Category: Immigration
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By Selwyn Duke Early in my commentary career, I found myself debating the meaning of one of my articles in an online chat with a woman who’d read the piece. Why the argument? Well, I was mischievous, I’ll confess, and, having a little fun, didn’t tell her I was the author. Towards our interaction’s conclusion…
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By Selwyn Duke “Everybody, in all mainstream political parties and media … would laugh — laugh — about the word assimilation,” lamented journalist Mikael Jalving in 2014. It “is a Nazi word in Sweden [now]” What kind of people was Danish journalist Jalving talking about? A good example is Swedish multiculturalist Mona Sahlin. Commenting on…
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By Selwyn Duke Reacting to invasion (im)migration trends years ago, Ambassador Alan Keyes put it bluntly. “We’re being colonized,” he said. And if ever there was proof of this, and the low quality of many post-1965 newcomers—and of the lie of “diversity”—it’s a viral video posted by one Wajahat Ali. Mr. Ali is a Pakistani-descent…
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By Selwyn Duke “Granting asylum to the persecuted is legitimate,” said a French politician recently. But “our uncontrolled immigration policy now leads us to welcome their executioners [too].” Unfortunately for a man named Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old Assyrian Christian, he became a case in point. He and his family managed to escape Islamic State jihadist…
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By Selwyn Duke The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting,” G.K. Chesterton noted in 1910. “It has been found difficult; and left untried.” Perhaps this helps explain why Christian adherence is in decline in the United Sates. On the other hand, whether or not Islam is found difficult, one thing is for…
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Afghan Rapes Elderly Woman. Aftermath: Her SON May be Charged for Unintentionally Videoing the Crime
By Selwyn Duke In today’s upside-down world, we’ve all heard stories about “blaming the victim.” Bullied kids at government schools come to mind. But whatever you’ve heard in this regard, nothing can compare to an incident out of Austria that just beggars belief.
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By Selwyn Duke There’s a certain technique often used by journalists, one designed to get you not thinking, but feeling. It involves opening an article with a human-interest story, and it’s figuring prominently right now in the illegal-migration controversy. It may go something like this: Heart Over Head Of course, the idea is to engage…
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By Selwyn Duke Politics wonks have long known that our modern (im)migration regime helps Democrats gain power. The reason is simple: 85-90 percent of our (im)migrants hail from the Third World. And upon naturalization, a majority of that portion of them vote Democratic. Yet there’s another type of migration, one that, say some observers, may…
