I live in Germany, and have been around a couple of the Syrians. At least from the group I’ve chatted with...no one has much enthusiasm for Assad or the ISIS crowd. Most Syrians were agreeable to Assad leaving one way or another...it’s just that they didn’t realize that the alternate choice might end up being some extreme version of Islam.
When you go and look at recruitment...the Syrians who packed up and left Syria....are about the last folks you’d want to approach for some radical ISIS recruitment theme. So, when you look around Europe....it’s typically 2nd generation French-Muslim or Turks or some other Middle-Eastern group who grew up in the European school system and just reached some failed state of life that gets recruited.
I do agree...there might be a couple hundred ISIS thugs who played the fake immigrant routine and just sits around to wait for orders. But the bulk of the Syrian crowd are fairly negative about ISIS and their focus ahead....along with Assad needing to leave.
A Syrian family moved in 2 doors down from me. They seem nice enough. The father is a doctor, and the mother is a stay-at-home mom. They def. act the part of a westerner, but I am constantly leery of them. Taqqiyah is very real.
They can never truly be American citizens, because they cannot do the whole Constitution thing.
>Most Syrians were agreeable to Assad leaving one way or another...it’s just that they didn’t realize that the alternate choice might end up being some extreme version of Islam.
They need to check their brains. Assad is the only leader keeping the islam nutjobs at bay. Assad targeted the ones that needed attitude adjustments.
Well, as long as it’s only a couple of hundred of them, I guess that’s OK. /s