Paris Attacks Ignite Debate on Religion of Syrian Refugees

At a Republican Party forum in Florida over the weekend, Republican Presidential candidates blamed President Barack Obama and Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton for the circumstances and events that led up to the Paris attacks that have been claimed by the terrorist group ISIS(ISIL).

I believe a more caring and humanitarian solution is to take the money we and other countries will have to spend to feed, house and care for the refugees, who will be in countries where the climate is different from what they are used to, with a language many do not know, with vastly different customs, and different food, and use that money to establish safe resettlement locations in Syria.

Why invest billions to defeat enemies overseas only to transplant terrorists to American soil?

Sadly, our president has erased Syria’s “red line” and rolled out the red carpet for possible radical refugees on American soil. Granted, there are genuinely desperate people escaping from war-torn areas and the savagery of Islamic jihadism.

For Republican governors “to question the government’s abilities to vet people that it lets into this country suggests that they don’t trust the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security”, said Rochelle Davis, who directs a graduate program in Arab studies at Georgetown University and has focused her research on Syria.

“Certainly terrorism and ISIS are concerning [and] the attacks in Paris and Beirut are bad for all of us in the civilized world, but the refugee resettlement program has nothing to do with that”. Paris should be a wake-up call for the Washington establishment and many in the GOP who support open borders and out-of-control amnesty. Our country is $19 trillion in debt and America faces high unemployment levels.

The president also said the attacks in Paris should not stop USA plans to accept refugees from Syria, many of whom are trying to flee the horrors of the Islamic State. “And we will make America great again”. And the US needs to get serious.

First, we must immediately ban ALL visas for travelers and tourists from any country with a significant ISIS or al-Qaeda presence. A few misguided Republicans think we should just ban Syrian Muslims from coming to the U.S. But terrorists will say anything to infiltrate America – including lying about their religion.

Third, as Max Boot, a senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, describes in a 2011 Wall Street Journal piece, Obama – who ran on getting us completely out of Iraq – never seriously tried to negotiate a deal to stay, didn’t want one and found any convenient excuse, including blaming Iraq for its intransigence, to leave without a stay-behind force. An overwhelming part of our country frequently neglects to listen to or empathize with those whose problems we can not see. For once, they must stand strong and reject Obama’s power-play on refugees.

However, he said the United States would intensify its efforts against the militants. But often overlooked in the debate over the Syrian refugees have been the hundreds of thousands of Christians displaced from their homes in Iraq and Syria due to Islamic State’s rise and the civil war.