Ahmed (not his real name), an Afghan man who worked as a bodyguard for the team of the country’s vice-president under Hamid Karzai, fled to the UK to claim asylum after the Taliban takeover.
So he chose the wrong side and now wants us to provide him with an escape route from the consequences.
His lawyer has advised that his claim is likely to be accepted by the Home Office because of his direct association with the upper echelons of the previous Afghan government. His wife was a university student when the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan and forced her to abandon her studies. She escaped to neighbouring Pakistan, where she is at risk of deportation back to her home country. She and her husband had been pinning all their hopes on a family reunion application and had been planning a future together in the UK.
Why not in safe Pakistan? Why the UK where you have no ties and don't fit in to the culture?
“I would rather go back to Afghanistan with my wife so we can die there together than spend my life separated from her.”
Fine by me!
“I knew that the journey I went on from Afghanistan to the UK had a 99% risk of death. Nobody makes that journey unless they have no other choice. “I’m in shock. I thought this was the country of human rights but the government is not treating us like humans. I have no plan B. This announcement is going to destroy families and destroy hope.”
WEll, given the new Home Secretary is a Muslim, who knows whether this policy will continue?
I escaped from the shithole that Afghanistan has become, and travelled through many safe countries, so that I could be brought, by a UK government boat, into the only western country stupid enough to give me free accommodation, free food, free tv and internet, and money. I now want my wife to join me, and we will have many children, and bring them up to despise, like I do, the society in this country, as these people do not realise that what they see as compassion, those of my culture see as a weakness to be taken advantage of.
ReplyDeleteI think that just about covers it.
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All of these people are insisting on making their problems our problems.
ReplyDeleteOur country will have to begin telling them that whatever problems they have, they are nothing to do with us.
Of course it is dependent on the indigenous people of our country wanting it to remain ours and not theirs.
It’s been a land of tribal anarchy, probably since the days of the Fertile Crescent. However, the problem is that we did go in and stomp all over their country, (thanks George and Tony!) so they have some claim that we made things even worse.
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