Immediately following the Paris attacks, most of the US went into a panic and wanted to close all internal borders. Not close them against ISIS, but close them against those FLEEING FROM ISIS. Over 20 US governors are rejecting Syrian refugees. The attackers in the Paris attacks were born and raised in France. ISIS has proven to be able to get people ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY to do their bidding. They would not, DO NOT need to sneak in terrorists as refugees. Bringing up the idea being spouted that all Muslims are bad, a good chunk of the Syrian refugees are not Muslim and are in fact CHRISTIAN. Governor Ted Cruz in is ignorance to the pure idiocy of his thoughts stated that we should only allow the "good Christian refugees" in. That is ignorance and stupidity in its purest form. There are good and bad people in ALL faiths and ALL walks of life.
Governor Tom Wolf spoke rather eloquently on the topic saying, "We must not lose sight of the fact that families leaving Syria are trying to escape the same violence and unimaginable terror that took place in Paris and Beirut."
To put it a little more into perspective about why these refugees are not cause for the whole nation to be up in arms about their arrival lets discuss a bit more about who ISIS is targeting most. In the last 3 of 4 MAJOR attacks, they occurred at MOSQUES. 43 died in the mosque attack in Beirut, more at the attack in Iraq, and again in Saudi Arabia.
In a 2011 report on Al Queda, 82-97% of the victims were MUSLIM. Similar numbers are being reported about ISIS victims. The Muslims you all are concerned about are the wrong ones to be worrying about. They are FLEEING from ISIS. They are fleeing a country in which ISIS is killing vast amounts of other Muslims. Yes, there are victims of ISIS who are of other religions, but all in all the Muslim deaths at the hands of ISIS are overwhelmingly higher.
These people are fleeing to America because it is supposed to be a place of hope, of safety. America is supposed to be a land of many faiths but increasingly often we seem to lose sight of that. So absorbed in ourselves that we repeat history that burned us once before and hate the many for the acts of the few.
They simply want safety, not to ruin the country. They want a peaceful life, not a war zone where they live in constant fear. Many in the US now have family ancestry who fled war torn homelands and benefited from the safety and security offered by this very country. Or have we all forgotten World War II? To deny people in the same situation which many of the current US populations ancestry were once in is not only UN-American, it is pathetic and shameful.
Does the statue of liberty not have a plaque that reads:
"Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates
Shall stand a mighty woman with a torch,
whose flame is the imprisoned lightning,
and her name Mother of Exiles."?
Syrian refugees are being slaughtered and driven from their home country. Would you not call that exile? I would.
Continuing on, had we as a country heeded France's warning against going to war with Iraq.. There is a very good chance there would be no ISIS and by that effect, no refugees fleeing from ISIS and its relentless slaughter of innocent people.
I'm going to end with 2 final quotes. One more from a plaque on the statue of liberty, and one for the "Christians" to help those very closed minded people out there understand this better.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
- Statue of Liberty plaque
Have they not proven to be tired, poor, huddled masses as well as homeless? Are we really so willing to turn against the ideals that our very country was founded on, thereby ensuring its destruction on a different path than what you claim will destroy it already? Can you deny the fact that by disregarding the very foundation of this country, we are not simply destroying it from the inside with our own fear and bigotry? Just think about it.
"Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
Maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy;
Deliver them from the hand of the wicked"
- Psalm 82:3-4
I ask you, is ISIS not the wicked? Can you truly turn away people that can be defined as the weak and needy? Can you abide yourself doing so in the eyes of your God? Will you truly deny his word and fail to deliver these people from the wicked that is ISIS?
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