The whole world was shocked by the image of a toddler laying lifeless and face-down on the beach of the Rabat earlier this week.
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Network Ten this evening aired allegations that Aylan Kurdi’s father Abdullah was a people smuggler who captained the vessel which flipped off the Turkish coast.
To learn more about the campaign, go to www.gofundme.com/kurdifamily. He certainly will not be the last. Regardless of whether the tribute was well-received or not, one thing is clear: Aylan Kurdi’s death was not in vain. I doubt it. I know it wouldn’t stop my husband and me.
With numbers of people displaced from their homes due to hunger and violence increasing beyond the levels in World War II, right wing media and politicians tell us that these people are out to plunder our cities, steal our jobs, exploit our social service systems, and convert us all to Islam.
Have no doubt, if I was Syrian I would be getting the hell out of there.
“I blame myself because my brother does not have money”.
Just 233 Syrian nationals have submitted claims with the Immigration and Refugee Board this year.
The photos of the lifeless little boy raised such a public outcry in Britain that the government, which had previously said it did not have room for more refugees, announced that Prime Minister David Cameron had decided that the country would accept thousands more Syrian refugees.
The bodies of Abbas’s two children arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday in plastic-wrapped coffins and were loaded into a the back of a pick-up truck.
The sand sculpture is located a short distance from where an Israeli strike killed four Gazan children as they played football during last year’s 50-day Gaza war.
Their mom, Zainab Abbas, informed journalists close to the airport that she, her husband and their three children had been on the boat carrying the Kurdi family that capsized final week. Known the reality of IS – these modern-day Nazis who wave religion instead of Mein Kampf and are branded with a black flag rather than a swastika.
Refugee crisis – what can New Zealand do? “We have raised our numbers in the past year, we put more resources behind some of these background checks”, a spokesman said.
In Canada, mayors, premiers and private citizens alike have rallied to the cause and urged the federal government to welcome more Syrian refugees. And we do it well.
Not only are millions upon millions of refugees a perpetually increasing and unstoppable force but there’s the fact that for the most part, they’re people just like us.
The little boy’s heartbreaking fate was flashed around the world – and spurred Europe and the U.S.to do more to help the desperate asylum seekers fleeing the terrors of ISIS fighting.
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For these could be the people who stop our youngsters setting off on their hate-fuelled journeys in the other direction.
