Did you know that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade advises you not to travel to Afghanistan? That’s the same advice as the British Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The country comes up as red which even a child knows signifies danger.
The Irish government says, “You should not travel to this country or territory. If you are already in this location, you should consider leaving if it is safe to do so.” Afghanistan is governed by Sharia law. This is not like the cuddly law we have in Ireland where if you steal something you get a community sentence and someone finds out why you have ‘inside sads.’ No that’s not what happens. In fact “penalties under Sharia law can be very severe, particularly for offences such as theft and adultery.”
There are quite a few videos around the internet showing women being stoned for adultery in Afghanistan. Speaking of women, this is the advice for them. “Female visitors can face particular issues around security in Afghanistan. It is illegal for women to travel more than 75km without being accompanied by their husband, father or brother. This could affect a woman’s ability to leave Afghanistan.
All women, including foreign nationals, must fully cover themselves in public. A woman must wear: loose-fitting clothing to conceal her body, arms and legs; a headscarf to cover her hair; a veil to cover her face.”
And don’t think you can get around that by identifying as a man. There are no transgender bathrooms in Kabul. Things are no much better for the gays as homosexuality is illegal in Afghanistan.
Other countries that you are advised not to travel to are Yemen, also an Islamic country, and Haiti. In Haiti “the security situation remains extremely volatile … There are frequent clashes between gangs and security forces. Kidnappings, robberies, and violent crime are prevalent.”
Or take Chad, for that country (also Muslim) you are told to avoid non – essential travel. This is the same for Nigeria which is quite a big country in the north of Africa. In Nigeria “a number of northern Nigerian states which are predominantly Muslim have adopted Sharia Law. These are: Zamfara, Sokoto, Kano, Niger, Katsina, Bauchi, Borno, Jigawa, Kebbi and Yobe. Sharia Law is an Islamic body of law and moral code. Penalties for Muslims convicted under Sharia Law in northern Nigeria can be very severe, particularly for offences such as theft and adultery.” More bad news for the gays. The public display of a same sex relationship is illegal under federal law.
Yet the same government that tells its citizens to avoid travelling to all these countries is perfectly happy to import military aged men from these same countries to – say – county Donegal and they think all will be fine. There are in fact still 10,000 people living in IPAS centres in Ireland, many of them from countries we are advised not to travel to because those countries have cultures that are… eh, incompatible with our own.
As I travelled through the travel advice it came to my attention that there were quite a few Muslim countries, a minority of which are governed directly under sharia law. There is in fact a group called Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and they have 57 members!
They are: Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Djibouti, Chad, Indonesia, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire, Palestine, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Iraq, Iran, Cameroon, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Comoros, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, Maldives, Malaysia, Mali, Egypt, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somali, Sudan, Surinam, Syria*, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Togo, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Oman, Jordan, Yemen. Fifty seven.
There is no single Organization of Christian Cooperation. Nor is there an organization of Jewish Countries. Indeed there is only one state, a secular one where homosexuality is legal, women are not stoned for adultery and they won’t cut your arm off for stealing, for Jews and that’s Israel. But a lot of politicians here keep telling me that the one single, tiny one on the map for the Jews, is the problem whereas all of the Muslim ones, all 57, are fine. Seems odd to me.
More than that, our government thinks that we good people of Ireland have a moral obligation to give refuge to anyone who turns up at our door from places such as Afghanistan, Chad and Yemen. It’s a case of the more the merrier.
(Helen McEntee explains the Irish government’s immigration policy.)
Our government especially favour military aged men who they call vulnerable.
Can someone please explain to me why our government advises against travelling to places such as Afghanistan because it is very dangerous, particularly for women, yet think it is absolutely fine to move men, lots of them, into some tiny village in Ireland?
Now I know what the politicians will say: Don’t worry Laura. It’s the government and regime of Afghanistan that is nasty, dangerous and evil to women. Once the men leave that regime and are just dropped into Tiny Village upon Shannon, they become model citizens. Why, they love secularism and we can make them civilised and decent people pronto.
And if we don’t – well it’s not our problem. It will be your problem, usually a woman or girl.
Take Citywest. There a 10 year old girl was allegedly attacked by a foreign national, a man from Africa, who – regardless of his guilt or innocence in respect of this particular incident – should have been deported but was just kicking back his heels for some reason. When that ‘vulnerable’ man allegedly attacked the 10 year old girl that is not Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan’s problem. It’s her problem. What does the Minister care?
Or take Nuneaton – a tiny market town across the UK. A few weeks ago “A man pleaded guilty to the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Warwickshire, in a case that prompted anti-asylum protests in Nuneaton.’
Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, of no fixed abode, changed his plea at Warwick crown court admitting the single charge of rape of a child under 13 on 22 July. There is another man and other charges that will go to trial. Ahmad Mulakhil was described as being of no fixed abode but we know he was from Afghanistan and was assisted at the hearing with a Farsi interpreter. He pleaded guilty to a single count of oral rape.
But Ahmad Mulakhil did have an abode or sorts, and that abode was Nuneaton. Nuneaton is a tiny market town about an hour from Birmingham. We do not know why Mulakhil was there, if he was of the 25,000 Afghans the RAF helpfully flew into Britain after an email leak.
Mulakhill is from Afghanistan, a country that terrorises women, so dangerous the Irish and British government advise its own citizens against travelling to. Yet the British government probably moved this man into the UK along with 1000s of others.
We are told that it is the men that are vulnerable, not the women and girls they attack. But what do the Tories or Labour care – it’s not really their problem. It’s the problem of the 12 year old girl and her family. And 12 year old girls are nothing compared to the might of the government, the army of immigration lawyers and the media that says anyone who objects to this disgusting attack on the rights of women and girls are racist far- right thugs. It is they who are disgusting.
It’s the same here. If you object to this project of importing men from Islamic countries either governed directly or through its customs and laws by Sharia law then you are dismissed as a far-right racist. In Irish law if a child is attacked we are told very little even about the attacker, which seems convenient if you asked me.
Ireland is a member of the European Convention of Human Rights. The immigration lawyers are quick to use the ECHR as a tool to turn Ireland and much of the west into a third world sh&t hole complete with Islamic law. This has to stop. Article 3 of the ECHR sets out the prohibition against torture. “No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” It is the only article that has no exceptions.
The ECJ has already held that Middle – Eastern cultures can be dangerous to women who have experienced gender equality in the West. So why are we importing men from these cultures into the west?
The Irish government has a duty to protect women and children from inhuman and degrading children such as sexual abuse, rape and torture. Importing men from countries that are governed by Islamic law, an honour culture and severely restricts the rights of women is in direct breach of Article 3. It is not just the regime that is the threat, but the men who have been raised in this culture and then come to Ireland in numbers.
There should be zero Afghani men granted asylum in Ireland. Zero. Granting asylum to these men is a clear breach of article 3 of the ECHR of the women and girls who are here. We should not have to wait to be attacked. As all feminists know, living in fear of violence also constitutes a threat to your basic decency. Some Canadian feminists believe that mere anticipation of violence is violence itself.
There should be a serious review into men arriving from countries governed by Sharia law, which can apply to Muslims only or be mixed to consider which represent the greatest threat to the safety and security of women. The Irish government should make whatever opt outs are necessary to the European Migration Pact which is making its way through the Oireachtas to protect the human rights of women in Ireland.
There has been too much cowardice at being called racist around this issue. It was cowardice that stopped a security guards from raising the alarm when he saw Salman Abedi acting suspiciously at the Arianna Grande concert, it was cowardice that stopped neighbours from calling the police as Sara Sharif was tortured to death by her Pakistani father in the UK, and it was cowardice that protected Muslim Pakistani men when they were raping white English working class girls all over Northern England.
This cowardice should not spread to Ireland. It’s time to make this problem the government’s problem.