
Japan Considers Immigration to Halt Demographic Death Spiral
Japan’s demographic decline has grown so pronounced that large-scale immigration may be on the table, after generations of resistance.

Japan’s demographic decline has grown so pronounced that large-scale immigration may be on the table, after generations of resistance.

On Sunday, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) hosted a panel discussion titled “Overcoming Xenophobia: Lessons from the Catholic, Mormon & Jewish Experiences.”
Bloomberg Politics Managing Editor and co-host of Bloomberg TV’s “With All Due Respect” John Heilemann argued, “Nationalism, populism, xenophobia” have “been ascendant in the Republican Party” on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball.” Heilemann said, during a discussion about GOP presidential candidate

It’s not every day that Mother Jones magazine publishes something asking progressives to take it down a notch, but that’s what author Kevin Drum did in a piece published Tuesday.

Contents: American politics becomes infused with anti-Muslim xenophobia; Paris attack significantly worsens Europe refugee crisis

MSNBC’s Victoria Defrancesco called GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s Obama Muslim question “premeditated” on Saturday’s “Up with Steve Kornacki.” She reasoned that Trump was trying to get fellow GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina “off the front page” and that Trump knew

Vice President Joe Biden attacked Republicans as xenophobic for opposing illegal immigration on Tuesday, likening them to the “Know-Nothing party back at the end of the nineteenth century.” However, the Know-Nothings were done by 1860.

Nigeria’s jihadist group Boko Haram is in Zimbabwe and could soon reach South Africa, reports the U.K. based news outlet ZimEye, citing Zimbabwe’s national intelligence agency.

The Nigerian Senate is contemplating bringing Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini to the International Criminal Court for remarks in which he called immigrants to South Africa “ants” and “head lice,” remarks believed to have triggered a growing wave of xenophobic violence in that country.

Boko Haram, the Islamist terrorist organization, has threatened to kill all South Africans in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and the surrounding region, according to media reports based on a video allegedly released by the group. The threat came as a response to a wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa, in which ordinary South Africans, primarily blacks, have killed, maimed, abused and expelled other Africans throughout the country, killing seven thus far and displacing thousands.

The Malawian government decided to bring back all their citizens from South Africa due to escalating violence against foreigners.