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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2016 8:09:13 GMT -6
I'm torn between helping them and keeping hands off. What do you think?
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Post by carpathianpeasant on Feb 9, 2016 7:31:42 GMT -6
I tend to ignore anything with "Syrian" attached to such stories. It's common knowledge some places that the people are not all Syrians or even from other war-torn areas such as Afghanistan.
As for "Vox" (a play on Fox and an allusion to voice?), I looked up their site and didn't see any reason for bookmarking it as "vital to keep" although I'm sure it has some millions of followers.
If you find a report that shows a mass of people without spotlighting some little kid, you may have a decent report.
Should we help refugees? Of course we should help refugees, real ones.
Edit: Took out the extra period at the end.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2016 9:18:11 GMT -6
Where are they from? I've not heard that before.
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Post by carpathianpeasant on Feb 9, 2016 10:26:34 GMT -6
Where are they from? I've not heard that before. It's been mentioned in these very pages. You can find it if you run searches. People from North Africa are not ordinarily Syrian and the people entering Europe via Italy go from North Africa. Syria is in the Middle East. World Mapclick on "Middle East." You'll find Syria to the left along the water.
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Post by lowell on Feb 9, 2016 23:01:26 GMT -6
Syria is N.E. of Israel. Israel has not taken, is not taking, and will not be taking any Syrian refugees. Jordan is North of Israel. Jordan has taken some. Some of the refugees are people who will do evil. A higher percentage of our own citizens will be doing evil.
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Post by orogenicman on Feb 10, 2016 2:39:03 GMT -6
Jordan is east of Israel. But that is irrelevant to the issue at hand. The UN has said that the Syrian refugee crisis is the largest such crisis since WWII. Millions have been displaced. The displacement is continuing. Thousands are starving and/or dying from exposure. Thousands more have been tortured or murdered by all sides in this conflict. It is my belief that the way the world has responded to this crisis, but particularly the U.S., is an abomination, inhumane, and a violation of the very moral principles we always insist others uphold. It has been the kind of all out war that the Geneva convention was supposed to prevent.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2016 3:15:11 GMT -6
Angela Merkel says Refugees must return home once the war is over.
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Post by lowell on Feb 10, 2016 12:04:02 GMT -6
The Swedish have less trouble with refugees than you might expect Of course it could be that Swedes have less trouble just because they are friendlier people. International Business Times reports "While Swedish police last month said they dealt with more than 5,000 incidents involving refugees in a three-month span, a report Tuesday revealed only 1 percent of all police calls between last October and January involved refugees, the Local reported.
Police in Sweden responded to more than 530,000 incidents between the middle of October and the end of January, meaning the 5,000 incidents with refugees accounted for 1 percent of all calls, the Local reported. To help them track refugee incidents, Swedish police gave calls dealing with refugees a special designation in October when the country was experiencing a record influx, as many as 10,000 a week trying to register.
"Given the enormous attention that crime among new arrivals has been given in the past six months, one percent does not sound like a lot,” Felipe Estrada, a criminology professor at Stockholm University, reportedly said to Dagens Nyheter. “It means that 99 percent of what the police do cannot be linked to new arrivals."
The new designation for refugee calls covers incidents where refugees are victims or those said to have committed the crimes. At the peak of refugee registration in Sweden, police saw a spike in calls for crimes at asylum centers last year, when Sweden took in more than 163,000 people seeking asylum, the Local reported.
Tensions have been high across Europe with the influx of refugees, many of whom are from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq escaping their war-torn countries. Police arrested 14 Poles Tuesday in Sweden who they said were suspected of planning attacks on refugees with iron pipes and axes, the BBC reported."
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Post by lowell on Feb 10, 2016 12:06:51 GMT -6
Hmm yes, Jordan is east of Israel. I was thinking of Lebanon. Both have taken refugees.
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