12rev: 0.009%?? Are you sure? Anyway saudi just executed 81 people, some for having dissident views, do you think apostacy comes in here? If some one in saudi says muhammed is a false prophet what would happen? Is it proper to put people to death for what they believe?
the number should be even lower, they're 1.9billion Muslims on earth and one percent will be approximately 19 million. on the 81 people executed, they were terrorists or closely related to terrorism and Saudi government doesn't take terrorist likely, unlike one fool in aso rock. when buhari did repentant boko haram terrorist y'all were furious and saying why should dey repent, death to all terrorist but now when the Saudi government did what yall wanted buhari to do you're now bring human rights, you see the double standards? and btw Saudi Arabia is the safest country in the world with crime rates close to zero, so you can say they're doing a great job..
Nova1988: Across Europe, countries are preparing for the 4 million to 7 million Ukrainian refugees who will likely flee the Russian invasion of their country.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke for many European leaders when she proclaimed, “Everyone who has to flee Putin’s bombs will be welcomed with open arms.”
Some European commentators on Western media have described Ukrainian refugees as being “civilized,” “middle class” and “prosperous,” and different from those from “third world nations.”
A few European politicians have also stressed that Ukrainian refugees are qualitatively superior by virtue of their race and religion to those from countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania – collectively known as the Global South.
“These people are Europeans,” Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said, referring to Ukrainians.
“These people are intelligent,” Petkov explained. “They are educated people. … This is not the refugee wave we have been used to, people we were not sure about their identity, people with unclear pasts, who could have been even terrorists.”
As a scholar of refugees and forcible displacement, I find the European Union’s response to Ukrainian refugees a stark contrast with the treatment of the international students, African and Asian migrants and the untold number of refugees and asylum-seekers of color from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh also fleeing Ukraine.
As scholars of race and racism in Europe have explained, and reports on race relations confirm, the European response is also consistent with the racism, Afrophobia and Islamophobia that have historically defined EU’s immigration system.
For years, these dynamics have led to the suffering and deaths of people from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
Anti-immigrant hostilities The Ukrainian crisis is not the first refugee crisis that Europe has experienced since the 1990s. The 1989–1992 collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in 9 million people being uprooted. The collapse of former Yugoslavia and the 1992–1995 Bosnian genocide produced over 2 million refugees.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2011 Arab Uprisings in the Middle East led to an increase in the numbers of refugees trying to enter Europe. Even Turkey, already a host to over 4 million refugees and asylum-seekers – 3.6 million of whom are Syrians – could not adequately provide them with sanctuary.
But the response to these refugees of color has been overwhelmingly hostile.
Since 2014, Serbian, Macedonian and Hungarian authorities have used batons, stun grenades and tear gas on Afghan, Syrian, Iraqi and other asylum-seekers, including children and pregnant women, at their borders.
Hungarian and Croatian authorities have used attack dogs and forced migrants to strip naked in freezing temperatures.
In Bulgaria and Hungary, armed vigilantes hunt asylum-seekers at the border.
Hostile anti-immigrant policies have also been on the rise. Deportations have increased. Police harassment and abuse of asylum-seekers – including children – from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo and other African countries are common in France.
There are other blatantly anti-immigrant measures.
Harsh laws have been implemented in predominantly low-income Muslim immigrant areas in Denmark, which the government has classified as “ghettos”. Those who are denied asylum are moved to a detention facility on Lindholm Island, which previously housed laboratories for infectious diseases.
Greece also has increased security at sea and has built concrete walls around its refugee camps. According to the International Rescue Committee, Greece has cut down on camp services, creating a hunger crisis severely affecting 40% of the 16,559 refugee residents, including children.
In 2021, several hundred Afghan, Syrian, Iraqi and other asylum-seekers were stranded in forests and marshlands along the Poland-Belarus border, without shelter, food or water in freezing temperatures and facing regular violence by Polish and Belarusian border guards. There were at least a dozen deaths, including of children. European countries were refusing to open the border.
Fortress Europe Though the European continent celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall, wall-building has been on the rise in the region since the 1990s, despite the fact that walls remain an ineffective way to address the movement of refugees and migrants.
. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Polish soldiers are seen patrolling along the Polish-Belarusian border on Jan. 25, 2022, to prevent thousands of migrants from the Middle East from crossing into Poland. Wojtek Radwanski /AFP via Getty Images According to the 2018 Transnational Institute report, the primary purpose of these walls is to deter refugees and asylum-seekers coming from the Global South.
Of the 27 members of the EU, 10 have built over 1,100 miles of walls to deter irregular arrivals.
These steel and concrete walls and fences are often fortified with advanced technology. Hungary’s walls, for instance, deliver electric shocks and are equipped with heat sensors and infrared cameras.
In 2021, Greece completed its wall along the border with Turkey to prevent the entry of Afghan asylum-seekers. The Spanish government now plans to build the highest wall - 32 feet - around Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco where the Spanish government claims authority to prevent migrant entry in Spain less than 250 miles away.
Since 2021, Lithuania has been building an 11-foot-high steel fence, with 2-inch-thick razor wire, on its border with Belarus to prevent entry of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa.
Border walls at sea Europe has intensified its border fortifications against refugees and asylum-seekers from outside the continent in other ways.
What are called “maritime walls” around Europe involve extensive naval and air operations in the Mediterranean. In 2021, the annual budget for Frontex – the agency responsible for the European Union’s border management and deterrence of migrant arrivals – increased from US$6.5 million in 2005 to over $593 million in 2021.
There is growing evidence that Frontex directly and indirectly supports violent interceptions of migrant boats in the Mediterranean, driving them back to North Africa. Such interceptions ignore distress calls at sea and often forcibly hand over migrants often to Libyan coast guards. The EU is aware of what has been described as egregious human rights violations of migrants in Libya.
Search and rescue operations at sea by private European citizens and nongovernmental organizations have also been criminalized with severe penalties
Since the pandemic began, EU nations enacted emergency legislation, increased sea interceptions and withdrew rescue operations.
According to the International Organization for Migration, EU policies have made the Mediterranean the deadliest migrant route, with over 23,500 missing migrants, presumably dead, since 2014. Among critical scholars of migration, the long history of racial subordination of Black Africans in Europe has meant that the sea is also called the Black Mediterranean.
Welcoming Ukrainian refugees only The early response to Ukraine’s crisis, however, shows that for some refugees, at least, Europe has room.
EU members have unanimously agreed to accept Ukrainian refugees for up to three years without asking them to apply for asylum.
As of March 7, 2022, over 2 million refugees have already fled Ukraine, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Poland has committed to accepting 1 million Ukrainians. Lithuania, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Moldova, Greece, Germany and Spain have already opened their borders.
Britain, no longer a member of the EU, did not agree to visa waivers for Ukrainians. It initially limited settlement to immediate family members of British nationals.
But pressure is building among British citizens, activists and scholars to welcome more Ukrainian refugees at a time when other refugees remain just that – other.
seanwilliam: And some nairalanders are In support of Iran having her own nuclear weapons. Is this how they plan to handle it? Only fanatic Muslims will see this and still support them .
I love how you added fanatic Muslims, not like other who take the opinion of the 0.009 percent of Muslims.
iLegendd: Smart people make passive income while they sleep. I don't even consider myself smart. Russia is affecting one of my businesses with their invasion.
Could you believe no single American bought my book today? Only 1 person from Italy bought a book since today.
I pray the sales start coming before the day ends. How can I make only 46k today? How will I be able to chill with the big boys with 46k per day? How will I be able to bambam?
Truth be told, Americans are saving now more than they spend because war may happen.
Russia why? This war will affect everyone at last (mostly Russians). I have seen it. I just pray Bitcoin crashes to $4,000.
Haters, this money is from an article I posted on Nairaland for free for you, but converted to a book because of your abuses and now oyibo are paying to read it and enriching me while you keep hating.
You should better wise up. The book is about how to f*ck and last 7 hours in bed naturally.
iLegendd: This thread is just to make some Nigerians feel happy. They'll say to themselves, "Afterall, I'm not the only one suffering — oyibo dey suffer too."
brightalo1010: Your papa that doesn't sleep couldn't even rule a community in your village despite not sleeping but he managed to produce things like you that calls others names.
You with all your understanding has been so useless in life.
Ok. You're calling me useless but you can't even construct a proper sentence and use correct punctuation.
Franky70: One thing this war between Russia and Ukraine thought me is, the world is religiously divided
99% of Muslims are supporting what Russia is doing their argument is America did same in middle east
But they forgot that middle east breed terrorist, suicide you bombers
Did Ukraine bring anyone?
it was the bombing that led to the rise in terrorism, imagine giving separatist groups weapons and millions of dollars to fight the government. just like on Afghanistan they ran away and left weapons for the useless terrorists. That's not even the point sef, most of the places the invaded wasn't done because of terrorism it was all in the name of "democracy" except from Iraq they said Saddam Hussein had weapon of mass destruction but the un later found it to be false. Libya's own was the worst, it was one of the best countries in Africa with high living standards it once had a higher GDP per capita than US and UK, but suddenly after the 2009 AU summit he and his country was bombed, why? because in the 2009 AU summit he proposed a United States of Africa with one army and a currency called the golden dinar backed by 140 tonnes of gold and silver and would only sell Libyan and other African country's oil in that currency which will be devastating to the US dollar and the federal reserve and boom he was gone, they said he was a dictator. now Libya is a war thorn shit hole and a safe heaven for terrorist. go and check Hilary Clinton leaked emails and you'll see for your self and also try and read this https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-Africans-celebrate-and-see-Gaddafi-as-a-good-man-That-man-was-a-tyrant-and-dictator-who-refused-to-leave-power-Shouldnt-Africa-be-thanking-the-West-for-helping-remove-one-of-their-dictators
How can you used a foreign currency in a feeling station, it's not everyone that can changed dollars to naira. He made the fuel attendant more confused.
Filling station not feeling olodo. Na only to troll you sabi, go school you say no.
franchasng: Honestly I don't understand why Muslims, especially Yoruba Muslims are so excited that Russia invaded and bombing Ukraine without a humanly justifiable reason.
Dear reasonable Yorubas, you guys need to wake up oh, the Muslim fanatists amongst you are hell bent on turning Yoruba land to Syria.
Imagine them up there cursing Zelensky and blaming him for a war he didn't start.
Most of them don't even have full knowledge of the crises. How do you expect a President of another soverign nation to happily and willingly sign that part of his country (Creamea) you forcefully seized from him and annexed since 2014 to amen his nation's constitution to accept that that annexed region belongs to you Russia? As if that's not enough, you sponsored more regions (Doneskt and Luhansk) to breakaway and you also want Ukraine President to formally acknowledge those two regions as independent regions and that Ukraine will never lay claim on them ever again. A President like you, how is all these possible without negotiations and some agreements? Because of that you leveled several accusations against them and just invaded them killing both military and civilians and yet some foolish inhumane souls are cheering Putin on just cos of religion.
Russia never agreed boldly that if Ukraine do this they would attack. There was still negotiations going on since last year. Putin promised the world that he won't attack Ukraine that there was no reason to, that his military were only carry out routine drills.
NATO this and that, Ukraine haven't joined NATO and its not as if NATO would have accepted Ukraine that wanted to join with a huge military burden. And joining NATO doesn't even take months, it takes some countries years to fully comply with the requirements just like joining European Union.
And if Putin had a justifiable reason to invade Ukraine why is he telling Russians in Russia lies that he only went there to help Ukraine defeat Fascists and Neo Nazi militants? Why cant he be bold enough like every other country to show Russians the wonderful work Russian military is doing in Ukraine? Why is he blocking news channels and free media from showing live video streaming of the invasion of Ukraine to Russian citizens in Russia?
Yet inhumane, heartless Nigerians on this forum who are mostly Muslims are rejoicing over this and cursing, blaming and shutting Ukrainian President up, to what benefit?
This is really disturbing.
This injustice some of you are foolishly cheering, be careful, life is mysterious more than you ever think. Dont think you are in a safe haven, before you support inhumanity against fellow humans think twice, life is beyond what you think or see
I don't know why once a Muslim does a bad thing y'all generalise it and blame all Muslims buy when a Christian or someone with other faith does the same y'all blame the person, and here you are talking about inhumanity. I don't blame you sha.
God1000: What this man is asking for will escalate the war beyond the borders of Ukraine.
The world isn't ready for world war III that will cost millions of deaths, I understand why America rejected the offer from Poland to handover all their fighter jets to US airbase in Germany which will be subsequently transferred to Ukraine, these are escalatory moves.
Sanctions are already hurting Putin and Russians, the entire European Union together with US, UK, Canada and Australia are providing humanitarian and military support, what more does he want?
Comradewhy: Still talking nonsense. One intentionally target an hospital. The other was retaliating by attacking the attackers, while the attackers keep trying to get sympathy by posting children's picture.
then that's the same thing Ukraine is doing! Putin said they're using people as human shields and firing from residential areas, no difference.
Newton2024: Because you people are surpport an invader and mass murderer because you hate Ukraine and US for no reason. That's illogical and irrational. Ukraine is a sovereign nation like Nigeria.
Mumusaphire: Everybody go feel d heat. That's why the keep sanctioning the idiot, so he can cease d fire and settle out of war. But his online Nigeria e-warriors think otherwise just for d hatred they have for USA. But 99% of them, if they give them Russia and USA visa, they will chose USA visa any day any time ahead of Russia Visa. Even many of them praying hard to enter western countries.
How many people were surveyed before you came to that crazy conclusion of 99%?
They say karma is a bitch and will always catch up to you, well here a video made 9 months ago during the bombing of Palestine shows Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky hipocracy on palestine. seems like karma has caught up to him.
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