Syrian Refugee-Immigrants, By T.S. Khanna, November 23, 2015

Foundation for Better Government

November 23, 2015

Syrian Refugee-Immigrants

By T.S. Khanna, November 23, 2015

Recently, ISIS has blasted a Russian jet, killing 224 passengers, staged deadly attacks in Paris and Beirut taking many innocent lives.  During the last two years, ISIS has created a negative image of Islam to the detriment of all Muslims around the world.  It has created a Muslim phobia in the non-Muslim world.  The old rule is still in the works: for ISIS evil to triumph, good Muslims may do nothing.

At the same time, there is an outflow of Syrian Muslim refugees seeking shelter in Europe and America.  To resolve this problem, several factors may be considered:

• For immigrants’ integration with the local population, welcome from the local population is necessary.  Under the prevailing Muslim phobia, such a welcome cannot be expected;
• Not integrated immigrants would become an easy prey for ISIS to radicalize them;
• The job market in America does not look good in the foreseeable future.  Each time the minimum wage is increased, more people are thrown out of jobs into the welfare program.  There are already more than 45 million people on food stamps, compared to 35 million, seven years ago.
• There is a cultural lag in understanding and resolving this problem in American leadership.  They still keep repeating that America is a country of immigrants, so we should accept Syrian refugee-immigrants.  They fail to see that, in the past, immigrants came to build a better future for them.  In that struggle, they built a better America.  Now some immigrants are coming to destroy America.  Syrian refugees offer a great opportunity for ISIS to infiltrate their agents as refugees.  No reliable background checks can be possible; and,
• To keep a close watch on suspected infiltrated agents, additional FBI resources would be required causing additional burden on the taxpayers.

For the benefit of the refugees and the receiving countries, it would be best to settle them in a culturally friendly and welcoming local population: Sunni Muslims may be settled in Saudi Arabia, Shea Muslims in Iran and Iraq, and, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in Europe and America.