The day after France was hit with a terrorist attack by ISIS, they showed their resolve as a nation and their military might by striking back at a training camp in Syria. As the world rallied around France and mourned with them in the days that followed, American conservatives decided to take their pain and use it for political gain, declaring that Syrian refugees were the cause of the attacks in France and that we needed to learn from their “mistakes” and shut America down to those in need of refuge.
As information arose about where the attackers came from and French police closed in on the masterminds, it became less and less likely that they “snuck in” with Syrian refugees fleeing beheadings over religious differences. That hasn’t mattered to conservatives in the US, whose hatred is now in full swing and aimed at Syrian orphans and widows who need our help.
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In a stunning move that is nothing short of an incredible act of kindness, France (you know, the people who were attacked), has announced that it will, in fact, move forward with its plan to take on Syrian refugees. President Hollande, despite the resistance of ultra-right French nationalists that are as repugnant as our own conservative arm, said the France had a “humanitarian duty” to take on the refugees, increasing the number the country would accept from 24,000 to 30,000.
The move will be accompanied by increased security measures and an extensive vetting process to try and ease the worries of France’s version of the GOP.
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Meanwhile, back here in the states, GOP presidential candidates, governors, senators and their bigoted base have made Syrian-bashing their newest hobby. The Trump camp has them bundled with Mexicans coming across a wall-free Southern border as leaders from more than half of the states in the union have declared that refugees won’t be welcome there.
Unfortunately, under the refugee act of 1980, it’s not up to idiots with no clue what “humanitarian” means to decide who gets to come to America or for what reason. France was attacked less than a week ago and already they have shown that there’s more to life than fear and politics. The Syrian refugees are innocent people who have lost everything. They need homes and they need lives to live, but most importantly, they need compassion.
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Merci!
What a load of crap! We are not saing that refugees are all terrorists, we are saying that allowing tens of thousands of people to come into this country from countries that harbor terrorists, without being able to screen them properly, is insane. To say women and children cannot be terrorists is naive, they are strapping bombs to their bodies, too, and killing people just as the men are.
The only load of crap here is you.
Before you embarrass yourself further, you should listen to the (C)onservative talking heads who are strongly insinuating that every single refugee is a potential terrorist.
While you are at it, why don’t you clue in to the fact that French authorities have determined that not one single attacker was a refugee.
Oh, who am I kidding? Rational thought would screw up your narrative of ignorance.
Conservatives are idiots. Liberals are also idiots.
Actually, simply subscribing to the idea that a bipartisan political system is at all effective is idiotic regardless of what party you ‘choose.’
Wow, someone who gets it! I wholeheartedly agree with you.
I, myself, try to subscribe to a policy of “judge the situation on its own merits.” I am conservative on some topics, liberal on some topics, and totally apathetic on a whole range of topics. I guess, if I absolutely had to check a box it would be (I)ndepenent, because (L)iberal or (C)onservative are way too constricting. But (I)ndependent can paint you into a corner as well, because then you get accused of “not choosing a side.” As if every question is a matter of “this” or “that.”
Try “Progressive”…I think it works as a “label/definition” of your stated policy. Welcome!!!
I’m also independent but What does that have to do with the refugees?
And the crap continues to flow. Out of all those Balkan refugees we so generously took in in the 90’s more than a couple turned out to be terrorists. So just who is spewing the ignorance of idiotic propaganda?
Name one.
I don’t recall any of those. However, GW Bush brought in all those African Muslims from somalia/ethiopia, etc.. and many many are accused and/or convicties terrorists. fact.
Who is spewing ignorant propaganda? You are John. Thanks for the opportunity to underline a point.
So you turn little children away because you THINK they have a bomb strapped on them?
And yet YOU turn little children away who are already on your door step. Because you simply don’t give a damn. Hypocrisy at its best.
OMG, You’re clueless. I bet you dont give a crap about ANY kids on my door step. You just use that as an excuse.
I have and probably will again take in other people’s children. I currently help several families who struggle every day to just survive. I give well over ten percent of my income to the United Way as well as other great charitable organizations. So yeah, show me a liberal or conservative anywhere who can even come close to any of that.
Absolute BS.
People who actually give to charities can actually name them, and people who make claims to help other people don’t threaten to kill people on the internet. What a fraud.
I have given also. If you have then thats good.
Well, they dont want to take care ofthe babies gthat they insist be born either..
So that is how you justify your lack of caring? Wow,just,wow
Yep, but I dont see pictures of little children. I see pictures of fully grown men who should be fighting to keep their country not run to mine.
I’ve seen some kids and some are too many. ONE child is to many.
What you’re really saying is that you’re a wimpy little beyotch that pees their pants when real men and women refuse to live in fear.
The US has resettled 784,000 refugees in the country since 9/11. A whopping 3 have been charged with plotting terrorist acts. Meanwhile, domestic terrorism has taken the lives of thousands.
Sort your priorities.
And Rhee there are tens of thousands homeless and hungry in THIS COUNTRY right now. So yeah let’s set our priorities, exactly where they should be, on the needs right in front of us, not the ones thousands of miles away.
Nobody in the U.S. ever said the Paris attack was caused by ‘Syrian refugees’. What a crap article, and lost credibility after that misleading lead.
Then calling people ‘bigots’ because they want to protect America.
“Nobody in the U.S. ever said the Paris attack was caused by ‘Syrian refugees’.”
You must not watch a lot of Faux Noise. Which begs the question of how you became so misguided.
Please, by all means, direct me to a comment by Fox News that stated specifically “Syria refugees were the cause of the attacks in France”.
I did do a search through all of Fox News videos and articles and did not find anyone saying that.
The closest I found was that one of the Paris attackers had been identified as a recent Syrian refugee, and the others were muslim immigrants and home grown muslims from Belgium.
I think you are the one that doesn’t watch Fox News and just makes up lies.
Deep sigh…
Tell me, what is your interpretation of all these congress persons, state governors and presidential candidates (GOP), all speaking on Faux Noise, saying that we need to keep the refugees out because of the slight possibility that one of them may be inclined to be a terrorist?
Honestly man, open your eyes.
You responded very clearly to my post where I stated very clearly “Nobody in the U.S. ever said the Paris attack was caused by Syrian Refugees”. You responded with “You must not watch a lot Faux News”. Which clearly implies that you saw someone on Fox News make that claim. Then you insult me with being “misguided”.
So, now, you return with a ‘deep sigh’, but not reinforcing your statement with some link to proof. Instead, you make a leap to your previous statement, by comparing Fox News guests/hosts/news stories about keeping 10,000 unvetted Syrian Refugees out of the U.S.
Those are two completely different stories. One story is the author’s claim, and your support of that claim, that ‘conservatives claimed the Paris Attack was caused by Syrian refugees’, and the other story is about GOP (and democrats) wanting to keep Syrian refugees out of America because a potential terrorist could be hiding among them.
So, again, where is your proof that anyone on Fox News made the original statement that the ‘Paris attack was caused by Syrian refugees’??
Now I have to ‘open my eyes’??
By the way, every news outlet, not just Fox, is reporting that ‘one’ of the Parris terrorists was indeed a Syrian ‘refugee’.
And yesterday the French government said categorically that there was no link between the attackers and any refugees, that the passport found did not belong to any of the attackers, and the guy who planned it was, in fact, a Belgian national.
Well, then there is still confusion about who these people are and where they came from.
This is from The Telegraph 10 hours ago:
“Ahmad Al Mohammad’ - died in suicide bomb at Stade de France
The real name of the suicide bomber apparently carrying a fake Syrian passport when he detonated at the Stade de France remains a mystery, but officials say he entered Europe as an asylum seeker less than two months earlier.”
There is, indeed, much confusion. On that, I think we can all agree.
WTF! Figure out what you are saying, Please. Is the news saying that it was a refugee or not? Was the suicide bomber a refugee or not? Quit bouncing all over the place just to justify your fear and cruelty.
Actually they are saying this person had a FAKE Syrian Passport on his person in order to scare other Countries from allowing the Syrians aid.
No. International authorities ‘believe’ he had the passport so that he could leave the country and return again. In case something went wrong and the ‘attack’ was aborted at last minute. The passport had been previously used for another man to enter Greece.
Don’t know where you came up with “scare other countries from allowing Syrians aid”. Where did you come up with that?
It was in another report. I’d have to find it….I’ve read quite a few. And no, it wasn’t some hobwash crap - confirmed sources. Maybe more has been learned since my info, or maybe your info is old….not sure.
You led off by claiming that “nobody in the U.S. ever said the Paris attack was caused by ‘Syrian refugees'” and have now completely reversed yourself.
If Fox News runs interview after interview with these people, all of whom are “implying” the influx of refugees is linked directly or indirectly to the attack, and not have one guest or “expert” to rebut that assertion, that is defacto agreement with the assertion.
There are many subtle and not so subtle ways of conveying meaning without directly saying something you can’t back off from. Think of what the word “thug” really means to these people.
I watched many videos today and even ran Fox News for awhile. I have not seen one credible guest, nor host, imply that ‘Syrian refugees’ were the “cause of the Paris attack” as stated by the author of this article.
What I have seen is hosts, and guests, use terms like ‘radical muslim’ or ‘extremist muslim’. I even saw one host go out of his way to point out that the ‘moderate muslim’ is not under suspicion, but that ‘moderate muslims in general need to stand up and take action against the extremists in their religion’.
There were videos and shows that did talk about the Syrian refugees coming into the U.S. But, nothing stood out as blaming them in general for terrorism. The discussions all centered around keeping them out until they have been ‘properly’ screened to ensure that they are truly refugees, and not bad people with intent to hurt Americans.
First, let me apologize for my tone. I live in the land of Gregg Abbott and Ted Cruz, and have had it up to my eyeballs with the innuendo and baseless justifications they use to keep refugees out. Which they can’t legally do and they know it.
No one is suggesting we just open the flood gates and let people in. But, no one seems to understand that these people have been vetted several times by the time they would get here.
Could a terrorist slip in? Sure. Could they get a legal passport and get in that way? Nineteen did prior to 9/11.
I am going to have to assume we are simply hearing things through our own filters.
When you clowns went against universal background checks for firearm purchases, you showed you didn’t want to protect America.
Every licensed firearm dealer in the USA must conduct a background check. Try to stay on topic. Where is your outrage for more people killed by cars than guns? Perhaps you should argue for universal background checks before letting someone ‘purchase’ a car.
Thousands of guns are purchased at gun shows, online and between neighbours, friends and family where background checks are not conducted. Please don’t pretend that in-store checks are any insurance of anything - the check is a form filled out by the individual, phoned-in to the FBI, and takes mere minutes to complete.
Insinuating that Syrian refugees include terrorists in their ranks is practically the mantra of Donald Trump. As reported in the Daily Mail, at campaign stop in Des Moines yesterday, Trump said “We don’t know where they come from … and there are some very destructive people out there. Look what a few people did in Paris.’ Donald Trump is an American and was speaking in America.
Honestly, I didn’t know what to think about Syrian refugees coming to the U.S. Now, if France can do it in the wake of terrorist attacks on their soil, I think the U.S. ought to follow France’s lead. Sincerely!
I am way more afraid of the terrorists who follow Ted Cruz and Ben Carson than I am of anyone busting their hump to get here.
They want to be stupid, and further erode their culture, then let them go right ahead.
And which US culture are you afraid of eroding?
But enough about the South…
Thank you! A voice of reason - from Hollande and you, at last!
Actually its been proven that all attackers so far identified are French or Belgian citizens…. As for the majority of refugees being able bodied men, that bit of urban legend has already been disproved too. Wherever you’re getting your info from, I’d ask for my money back….
Umm, Honduras just arrested 5 Syrian muslim men with fake passports heading to the U.S.
Also, video has been streaming in for months of young men flooding Europe, heading to Denmark and Germany. Even NPR interviewed MEN being smuggled in by boat to Greece.
LOOK OUT!!! SCARY MUSLIMS!!
Pointing out bigotry is not being a bigot. Similarly, resisting a bully is not bullying. You people are sure whiners.
The Boston bombers were NOT refugees. Their family was granted asylum due to persecutions back in their homeland and subsequently allowed to emmigrate. Two totally different status’ and with different standards of vetting.
Semantics, potato potato
Need a tissue, crybaby?
Wow. You were wrong about everything.
That’s gotta suck!
Neither, actually.
What he said is the usual gutless reaction of white privilege slipping away.
Trembling in the face of your ridiculous macho posturing.
“FBI agent Patrick Kiernan has stated that he has no reason to suspect terrorism.” - Salt Lake Tribune.
Duh
People who did this horrible attack on Paris, were the people who are against the entrance of Refugees into Europe. So France did the smart thing to shove it to the people, whoever they are, who tried to use an evil attack and lay it on poor refugees, the victims of this crisis. Shame on whoever did this act in France for their own evil gains, but they are defeated by good French people.