mjalti: uaeswagger:These aren’t Syrians. They’re Europeans trying to get to North Afri
mjalti: uaeswagger: These aren’t Syrians. They’re Europeans trying to get to North Africa during World War II. So next time you think of closing the borders you might want to check with your grandparents. no offense but this is a ship named “vlora” which is the major port in albania; these are most likely Albanians escaping a communist regime by going to italy. also no offense again x2 but albania isn’t any country that’s even really accepted by europe in most cases, being “the muslim country” itself and under 500 years of ottoman rule followed by a communist regime. so while i empathize with the syrian people and what they’re going through (albanians themselves have been refugees), you dont get to use my country to prove some point on the internet especially since albanians aren’t even the ones that had hands in colonialism or “closing borders”. this picture isn’t accurate, unless you have a specific source that isn’t twitter. -- source link