We zijn allemaal dom. Think Progress van George Soros: Islamofobie is de oorzaak van de weerstand tegen de massaimmigratie van economische vluvhtelingen.
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/...bia-not-facts/
... “What I’ve seen and speaking to people involved in the screening, I don’t how they’re going to go from 1,500 to 10,000,” King said. “We know that ISIS wants to infiltrate its people through refugees.”
This argument — that has been regularly paraded out by right wing media and by people like Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh – appears to be little more than thinly veiled Islamophobia.
“This whole effort to block Syrian refugees from America is Islamophobic at its core,” Ibrahim Hooper, the spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told ThinkProgress. “The basic theory is to block any immigration of any kind from any Muslim country.” Hooper added that the move had a bit of irony considering that the Syrian-American community has been religiously diverse for decades.
Attacks on U.S. soil are always a concern in the post 9/11 world. That’s why any refugee considered for resettlement in the United States goes through a series of checks. The United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR screens and tracks refugees. In order to get any form of aid or resettlement, you must be registered. Before resettlement in the U.S. in particular, officials conduct interviews and do a thorough background check on each person. ...