Editor,

Please create some space for me to send a rejoinder to the debate on the vexed issue (topic) of visa applications - be it their denial or the most ridiculous questions ALWAYS asked answers to which (irrespective of whether or not they are correctly answered) constitute the basis of their decisions. I realise there is hardly space, not to mention adequate space, in your paper for the very many good reasons we all know.

So I will go to the point.

The fact and heart of the matter is that, Western Europe and the USA have deliberate and calculated IMMIGRATION AS WELL AS EMIGRATION POLICIES AND LAWS deeply rooted in xenophobia and racism, both overt and covert.

The hatred, repulsion, nostalgic feelings and disgust deeply generated from within them, is to say the least, reprehensible. This has been the way all along because they, deep down in their egos, culture and civilisation, feel very strongly that they the CHOSEN and MUST NOT MIX, lest they be diluted by the negroid!

They have killed, maimed and jailed us for centuries, exploited and ravaged our economies, destroyed and polluted (if not bastardised) our cultures and civilisations! They just CANNOT stand our sight! They will go ALL the way to deny you a visa under some reprehensible legal corpus and regulatory frameworks.

As far as I am concerned, their diplomatic corps can say anything and everything to justify their actions - the fact remains that they HATE US and do not want "niggers" in their lands of honey and milk. For those of us who had the opportunity to go to their countries, we KNOW better.

Tamsir Joof

UK