Chancellor Merkel keeps open-gate policy, outrage breaks out

[hershel_layton]

Nuvendil said:

hershel_layton said:

The reason I said they're brothers and sisters is because Islam has a strong emphasis on helping the poor, especially if it's poor Muslims.

 

considering how Saudi Arabia always brings islam first, it's shocking to see them ignore one of the pillars of islam- charity. Whether one agrees with islam or not is irrelevant- it's the fact that they only care about islam when it benefits them that makes it an issue.

Well I can see two reasons they may not be charitable.  One is that it is a security risk, Saudi Arabia has kept out of most of this mess and only late last year put plans on motion for possible military intervention against ISIL.  Second - and this will sound very cold - they may think a lot of them cowards.  I've seen these crowds, a lot of strong young men are among them that, had they stood up and joined the fight, could have helped prevent ISIL's rise or slowed it.  Yet they fled.  Seems a small issue to us, may not be to members of that culture and region, where conflict has been a matter of life for generations.

Also, the Saudi government is not a religious government, they are not obliged to riske their people's safety for the sake of a neighbor people who have let their country fall apart.

 

Also, I find the irony delicious now that after years of having to put up with Europeans criticizing US Mexico border policies, calling us backwards for our heavy patrols there, there are now Europeans pushing for tighter border security and screening.  :P

I agree about the part where it's too many men. However, ask yourself a bigger question- who do they fight? There's too many groups involved in Syria to the point where fighting will either be useless or drag on the war for much longer.

 

Oh, and times do change. The next 10 years are surely going to be something. I wonder if the war will end by then- perhaps start a policy of sending refugees back slowly to rebuild syria(that is if it's in habitable]