European Migrant Crisis Series: Britain and Cameron unlikely to be last victims

At the heart of the issues that prompted a majority of the Britons to back an exit from the European Union lies immigration or rather the refugee crisis faced by the whole of Europe. After the referendum outcome, incidents were reported where Britons shouted slangs at immigrants and at EU workers who are not part of the current refugee crisis faced by Europe. A polish community center was graffiti attacked. However, the biggest fear was not about the jobs but securities and concerns were not regarding the EU workers but the threat that refugees might be legally or illegally traveling to the UK via EU. A recent study by Pew Research Center shows that Britons are concerned over terrorist threat, which they feel could go up with immigration.

This fear is shared by the people of the European Union too, at least in most of them and in the vital ones like France and Germany. Recent Truck attack in Nice, France killed 84 people and the origin of the attacker has Islamic immigration route. Yesterday, a 17-year old man attacked and fatally injured four people in a train in Germany. The man is an immigrant from Afghanistan and was among the millions of refugees, who have taken a shelter in Germany. The motive behind the killing is not known and it is not likely to be known but imagined since the attacker died in a police shootout.

While German Chancellor Angela Merkel was right (according to us) to provide support to the refugees, she failed to recognize that the European Union lacked the infrastructure to provide support to these immigrants. When we say support, we are not talking about money, shelter, and jobs but transitional ones. In Berlin or in Paris, a couple can kiss in the open including those who are of the same-sex, but that would be a grave sin according to Islam and would be first time see for the migrants, who are largely coming from the war-torn region of the Middle East, Africa, and Afghanistan.

Immigration that has now raised the possibility of a Brexit and led to the resignation of former UK Prime Minister David Cameron likely to claim more victims throughout the EU and both Chancellor Merkel and President Hollande are standing in the danger zone.