Posted on 09/22/2016 5:05:07 AM PDT by ErikJohnsky
Advocates of admitting Syrian refugees to the U.S. often try to liken the situation to that of European Jews from the 1930s. This event saw the U.S. turn back a passenger ship, the MS St. Louis, filled with Jewish refugees. Subsequently, many of its passengers perished in Nazi Germany and numerous death camps.
Not surprisingly, most who make this ignorant comparison cannot name the ship. The 1939 incident occurred in peace time, and its passengers sought refuge because they were subject to discriminatory laws solely based on their ethnic and/or religious background (being Jewish is widely accepted as both an ethnicity and religion, an “ethnoreligious” group).
The vast majority of Syrian refugees are Sunni Arab Muslims who are not subject to oppression by ISIS on the basis of practicing Sunni Islam or being of Arab ethnicity. Most of them are simply fleeing from the collateral damage of a violent conflict or political opposition to ISIS.
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Not many (any!) Jews came to the US to bomb and stab, assault and murder the citizens of the country that took them in.
“Can’t believe that a college newspaper actually published this! “
I can. This is stupid and sounds like a student: “The vast majority of Syrian refugees are Sunni Arab Muslims who are not subject to oppression by ISIS on the basis of practicing Sunni Islam or being of Arab ethnicity. Most of them are simply fleeing from the collateral damage of a violent conflict or political opposition to ISIS.”
It’s a letter to the editor, not an op-ed. The editor is probably just happy for proof that someone is actually reading their paper.
Most of the refugees on the St. Louis found refuge in either the UK or the Netherlands. Unfortunately, the Netherlands was conquered by Hitler the following year.
is that not true? Most Muslims fleeing Syria are not fleeing some oppression based on religion the way Jews were in Europe; the attempt to liken them is how liberals push more Islams into America. The author had the balls to say what no one else will.
And yea, while many of those Jews found refuge in UK, France, Holland, fact is that everyone knew the Nazis could easily take over Europe, and did.
Basically, Jews were and are winners; can’t say so about the Muslims.
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