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Italy: Leftist government shuts out Muslim migrants only because coronavirus makes the country unsafe for them

Apr 17, 2020 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Migrants from Africa have been pouring into Italy — sometimes 10,000 in a single week — since 2015. In one notorious incident, “Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat…threw 12 fellow passengers overboard — killing them — because the 12 were Christians.” Still migrants continued to pour in, despite the obvious dangers they presented to the Italian population. That is, they continued to pour in until the so-called populist Matteo Salvani managed to call a halt to these migrant flows.

Salvini was quickly removed from power, and Italy’s present leftist coalition government is deciding to do what’s best not for Italy, but for the migrants:

“The leftist governing coalition has closed all ports in Italy to migrant transport NGOs, stating that the country is no longer a safe haven due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. The government has stated that Italy will be closed to all migrants and asylum seekers due to the Chinese virus outbreak and that its ports will not accept any migrant transport NGO vessels until at least July 31st.”

Given the globalist pursuit of suicidal immigration policies, the coronavirus pandemic has not stopped, but merely slowed the pace of unvetted Muslim migrant invasion into Italy. Once the war on the coronavirus pandemic is won, the migrant invasion will resume.

“Italy Closes All Ports to Migrant Transport NGOs, Deeming Country ‘Not Safe,’” by Chris Tomlinson,  Breitbart, April 9, 2020:

The leftist governing coalition has closed all ports in Italy to migrant transport NGOs, stating that the country is no longer a safe haven due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

The government has stated that Italy will be closed to all migrants and asylum seekers due to the Chinese virus outbreak and that its ports will not accept any migrant transport NGO vessels until at least July 31st.

Several Italian ministries endorsed the move including the Health Ministry and Interior Ministry which put out a statement alongside other departments.

“For the entire period of the duration of the national health emergency resulting from the spread of the COVID-19 virus Italian ports do not ensure the necessary requirements for the classification and definition of ‘Place of Safety’, pursuant to the provisions of the Hamburg Convention, on research and maritime rescue, for rescue cases carried out by naval units flying a foreign flag outside the Italian SAR [search and rescue] area,” the statement said according to Il Giornale.

The coronavirus outbreak has led to most migrant transport NGOs keeping their vessels in port, except for the German-based NGO Sea-Eye which recently picked up 150 migrants from the North African coast and has been waiting to dock in Italy for several days.

The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has rejected Sea-Eye’s requests to dock and has instead called on the German government to take responsibility for the vessel and the migrants aboard it.

State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior Carlo Sibilia has suggested that migrants remain aboard the transport vessels under quarantine.

Without mentioning the Sea-Eye vessel specifically, he admitted that such measures would only be possible if Italy were a safe haven, stating: “With an emergency of this magnitude still going on, I don’t think we can guarantee it anymore.”…

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  1. Boromir's Horn says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 12:07 pm

    Meanwhile, from the leftist government in the state of Michigan:

    The Ayatollah of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, flexing her liberal gubernatorial muscles by banning the sale of “nonessential” items like seeds to grow your own food, paint, garden supplies, clothing and car seats, has consulted with CAIR-MI to find ways muslims can feel more welcome in this country, will consider the following: banning music (except, of course, praise goes to Allah, the call to prayer), dancing, laughing too loud and smiling excessively in public. The wearing of burqas (for public safety of course) is highly recommended, but not mandatory at this time.

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 12:10 pm

    Italians should read a bit of their medieval history with respect to Islamic invasions. Muslims took Sicily and other parts of southern Italy and created emirates. It took hundreds of years to get the invaders to leave. Italy has been repeatedly hammered by Muslim invaders, pirates as well as Muslim navies.

    History will repeat itself.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 17, 2020 at 9:40 pm

      Yes–we should all know our histories–all too many in the West do not.

  3. Jay says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 1:04 pm

    Italy should be even more unsafe for them than it already is. Sorry, not sorry. I love ex-moslems, that’s the best thing I can say about islam. And there are very many ex-moslems who are very excellent. But if people support every key tenet of the koran, well, you can count me out, I cannot support them in any way, shape or form. Nobody in their right mind would support such dangerous types.

    • Hoppla poppla says

      Apr 18, 2020 at 1:44 pm

      There is no ex Muslim alive. Ex Muslims only exist in the gullible mind of westerners.

      • keith says

        Apr 18, 2020 at 7:20 pm

        Gotta disagree there.
        There are ex Muslims. They are the too few who have come to the realization that this “religion” is nothing but a violent con job and then pulled the pin to get away from this.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 18, 2020 at 7:55 pm

        Hoppla poppla wrote:

        There is no ex Muslim alive. Ex Muslims only exist in the gullible mind of westerners.
        ……………

        Ah…right. Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nonie Darwish, and other brave ex-Muslims are all figments of our imagination. sarc/off

      • gary fouse says

        Apr 18, 2020 at 10:59 pm

        Have you never heard of Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali? They are apostates. Yes, they are few, but they are to be supported.

  4. Clifford Fodor says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 1:59 pm

    Do unto them what they do unto us (Christians)–throw them back in the water. Muslims expect kindness from us Christians because that’s part of our religion. Thank you, Obama, for reminding us. But can we expect the same kindness from them? Hell no! They kill us.

    • elee says

      Apr 17, 2020 at 2:55 pm

      Christians practise turning the other cheek per their scriptures and Muslims don’t object, in fact they facilitate by giving the Christians (and Jews, and Bahais, and Zoroastrians) many opportunities to practise forgiveness. And Muslims practise killing kafirs per their scriptures, and the kafirs have to audacity to object! Islamophobia, racism, discrimination! Of course the Muslims pray for Allah’s little soldiers to kill all those evil intolerant kafirs!

  5. Carolyn Marlin says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 2:43 pm

    Sir when is Obama going to retire in Iran?

  6. elee says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 2:51 pm

    Gee, does this mean that lefties can respond to objective reality? Careful, this is ideologically dangerous! Next thing you know you’ll be reasoning with “libtards” instead of berating them, and you’ll be open to alliances with those of all stripes who don’t want any part of shariah. My god, you might even be the seed crystal of a broad-based front of those who believe in tolerance and reasoning together. Naaaahh, I’m fantasising again. Italy, remember Otranto!

  7. ntesdorf says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 7:50 pm

    These days we have to be thankful for small mercies. Keeping Muslims out is always good news, whatever the rationale.

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    Italy: Leftist government shuts out Muslim migrants only because coronavirus makes the country unsafe for them
    …………………..

    I’m just speechless…

  9. OLD GUY says

    Apr 18, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    UNBLEIVABLE! I can now see why muslims think we are inferior to them. How stupid can our government leaders be?

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