Greeks. They will be my PEOPLE and deserving MY solidarity ONLY when they recognise the error THEY have made, stop voting for the communists and ask for the defence of our borders as a whole NOT just unload the problem to the rest of Greece and allow the invasion to continue as long as the invaders do not linger there, so that the Lesbians, Chians and so on can continue to happily make money from tourism, also having a 15% cost advantage with respect to the rest of the competition due to the lower VAT just for them.
    Now I do not say they should make penance with sackcloth and aches (although come to think of it…)

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2020 at 7:05 pm

      Andreas, it sadly looks as though you are at least partly right.

      I did some more digging, and besides “We want our islands back” there were others reading “No more prisons for human souls in the North Aegean”–in other words, protesting Muslim invaders just being temporarily held up.

      From a BBC article:

      North Aegean Regional Governor Kostas Moutzouris said on Wednesday he was “annoyed” that Greek islands had been “turned into places of concentration and detention” for thousands of people around the world.

      and

      “,,,we want the refugees and the immigrants to go to another place, to Greece or other parts of the EU,” he told me. “More people are coming and just staying on our islands. They live in tents in inhuman conditions.”

      He said it would be “a nightmare” if that continued.

      and

      On the island of Samos, Giorgos, a bartender who works in the tourist trade, told the BBC he was angry with the government.

      “Here it’s like a prison,” he said. “The migrants aren’t allowed to leave the island. They aren’t free to go where they like.”

      “Greece migrant crisis: Islanders strike over crowded camps”

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51204084

      Although some do seem to have a clue:

      “In Samos town there are more of them than us,” Giorgos said. “They are different. They change our culture.” He is worried that this has a negative effect on tourism.

      “Samos town was full of tourists before. Many people I know, from England too, they say they won’t come to the town.”

      And this is heartening:

      Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis, who visited Samos and Lesbos at the weekend, highlighted two ways to curb migration to the islands: “First, more efficient guarding of our borders and, second, the immediate return of those who don’t deserve international protection,” he said.

      So this seems to be something of a mixed bag.

      • Andreas Spyrakopoulos says

        Jan 25, 2020 at 8:50 pm

        I certainly hope so , and those protests are better than nothing . Now the minister has said what every half self conscious side of beef would : more efficient guarding of borders , ok , what is the minister prepared to do? Every boat is intercepted , Turkey is a stone’s throw away. You only need a good pair of binoculars and you can count the heads in each boat as it leaves the beach across the channel. How much more efficient can you get ? What do you do with the boats and the invaders in them once they are intercepted ? Nothing ! Are they locked up ? No . There is no shortage of uninhabited islands , the army can put up camps there within 3 weeks . Hold them there , in humane conditions , well fed and cared for, weed out the 1-2% who might be genuine refugees and keep the others in until they decide to go home.
        How many people have been deported in the last 2 months ? About 25. How many have come in ? About 5000. You do the math . Turkey will not get them back. Never . That is NOT their plan . There is only one solution , short of machine gunning the boats . Detain all of them indefinitely, until they decide to go home. We will pay the fare, no problem. Once you start doing that, the flow will stop within 3 weeks . At 500 People per day , you need to detain about 10.000. No problem , lots of room. Once the flow is stopped we can deal with the ones that have made it to the mainland. How? SEAL the border to Europe and start plucking them a few hundred at the time. Also , there are no jobs , no food , instead of starving they will give themselves up to be cared for in the detention centers , until they go back . Easy . But what do I know ? I am not a minister .

        There lots of solutions , it is the will that is lacking . Otherwise there will be blood . Lots of it . I can assure you of one thing : The Greek people is fed up with this , we will stop this one way or the other . I hope we will do it in a humane way . There is no way we will go down . Not with a whimper , nor with a bang .
        Same goes for the Italians , the Spanish and the French , all of which I know very well. Not sure about the Germans , but then again who cares ?

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 28, 2020 at 2:40 am

          Muslims should be sent back.

  15. Battle says

    Jan 25, 2020 at 5:39 am

    Erdogan sent he refugee invaders from Turkey as invaders.

    Greece should deport all invaders back to Turkey.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2020 at 7:05 pm

      Spot on, Battle.

      • Andreas Spyrakopoulos says

        Jan 25, 2020 at 9:01 pm

        Turkey ain’t getting them back . They sent them in the first place , why would they? Detain all of them
        Until they decide to go back

  16. No Muzzies Here says

    Jan 25, 2020 at 8:15 am

    So stop voting for the left. They will give you all those juicy social benefits, but there’s a price to pay: your freedom, your safety.

  17. European pagan says

    Jan 25, 2020 at 9:09 am

    They can put them on an uninhabited island without food

  18. FYI says

    Jan 25, 2020 at 11:15 am

    Greece belongs to the Greek people.

    “Europe is for Europeans”{Dalai lama}

    Europe is for…the muslims{according to the Jihadists,lefties,pope francis,the UN immigration policy,treasonous politicians,the NGOS..}

  19. The unexpected voice says

    Jan 25, 2020 at 3:00 pm

    The time has come. Now, we need to retake Constantinople back for Christendom.

    • SAFI says

      Jan 28, 2020 at 3:28 pm

      Don’t you think a better point to start would be taking back Lesbos and those other islands which are currently being overran by muslims? Then perhaps the priority should be taking back Malmo, Marseille, London… when we’ve succeeded in those places it will make more sense to talk about “retaking” something the jihadis conquered ages ago.

  20. jca reid says

    Jan 27, 2020 at 8:26 am

    Too True!! The Greeks have experienced something like 400years of Muslim Rule in their past & don’t want it again! They’ve learnt from History & if you don’t learn from History you are doomed to make the same mistakes.

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