The Caliphate Invades Europe

Tuesday - September 08, 2015

RUSH: In relation to that, I don't know what you want to call it, the refugee crisis, the migrant crisis, whatever you want to term this that is overwhelming Europe has become its own Stack today. 

How many of you -- I'm relatively sure the answer to this is well over 80% -- saw the photo of the dead boy washed ashore and then picked up by a soldier?  And how many of you read and believed that this was a result of this immigration crisis of people not being wanted, being forced to leave home, leave poverty, war-torn strife and so forth.  Well, that story has begun to unravel about the drowned Syrian boy. 

This is important, because this is the way it always happens. Just like in one of the most recent periods of hostility between Israel and Hamas, supposedly pictures of numerous Israeli attacks on schools and innocent children.  We later found out that the pictures had been Photoshopped, entirely made up, and even after the media found out about it they continued to run them because of course the narrative was all so important.  It's the same thing here.  "Details about the Syrian family of the three-year old boy, who drowned as they made their way to Europe from Turkey on a small dingy, began to emerge recently and some things do not add up."

"According to The Wall Street Journal, Abdullah Kurdi, the little boy's father, was living in a relatively safe area in a Turkish town for three years while working on construction sites for 50 Turkish lira (roughly $17) a day.  However, Kurdi told a Syrian radio station it was not enough to support himself and his family and he relied on his sister Tima Kurdi, who is a 20-year resident of Canada, to assist in paying the rent.

"It should be noted that Tima told reporters Thursday that the family just came to Turkey last year, even though WSJ points out he came to Turkey three years ago..."  Anyway, the whole thing is not what you think it was.  Tema Kurdi, the daughter, told the Wall Street Journal "that their father was still in Syria and advised his son to leave Turkey and go to Europe and have his teeth fixed." 

It was all about getting affordable dental care that they ended up on a boat on the way to Turkey.  It wasn't that they were fleeing war-torn strife, poverty, or whatever else.  He just needed to go see the dentist.  He took the family in a dinghy. It capsized and whole family perished.  The father is the only one who survived.  "[T]he boat capsized Wednesday. Twelve passengers died as a result including Abdullah's young sons and wife.

"He was the only member of his family to survive, but the photo of his three-year old drowned child on a Turkish beach made headlines across the globe."  Too late now; it doesn't matter.  You could blast this story all over -- it could be the lead story, the only story for a solid day -- and it wouldn't change public perception from the first time that picture was seen.

So what is the reason for this crisis?  What is this so-called European refugee crisis?  What's this really about? Why is this happening now?  What's at the root of it?  What's the cause of it?  How's it gonna be stopped?  What does it mean?  And I'm also amazed at how very few people in the Drive-By... Well, it shouldn't surprise me.  But a whole lot of people are missing the correlation between what we're seeing in Europe and what's happening on our own southern border.