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Europe is facing its biggest refugee crisis since World War II, with more than 60% of the migrants proceeding mainly from Syria, though 85% of them fail to get beyond Turkey. And why are the Syrians fleeing their country en masse? The answer is grim

Europe is facing its biggest refugee crisis since World War II, with more than 60% of the migrants proceeding mainly from Syria, though 85% of them fail to get beyond Turkey. And why are the Syrians fleeing their country en masse? The answer is grim. Since 2011 the Assad regime has been besieging its population with chemical weapons and barrel bombs; ISIS also murders, tortures and crucifies them daily, subjecting women to sexual slavery and other unspeakable brutalities; and smaller jihadist organizations like the Al-Nusra Front are also slaughtering them. As of today 250,000 have died in a civil war that has displaced half the population, forcing one out of every five Syrians (4 million people) to leave their country.

While Germany’s response to the crisis has been called by EC President Donald Tusk “the most liberal and tolerant in European history”, many in the Old Continent consider this migration a covert invasion organized by ISIS to gradually impose its caliphate on the Western World. Much like Houellebecq’s latest novel “Soumission”, once the migrants are accepted by the European countries, they would get voted into office, allowing them to enforce the Sharia Law and make Islam mandatory. According to these critics, EU’s political correctness would be compelling it to appease the invaders, instead of fighting back.

In any case, Tusk has requested Chancellor Angela Merkel to restrain her open protocol granting asylum for hundreds of thousands of migrants, in order to safeguard the external European borders. EU leaders will offer billions in aid to African nations in exchange for help in stemming the flow of migrants fleeing or passing through their continent. The only European country already doing this is Spain, which cooperates with transit countries such as Morocco, Senegal and Mauritania since 2007, providing financial support and development-aid programs.