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Italy: Banksy’s Muslim migrant rescue boat, named for French anarchist, demands help from EU

Sep 2, 2020 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The emboldening of Muslim migrants who are increasingly violating EU borders is facilitated by globalist leadership, which should be concerned about stats on rising crime and antisemitism, Muslim rape gangs, Sharia courts and Islamic hate preachers. Instead, these leaders have embraced dhimmitude.

Now, “a migrant transport funded by the so-called street artist Banksy demanded help after overloading the vessel with more than 200 people picked up off the coast of Africa.” Behaving as if it were their right to make demands of the EU, “crew on the Louise Michel, which is painted pink and named after a French anarchist, sent out tweets…calling for ‘immediate assistance’ from authorities in Malta, Italy, and Germany.” At the same time, they manifested a jarring disconnection from reality as they also “denounced the EU’s supposed ‘Fortress Europe’ migration policy,” and of course completely ignored any of the safe North African countries nearby as possible destinations for the migrants. Unfortunately, the EU has been anything but a fortress.

Note also: “Previously, Breitbart London reported how 70 per cent of migrants who seek to cross the Mediterranean to Europe are not eligible for asylum, according to a United Nations (UN) estimate.”

“Stranded: Banksy’s Migrant ‘Rescue’ Boat Demands Help From EU,” by Victoria Hale, Breitbart, August 30, 2020:

A migrant transport funded by the so-called street artist Banksy demanded help after overloading the vessel with more than 200 people picked up off the coast of Africa.

Crew on the Louise Michel, which is painted pink and named after a French anarchist, sent out tweets on Friday night and Saturday calling for “immediate assistance” from authorities in Malta, Italy, and Germany — but seemingly not any of the safe North African countries nearby — and denounced the EU’s supposed ‘Fortress Europe’ migration policy.

“#LouiseMichel is unable to move, she is no longer the master of her manoeuvre, due to her overcrowded deck and a liferaft deployed at her side, but above all due to Europe ignoring our emergency calls for immediate assistance,” activists on the boat tweeted Saturday.

The message followed a series of tweets in which the crew informed followers of their attempts to contact relevant authorities in EU countries, as well as a post proclaiming that the vessel “exists because current European policy is to deliberately ignore distress calls and let people drown”.

Despite Banksy being worth an estimated £38 million (50 million USD), according to reports, the crew made it clear that they expect taxpayers to foot the bill for housing and feeding the migrants in their homelands, with the artist merely funding their transportation to Europe.

The crew tweeted: “States are relying on civilians to prevent mass loss of life in the Med. Now we rely on them to give the survivors a Place of Safety — and we need it now!”

Known as a “street artist”, Banksy published a video explaining that he decided to buy a French navy vessel and turn it into a migrant transport because “All Black Lives Matter”, denouncing EU countries for allegedly “deliberately ignor[ing] distress calls from ‘non-Europeans’”.

On Saturday morning the crew repeated its calls for help, posting to Twitter that the Louise Michel, which has a maximum capacity of 130 passengers, “is unable to safely move and nobody is coming to our aid”.

Open borders activist Claire Faggianelli, who prepared the boat for its maiden mission, saw the project as a “wake-up call for Europe”, according to the left-wing Guardian.

“We really want to try to awaken the consciousness of Europe and say: ‘Look, we have been yelling at you for years now. There is something that shouldn’t be happening at the very borders of Europe, and you close your eyes to it. Wake up!’” she said.

Banksy’s ship has now been evacuated by the Italian authorities and the Sea-Watch 4 migrant transport operated by pro-migration NGOs.

Previously, Breitbart London reported how 70 per cent of migrants who seek to cross the Mediterranean to Europe are not eligible for asylum, according to a United Nations (UN) estimate….

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  1. Sylvia Drummond says

    Sep 2, 2020 at 11:10 am

    Banksy has never made his identity public, wonder why. Perhaps he is black

    • stressed eric says

      Sep 2, 2020 at 11:16 am

      +1

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 2, 2020 at 10:30 pm

      What difference would it make if he were black? Jean-Michel Basquiat was black and he is widely celebrated.

  2. Tony Naim says

    Sep 2, 2020 at 11:28 am

    “The emboldening of Muslim migrants who are increasingly violating EU borders is facilitated by globalist leadership, which should be concerned about stats on rising crime and antisemitism, Muslim rape gangs, Sharia courts and Islamic hate preachers. Instead, these leaders have embraced dhimmitude”

    All true. The right course of action to take and the intelligent approach is to abolish Dhimmitude, the apartheid code product of political Islam.The other measure the west can take is reduce the utilization of birth control,give tax incentives, provide health care benefits and educational subsidies for large families, eliminate Elective abortion to mitigate the need for immigrants.

    However, to stop immigration? a phenomenon that existed since HomoSapiens walked the earth or
    To eliminate the RELIGIOUS tradition of Islam with 1.5 adherents?- Good luck !

    • PRCS says

      Sep 2, 2020 at 3:09 pm

      “the apartheid code product of political Islam”

      …the apartheid code of regular, every-day Islam”

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 2, 2020 at 10:32 pm

      Tony, Muslim immigration into the US was down 90% even before the Covid lockdown, so it *can* be done.

      • curious says

        Sep 3, 2020 at 3:17 am

        @gravenimage, we’ve discussed this. Muslim immigration dropped less than 30% during that time. Muslim “refugee” immigration dropped more than 90%, but that is only a subset. The total dropped by less then 30%, less than 1/3 of the “ban” that DJT had campaigned on.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 3, 2020 at 10:02 pm

          curious, you can sneer at this if you like–I think it’s a good first step.

  3. Chrissie01 says

    Sep 2, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    I wonder what is so difficult? Get them out of the water, give them a shower, feed them and dispatch them from whence they came…
    And if you want to have these lice in your fur, being so merciful and helpful – by all means, do it with your own funds.

    • talleyrand says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 3:47 am

      +1

    • Rufolino says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 7:54 am

      Europe is doing everything it can to expedite its own suicide, and it is doing so with a self-righteous smile on its face.

  4. Rob says

    Sep 2, 2020 at 1:30 pm

    Named after a French anarchist?
    Aren’t these migrants trying to escape anarchy?

    • Michael Copeland says

      Sep 2, 2020 at 1:50 pm

      It should be re-named MV Collusion.

      They should “demand help” from Hollywood celebrities.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 2, 2020 at 10:36 pm

      Most of these Muslim migrants want to *cause* anarchy.

    • Chrissie01 says

      Sep 5, 2020 at 1:46 pm

      yep, they are trying to run away from themselves…

  5. Christopher Watson says

    Sep 2, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    They always expect other people to bail them out. I always love Margaret Thatcher’s quote “When they run out of other people’s money.” Our pensioners are paying for it now; our children will pay for it in the future. They won’t have the advantages we had in the 60s and 70s. They will be paying for the millions of moslem immigrants who are too stupid to even get any job.
    Look at the last 100 years of the history of the ME. War, revolution, death, war etc. Oh yes, there are one or two stable countries – those with oil, money and the backing of the USA. I wouldn’t like to live in Saudi Arabia. Stalin’s USSR seems a more pleasant option. At least I could have a Vodka.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 2, 2020 at 10:45 pm

      Spot on, Christopher.

  6. john smith says

    Sep 2, 2020 at 4:34 pm

    Well, I wont be buying anymore of his paintings.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 9:23 am

      Only an idiot would after Banksy’s last escapade.

  7. tim gallagher says

    Sep 2, 2020 at 5:04 pm

    What an idiot this Banksy must be. Anyone who still thinks bringing large numbers of Muslim invaders (er, “refugee”) into our western countries is, at least in my opinion, a fool. It is a recipe for disaster. On the news this morning in Australia, they mentioned that 409 “refugees” had made their way across to England from France in the past day. They said it was the largest number ever to make their way across in a single day. I suppose these invaders want to get across before harsher weather arrives. Unrelated to this, a couple of police were attacked in the centre of Sydney a couple of days back by a man wielding a knife. I imagine that many people would have thought like I did, oh, here we go again, a Muslim scumbag. Nothing said on the news about details of the attack until this morning. Sure enough it was a Muslim saying he wanted to kill police and yelling, “Allahu Akbar”, the usual moronic Muslim war cry. What a great idea it is to let Muslims into a civilised, non-Muslim society.

    • David says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 4:44 am

      100%

      • tim gallagher says

        Sep 3, 2020 at 5:49 am

        Thanks, David. I want to add a bit of information about this man who attacked the two policemen in Sydney. The man’s name was Fredric Elrezz, according to the TV news tonight. Here at Jihad Watch it is often, quite correctly, said that you can’t get honest information about the motive for a crime, maybe Islamic motives will be covered up,etc. The confusion about this crime is extraordinary. I heard on the radio news at around 7am that Elrezz was yelling “Allahu Akbar” and said he wanted to kill police for Allah. Then about an hour and a half later, the news on the same radio station said that the motive for the attacks was unclear. I thought that, maybe, police or someone had said, no, we don’t yet know the motive. Hours later, I heard a presenter on the same radio station ask a reporter, look, was it true or not that Elrezz was yelling “Allahu Akbar”, etc, and the reporter, who had been to his court appearance (Elrezz was too violent to be brought to court), said the cop cam footage didn’t show Elrezz yelling “Allahu akbar” as he attacked the police, but was mumbling some type of religious crap later on at a police interview. Talk about confusion. I couldn’t believe the chaos of all these different takes on the scumbag’s behaviour. Just weird. I think they are saying this Elrezz character is mentally ill and extremely violent. I was amazed at all these changes to the description of the crime and the man’s motivation for it. What a rabble. I thought I’d try to clear it up because what I wrote earlier may not reflect the truth..

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 3, 2020 at 10:04 pm

          Thanks for that information, Tim.

        • tim gallagher says

          Sep 3, 2020 at 11:00 pm

          No worries, gravenimage, this whole thing struck me as so weird. Maybe the radio station’s news reporting should be a bit more careful. As I mentioned, for a day or so, there was no information about the motive, though it seemed to be similar other Muslim attacks on police. Then, there was a report about it being a Muslim attacker yelling “Allahu Akbar”. I was driving to play golf with a couple of friends when I heard the later report saying the motive wasn’t clear. I smelled a rat. I thought maybe the higher up people in the police might have said, hey, change the story, don’t mention the Muslim and “Allahu Akbar”. It was several hours later when I was driving home from golf, and I heard the radio presenter asking the reporter who had been in court about the “Allahu Akbar” stuff. I think, like me, the presenter might have been getting exasperated with the conflicting reports and was trying to find out the truth. It was all very weird. The man who attacked the two police officers does sound like a lunatic. He was too violent with the prison officers for them to take him to court. On TV, there was a still photo of one of the policeman’s heads, bleeding very heavily.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 3, 2020 at 11:17 pm

          Alas, Tim, this savagery is orthodox Islam.

        • tim gallagher says

          Sep 4, 2020 at 12:22 am

          That’s right, gravenimage. There are endless attacks like this all over the world by Muslims. Such a violent religious ideology. This time there was no one killed. It made me think about the other Muslim terrorist attacks in Sydney, the ones I can remember. There was one which would most be remembered by people here, the siege in the middle of Sydney where a Muslim scumbag held many people hostage in a Lindt chocolate coffee shop for many hours. He murdered one of the staff and another innocent person, a customer in the shop, was killed when the police charged into the place and shot the terrorist dead. There was one, again in the centre of Sydney, where a Muslim scumbag murdered a young woman and was chased by a number of firemen and average people through the middle of the city and grabbed by them. I recall another attack out in the suburbs where a man was stabbed and badly injured by a Muslim maniac and some ordinary, brave neighbours held the maniac at bay using bits of wood, etc. There are probably others I’ve forgotten. It could be worse, so far it is far worse in other countries, but I don’t think any of this crap should be put up with. No Muslims, none of this. keep them out. No Buddhists or Christians have done anything like this, and, also, you know there are other Muslims.out there always planning more of this crap which is basic to their evil creed.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 4, 2020 at 12:43 am

          Yes–I remember these terrible cases.

  8. Just Venting says

    Sep 2, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    My recommendations for solving this particular crisis:

    1. Identify and locate Banksy’s european homes, condos, etc.
    2. Inform mr. b that all 203 migrants will be delivered to these premises for him to clothe, feed, support, and house until they can be adjudicated. Any that can be admitted will be his charges until they can find suitable work.
    3. Arrest the pink boat crew for any and all laws they broke related to trafficking, smuggling, and illegal entry.
    4. Impound and sell the boat for the costs of rescuing these migrants
    5. All NGO boats that go out looking for “migrants to save” should be treated as in #3 & #4 from this point on.

    Unfortunately, no one in europe has the nerve to do this.

    • James Lincoln says

      Sep 3, 2020 at 10:41 am

      Just Venting says,

      Looks like a pretty good list.

      I would add that Banksy (and his future estate) also be held personally / financially / legally liable for any crimes committed by these 203 migrants for their entire lives…

  9. gravenimage says

    Sep 2, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    Italy: Banksy’s Muslim migrant rescue boat, named for French anarchist, demands help from EU
    …………….

    I remember the days when Banksy (or someone working in his style) just left graffiti all over our neighborhood.

    But he’s got a long history of pandering to Muslims, including “Banksy in Gaza” and “Son of a Migrant from Syria”. In the latter, oddly, he focuses on Steve Jobs–without ever noting that Jobs was raised by civilized American Infidels, not Muslims.

    So this latest does not really surprise.

  10. curious says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 3:20 am

    Officially declare the boat an invading enemy (which it is), fire a warning shot across the bow, then sink it with overwhelming force from a great distance.

    The minute you start in on “assistanc” (jizya), you’ve lost. The circumstances must therefore not leave any possibility of starting down that road.

  11. OLD GUY says

    Sep 3, 2020 at 11:59 am

    Yes this is the migration invasion of islam into the EU. It is the “civilian” invasion of muslims/islamic people who do not wish to become part of your society but will take over your country from within. Islamic leadership knows they can not defeat the west through a military invasion, so sending islamic/muslim followers into your country is the answer.

    Sharia law is coming to a neighborhood near you sooner than you think.

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