Merkel, Europe, and the three lives of Aylan the migrant

I was told a while ago by a French official that while the level of crimes had gone down in France, the perception among French people was not parallel to that fact. The older generations especially thought that the crime levels did not go down.

It is the duty of the politicians and opinion leaders to inform the public and fight prejudices and misconceptions. But what we usually see in Europe is a trend in the other direction. Politicians especially prefer to abuse the situation and think they can increase their votes by fuelling fears in society.

But it is high time that politicians and opinion leaders prepare their societies to face the truth on the immigration issue. And that truth is the fact that Europe needs immigrants.

The average Madame and Monsieur Europe will live quite a long time. May they live quite a long time! Yet there is a high probability that when Madame and Monsieur Average Europe will not be able to take care of themselves, it will not be their children or their neighbors or a French-born Christian social worker that will take care of them. Their social worker who will take care of their most intimate hygienic needs for instance might very well be a ?barbu,? or what the French would say equating every bearded man with a radical Islamist.

But in fact a bearded man, or head scarfed woman, both practicing Muslims who might be considered as radical Islamist terrorists from the French point of view, might make up the backbone of the army of social workers that an aging population will desperately need.

Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach as he drowned while trying to go to Europe for a better life, could have been that social worker if he had lived.

He...