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© Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Brussels on high terror alert
By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG BRUSSELS©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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CrazyJoe
Terrorists are not refugees from Syria. Terrorists are Westerners who smuggle themselves into Syria from Europe, return to Europe (or fly back to America from Europe, as the case may be) and blow themselves up. Terrorists CARRY EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PASSPORTS NOT SYRIAN PASSPORTS! But don't let a small thing like facts get in the way of your bigotry.
Wc626
True Crazy Joe . . . but ultimately, their loyalty lies with the Daesh's objectives.
Why take the chance though? If say . . 10 or 20 thousand come into the US over the next couple years, isn't it reasonable to suspect some of them (6-7) could be extremists? Just because these people have been to hell & back, doesn't mean we should invite them is and "assume" they're all okay.
WilliB
Crazy Joe:
Gee, it is so comfortable to know that you know all terrorists, and that we can be so certain that there is no Syrian terrorist at all.. none! Apparently, having Syrian nationality makes you immune from being a terrorist. That is so nice! Can we import this phantastic feature of Syrian nationality, Joe?
Sassenach
One of the terrorists in Paris had an emergency Syrian passport. Naturally bigots will use that for ammunition and forget all about the nationality and status of the other seven or eight.
I am still more worried about dying in a traffic accident than I am about getting whacked by a foreign terrorist. In fact, I am more worried about domestic terrorists pretty much anywhere I go. But the simple logic of my position is not welcome by bigots because it spoils all the fun. And we sure have seen a rash of bigotry lately.
Paris gets attacked once and suddenly half the world is up in arms against refugees and Islam. Yet attacks like that have been a weekly thing in Iraq since the Christian west decided to shove it into the meat grinder. The question is not who are the terrorists. The question is, who isn't?