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Strangely quiet mass media are about concrete statistics in the current European refugee crisis. You never hear a number in nation-wide broadcasted media about how many people already had been deported back into their home countries again. Or you never hear about how the quotas are, how many people come from which point of the earth. There's only talking about Syrians.
Literally, possessing a Syrian passport is like owning a gold bar during these days.
And it must be fucking Russian media which actually ever tells about a number which they sometimes even took from publications made in the Western countries affected by the problem.
Why doesn't Western mass media report about this on a broader base?
...Well, it seems like there's not enough scandal in this.

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Date: 2 October 2015 12:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mandarinsun.livejournal.com
I saw a news article on the show PBS Newshour. I bet you could Google it from there and read the transcripts, or stream the stories. They had a conservative and liberal talking about the immigration process and they were saying it takes a minimum of two years for someone from Syria to get to immigrate to the United States and that the background checks are very thorough.

I'm against immigration to here, but it is a big taboo to be against that because you are basically anti Muslim- which I guess I am- to an extent. I do think Muslims should be treated very differently after all the terrorist groups, Al Qaeda, Isis, etc..

My father is much more traditionally liberal about it and at dinner with me he was saying how my position was racist and it was the same as how anti slavery people used to want African Americans to go back to Africa. But after we were done arguing about it, he said he wasn't made at me. So, even he knows that it is pretty reasonable to be biased against Muslims after everything that has happened.

My position was that people should work to have Syrian refugees relocated to Egypt or other Muslim countries. Maybe they can have sanctuary for a couple of years, in a guarded community, until a relocation place can be found in a Muslim country.

I also said maybe Western Countries can accept them on condition that the younger male members join a military force to go back and fight ISIS, but I can see that maybe that is unfair to have an entirely Muslim refugee force that includes no Americans.

I just have heard that for instance Saudi Arabia will not even accept one refugee from Syria, but is paying to build 800 mosques, I think, in Germany, so that refugees can continue to be Muslim.

Also,it is very difficult for me to like people from those countries that practice the Muslim religion when the countries their from don't do anything to destroy ISIS which implies they don't do anything to destroy Al Qaeda. It is like how Pakistan knew where Osama Bin Ladin was the whole time, but did nothing. To me, it seems like Muslims want to be on BOTH sides of the terrorist issue and it's not ok with me. I don't know what Muslim people should do now. But to me, they should have violently and passionately been against the terrorists in their own communities and they were not and still are not.

I'm not going to go commit violence or hate crimes against Muslims and I have Muslim students that I am respectful towards, but I am very wary of Muslim people and underneath have problems with their religion.

My father says he has Muslim friends that have Ph.Ds in architecture or engineering and I bet they are a lot easier to be around than the Muslims I meet in my community college classes.

I'm mostly ok with the levels of immigration that I see the United States has committed to. I think we are supposed to take in 75,000 in 2017.

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