Showing posts with label Great Britain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Britain. Show all posts

Sunday, May 24, 2015

When It Comes to Dealing With Illegal Immigration, The U.S. And Britain Couldn’t Be More Different

By Fred Lucas, May 23, 2015, The Blaze

LONDON — Nick Evlogimenos came from Greece to Britain three years ago and now wants to see limits on both illegal and legal immigration into the country he now calls home.

“I understand the agony some people face but from my point of view, whoever wants to make a living in a country that is not his own should prove he can provide for that country by being productive,” Evlomenos told TheBlaze.

Fresh off his Conservative party’s reelection victory this month, British Prime Minister David Cameron proposed a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigrants and employers who hire them that would allow confiscating illegals’ paychecks and cutting government benefits for legal immigrants. The announcement came after reports that net immigration into Britain in 2014 reached a near record at 318,000, an increase of more than 100,000 from the previous year.


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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The New Anti-Semitism: Majority Of British Jews Feel They Have No Future In UK, Says New Study

Cahal Milmo, Jan. 14, 2015, The Independent

British society is at a “tipping point” with Jewish families increasingly questioning whether to stay in the country, campaigners claim today.

The warning is bolstered by a new YouGov poll showing that 45 per cent of Britons agreed with at least one of four antisemitic statements put to them. Some 25 per cent agreed with the idea that “Jews chase money more than other British people” while one in five accepted as true that “Jews’ loyalty to Israel makes them less loyal to Britain than other British people”.

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Friday, January 9, 2015

Britain's MI5 Chief Warns Al Qaeda In Syria Planning Mass Attacks On West

Guy Faulconbridge, Jan. 8, 2015, Reuters

Parker said around 600 British extremists had traveled to Syria, many joining the militant group which calls itself "Islamic State" and has taken control of swathes of Iraq and Syria.

Islamic State militants in Syria were plotting attacks on Britain and making sophisticated use of social media to incite British nationals to carry out violence, Parker said.

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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Wife of hostage Alan Henning pleads for ISIS to let him go

By Chelsea J. Carter and Phillip Taylor, CNN



London (CNN) -- The wife of British hostage Alan Henning pleaded Saturday with the Islamic State terror group to release her husband, describing him as a "peaceful, selfless man" who was only in Syria to help people in need.

"I cannot see how it could assist any State's cause to allow the world to see a man like Alan dying," according to a message from Barbara Henning released by the UK Foreign Office.

"I have been trying to communicate with the Islamic State and the people holding Alan. I have sent some really important messages but they have not been responded to."

In a videotaped execution of aid worker David Haines, made public last week, ISIS threatened to kill Henning next if the United States continued its airstrikes targeting the group's fighters in Iraq.


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Friday, September 19, 2014

Alan Henning: British Muslim Leaders Unite To Urge ISIS To Release UK Hostage

British Muslims at the Active Change Foundation 
youth centre in Leytonstone, east London, 
launch a social media campaign against Isis (PA)
Source: www.independent.co.uk
By Oliver Wright, Sept. 17, 2014, Independent.co.uk

More than 100 Muslim leaders today make an unprecedented joint appeal to the kidnappers of Alan Henning to release the aid worker unharmed or commit the “worst condemnable sin” against Islam.

The statement to The Independent has been signed by dozens of Imams from across the UK as well as community leaders and other prominent Muslims. It has been passed on to Mr Henning’s family.

It pleads with those holding the British hostage to accept that he was on a mission to Syria to help innocent civilians and to see the errors of their ways.

“In Islam, concern for fellow humans and the duty to help everyone is a religious obligation,” they write. “Anyone undertaking a humanitarian act is paving his or her way to receive help from heaven.

“In contrast, the senseless kidnapping and despicable threats to Mr Henning cannot be justified.”

Using Koranic references the letter says that if they are true Muslims the kidnappers – including the British man dubbed Jihadi John – must release him “immediately”.

The leaders also express their “horror and revulsion” at the “senseless murder” of the previous three hostages, including the Briton David Haines.

And they are categorical in their condemnation of Isis – which is believed to have attracted several hundred British fighters to its cause.


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