Nobel Laureate Lech Walesa: “If Europe Opens Its Gates To Muslims There Will Be Beheadings Here”

by Scott McKay | September 25, 2015 1:00 pm

Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity leader who played a large part in taking down the Polish communist Jaruzelski regime and bringing down the Iron Curtain in the 1980’s and who later led Poland as its president, is now speaking out about the Syrian refugee crisis.

And he’s not with the European intelligentsia in lauding the current open borders trend[1]…

Speaking to the[2]Jerusalem Post, the former president of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and human rights activist said he sympathised with people in Europe who expressed concern about mass migration. Yet his forthright views left even the usually unflappable broadsheet pre-emptively apologising for his words, calling his views “simplistic”and the man himself an “enfant terrible… a conservative homophobe”.

Responding to a question on the “humanitarian crisis” presently engulfing Europe, Walesa told the Post:

“I understand why Poland and Europe fear their influx. They arrive from places where people are beheaded. We are worried that the same will happen to us.

“We in Poland have small flats, low salaries and meagre pensions. Watching the refugees on television, I noticed that they look better than us. They are well fed, well dressed and maybe even are richer than we are.

“It’s a problem. If Europe opens its gates, soon millions will come through and while living among us will start exercising their own customs, including beheading.”

While Walesa understood that in many European nations Poles are also immigrants, he articulated the widely held view in Poland and amongst its expatriates around the world that wherever Poles go, they respect local cultures and laws.

This was not the case with the migrants who have been coming to Europe for the past few decades he argued, remarking: “These immigrants are different. Even second or third generations – look at France, for example – who got good education and made money still turned against the host countries”.

Walesa also wasn’t afraid to have a sly dig at the young men who have left their homelands at a time when, in reality, they are needed there most.

Asked whether he had any sympathy for those coming to Europe, he spoke of his own experience of being a political undesirable in Communist Poland:

“I was offered by the Communist regime to leave Poland and become a refugee. I declined. I stayed on to fight for what I believed in. It’s true that part of the new refugees and immigrants leave because they fear for their life. But many also immigrate to improve their standards of living and quality of life.”

Walesa set the standard for courage against tyranny by enduring the worst that the Soviet puppets who ran his country could dish out, and he won – and so did Poland. Now, he’s challenging the young men of the Middle East to follow in his footsteps and do what’s necessary to improve their own countries.

That’s a challenge falling on deaf ears, however, as not even Walesa’s fellow Europeans are willing to stand by him. Chaos and instability – and perhaps a beheading or two – are sure to follow.

Endnotes:
  1. he’s not with the European intelligentsia in lauding the current open borders trend: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/24/europe-opens-gates-muslims-will-beheadings-nobel-laureate-lech-walesa-speaks/
  2. Speaking to the: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/World-Affairs-Simple-solutions-for-a-complex-world-416499

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