Don’t confuse immigration with conquest
Re: “Worth remembering: we are all one species”, Letters, February 6.
The human species emanated from one single geographical point – the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa. That means every single human is an emigrant from Africa, apart from those still living there. On reaching North America, the migrants spread out across the continent. Then, 20,000 years later, other tribes from the East conquered them in the name of their god. Genocide in his name all but annihilated the inhabitants.
Now, again from the East and in the name of a completely different god and ideology, a further conquest is underway. It also declares its god-given right to annihilate the non-believer inhabitants.
Clearly immigration must not be confused with conquest. Immigration is natural but god-free. Conquest takes place in the name of a god.
Only natural forces and the need for food and shelter guided the original migrants out of Africa. The subsequent development of the human brain in its desire for fantasy rejects such realities. This phenomenon is the sole cause of the conflict and self-destruction we see today across the globe.
J C Wilcox
