swolf wrote:Other than that, the majority of Albanian Kosovars as recently as 1999 could as easily have been categorized as "failed assylum seekers", "illegal immigrants", or whatever you want to call them. There's no really meaningful difference.
How not?
I mean, I believe Ive heard you say that the Albanian Kosovars basically expanded their 'stranglehold' on Kosovo by having lots of children - but now you're saying that they had all illegally immigrated, from Albania I presume?
swolf wrote:Walter Hinteler wrote:That article leads to one about failed asylum-seekers.
You certainly wanted to link to something else, re "ethnic cleansing", I suppose.
The title of the article:
The Netherlands: Dutch Parliament Passes Strong Measure On Expulsion Of Immigrants
which is the basic idea and, if you read much about Holland's recent experiences with muslim immigrants, you get the drift pretty quickly. They're not talking abour heaving immigrants from China, Russia, England, or Poland. They're talking about reducing the population of muslims in Holland to a manageable level.
Oh I have nothing much up with my country's immigration policies. But you gotta get it right.
First off, we're talking of asylum-seekers that are expelled. So not people who were born here and so on, but those who came here asking an asylum status, and were denied one.
Second off, those asylum-seekers do come from all over the world, not just Muslims. Plenty of Africans, Asians.
Apart from some Fortuynist loons who are not in the government (and who have been reduced to 5% in the elections), noone is talking about "reducing" the population of Muslims. Theres a lot of silly rahrah about the number of Muslims here, but basically the only thing thats being done, apart from the expulsion of asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants, is to limit the number of
new Muslims coming in. Even Pim Fortuyn said that all those who are "in" now, should be allowed to stay.
The number of Muslims here in fact still increases every year, because Dutch Muslims find their wives and husbands in their (parents') homecountry, bring their children over, etc. The government is (wrongly, imho) trying to limit the possibilities to do so. But the only people that are being made to
leave the country are asylum-seekers whose application has been denied and illegal immigrants when they have the bad luck to be caught. I think theyre being way too strict, but "ethnic cleansing" it is not.
Oh, and then theres the whole pesky difference of not going around shooting and raping them and having paramilitary thugs chasing them from their towns at gunpoint and so on.