Charming – there go our blood brothers
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July 29, 2013 at 5:55pm
No wonder we in Malta think this sort of behaviour is normal. That councillor, at least, got a suspended prison term.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130729/world/Bananas-thrown-at-Italy-s-firstblack-minister.479955
See this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10204789/This-Tory-immigration-campaign-is-cynical-and-distasteful.-But-the-Lefts-response-sucks.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377600/Tory-posters-telling-illegal-immigrants-Go-Home-branded-nasty-UKIPs-Nigel-Farage.html
This has to be seen in context before any parallels are drawn.
When Joseph Muscat was in Italy a few days stamping his feet and trying to make an issue of irregular immigrants in Malta, the current Italian PM was dealing with the situation of racism in Italy.
The 8 p.m. peak time Rai 1 coverage of PM Muscat’s visit was zilch. His joint press conference with PM Letta received no coverage at all and all the reportage was centred on what the Italian PM had to say on the racial attacks being levelled against Kyenge.
Racism is racism, whatever the country. But while in Malta our PM appeared to be fanning it, his Italian counterpart was trying to control it.
The comparison stops there. The Italians are our cousins, yes, but they are generally shocked at racial attacks.
Can’t really say the same for Malta.
I think that mainstream European politicians have taken political correctness to beyond the practical and the charitable in their attempts to appease…..who exactly?
The bending over back-wards these last 20 years to make multi-culturalism work did not give the desired results.
Unfortunately, undeniable facts show that local communities in Europe have slowly but surely given way to encroaching extra-communitarian ethnic groups. I am no demographic expert or world-class economist but I read and observe.
I also observe the change in the value of real estate, among other things, when extra-communitarian groups encroach. Why does this happen?
Something, surely, must be wrong with the imposition of foreign ethnic groups onto local communities. Local communities fear foreign encroachment – this is a FACT. Is this fear unjustified? What has prompted main-stream European politicians to be so accommodating to appease Islam and its proponents, for example on European soil? Could there be forces at work that the common man in the street does not have any idea about?
And what is this:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130729/world/Immigration-is-a-big-problem-for-Cameron.479954
Is this the first public admission that something went wrong with Britain’s policies of the past? Will more admissions of this kind follow in other European countries?
[Daphne – It’s EU immigrants the British are worried about. Britain has a simple solution: pull out of the EU, get rid of EU immigrants, and watch its economy collapse.]
Britain does not report the British who are working all over Europe (notice in Malta…also many British students in our university without paying like in their country).
[Daphne – That is a very unpleasant remark, Silvio, and a most unwise one. Hundreds of Maltese students are currently in Britain, studying, many of them the recipients of British scholarships.]
Silvio Farrugia, clarify this to me please. So do you equate the British ‘who are working all over Europe’ with the hordes of economic migrants who are arriving into Europe from Africa? Are these ‘groups’, if we had to call them this, the same?
Daphne, Britain’s finished. It’s the consequence of a bad economic model (thank Hilda for the myths she churned out), corruption, dire education (including the polished independent and public schools which are just ghettos for conservative inn-breading), overtaking by multinationals, Murdoch’s efforts to decimate the kingdom, lack of quality…. The UK was different 50 years ago but now it’s all gone.
[Daphne – “The UK was different 50 years ago but now it’s all gone.” And thank God for that.]
Only the food has improved, trust me! People called in ‘the land of milk and honey’. Now it’s all gone.
[Daphne – Rubbish, Joe. I suppose you’d be happy to go back to the Britain of outdoor lavatories, signs saying ‘No Blacks, Dogs or Maltese’ in B & B windows, freezing homes and a rigid class structure. If it were so bad you’d have returned to Malta, but you don’t because you prefer your life in England in teh 21st century. What you’re suffering from is not social change for the worse, but the dawning realisation that life belongs to the young, who know only the way things are now and who don’t care a hoot for the way things were then.]
“Something, surely, must be wrong with the imposition of foreign ethnic groups onto local communities”.
And here lies the fault in your logic. We do not choose our neighbours. I, for one, have a neighbour who swears loudly all day long, even at her own children. The whole neighbourhood has no choice but to hear her scream. She is Maltese.
Liberal, the exception does not make the rule. You mentioned ONE loud neighbour. Apart the fact that you can take civil steps, even at law, to sort the situation or to educate your neighbour, are you saying that this one loud neighbour is equivalent to a neighbourhood of new arrivals with different (with all its implications) ways of life than yours or mine? Please do not stretch your argument to find ‘fault’ in my logic, because your answer is nothing short of ridiculous, to say the least.
Another John, if you really think that I can take civil steps to sort the situation regarding my neighbour, or even that I may take steps to educate her, then you clearly don’t know my neighbour.
I won’t go into details, but let me just say that it would be dangerous even to let her know that she is bothering the rest of us. In any case, her children have already been deprived of their father (again, I won’t elaborate), so it’s a bit of a dilemma to determine what’s best for them – whether reporting their mother after all they have already been through, is actually in their benefit.
In any case, you ask whether one “loud neighbour” is equivalent to a neighbourhood of new arrivals with different ways of life. I can tell you that it is not equivalent. It is not even comparable.
I’m not bothered with different cultures provided they respect the law. Perhaps you are, which would explain why you find my “answer” ridiculous.
Incidentally, haven’t you considered that your “solution” to my problem with my neighbour applies equally to any number of persons, be they Maltese or immigrants? Can’t you also take steps to “educate them” or report them if they are breaking any laws?
You see the introduction of foreign ethnic groups into local communities as an imposition. Your premise itself is faulty so your logic falls flat on its face. You have no right to choose your neighbours, and anyone has the right to live anywhere, provided they do it legally (as all refugees granted permission to stay do). You only have the right to adapt or move.
You can apply the same argument about the chav invasion of Sliema. It’s unpleasant for people who grew up there, but there’s nothing illegal about it and nothing you can do to stop it, anyway.
George Vella’s article in The Times today is something to behold.
There he goes making a whole song and dance about Smart City and Valletta 2018 and how these projects represent the progress the country is making.
This after spending years rubbishing anything which Lawrence Gonzi and his government tried to achieve.
The brass neck on the man is unbelievable.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130729/opinion/Honorary-consuls-the-way-forward.479926
Kyenge’s dignified reaction should not be overlooked. When Robert Calderoli (Vice-President of the Italian Senate, no less) compared her to an orangutan she remained silent.
When Calderoli started feeling the heat (including from his own anti-immigrant party) and called to apologise, she accepted his apologies but asked him to reflect deeply on what he had said.
When somebody threw a banana at her she made no fuss but bemoaned the waste of perfectly good food.
Calderoli, senator, better remembered for taking pigs to a plot reserved for a mosque and wearing a T-shirt offending Islam under his shirt during an interview on TV.
Borghezio, MEP, famous for getting onto trains forcing blacks off their seats and using detergent to clean them.
He then went on to justify the terrorist attacks in Norway
Matteo Salvini, Milanese councillor, better known for his proposal to reserve seats for whites on Milan’s trams.
Funny then, how the Lega chose to pour its state funded millions in Tanzania instead of poltical activity.
By the way, all of these august individuals close to Ellul Bonici.
Kyenge’s proposing decriminalising ‘illegal immigration’ and citizenship for children born to immigrants on Italian soil.
She plans a three year blitz on racism, in football stadiums, the internet, wherever individuals feel they can get away with it. Balotelli offered to be one of the testimonials.
What are we waiting for?
Kyenge is a respected ophthalmologist in Modena.
This goes to show that even the so-called ‘black garbage’ can give a very valid contribution to society.
Sometimes much more so than whiter-than-thou fraudster bank employees.
Her cool reaction to the banana thrower (he missed his target) was typical Anglo-Saxon and sang froid.
“Your action will not change anything and besides it is a waste of food”.
We could do with a few Kyenges here in Malta.
We do have several Keyenges in Malta. When was the last time you heard or read about any nasty, badly informed political gestures by immigrants against Malta, despite the relentless stream of invective and hideous sentiment by Maltese against immigrants?
The fact that some intolerant fool threw bananas at Italy’s first black minister reflects how much we still need to learn to respect any human being, regardless of sex, gender, religion, culture and belief. The most substantial part of any human existence is not those elements which are caused by different factors, such as one’s parents, the place where one is born and grown up. The fact the one is a human being means that full human dignity is bestowed upon him/her and s/he is entitled to have such unique dignity respected by all.
The push-back mentality of some people, including Joseph Muscat’s, belittles all those who think that colour, gender, belief and culture are more important than the human being. Such people’s minds stop at the most superficial understanding of what a human being really is. They should never be trusted with any kind of political role within any community.
This minister said that the Italians do not want to accept that Italy has changed.
It was changed BY FORCE like it is happening in Malta. The Italians did not want it changed and nor do we.
Let us admit that integration and multiculturalism did not work anywhere. Should we not learn from other countries? Or we are expecting it to work here?
[Daphne – If there were no integration, multiculturalism and miscegenation over the last few centuries, Silvio, neither of us would have existed, and nor would anybody else on this small island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. We are living proof that it works. There is no such thing, racially or ethnically, as a Maltese person. The process was arrested for a while, lulling us into thinking that there is such a thing as a ‘pure Maltese’, but it can’t be arrested forever. If you look about you properly, you will see that many Maltese people have unmistakably African, North African, Middle Eastern, Indian, British, Irish, Slavic and even Chinese and Japanese features which pop out like a surprise down the generations. ]
Silvio, you and I are living proof that multiculturalism works here. We are cultural opposites.
‘if you look about you properly, you will see . . ‘ (Silvio), that although ‘83% of the Maltese regard themselves as European’, 83% of them don’t look it.
While on the subject of racism I have to point this out: Chris Fearne proposes a law to make female genital mutilation illegal in Malta. Why? Could he possibly believe that it’s legal today?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-07-29/news/mp-to-propose-bill-to-ban-female-genital-mutilation-2193031168/#_=_
Whatever Fearne’s intentions, this will certainly spur the racists on, after Muscat’s antics brought them to a panicky gallop. We can now expect a stampede of comments on news portals and Facebook.
Honestly. What a herd of asses we’re saddled with.
To Mr.Antoine Vella,
I think you did not understand Mr.Fearne’s Proposal.
It s true that fgm is not legal in malta BUT female babies born in Malta to the asylum seekers are at great risk of going through the fgm because it s part of their religion or cultural beliefs.
[Daphne – Kindly don’t generalise. This like saying that all Maltese believe in the virgin birth and that nobody should have sex outside marriage, or that homosexuals should remain celibate until death, and presumably also after that. Or that it’s ‘cultural’ for Maltese men to beat their wives when they don’t do as they’re told.]
With all due respect Mrs.Caruana Galizia, who got sense in his mind knows that we maltese supposed to be CATHOLICS, in real life we don t give a damn of what our religion teaches cause if we did there would not be all this fuss about illegal migrants, we would accept them and help them.
That s what the bible says regard helpless individuals.
It s a known fact that we twist and turn our religion to our likings and needs.But these asylum seekers are still very devoted to their religious or cultural beliefs. And I think that Mr.fearne is being very realistic.
At least in Italy the racists seem to be in the minority. She was after all elected.
Here racists compromise the vast majority-and come from all walks of life too.
A few days back a Maltese AFM helicopter pilot indicated displeasure on Facebook with many of the passengers he ends up carrying – drowning migrants who he is charged with rescuing.
It was done very vaguely, and much was left unsaid, but in its context, the implication was unmistakable.
I should add there are many good and decent people working both for the AFM, and the Italian SAR team stationed here in Malta, but the cowboys are out there.
These are extracts from what Joseph Muscat wrote to Barack Obama when in 2008 the latter was elected the first black (African-American) President of the United States:
“Your election is welcome news for all those who believe that everyone, irrespective of social or economic background, should have the opportunity to succeed in one’s life.”
“Your election as President of the United States is indeed welcome news for all those, especially young women and men, who believe and hope in a change to a better way of doing things; a way that goes beyond outdated partisan and divisive politics.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081105/local/joseph-muscat-writes-to-obama.231980
Later, in his great and desperate urge for power, Muscat led an expensive Obama-style electoral campaign. He copied the African-American President down to the smallest detail, including staged acts with his own Michelle, the confetti, the teleprompters, the “Tana Lkoll” placards, the official song and video, even the campaign logo.
Now contrast all that pre-electoral “campaigning in prose” with how he behaved the moment he was in power.
In his first opportunity presented to him, as Prime Minister, to give shelter to persons who have a different colour of the skin, he chose to not rule out the violation of their fundamental human rights on the basis of colour, race or origin (not to mention their sex and health condition – “healthy males”), to stamp his feet and to use his advanced British sense of humor.
And on top of all this, about a couple of years ago, Joseph Muscat had said publicly that he was colour blind.
I heard a new conspiracy theory today, Daphne. It concerns you and migration.
This guest of mine believes you are funded by some foreign entity – a sort of globalist mercenary let loose on this nation’s minds.
No, no, no, I say, she’s just a prejudiced, insecure busybody with a knack for mocking the UNderClasS and their leaders.
The contradiction of her being so naturally prejudiced and yet so obsessively pro-migration has a source, I add. She follows Western dogma unquestionably, unfailingly, unavoidably; a fervent Europeanist scratching the surface of EU politics, dishing out EU mantra like an EU pro; an unknowing globalist apparatchik who tosses the coin without bothering even to cross her fingers.
True, I continued, there would have been little parental bliss had she married, say, an Eritrean, but that’s beside the point: she was brought up on Jackie Magazine, runs on schoolyard mores and rides her hobbyhorse like a mare on summer heat.
Sadly, my guest was not convinced.
To be fair, my argument against his theory sounded like an apologist’s plea in Plato’s cave.
[Daphne – No, Kevin, the real reason is that I was raised in an enlightened household, a rare thing for Malta in the 1970s. The reason I favour acceptance of different skin colours and religous beliefs is the very same reason I don’t favour acceptance of Labour’s mores and values and the people who promote them to the detriment of society.]
And why would Bossi jr. come down to Gozo for a weekend to play football?
Accompanied by the same councillor later charged with embezzling millions ie.
How’s the financing for the alliance kev?
What weird company you keep. Or maybe it’s just a case of like attracting like.
Tin foil hat wearers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your grip on reality.
I wonder if a tin foil hat would keep the sun off in this infernal weather. I think I’ll give it a go.
It is good to be reminded that there are occasions when we could learn a thing or two about decent behaviour from persons whom one may consider as inferior.
[Daphne – Exactly how could a top-ranked ophthalmologist be considered inferior by anyone.]
She isn’t exactly top-ranked.
In any case, the problem isn’t Kyenge. It’s her appointment, which smacks of condescension. Just like making Cyrus Engerer the head of the consultative council on LGBT rights just because he’s a homosexual. The assumption here is that Kyenge will make an excellent minister for racial integration (they call it ‘integration’) just because she is black.
It just had to be the Italians.
I think that my point is very clear.
The person who threw the banana looked on Kyenge as an inferior on one criterion only – her colour. Not her profession or the office she held.
And her response had a dignity about it far superior than those who tried to offend her.
Well not long ago British politicians ( I believe also PM Cameroon )stated that immigrant integration and multiculturalism had not worked. I also remember the same said during French Sarkozy’s time.There have been riots in France , Britain and until recently in Stockholm .
I have a nephew whose father is British and who was at Uni in London who said that in many parts of London there is discrimination against whites ! One is looked down upon by the coloured community and is not liked .
When you say Daphne that we are all coming from different race I agree but it took donkeys to be like it is.