UNHCR's mid year trend report for world wide forced displacement, that is refugees, was released today. 60 million people with 34 million internally displaced are on the run from home for various reasons like starvation or conflict. 1 million refugees crossed the Mediterranean sea to seek shelter in Europe. 1.8 million refugees lives in miserable conditions in Turkey, Lebanon also host Syrian refugees even though far from the Turkish numbers but also under dire conditions, prohibited from working and leaving the camps. Not taking the Syrian exodus into account, the forced displacement numbers would still be increasing with a dramatic rate. Return rates are at the same time decreasing and the reason is that the further away from home a refugee succeeds to go the lesser his possibilities will be to return as few countries would let him enter to pass further on towards home without papers.
It was also stated that our world has 250 million widows living on 1 US dollar a day or less. Great part of those widows have children to feed and about 50% of those children are boys. How many widows lives on 2 US dollars or less, or 3 US dollars or less...? What a nursery for bringing up angry young men, mostly from a Muslim family background. Then we have boys and young men coming to Europe as refugees, mostly with Muslim background finding no jobs, their degrees from home not accepted in the country they landed in, no hope.
Every day I hear the talks about stopping radicalization, even criminalize people with radical tendencies, taking the passports away from people where there is a suspicion that they may travel to participate in Jihad. We see extreme reactions from Christian communities, like the one in Augusta county, Georgia, USA were schools were shut down because a professor in World geography gave the students the task to try learn copying the calligraphic text of the "Shahada", the Islam statement of faith. The parents in Augusta county turned out to be radical Christians causing the school to close and demanding that the professor be fired.
In times before 9/11 we talked about how to feed the people of the world, to stop devastating diseases in tropical zones, to lift emerging countries to our levels of life, to make those nations into democratic societies. The reasoning behind was of course to create stability and peace on planet earth by acknowledging that we are all equal with equal rights, to liberty of expression, to health, to a bed and roof over our heads, to go to bed without suffering from hunger. This seem to be all forgotten from reading the horrific statistics published by the UNHCR.
Defeating ISIS will not make the earth a better place and it will not stop insurgency and terrorism. Defeating ISIS is something that we need to do but it is "piece of cake" compared to what we really need to do. We do not need to focus on ISIS, there are already sufficient war-hungry nations with starving military "handlers" engaged to finish ISIS off. We, the civilians of those nations should not be distracted by the fear for "ISIS" created by our tinkering tanks and news media, we should continue to focus on how to feed the world, to make all nations on earth democratic and peaceful.
ISIS is a no brain'er but what caused ISIS to emerge is our real problem. Nations on the African continent are far away but we have to deal with them. Immigrants coming to our countries have to be welcomed with love and support from the very people in the communities they land. Don't expect that our governments will take care of it, politicians, governments and their administrations are not known for having a heart. Love is all they need not to become radicalized, the same for me and you so it is you and I, regular citizens that can make the difference, no matter where the immigration services would place that buss-load of immigrants.
Love is all we need...
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