Earlier this week I was asked as a guest on Cross Talk , one of RT TV flagship programs with the very wonderful, Peter Lavelle, to comment on the ongoing refugee crisis Europe has had to grapple with. The show intended to delve into those questions most media have dodged for fear of being politically incorrect.I'd like to personally hand my hat to RT TV for flying journalism's colours high - few outlets these days have dared open themselves up the way Russia has done, offering both a space, and a platform for ideas to be debated, and pluralism to be respected.Europe's refugee crisis is set to be the challenge of the decade! I would personally argue that our ability to face up to this new crisis will very much determine our global socio-political future in that it will define communities, nations, and continents' abilities to relate to one another, and more importantly view each other.Allow me to elaborate.News flash - the world is multi-coloured and there are many realities!How does this tie in to the refugee crisis you may ask? Bear with me for a second ... I'm just about to crack that nut.War refugees have come to Europe in their tens of thousands ... War refugees will continue to come to Europe in their tens of thousands since it is war they all are running away from.In the face of this modern day exodus many questions have arisen: some ugly, some logical, some rooted in political manoeuvring and some anchored in cold pragmatism.Now, if we are completely honest the main issues around refugees have been ethnicity and religion.Please understand that my comment here is a mere observation, and should not be taken as a criticism.So war migrants have literally crashed into Europe and many people are not exactly thrilled at the idea. Can we in all honesty blame EU communities for their wariness? Can we please not give in to the demon of demagoguery for a second, and actually approach the crisis rationally?However one chooses to look at mass migration, and beyond any talks about ethnicities and religious correctness, any grand influx of people into one area will absolutely cause friction in that it will drain and pull at society's fabric. Stating such a fact is not giving into racism ... it is a reality of life.Regardless of who they are, where they come from, and how they got here people will need homes, schools for their children, work and medical services.But here is where it gets tricky.As Peter Lavelle pointed out, why have refugees come to Europe? Indeed .... Why have they?!! Hear me ... I am NOT, I repeat I am NOT arguing that refugees should not come to Europe - anyone running from war should in fact be offered safe refuge!Of course issues were going to arise from such an influx of migrants into Europe ...of course crimes were going to be committed ... of course lives and communities were going to be disrupted.Anyone arguing the contrary must be either deluded or a complete nutcase - yes Mr Sukant Chandan I am talking to you and the argument you made that migrants can never be blamed for social disruption.Another point to make is that while the West bears responsibility in the hardships which befell the MENA: Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Arab countries should share in this burden of war by opening their borders to refugees. Why haven't we seen the likes of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Egypt step up to the plate? Why haven't we collectively called for those "allies" to shoulder their share of responsibility?How fast can you say engineered chaos?This leads me to the argument of the month - Are refugees dangerous and nefarious?Let me make myself crystal clear here - I tried to make this point during the show but I was unfortunately cut off by one opinionated commentator in love with the sound of his own psychosis!Let's deal with facts here. Crimes have been committed, violent despicable crimes have been carried out on European soil by "so-called refugees" to better portray the whole under a light of mistrust and disgust.Those are the realities we have to deal with.Does this mean that Muslims are all predatory psychopaths? No of course not! This argument is so beyond the pale I refuse to address it ... I will not entertain Donal Trump's lunacy on the matter by attempting to reason with hard racist fascism.Generalization is a dangerous habit ... it goes both ways.Arguing that refugees never commit crimes and should always and forever be blanketed by the powers that be, on account they suffered great injustices is ludicrous. People should be held accountable - this should be the norm.White-washing or blame-pointing are two faces of the same despicable coin.During the show (Cross Talk) Mr Chandan argued that because "brown people" suffered under colonialism they should be given a free pass on all future crimes ... not even that, but they should be allowed to rise tyrants over all white people. What??!!!Can we stop playing the racial card for a second here! Can we please understand that one violence cannot be answered by another? I will refer here to a passage of the Quran which states that an evil cannot be answered by another but instead be met by which is better. Muslims are not the problem! Refugees are not the problem per se either - only the way their arrival has been handled ... or rather mis-handled.Now this is the crucial part.While we argue race, faiths, colours and other ridiculous differences in between communities, we are all collectively failing to recognise the shackles being built around all of our ankles.By giving in to the racist narrative - whichever way it plays, we have failed to address the failures of our officials, which failures have created the mess we see today.What about some good old-fashioned accountability? What about good old-fashioned reasoning?