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'Bring them here': the case for St Louis to welcome Syrian refugees
The Manchester Guardian ^ | September 14, 2015 | Sarah Kendzior

Posted on 09/14/2015 9:44:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

St Louis has long history of refugee resettlement in a region of empty land and cheap real estate, making it financially easier for refugees to build a new life.

“Syria, Syria, you’re not alone! Call St Louis your new home!”

On 13 September, hundreds of St Louis-area residents converged in a parking lot in the suburb of University City to demand that the US government raise the cap on the number of Syrian refugees allowed in the country – and settle at least 60,000 of them in St Louis.

The rally, which included speeches from religious leaders, Muslim activists and Syrians, culminated in a march through a University City’s business district, where the streets echoed with a recurrent cry: “Bring them here! Bring them here!”

“One of the things that makes this march so amazing is that this march is for Syrians, but not by Syrians,” said Faizan Syed, the organizer of the march. “It’s done by people of all different races, backgrounds and religions. All of them are coming together because they are witnessing the image of tragedy overseas. And when they witness that, they want to make sure they can do something about it.”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: islam; missouri; refugees; syria
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1 posted on 09/14/2015 9:44:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fools. Get back to me in a year or so when these heathens rule your city.


2 posted on 09/14/2015 9:46:57 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Put them in East St. Louis. LOL


3 posted on 09/14/2015 9:47:02 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Muslim radicals hardened by years of war living side-by-side with the Black Lives Matter enthusiasts already in conflict with Hispanic gangs in most US cities. What could go wrong?


4 posted on 09/14/2015 9:47:08 PM PDT by grania
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When the shtf we will isolate the cities and they will eat their own.


5 posted on 09/14/2015 9:47:23 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: doc1019

They’ll stay out of the Hoods.


6 posted on 09/14/2015 9:47:53 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Syria, Syria, you’re not alone! Call St Louis your new home!”

a bad rhyme like that usually indicates black people are being fooled into doing something stupid.

7 posted on 09/14/2015 9:48:30 PM PDT by uncitizen (i hate gutless people, too.)
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To: laplata

Only because they will create their own “hoods”.


8 posted on 09/14/2015 9:49:15 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stupidity and arrogant ignorance, that’s why.


9 posted on 09/14/2015 9:50:48 PM PDT by piytar (Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It would seem idiocy reigns supreme in the city of St Louis.


10 posted on 09/14/2015 9:52:58 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because St. Louis isn’t yet Third World enough.


11 posted on 09/14/2015 9:55:26 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: laplata
Put them in East St. Louis. LOL

They'd improve the place.

12 posted on 09/14/2015 9:55:34 PM PDT by Drew68
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Baltimore Prepares To Accept More Syrian Refugees

September 13, 2015

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/09/13/baltimore-prepares-to-accept-more-syrian-refugees/

13 posted on 09/14/2015 10:08:46 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: laplata

Nope, Send the Muzzies to ....Ferguson.


14 posted on 09/14/2015 10:09:47 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Soros paid Deray and fat Netta to start riots there, he’s probably paying these blowhards as well.


15 posted on 09/14/2015 10:10:15 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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Soros paid Deray and fat Netta to start riots there, he’s probably paying these blowhards as well.


16 posted on 09/14/2015 10:10:18 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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Has to be hired activists. You can't get that many people to rally for charter schools or care for vets but they're all of a sudden there for far away strangers who are hostile to everything America is? Really?

Who believes this BS? Does anyone think these are authentic St. Louis residents who want Middle Eastern Muslims in their town?

17 posted on 09/14/2015 10:13:23 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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Good idea. I don’t think it’s very far at all.


18 posted on 09/14/2015 10:14:11 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: doc1019

“Hundreds” demanded this, out of a metro population of nearly 3 million.

Still, these hundreds don’t seem to have figured out that St. Louis can’t even handle it’s own present problems...


19 posted on 09/14/2015 10:14:57 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wait until St. Louis find out what it is like to listen to their call to prayer—the Adhan. The Adhan is called out by a muezzin from the mosque five times a day.


20 posted on 09/14/2015 10:26:19 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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