Binoy,

Clearly, Australia should take some of these desperate people, to relieve the burden on Europe. Perhaps then, we can wait to see if the Muslim countries, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Iran, take a proportionate number of people as well.

Once that has been done, we can think of perhaps taking another 12,000 - perhaps on an annual basis.

But one caution: imagine if Harvey Norman halved their prices: would that, do you think, lead to an increased flow of customers ? Quite possibly. So, - forgive me for stretching an analogy to breaking point - if Europe takes, say, a million this year, how many should we take next year ? And the next ?

In the paper today, it casually mentioned a camp in northern Nigeria with 800,000 refugees or displaced people. Eight hundred thousand. Just from Nigeria. I don't know how many great-hearted people from the Goat Cheese Circle there may be who can wipe their eyes and who are willing to take in refugees, perhaps a dozen or so (that's perhaps a bit optimistic), but with sixty million refugees, and probably as many internally-displaced people, and perhaps ten times as many potential economic refugees, they may be spoilt for choice.

Yes, let's weep for a three-year-old washed up on a beach. And also for the seventy one highly decomposed bodies, with their putrid juices dripping out the back of a truck. Or we can try to bring these ghastly conflicts to a faster end by bombing the daylights out of the ISIS fascists, for a start. Then Assad.

Joe

Joe,

Until the troops go in on the ground and with the political will behind them to make an end to the mess, then nothing much will be achieved, certainly not by bombing.

Hi Is Mise,

I have a lot of faith in drones :) A few mini-drones flying above every main road in fascist-held territory might alert where to send the bombers and bottle them up, certainly their 'leaders', and eventually degrade them totally.

This is going to be a slow war of attrition, of grinding down first ISIS, and then - if more secular, democratic forces can be mobilised - the more complex struggle with the Assad dictatorship can begin.

Joe

Cobber that's typically stupid, traitor caste social signalling right there.
Why would we replace the word "Muslim" with the word "Jew" if we're discussing Islam?

At last a bit of silver lining in government attitude.
No one can advocate that more moslems be introduced to Australia.
We have enough trouble with them already. The last thing we want is
more of the same.
I notice that Poland has stated that they will accept Christians only.
They have seen the troubles in Britain, France, Germany, Belgium,
Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
In Norway & Sweden blonde girls now dye their hair brunette as moslem
men concentrate their rape programs on blondes.
It is the Bilal gang all over again, and there has been another such
gang recently in Bendigo.
There was joy in the rapists' families when they found out that they
had raped an Australian woman and not a moslem woman.

And this author talks about discrimination ?

Binoy Kampfmark probably earns $300,000+ taxpayer funded dollars a year just writing tripe like this which is inimical to the people who pay his wages.

Of course we don't want any more Muslims, Binoy. We have had too much trouble with the ones we have already imported. And that goes for every other western country that was stupid enough to embrace your little "all races, cultures and religions are equal, philosophy." We have to thank the Muslims for proving that particular idea wrong.

The rich Muslim countries won't take even Muslim refugees, much less Christian ones, and the primary reason for that, is because they see Muslim immigration onto western countries as the only way that Islam can take these countries over. ISIS, Al Qaida, Jemaah Islamiah, and Boko haram all agree on this with the Gulf states. And you want to help them? Tell me Binoy, after you have ruined this country, where are you going to go to that will pay you $300,000 bucks a year to talk rubbish?

Back to Asia I suppose? You know that the smart Asians are too clever to take in any refugees. Especially African or Muslim ones. It is just amazing that white people have become so stupid that they will pay foreigners like yourself to work against our interests, ruin our countries, and help the Asians become the most prosperous in the world.