In the case of African immigrants, albeit there are those who are Muslims, there are more than a good number of Christians amongst them, thus professing our own religion.

Having stated the above I want to say that I have worked in two Libyan-owned factories in the past and I had always had very good relations with the Arabs both in Libya and in Malta.

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-07-09/news/afm-intercepts-group-of-102-migrants-2023686144/

Is this Labour’s latest spin on the subject? Humane push-back?

‘Do we have jobs for these people?

Are you serious? They’re better at everything they’re employed to do, mainly because they usually come with a higher level of education than the Maltese, civilised, multilingual and willing to work.

I’ve seen employers who took them on, at times initially sceptical and intent on giving them the most menial of tasks, they won’t let them go now.

And it’s always the best companies in their field, contracting, catering, retail. It’s the usual ‘workers’ who won’t lift an extra finger or diversify their skills who feel threatened.

But then, isn’t this what Labour’s after? Create another worker’s paradise where change, diversity, innovation and the will to beat the odds become taboo.

Has anyone in this country realised what an utter contradiction it is for the traditional, albeit distorted, left to allow a vile anti-semite to infiltrate its agenda?

Muscat used to call his movement dak tal-moderati u progressivi. How is it no one bats an eyelid at this degree of degeneration in spirit?

Labour’s mafiosita’ is on the rise, what we’re seeing is no different to the incidents provoked by the Camorra in the Salernitano.

They will allow these people in to dilute rights and employment conditions, only to have them kicked out when it’s convenient.

All this fear and for what … the three great religions have existed on our doorstep for thousands of years. The threat to Christianity, Catholicism and the Vatican does not come from external factors but from internal ones – both Christians who no longer see the Church’s relevance today and Christians who forget that the basis of our religion was supposed to be tolerance; Maltese Christians who by the way probably attend mass every week repeating a lot of words by rote and not paying any attention that what they are saying diverges completely from their words and actions in their everyday life.
This Pope is trying to show us what it truly means to be a Christian, something which racism and xenophobia and pure egoism seem to have made us forget. To be honest if we are going to abandon that which is supposed to truly distinguish us as Christians, then why should I care if the Vatican were turned into a mosque? The Vatican is a symbol; if it starts to represent the vacuum which most of our home-grown racists have in their soul, then it will have lost all its relevance.

If our traditional culture is a Christian one, then it’s not threatened, it disappeared a long time ago, the minute we were called to put it into practice. We Maltese used to think we were holier than the Pope. This Pope is certainly proving us wrong.

Daphne, if you ask the British they will tell your about the strain on their resources. It will be even worse in Malta. I live in London, 30 years ago you could get a GP appointment on the same day, in some places you have to wait one week. Hospitals are packed and the standard of medical treatment and moral have gone down dramatically.

I was recently at St Thomas hospital, my local hospital, the corridors were packed with people, most of them wearing Muslim clothing, Africans (not UK born) and Eastern Europeans – I can tell an Eastern European from miles away. To make things worse, the government is closing down some A&E departments all over the UK.

[Daphne – The doctors and nurses are immigrants too. What would they do without them. If Britain were to pull out of the EU, and cast out all non-British EU citizens and all other immigrants, its economy would collapse. Britain became a strong economy on the back of immigration. And it became a strong culture on the back of immigration too. Social cultures which are resistant to the absorption of ‘alien’ influences become fossilised. In any case, you yourself are a Maltese immigrant to the UK. You didn’t go there under freedom of movement as an EU citizen, but decades ago as a proper immigrant. ]

When Islam gains more ground in Europe, the Vatican will be turned into a Mosque. We wont see this in our lifetime but it will happen at the pace of immigration.

[Daphne – You miss the point, Paul, and catastrophically so. He didn’t go there to preach to his flock. He went there to draw attention to their plight, and it doesn’t interest him – as it shouldn’t – whether they are Muslim or Catholic. All that concerns him is that they are human.]

30 years ago there were hardly any mosques in the UK, now it is full of mosques.

Go to Tower Hamlets in London and tell the ethnic English to let more immigrants in.

[Daphne – It clearly IS working, Paul, because Maltese as you are, you feel that Britain is sufficiently yours and that you are sufficiently British to complain about the presence of other, dastardly immigrants who are ruining your patch.]

This is so sweet.

“We as Maltese, although we accept other cultures, feel threatened that traditional way of life and culture are being compromised for future generations. The influx is so massive that eventually these cultures, which have a totally different way of life than ours, will take over.”

And what about being taken over by western culture? Is same sex marriage, divorce, abortion, cohabitation, anti-Catholic attitudes, liberalism, materialism etc. a demonstration of our so dear cultural heritage?

Or “inzeffnu kif jaqblilna?”

Doris, this is a stupid argument which I’m getting quite fed up of hearing. Why doesn’t the Vatican take some immigrants? Why doesn’t it sell some Bernini’s? Why doesn’t it donate some money to Malta to support immigrants?

The Vatican is the world’s smallest country. Instead it makes up for it by having branches worldwide which help immigrants, including the Jesuits in Malta.

It sends out many missionaries to these immigrants’ countries to help out with basic things and start discussions with governments to ameliorate matters. The Pope is also a politician urging other leaders to follow his lead.

The Church is the world’s biggest charity; it organizes collections and donates money where needed.

So although there are no irregular migrants living in the Vatican, believe me the Church makes up for it grandiosely.