Dont stigmatise migrants!
Prosperous countries,
cannot show
skepticism about the tribulation faced by migrants from unstable countries because the persecuted are coming to them, believing in their secular outlook and humanism
The world is currently seeing human exodus unprecedented in recent human history. Masses, displaced from their homes due to conflict, are forced to undertake perilous journeys to find refuge in another state. This huge influx of people from war torn areas has triggered what many term as a migration crisis.
Many European nations, fearful that such entry of foreigners may exert extra pressure on their social system, are not too keen to open their doors, while many others have openly opposed taking in migrants, saying that among the thousands entering, there is a large number who harbour militant ideas, determined to upend Western social ethos.
However, recently, a Greek diplomat and a senior foreign office official has stated that possible link between migrants and terrorism is negligible.
We also endorse this view. Thousands who are appearing at European nations have no other choice if they want to carry on living like humans. Their own states are in a state of disarray with no signs of warfare abating.
Of course, the threat of some undesirable elements coming into European nations, cannot be rejected but if these first world countries refuse to take helpless people, their oft repeated rhetoric about human rights will fall flat.
These prosperous countries, which also have countless development programmes in rising nations, cannot show skepticism about the tribulation faced by migrants from unstable countries because the persecuted are coming to them, believing in their secular outlook laced with humanism. The Greek Ambassador for India and Bangladesh has said that of the 1.2 million migrants, less than 100 were found to have any relation to extremism.
Therefore, closing doors in fear of possible social anarchy is certainly not an option. We urge the wealthy states of Europe, once assertive imperial powers, whose present day affluence has come from dominating and exploiting other states, to look at the efforts of helping migrants as a moral duty aimed at balancing their abhorrent colonial era record.
