Findings in a new Quinnipiac University poll show that USA voters see homegrown jihadists as more risky than Syrian refugees.
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Last week on “The Savage Nation”, conservative radio host Michael Savage repeated his claim that President Obama intends to enlist Syrian refugees in a private army that will help him consolidate power over America.
Overall, 62 percent of respondents said they believe the USA and its allies are losing in the war against the Islamic State, and most Americans, 54 percent, support sending U.S ground troops to fight the Islamic State.
The governors of 30 states, mostly in the South and Midwest, have also said they don’t want Syrian refugees in their states. I have heard the denouncement of refugees for their nationality, their religion and even their age and gender. “Categorically refusing to take them only feeds the narrative of [the Islamic State] that there is a war between Islam and the West, that Muslims are not welcome in the United States and Europe, and that the [Islamic State] caliphate is their true home”. “We must take immediate action to ensure terrorists do not enter the nation or our state under the guise of refugee resettlement”.
“The Paris attack has affected us in Jordan very much”, the director of one ministry serving the refugees said. “They are also amongst the most vulnerable”.
Ura says it’s “inevitable” that Texas could be a test case for other states speaking out against resettling Syrian refugees. In the weeks since the Paris attacks, about 200 Syrian refugees have settled in the USA – including in states whose governors resisted, according to the State Department.
Republican presidential candidates have called for a moratorium on taking in any new Syrian refugees. Add in the number of serial killers, the racists who killed children in churches, the zealots who killed health care personnel because they performed legal abortions and the people like the Oklahoma City bombers and the Unabomber, and the number of pretend-Christians killing Americans rises to hundreds of times greater than any Muslim attack. Nevertheless, this information has not stopped 31 US governors from barring Syrian refugee admission into their states.
Four years later in 1979, Time magazine reported that though the transition hadn’t necessarily been a smooth one, most of the Vietnamese immigrants who had come to the U.S.in 1975 had adjusted well.
He noted that numerous lawmakers who voted in favor of the House bill were well-meaning because they were genuinely anxious about national security.
In the 2015 fiscal year, Freed said the department provided resettlement aid to eight Syrian refugees, including two families.
Responding to the Islamophobia perpetuated by braggadocio-spewing politicians, an outraged President Obama said that the conservatives believe they could stand up against the leaders of any country, but “apparently, they’re scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States”.
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“American people are really helpful people”, he said. The majority of refugees being resettled now include people from three main groups. The Syrian refugees are in a very similar position. But this policy ignores the fact that Syrian and Iraqi Christians are not entering the camps because they fear persecution from the Sunni Muslims in the camps and from jihadists being sent by ISIS into the camps to target and kill Christians. It took him nine months to find a job, but now he’s working for a European-based non-governmental organization.
