There is no doubt that the exceptional character of theirregular immigration requires, first and foremost, an immediate and concrete response both in terms of saving lives and in terms of a dignified welcome. And that’s what our government does every day. After that, you can no longer escape a serious situation Consideration about the consequences that irregular mass landings will have in the long term.
Samuel Huntington spoke in this sense in an essay published in Foreign Affairs in the early 1990s “Clash of Civilizations”. Given that many people have chosen to move from one place to another because it was historically possible, the novelty of our time lies in the fact that the South-North move will affect millions of Africans in the coming years will affect what demographers predict, and Asians – mostly of Islamic tradition – with foreseeable, not insignificant consequences for the cultural and civil terrain.
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It is certainly true – as open door advocates claim – that migratory phenomena (with the exception of those fleeing wars and persecution) must be included in the range of choices that every free person has when deciding to leave their country of origin. to meet has to choose another. One forgets to remember that, in absolute terms, this right is incompatible with another right, namely the right of the receiving country to decide how, when and whom to receive.
KANT’S TRUTH – This gives rise to the legitimacy of one of the most delicate functions that a sovereign state must perform, namely “ensuring the defense of national borders against illegal and arbitrary invasions”. Immanuel Kant writes in For Eternal Peace: “Hospitality means that the stranger has the right not to be treated with hostility, but the right to live on earth wherever one wants encounters a limit in the will of the host and in his benevolence.” .
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In this context, the philosopher Karl Popper, after repeating that liberal democracies can only be open, asks in a short essay “how far it is permissible to go on this terrain without running the risk of changing the conditions for to create his own self-destruction.” . There can be no liberal society without pluralism and tolerance.”
These are concepts that, as we know, are hardly present in the culture and traditions of the Muslim world. To subject the migratory flows towards our coasts to strict control, as Italy is trying to do with difficulty and in complete isolation, means being fully aware that there is a lot at stake in this historical phase and that it is the not so distant one future acts. Western civilization based on individual rights and freedoms. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of such awareness in the countries of the European Union, starting with Germany, which funds NGOs, as we have seen in the last few days. We must recognize that the authoritative Arabist Bernard Lewis was right a few years ago when he declared in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt: “Europe is becoming the north of the Maghreb after giving up defending its own identity.” ».