The "woke" "solution:" Abolish borders!
Heba Gowayed, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University, says!
When it comes to “humanitarians,” blanket asylum advocates, and their associated crowd of enablers working on promoting the illegal crossing of borders, my allergies kick in up to ER level.
This morning I stumbled upon a piece written by a certain Heba Gowayed, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University, for Aljazeera, the Qatari government-funded international Arabic news channel based in Doha, Qatar. Qatar is a good friend of Islamist Erdoganist Turkey; Doha and Ankara see eye to eye on most everything that has to do with their relations with the civilized world—and happily support Islamist terrorists with funds, guns, and political cover.
Heba is most likely Muslim; according to quranicnames.com “Heba is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means ‘gift’, especially a gift and blessing from God.” This particular gift from God apparently visited Greece last September as an illegal immigration advocate and produced an article titled The inhumane futility of border policing: Increased and more violent border policing does not work. It is time to abolish it.
Heba duly slammed the Greeks for their harsh methods of dealing with the uninvited, who are subjected to pushbacks that ignore their rights under international law.
These inhuman methods, Heba announced, force the uninvited to try again and again to breach the border, a practice that puts their lives in danger. And to add insult to injury, the good professor added, the uninvited are forced to live in EU-funded “jungle camps” that are “effective prisons,” which further injures their rights under international law.
For good measure, Heba takes the inescapable swipe at the US efforts to control her southern border and concludes with the Dedicated Humanitarian’s clarion call to “to divest from policing, and the borders they protect, and invest in people instead,” which, in her “humanitarian” academese, translates into “drop your borders and accept unlimited illegal immigration as a permanent human right.”
The Hebas of the “woke” universe do not meet even the most basic test of possessing the mental and intellectual powers to process what abolishing borders truly means for the economic and social stability of receiving countries— without even touching upon the longer-term impact of what is usually referred to as “population replacement,” a term “humanists” dismiss as a white nationalist conspiracy theory.
I searched for more details on Heba’s background but there’s precious little out there. She’s obviously aware her views may not be all that popular and takes precautions. But if you wish to get more on her beliefs and ideologies access Amazon’s description of her upcoming book Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential: How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequality.
Heba should take a break from her cozy university environment and come live in Greece for, say, six months. We’ll welcome her and find her a place to stay in the Athens district known as the “Kabul Extension,” which also welcomes Nigerian, Congolese, Pakistani, and other, almost all Moslem, uninvited. That will give her material for several books on how Greece does not realize the “potential” of these poor souls and treats them in ways undeserved.
The inhumane futility of border policing
Increased and more violent border policing does not work. It is time to abolish it.
On September 22, as I descended from the ferry into the bustling port of Lesbos, Greece, I was stopped by a police officer. “Don’t worry, it’s just a security check,” he said, gesturing for me to follow him, and insisting my friend come too. We were directed to a beige trailer at the end of the port, where I, an Arab woman, along with my white German friend, joined an Afghan man and a Black man. The belongings of the latter were strewn across the table, as the officer interrogated him about each card in his billfold – his residency card identified him as an asylum seeker. The officer then patted him down aggressively, grabbing at each of his legs.
A woman officer rifled through my belongings, opening each lipstick and each zipper, as a male officer, holding my American passport, asked me several times whether I was a reporter. “For the third time, I am an American university professor,” I said. He stepped up to me aggressively saying, “no one cares what you do”.
Racial profiling at the southern border of the European Union was clearly rife.
In the following weeks on the islands of Lesbos and Samos, as well as in the capital, Athens, I met asylum seekers from various places – from Afghanistan to Syria to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Eritrea. They all shared their traumatic stories of trying to reach European shores to seek protection and safety – a right guaranteed to them under international law – and instead, being treated as criminals and rule breakers. They were among millions of others who, cast out of their homes due to war, environmental degradation, or persecution, amalgamate into what the media calls a “migrant crisis” – an influx of the “unwanted”.