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Shunning refugees is no answer to terror
CNN ^ | November 16, 2015 | By Karen Jacobsen

Posted on 11/16/2015 7:01:00 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

It now seems possible that at least one of the terrorists in the Paris attack on Friday entered the European Union hidden among the wave of refugees arriving on European shores.

Even if this turns out not be so, the fear that terrorists are hiding amongst refugees will increase and will be used by anti-immigrant politicians.

That refugee or migrant movements might include terrorists has always been a threat and a worry to countries of immigration. It is part of the risk of welcoming strangers, just as we all take calculated risks when we allow people we don't know well into our homes.

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


TOPICS: Syria
KEYWORDS: parisattacks; refugees
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To: livius
The "problem" as the left sees it with middle eastern Christians.

Sterling Heights mosque voted down
21 posted on 11/16/2015 7:09:56 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wrong.

And if Jews were blowing up innocents and torturing them alive, raping girls, etc, you guys shouldn’t have let us in in the 1940s, either.


22 posted on 11/16/2015 7:10:14 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: MinorityRepublican

Any and every idiot who demands these death-cult refugees be placed in our communities frankly deserves an ISIS bullet to their brain. They’re putting OUR lives on the line for their own sense of pathetic feel-goodism. Beyond Obama himself, whose allegiance lies with Islam and the desire to stock America with as many of his radical muzzie brothers as he can.


23 posted on 11/16/2015 7:10:21 PM PST by greene66
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why dont YOU take a few of them home with you Karen. You seem to have a handle on their lifestyle.


24 posted on 11/16/2015 7:10:33 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#blackfridaysmatter)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This ‘welcoming garbage’ is right out of the leftist playbook.

The leftists use words like hospitality to make people feel guilty.

We should not buy in to their swill.


25 posted on 11/16/2015 7:11:57 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: MinorityRepublican

Shunning the refugees isn’t the answer to terror...it’s merely a response to bad foreign policy.

What is *causing* the refugee crisis in the first place?
ANSWER: Obama is funding and fighting (50 USA troops on the ground inside Syria) a war against Syria’s President Assad.

Assad, in turn, is fighting against ISIS.

Hmmm...

It’s a terrible war. Hundreds of thousands already killed, and over 7 million Syrians have been displaced by it.

Well, they had to go...somewhere.

And in classic Obama form, he was up in Alaska fishing when the UN voted to cut the food + medicine budget to the UN refugee camps that were holding the Syrian refugees.

Ooops.

...so the Syrians had to move again. Lots of them have been fleeing the refugee camps to Europe and now Europe wants the USA to take some of them.

But Boston was just bombed (marathon) by refugees from Chechnya’s civil war and Paris was just bombed and attacked by Syrian refugees plus 2nd generation Belgian and Parisian immigrants, so some parts of the USA are justly concerned about importing more civil war refugees here.

Pause

So that brings us up to date. With Obama’s war efforts to oust Assad still on-going, the refugee crisis will likewise continue.

Even if we accepted all of the refugees today, because Obama is making it worse, more refugees will soon come calling.

This is a boat with a hole in it. Obama refuses to patch the hole...while liberals are demanding that everyone hold a cup of the incoming water.

That’s not sustainable.

First you patch the hole in the boat by stopping Obama’s ridiculous efforts to overthrow Assad.

Then...you at least take in the elderly, crippled, women, and orphaned young children.

Only *AFTER* all of the above can we debate the fate of fighting-age male refugees.


26 posted on 11/16/2015 7:12:26 PM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Paay them to stay in Turkey to secure their right to return to Syria.


27 posted on 11/16/2015 7:13:06 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
A profile of the author:

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Fletcher_Directory/Directory/Faculty%20Profile?personkey=3923141C-E683-40A6-B7CB-CAE5E77BA514

Sounds like a smart woman, but is not American; she moved here from South Africa.

Anyway, I wouldn't say we're "shunning" refugees. We're shunning terrorism....of course, if Karen wants to let some move into HER house, then I say we let her house and feed a few. On her tenured professor's pay.

28 posted on 11/16/2015 7:14:24 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: MinorityRepublican

FOAD, Karen. FOAD.


29 posted on 11/16/2015 7:15:47 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Resettle them somewhere in their own country. STAY OUT OF MY COUNTRY.


30 posted on 11/16/2015 7:15:54 PM PST by fivecatsandadog ( What strategy? Tell me what your strategy is and I'll tell you if its working". Quinn, "Homeland")
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To: Paladin2

Funny how they don’t care that a refugee can be ISIS, yet a gun goes off we need to get rid of every gun.


31 posted on 11/16/2015 7:15:59 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Time for a global crusades. If we do not act, this is only the beginning.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If eating one in ten turkeys would kill you, we’d be having something else on Thanksgiving.


32 posted on 11/16/2015 7:16:18 PM PST by anton
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To: MinorityRepublican

Over 3000 years ago, a bunch of Trojans wanted to pull a horse into their walls to celebrate their victory over the Achaens or Greeks.

A wise man named Laocoon told them to beware of Greeks bearing gifts. He was shouted down and the horse brought into the city.

Well we have a lot of advantages over the Trojans. The terrorists aren’t even hidden, they are in plain view. Despite that, we have our leaders do what the Trojans never would have. We bring them in knowing just what they are.


33 posted on 11/16/2015 7:16:23 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: The Toll; All
Their government isn’t actively trying to kill them like ours.

Japan also will permit no Muslims to settle permanently there. Rigidly controls short term visa holders who are Muzzies (regardless of national origin) and in general the Nipponese are really disdainful of Islam considering it a retrograde and backward religion and culture. Does this look like the policies of the USA?

34 posted on 11/16/2015 7:16:45 PM PST by robowombat
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To: cripplecreek

Why haven’t we seen any Christian refugees seeking aylum ? Every refugee I’ve seen appears to be Muslim. Every damn last one of ‘em....


35 posted on 11/16/2015 7:16:53 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: SoFloFreeper

“she moved here from South Africa.”

Yeah. That really worked out well for S. Africans there.


36 posted on 11/16/2015 7:17:05 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Put a few thousand in Atlanta and see if CNN changes it’s tune.


37 posted on 11/16/2015 7:17:50 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: MinorityRepublican

As if a stranger came to dinner and stole a candlestick.


38 posted on 11/16/2015 7:19:02 PM PST by MarMema
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To: The Toll

Japan has its own muslim community while the press and the government give very little coverage of the French murders.
When asked about this, the organization representing Japanese muslims seemed annoyed by the question, saying they didn’t do anything wrong.


39 posted on 11/16/2015 7:20:07 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: rdl6989

Not good enough. They would give them housing across the street from me in section 8.

These refugees need to be delivered directly to their doors.


40 posted on 11/16/2015 7:20:52 PM PST by The Toll
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