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I haven't read that. Just the opposite in fact. But I haven't been following closely for a while so the situation may have changed. Most of the area's under attack are shia area's, supporters of the regime, and the people attacking are sunni. Why would most of the refugees be sunni? ISIS is very radical sunni, but are they really driving out that many sunni's? You are in Bahrain if I remember correctly, so you have access to much better reporting than will ever be seen in the US. What is being reported in the arab press?
The majority of refugees have always been Sunni. The areas that have been destroyed/bombed/ravaged most by the civil war were/are predominantly Sunni areas. They took the brunt of it when the civil war started and have subsequently had to deal with all the extremist elements that came in to fill the vacuum.
I'm surprised at that, at least for the refugees that have left Syria, which last I read was 3 million or about a third. I would have thought a big percentage, maybe not the majority, would have been shia, non muslim, and kurds. The vast majority of the fighting has been in Homs/Aleppo which is heavily Imanis/twelver, in Latakia/Idlib which is heavily Alawite , Damascas south west to the Golan Heights which is a mixed bag of mostly non muslim, and the north east kurdish area's. These area's are also the area's that border other countries, allowing easier egress than is available in the heavily sunni area's further away from the borders. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-22798391
The 6 million internal refugees I'm have no doubt are mostly sunni.
The facts are that the majority of refugees are Sunni. Lebanon is now trying to restrict entry partly because they already have 1.5m refugees, but also partly because the majority of those are Sunni. It's hardly surprising considering they constitute 74% of the population. You mention Imanis and Twelver, but they are only a small percent of the population. Kurds are predominantly Sunni.
Kurds are predominantly Sunni.
But clearly they are not fanatic Sunnis. They can't get along with ISIS.
Greed is an epidemic spread over all races,political & religious theologies & there's no cure.
I'm not driving illegally, officer, I'm an undocumented driver! You think you can deny me freedom of travel just because I don't have plates, registration, or a DL? MUH HUMAN RIGHTS!!11!!
Wow, thank you Bay Aarea.
Can anybody read this and think Saudi Arabia isn't deliberately assisting the export of Islamists to Europe, particularly Germany and Sweden?
The crowd of Sunnis that arrived via Hungary to Austria chanted "Germany! Germany! Germany!" at the Terminal, where they were greeted by Austrian Politicians.
Look folks - Turkey takes in refugees from the Middle East. It's a mid-level developing country, it's not a hellhole like Rwanda.
The kid that drowned - his father left Turkey after living there for a year in asylum. The whole family was well fed and clothed, had cell phones, etc. He wasn't kicked out of Turkey, he took his family voluntarily in an attempt to reach Sugar Candy Welfare Land.
Dammit, Welfare States and High Levels of Immigrants are incompatible.
Integration is a joke. Schools are set on fire almost everyday in Sweden. The perps are usually immigrant kids sick of "Shirk Disbeliever Lies", you know, Tolerance, Skepticism, Science. These schools aren't Detroit Slum Schools with broken windows, asbestos, etc. These are Ikea Schools, clean with beautiful modern furniture, exceptionally trained teachers, computers, bright and well lit, plenty of time for physical activity.
When we write the history of the how the West failed, the enthusiastic import of endless immigrants, a policy endorsed by all Neoliberals in Europe, the Center-left for Multi Cult purposes and the Center-right for "Labor Discipline/Overload the Welfare State so it breaks" purposes, will be one of the key reasons.
Dammit, Welfare States and High Levels of Immigrants are incompatible.
That's the main point.
Kurds are predominantly Sunni.
But clearly they are not fanatic Sunnis. They can't get along with ISIS.
So what? We were talking about whether the majority of refugees were Sunni or not.
Strange, the countries they hate the most, is also what the want the most.
Co-inkydink!
I don't think so!
But hey bring them on, this is why we live in a gun country. We're not a country that doesn't allow citizens to arm them selves.
We can bring them here if we can afford them. Then put Pamela Geller in charge of the INS processing. She will give them one of those drawing contest entry forms that must be filled out.
which is expecting to take 800,000 refugees this year.
Jesus Christ, doesn't Germany only have about 80M people? That's like 1% of the entire population in one year.
As Amnesty International recently pointed out, the "six Gulf countries -- Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain -- have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees." This claim was echoed by Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, on Twitter
People who offer help to refugees - Infidels
People who are smarter than the creator who can rape/murder per their good book - Just following Shariah.
@anonymous
Article on the Houthi and Saudi Arabia. Relevant, because it talks about the Saudis flooding their Shi'a areas with Wahabi Mosques.
https://pando.com/2015/03/28/the-war-nerd-a-brief-history-of-the-yemen-clusterfck/
Some other shit I didn't know, apparently the Shi'a in SW Saudi Arabia rose up in 2000 and the Saudi Military acted with their usual bravery and advanced in a different direction the moment the guns started firing.
So what? We were talking about whether the majority of refugees were Sunni or not.
The rich gulf countries are Sunni too. What is their excuse?
By the way, remember Merkel not long ago, when there were Local elections to win for CDU:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/19ceeada-b508-11e3-af92-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3lY0QxQnq
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2735471/Cameron-urged-follow-Merkel-s-lead-passing-new-laws-deport-immigrants-caught-fiddling-benefits-system.html
So, new tough restrictions on internal EU migrants, but welcoming arms and little to no adjudication of 800,000 refugees from the Middle East?
She also famously said in 2010 that "Multiculturalism has failed", again when elections were imminent.
"This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed," Merkel said.
Typical untrustworthy Neoliberal.
French former Minister: The Germans took our Jews and gave us Arabs
A French politician did some serious backtracking after making a regrettable comment about Germany’s absorbing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Syrian refugees, saying the Germans “took our Jews and gave us Arabs.â€
The controversial remark was made by Patrick Devedjian, identified by European media sources as a right-wing politician who served in the governments of French Presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy.
Devedjian made the comment in response to Germany’s agreeing to take 800,000 of the refugees. He later went on social media to dismiss his words as a poor attempt at humor, the Daily Mail reported.
“My humorous jest was misplaced,†he wrote on his Twitter feed.
Any attempt to joke about Germany’s treatment of Jews is doomed to failure, but Devedjian’s “jest†reflected a growing sentiment in Europe over the failure of “multiculturalism.†The continent over the years has seen a large influx of Muslim immigrants who refuse to assimilate in their host countries.
While reporting on President Barack Obama’s critique of Europe’s treatment of Muslim immigrants earlier this year, the magazine Foreign Policy reported that “Europe has struggled with integrating its Muslim immigrants, and recent elections have pushed calls for stricter controls on Muslim immigration and more policing of their communities into the continent’s political mainstream.â€
the Germans “took our Jews and gave us Arabs.â€
actually that is literally true, so why should he be in any trouble at all for saying it? the Germans did deport Jews from France and did accept vast numbers of Arabs. this is pure PC-shaming of someone who is simply speaking about historical facts. freedom of speech loses again.
and the events are even causal, not coincidental: Germany has guilt and shame problems about what they did in WWII and that is exactly why there has been support in Germany for their extremely generous asylum policies.
the problem is that when you get known as being extremely generous, an infinite line of needy people shows up to take advantage of it. it has to end somehow, either with the transformation of Germany into a middle eastern country and the subsequent collapse of its economy (because the strong economy of Germany is entirely due to German culture) or the eventual refusal of Germany to accept more immigrants.
Why don't these refugees stay and fight for their country?
They will be fighting for Islam, just wait and see.
French former Minister: The Germans took our Jews and gave us Arabs
They say 5% of Mid East Muslims are radical. Imagine knowingly importing 40,000 hard core fanatics into your borders.
Why don't these refugees stay and fight for their country?
because they're "soccer fags" - whining to the referee to issue a card.
Actually, it's
"Families make decision to leave safe Turkish camps and housing where they have access to food, medical care, and clothing, to march off to Europe where they can have a great life as German Welfare Recipients"
actually that is literally true, so why should he be in any trouble at all for saying it? the Germans did deport Jews from France and did accept vast numbers of Arabs. this is pure PC-shaming of someone who is simply speaking about historical facts. freedom of speech loses again.
Yep. And I guarantee you if any Jew in France is on welfare, it's because they're working on their PhD in Biochemistry and will end up paying 50% tax on a big fat salary developing the next hairloss drug, paying it all back while growing the economy.
actually that is literally true, so why should he be in any trouble at all for saying it? the Germans did deport Jews from France and did accept vast numbers of Arabs. this is pure PC-shaming of someone who is simply speaking about historical facts. freedom of speech loses again.
Yep. And I guarantee you if any Jew in France is on welfare, it's because they're working on their PhD in Biochemistry and will end up paying 50% tax on a big fat salary developing the next hairloss drug, paying it all back while growing the economy.
The next wonder drug could well come from a Jew, while the next massacre of innocent people will undoubtedly come from an Arab.
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