Refugees are Victims and Deserve Our Help
It’s understandable that we might be afraid. Very scary and destructive things have been happening in the world, and none of us wants them to happen to us or our kids.
But it’s wrong and brutal to allow that fear to lead us to turn our backs on people who are fleeing the same terror that we are so anxious to avoid.
Even more to be condemned are people who cynically stoke those fears. ISIS envisions a very starkly divided world, and we ought to hesitate to help them in doing that dividing.
Along those lines, here’s some of what I’ve been reading:
- …not the only reason it’s a bad idea to only let Christians in, as some have recommended:
- Some Governors are trying to close their states’ doors (and now the House has voted for the same callousness):
Top 10 Reasons Governors are Wrong to Exclude Syrian Refugees | Informed Comment
- BTW, the first two reasons are that the Paris attackers were 1) European nationals and 2) not refugees at all.
This Chart Is The Perfect Rebuttal To Governors Who Won’t Take In Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress
Hullabaloo – Mike Pence, Humanitarian
- Refusing refugees now replays our shameful refusal to help Jews escape the Nazis
- We’re already scrutinizing refugees very closely
- Hateful things and worse things
The Farce Is Strong In This One – The New York Times
- This one reminds me very much, and in a horrifying way, of Mosque Alert.
- Politics
- What is ISIS after?
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