���Archbishop of Canterbury: Not Racist to Oppose Refugees

Austin Welby, the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, in acknowledging the ���genuine fear��� that many in Great Britain have over the long-term (and not so long-term) impacts of mass migration to the country, said that it is ���outrageous��� to characterize those concerned as racist.

 

Welby, in an interview with Parliament���s The House magazine, pointed out that the mass migration currently at play throughout much of Europe is actually a ���colossal crisis,��� and that it is ���reasonable��� for the citizenry to be ���anxious��� about what is going on.

Rather than dismissing the fears as ���racist��� and essentially ignoring those who have concerns, Welby said that the government should listen carefully to those folks, and put in place resources to properly address the fears and concerns that so many citizens���both in Britain and elsewhere���have about the migrant crisis.

The U. S. is, of course, in the midst of addressing its own concerns about refugees, and many might be surprised to learn that in more ���remote��� states like South Carolina and Montana (���remote,��� as in, not close to America���s biggest cities or representative of its most politically progressive commonwealths), there are active movements afoot, engineered by the federal government and facilitated by its ���contractors,��� to relocate Muslim refugees there. Right now, citizens in South Carolina are pushing back against efforts by Lutheran Services Carolinas and World Relief, an arm of the National Association of Evangelicals, to essentially import Muslim refugees into the state, and many Montana residents are up in arms over the work of the International Rescue Committee and a group called WorldMontana to relocate Syrian refugees to Missoula and Helena.

 By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large