Bill Gates - Counter-Jihadist? "Europe Will Be Overwhelmed Unless It Stems Flow of Migrants"

Not quite. His objection is more general than that to simply say, we need to stem the tide of Muslim migrants. Instead, he believes, Africans will overwhelm the European population. So his issue is that Europe will be so overrun with so many Africans they could not possibly assimilate them all.

This is, specifically, a cultural objection, not a religious one.

But personally, I do not see a strong line of demarcation between religion and culture, especially with regard to Islamic culture. I recognize that in most societies, culture and religion are not the same thing. But in strict Islamic cultures, there is no separation between Mosque and state. Therefore, Mosque is state and vice versa.

But that is NOT the problem in most African nations. It is the problem in Sudan and Nigeria. But most of the current African migration comes from Morocco and Tunisia, which are not strict Islamic nations, though they are hotbeds of radicalism straining towards "Islamism".

Sorry to go on, but I think these things need to be discussed clearly. The kind of PC-wrought, frightened obfuscation that occurs in most discussions leads us to errors of policy which means the overwhelming of Western civilization will almost inevitably happen, unless we become shocked into intellectual precision about the nature of the real threats.

From Breitbart:

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned that Africa’s population explosion will overwhelm Europe unless the continent makes it more difficult for migrants to reach its shores. 

The American billionaire’s comments come as European leaders discuss what to do about the surging number of Africans arriving in Italy each week, with Rome calling for other European Union (EU) nations to open their ports to docking migrants so as to ease pressure on the Mediterranean nation. 

In an interview with the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper, Gates said massive population growth in Africa will result in “enormous [migratory] pressure” on Europe unless countries increase overseas development aid payments. 

Praising Germany having achieved its commitment to devote 0.7 per cent of GDP to foreign aid as “phenomenal”, the 61-year-old called on “other European nations to follow its example”. 

But Gates also spoke of a dilemma caused by ‘the German attitude to refugees’, referring to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open Europe’s borders to illegal migrants arriving from the third world. 

“On the one hand you want to demonstrate generosity and take in refugees, but the more generous you are, the more word gets around about this — which in turn motivates more people to leave Africa,” Gates told the Sunday newspaper. 

“Germany cannot possibly take in the huge, massive number of people who are wanting to make their way to Europe.” 

Because of this, Gates stressed that “Europe must make it more difficult for Africans to reach the continent via the current transit routes” 

Italy is demanding that other EU nations open their ports to migrants ferried from Libya as the country struggles to cope with having already received over 80,000 people this year.