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I quite like the pop singer Lily Allen. Not her music, you understand, just her. She is roughly the same age as me and I have always found her pleasantly, if also unconventionally, attractive.
Now, with such irrelevant information out of the way, I must say I was stunned, though not surprised, by the news that Allen had been reduced to apologising for her country during a visit to the notorious Calais ‘Jungle’ migrant camp last week.
In case you’ve yet to hear of this incident, Allen, faced with a war-weary Afghan teenager, declared that she was ashamed of Britain for not letting in the teeming hordes currently massed (illegally) on France’s Northern coast, making these remarks through a veil of tears and tear-dampened blonde hair. Later, in conversation with the British press, Allen remarked (presumably seriously) that she would even be prepared to have a refugee stay with her at her personal residence in England.
The UK backlash against Allen’s remarks has been predictably harsh. In the right-leaning papers, critics have lined up to pour cold water on Allen’s dippy sentiments, as well as to explain that the singer knows little to nothing about the realities of the Calais crisis and its multiple backgrounds.
“(Allen) was merely repeating the canards of her arty liberal chums” Zoe Strimpel wrote in the Telegraph “who – despite never venturing outside their own intellectual and social cosmos – are sure that everyone who doesn’t see the world as they do, and especially anyone who voted for Brexit, is a bigoted fool. To reduce the web of direness behind the ongoing migration surge to a simple matter of Western culpability is plainly idiotic. It shows painfully limited understanding of the catalogue of political and human horrors that predated, and indeed motivated, Western intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq…And to weepily lay the situation in Calais purely at Britain’s door was a severe misfiring of sentimentality. Crying in the face of human suffering is one thing. But crying on national TV while telling the audience that their country – merely by trying to control its borders – is cruelly causing the misery of innocents is quite another.”
Personally, I was less struck by Ms Allen’s weak grasp of the political-economic background of the migrant crisis than with her shocking naivety in relation to the religion of Islam and the nature of those currently attempting to force their way into the British Isles. For a young, beautiful Englishwoman such as Allen to offer to take in young (almost always male) Muslim refugees displays a terrifying disregard for her own safety. Can you imagine (do you even need to imagine) what would happen if Allen allowed a 16-20 year old Afghan male to move into her personal residence? True, we cannot say for sure, but I don’t believe it is bigoted of me to speculate that sexual advances would almost be made by the new arrival – and that, should they be rebuffed, sexual violence might well follow.
What will it take for our best and brightest to understand that they are being conned by the lowest elements in the human species? What will it take for Western women to understand that the weeping masses huddled in tents along the French coast are not like the Jews who fled Nazi Germany; that they are rather wolves imitating sheep; devils imitating angels? What will it take?
Several commenters under the articles reporting Allen’s comments in Calais have delighted in speculating the fate that would await her should she follow through on her deranged offer of sanctuary. I don’t believe we should be so cold-hearted. Allen is a good person. She has simply fallen victim to a dangerous lie peddled by a negligent, dishonest media. The blame, should Allen’s words inspire some young girl to expose herself to danger, lies ultimately with them.
D, LDN
Defend the Modern World 
This reminds me of a conversation I had a few months ago with a lefty Swedish girl I play games with online. We had finished a match and were chatting in the lobby while the next game was loading. She’s big into music festivals, and was mentioning how uncomfortable she felt going to one such festival next week. These music festivals had seen Swedish girls, some preteen groped and sexually assaulted by muslim and migrant men
We had never talked about multiculturalism or any of the satellite topics. I asked her what made her worried, thinking that it must be a good sign that woman with her political leanings are starting to perk their ears up on these issues.
No, no. Silly me. She was worried about all the right wing racists you see, how apparently they go around and beat vulnerable migrant men who are just trying to enjoy the bands playing. That’s what the swedish media told her.
While it may be uncomfortable from some to say, a lot of the acceptance of this behavior from the migrants in europe is coming from young middle class white woman like this Lily Allen and my swedish friend. They have lived in some of the safest societies mankind can ever hope to produce. It is so beyond their realm of experiences that for them to conceive of outside danger is almost beyond the realm of possibility. I say almost, because I think inevitably this will blow up in their faces. The trouble is, how long will it take, exactly what will it take, and how many more will be hurt?
Btw DTMW, I run a small youtube channel where I discuss topics similar to you. Would you be open to doing a live-streamed conversation with me sometime about Europe and islam?
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There must be something we can do to help them understand why Muslims are different. The evidence – especially the rates of abuse in places like Rotherham and Malmo – is overwhelming. I feel very sorry for women in Sweden. They seem to have it particularly bad. Perhaps that’s because they’re more liberal and tolerant than Brits and Americans – who knows?
I’ve never done a live-stream before. Sounds interesting. Can you tell me more about your channel?
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Sent you an email with more details!
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I wonder what her take would be on my experiences of Calais.
Beginning of October i disembarked the ferry at Calais roughly midnight en route to Spain in a motor home with my 6 year old daughter and in laws. 10 minutes or so out of the port traffic came to an abrupt halt and the first sign of danger were cars reversing at high speed down the hard shoulder, to cut it short the road had been blockaded and masked/hooded migrants were selectively bricking UK registered vehicles, one car abandoned all doors open not a window left intact and occupants obviously fled in to the dark (which it is leaving Calais) fearing for my child’s safety I gunned it over the debris damaging the vehicle along with others only to be met with the same thing a couple of kilometres further along.
Poor poor migrants I am ashamed to have been born in Britain.
P.s I also apologise for my Country when you gained access to my trailer on two occasions ruining a load of yoghurt from France and a load of NHS supplies by defecating/urinating and helping your poor selves to and putting me out of business in the process. So so sorry.
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Sounds awful. I haven’t been to Calais so I don’t have any experiences of my own to report. I can only say I have no intentions of visiting that place until the Jungle has been demolished (which is long overdue).
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Guess I am ‘over-the-hill’ and have no idea who she is. But yes – this is a very sad and foolish person, but I rather doubt she will ever taken this further than a hashtag, and a little pr for her career. Such as that truly is. However, this is an age that has little depth or understanding. Emotion is taken, and make to be a be all and end all for its own sake. And sad when this is made policy of either the individual or the nation, but sadly – we are awash with this in this present age.
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She’s not so well known these days. She used to be very popular a few years ago.
I also doubt she’ll follow through on her statement. I hope for her sake that she doesn’t.
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According to the Express, he turned out to be the son of a jihadi who had earlier been granted asylum:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/721649/migrant-calais-lily-allen-shamsher-sherin-afghan-fighter-warlord-butcher-of-kabul
The father was a commander for a Jihadi leader called the “Butcher of Kabul”. The father has since twice been back to Afghanistan on a holiday, the Express reports. They also claim the leader was “known for executing intellectuals and attacking women with acid” and that the group also helped Osama bin Laden.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/15/father-of-teenage-refugee-who-received-lily-allens-apology-on-be/
“As the other children get older they may have to make similar journeys,” Mr Sherin said. “I hope we can all be together in Britain one day.”
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Wow. I didn’t know that. Thank you for the link.
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I hope Ms Allen is now aware of this.
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