As a brown man who's lived awhile in Northern Europe, watching this saga unfold, I have to say the nimbyism shown by Denmark and Norway has been astonishing. Only Sweden and Germany seem to still be able to hold their heads high, actually treating brown people as humans without prejudice. Norway and Denmark have shown small mindedness comparable to the likes of Poland and Hungary while being vastly richer and better educated.

I've had to eat my prior words and praise sung in favor of N.Europe to my friends and family and restrict it to just Sweden, because the entire world can now see the reality of the actions taken in adversity by each of the countries and not just the words.

It is a small matter of consolation that the iphones so many Danes and Norwegians love is the brainchild of a man with Syrian blood whom they would have refused to shelter while counting their nickels and dimes. They are welcome to deal with that cognitive dissonance as they fade into the twilight of history while hoping the names of their ancestors are not much tarnished by the actions of the current generation. It would take a long time for the world to forget these things.