I am sorry if I seem overly emotional about this topic but it is very
dear to me because I am close to my family in Europe. I did not even
read the article and I can not say how much of it is true or not so I will send this link to my family and see if they can verify it.
My family on this side of the pond are mostly JDubs
and shun me as if I do not exist. I have gotten over it mostly but it
still hurts. My Dfing has proven who are my true family and friends. So I
did not come here to talk much about off topic topics but this one is
something that affects me personally. It is so easy for someone in the
comfort of their own home behind their computer sitting there with the
alarm system on to say that every European country should open their
borders to everyone who claims to be a refugee but I guarantee that sentiment always
changes when they are personally affected by it.
I lived
with my cousins in Germany in 2010 before this whole thing started. I am
very much a big hearted person and I love to help people. It is in my
nature to be this way. So when there are real legitimate refugees then I
would love to help and even maybe donate something to help them. But
this whole situation, the way it suddenly appeared raises many questions
which makes me think if this is a plot to break down the homogeneous
European society. I mean the war in Syria, in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan
has been going on for many years now but only now suddenly everyone
decides to come all at once like they got an open invitation? And why
are these people traveling 4000 miles to Europe when they can go 600
miles to Turkey or Qatar or Saudi Arabia or UAE where they already speak
Arabic or Farsi and have similar customs and the same religion? Europe
is a Christian and secular continent with a variety of different
languages and culture that are nothing like where these refugees are
coming from. And also why is that 90% of these refugees are men? Where
are the whole families? Why did Saudi Arabia reject taking more than a
few hundred Syrians but offer to give Germany over 2 Billion euros to
build 200 Mosques? It makes no sense to me. And why is Russia the one
country that is really going after ISIS in Syria while the USA and Saudi
Arabia are backing the rebels to overthrow Assad? And why does Germany
and Sweden not simply verify the identity of these refugees while in
their own countries instead of letting them travel illegally thousands
of miles across Europe and then claim to have no paperwork with them?
Again something is not right with this whole picture. And it has my
family in Europe asking the same questions as I. As my aunt says we
should not allow our altruism to blind our reasoning and sense. Sensationalism or not this is a crisis of epic proportions.