Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin. This is the audio version of each episode of the Empire Files hosted on Telesaur English. You can watch every episode at the EmpireFiles. TV.

Over the past few months, a major humanitarian disaster has dominated the news. 60 million human beings are currently displaced refugees of violence and extreme poverty,

the largest number ever recorded by the United Nations.

They are today's most vulnerable and in need people on the planet,

where countless families are hurled into perilous journeys.

So how is the media drawing attention to this deep crisis for our sisters and brothers around the world?

Hungary has been overwhelmed by the flood of migrants.

As you've got a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean.

Now the same thing is happening in Europe.

Countries are being overrun by migrants, mostly Muslims.

If they just come to moderate tolerant Europe to

someday make it less moderate and tolerant. I take ISIS at its word when they said

in their own words that we'll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate.

Those are reportedly Muslim refugees on a train in Europe chanting Allah Akbar or God is great.

Now, to be clear, we're not saying that any of those people are terrorists or in any way affiliated

with a terror group, but it does highlight just how many of these refugees who are fleeing

violence in Iraq and Syria are Muslim.

Dripping with Islamophobia and racist hysteria,

millions are being dehumanized as terrorists and enemy invaders.

Words like swarm and human tide are used to describe the plight of hundreds of thousands of human beings,

risking everything just for a chance at life.

Probably wouldn't have so much hate if they'd just spent one day in their shoes.

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