Oops -- Damage Control Alert!

"[The upcoming general election is about] freedom, America and democracy [and the nation's economy is thriving] because of you [immigrants to the United States] and many others."

"Why? Because we welcome immigrants. Look, think about it. Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they're xenophobic. They don't want immigrants."

"Immigrants are what makes us strong. Not a joke. That's not hyperbole, because we have an influx of workers who want to be here and want to contribute."

U.S. President Joe Biden, address to Asian-American audience at fundraiser

US President Joe Biden speaks April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

 

A simplistic analysis for economic enlightenment to an audience he is pitching,to  help fund his re-election. Where he implies negatively that Japan and India along with China and Russia are "xenophobic" in their attitude toward welcoming newcomers. The United States' 'open borders' to immigration by illegal migrants must make those countries shudder, thinking what they'd do themselves faced with a similar situation, while simultaneously smirking that they don't quite anticipate becoming a target in the same class as the United States.

For one thing, none of them would go out of their way to welcome as future citizens and a bolster to an aging workforce, migrants, refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa. India, China and Russia have ample reason to shrink from such a scenario given their interior experience with their own Muslim populations. For another, those countries have a vast complex of various ethnic, religious and cultural groups within their citizenry, some of which agitate forcefully resulting in social disequilibrium.

Mr. Biden cannot possibly, intelligently boast that the United States  under his administration has fared well in attempting to hold back the tide of illegal entries crossing the border between Mexico and the United States, straining the capacity of cities toward which they stream to handle their human needs, aside from the fact that among the migrants there are invariably present seeking infiltration, individuals and groups inimical to the security of the country.

At that campaign fundraising event, it's difficult to imagine his audience viewing those assertions with any credulity, unless they're completely oblivious of world events, and Asian-Americans tend to be fairly knowledgeable. The countries whose immigration policies with the exception of Russia and China that he cites as short-sighted; Japan and India in particular are close allies of the United States; their reactions to his opinion might be lacking enthusiasm.

Particularly in a climate that has twisted itself into a woke pretzel where academia is placing limits on the numbers of orientals that Ivy League universities can admit, to make way for less intellectually endowed applicants under the human rights  banner of 'diversity, equity and inclusion', where white-privilege can be extended to encompass anyone in society who is intellectually exceptional to the mainstream.

Biden, according to White House national security spokesman John Kirby, stated that a broader point about the U.S. position on immigration was being made: "Our allies and partners know well in tangible ways how President Biden values them, their friendship, their co-operation and the capabilities that they bring across the spectrum on a range of issues, not just security related".

Concertina wire lines the path as members of Congress tour an area near the Texas-Mexico border, in Eagle Pass, Texas. As congressional negotiators try to finalize a bipartisan deal on the border and immigration, their effort is drawing the wrath of hard-right lawmakers and former President Donald Trump. That vocal opposition threatens to unravel a delicate compromise. (AP Photo/Eric Gay

Jewish Montreal No More

"As in France itself, these immigrants have brought a deep, historically rooted contempt for European cosmopolitanism and heavy doses of antisemitism."

"Those apprehended by the Montreal police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for involvement in the dozen or so attacks on Jewish institutions in the city during the past five years -- which included the firebombings of a synagogue and a Jewish day school -- were all Quebecers of North African descent."

Drew University professor of Jewish Studies, Allan Nadler

People take part in a pro-Palestinian rally in Montreal on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. Photo by Graham Hughes /The Canadian Press

Quebec, uniquely among Canadian provinces, is permitted to control its own immigration levels and their countries of origin. Its focus is on increasing the prominence of the French language in French-Canadian majority Quebec. As such it strongly favours welcoming immigrants and refugees whose mother tongue is French or who are fully conversant with the French language, spoken, read and written. Authorities in Quebec, and certainly successive governments express a fear of English overwhelming French.

 

Provincial legislation ensures that English is kept to an absolute minimum. To the extent that there are significant fines for signage reading in English, and attendance at public schools must be predominantly French public schools, specific 'qualifications' must be demonstrated for the freedom to send children in Quebec to English schools. That being said, the province is eager to bring in all the fluent French-speakers as it can.

 

Which meant that former French colonies such as Haiti and Vietnam have been favoured.  But so have immigrants from volatile Middle East and North African countries where the culture includes suspicion and strong dislike of Jews and where enmity expressed by antisemitism is prevalent. The largest Lebanese community outside of Beirut lives in Montreal. The second-largest Moroccan and Algerian diaspora after Paris and Marseille also resides in Montreal.

 

Gunfire hit the school for the second time early on Sunday, November 12.

 

In the last few decades a handful of Montreal Muslims have been implicated in terrorist plots. Among them Algerian Ahmed Ressam, the "Millennium Bomber" who had al-Qaeda terrorist training in Afghanistan. Morocco-born Montrealer Abdeliah Ouzghar was convicted in absentia of abetting terrorism in France and was finally extradited in 2009 to face justice in France, before ultimately returning to Canada.

At the present time, Moroccan-Canadian imam Adil Charkouai called for the eradication of all "Zionist aggressors" in a public address at an October 28 Montreal Free Palestine rally. Years ago he had been arrested on a security certificate, said to be a sleeping al-Qaeda agent by Canada's intelligence network; representing a danger to Canadian society.

In 2007 Fabrice de Pierrebourg, a leading Quebec journalist focusing on terrorism, published Montrealistan where he wrote of the route to Islamist extremism in creating young Muslim radicals in Montreal. According to the journalist's studies and investigation following hardline jihadists, along with trips to Lebanon and North Africa, sermons in mosques attended by recruits was one of the major sources of radicalization.

Internet chat rooms another, where young Muslim men endlessly surf to immerse themselves in seductive Islamist thought. They are sought by and swiftly radicalized by Islamists, interested now in participating in the vocal and violent rallies and marches that have materialized in the wake of the Hamas terrorist incursion into southern Israel on October 7. International Islamist groups organize and call for harassment and violence meted out to Jews.

The response has been harassment and threats, young Montreal Jews attending universities singled out by Arab and Muslim students for loud shouting matches and physical encounters. A synagogue and a Jewish community centre were firebombed since the Hamas slaughter of Israeli civilians and the abduction of 240 Israeli children, women and elderly, along with a group of soldiers. Two Jewish day schools had bullets discovered fired overnight at their front doors. 

 

The marches and protests that have taken place by 'pro-Palestinians', call for 'Palestine to be free from the river to the sea'; a genocidal call. The Montreal that was once a comfortable home for generation after generation of Jewish Canadians has changed -- radically.

 

Adil Charkaoui's speech has drawn broad condemnation from politicians like Premier François Legault and groups like the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. (Adil Charkaoui/X)