MUSLIM COUNTRIES REFUSE TO TAKE A SINGLE SYRIAN REFUGEE, CITE RISK OF EXPOSURE TO TERRORISM
by DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

Five of the wealthiest Muslim countries have taken no Syrian refugees in at all, arguing that doing so would open them up to the risk of terrorism. Although the oil rich countries have handed over aid money, Britain has donated more than Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar combined.

Between 10 and 12 million Syrians have been displaced by the bloody civil war raging in their country. Most still remain within Syria’s borders, but around four million have fled over the borders into neighbouring countries, mostly Turkey Jordan and Lebanon, and beyond.

Lebanon, which has 1.1 million Syrian refugees, shut her borders to the Syrians in June of last year. Jordan, host to another 630,000, followed suit in August last year, preventing more Syrians from abandoning their country.

By early August 2015, European states had received nearly 350,000 asylum applications from Syrians, nearly a third of whom applied to Germany for asylum. Another 65,000 have applied Sweden and 50,000 in Serbia. Hungary and Austria have received close to 19,000 applications each although that figure is likely to rise, while the UK is processing 7,030 applications, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

Yet amidst cries for Europe to do more, it has transpired that of the five wealthiest countries on the Arabian Peninsula, that is, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, not one has taken in a single refugee from Syria. Instead, they have argued that accepting large numbers of Syrians is a threat to their safety, as terrorists could be hiding within an influx of people. Sherif Elsayid-Ali, Amnesty International’s Head of Refugee and Migrants’ Rights, has slammed their inaction as “shameful”.

He said: “The records of Gulf countries is absolutely appalling, in terms of actually showing compassion and sharing the responsibility of this crisis… It is a disgrace.” None of the Gulf States signed the 1951 Refugee Convention, which legally defines a refugee as “A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality”. However, they have taken refugees in the past.

Twenty-five years ago, hundreds of thousands of Kuwaitis fleeing Saddam Hussein’s invasion were given refuge. According to Arabian expert Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi: “in Abu Dhabi, the government rented out entire apartment blocks and gave them to families for free.”

Instead the countries, all of which are within the Top 50 list of wealthiest nations by GDP, have opted to donate aid to those affected by the crisis. According to the Daily Mail, the UAE has funded a refugee camp in Jordan giving shelter to tens of thousands of Syrians, while Saudi Arabia and Qatar have donated funds, food, shelter and clothing to Syrians in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.

Total donations from the Gulf States are believe to total £589 million, less than a quarter of America’s £2.8 billion, and a fraction of the £65 billion they spent on defence in 2012 alone. The UK has handed over £920 million so far, but the Prime Minister yesterday pledged to increase that figure to £1 billion. He also promised to take in thousands more refugees.

Al-Qassemi has argued in the that the standing that the Muslim countries now have in the world confer on them a moral obligation to step in. “The Gulf States have emerged as the nerve centres of Arab diplomacy, culture, media production, commerce and tourism, amassing an unprecedented degree of soft power unrivalled in the region and beyond,” he said.

They also form “the most influential bloc within the 70-year-old Arab League.”

“But with great power comes great responsibility. The Gulf must realise that now is the time to change their policy regarding accepting refugees from the Syria crisis. It is the moral, ethical and responsible step to take.”

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/05/gulf-states-refuse-to-take-a-single-syrian-refugee-say-doing-so-exposes-them-to-risk-of-terrorism/

ifeness:


So biased. Is Germany a christian country? European countries are now Circular and not Religious as you think.

There is always a life after God.

OLAADEGBU:


The question is why wealthy Muslim countries haven't been taken in refugees?

ifeness:


The refugees do not want to go there. They want to go to Europe,Germany especially. Turkey is an Islamic country which is presently housing thousands of refugee. Get your facts right before making biased statements.

ifeness:


I live in the UK yeah...they fucking hate migrants!

OLAADEGBU:


If you do you would have realised that David Cameron has given in to welcoming the migrants and the NE of England are currently feeling the brunt.

OLAADEGBU:


The question is why wealthy Muslim countries haven't been taken in refugees?

ifeness:


Trust me he doesn't. He is the leader of the Conservative party. Do you know what "Conservative" means? Google it and find out what the dude stands for. He wants the UK to leave Europe so bad at the moment.

His popular quotes includes: BRITISH JOB FOR BRITISH WORKERS!

This is one of the most racist countries in the world.

The EU are the ones forcing him to take in migrants.

OLAADEGBU:


If the EU are forcing him why wouldn't the wealthy gulf states be their brother's keepers? Why are they passing the buck to the EU?

ifeness:


Mind you only 30% of the Migrants are Syrians. The rest are opportunists.

OLAADEGBU:


The opportunists also include terrorists.

ifeness:


We are talking about Migrants not Terrorists

OLAADEGBU:


Yes, terrorists turned to "migrants."

ifeness:


We could talk about Terrorists,also the British and United States of America being the biggest Terrorist(Hiroshima etc).But don't you think you are deviating from the topic you started?

OLAADEGBU:


We are still on the topic, it's just to tell you that the Islamic countries know the reason why they are not taking in "migrants" into their countries, they would rather the infidel nations open their borders.

ifeness:

Trust me he doesn't. He is the leader of the Conservative party. Do you know what "Conservative" means? Google it and find out what the dude stands for. He wants the UK to leave Europe so bad at the moment.
His popular quotes includes: BRITISH JOB FOR BRITISH WORKERS!
This is one of the most racist countries in the world.
The EU are the ones forcing him to take in migrants.

proo212:


Actually he does want to stay in the EU! But his back-benchers and a lot of the UK population want UK out of the EU especially with the this crisis. That is why all promise of referendum has never being honoured. He cant back out of this one.

Gordon Brown (Labour/NewLabour) was the one that said BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKERS. If this is one of the most racist countries in the world, why are you still there? Why dont you try France or even Germany and see how welcoming these countries are? If you dont integrate, you're left on the sidelines (and I speak as a German resident from the UK).

The Uk bends over backwards to accommodate immigrants unlike other countries in the EU...

Ola, forgive me for sidetracking your post

Gordon Brown has no regrets over using the phrase "British jobs for British workers", Downing Street insisted today as a series of unofficial strikes broke out over UK construction jobs awarded to European workers.

As anger intensified over plans by oil companies to employ Portuguese and Italian workers, the prime minister said that he understood people's concerns.

Asked whether the prime minister regretted using the controversial phrase, branded illegal and racist by critics, his spokesman in London said: "I don't see any reason for regret. The action that we have taken has meant that we are now putting in place measures that ensure British workers can have access to the vacancies in the system."

Some of the workers who walked out at refineries and power stations in various parts of the UK held placards quoting the prime minister's words. The wildcat strikes mark the latest in a series of protests over the use of foreign rather than domestic labour by large companies.
Asked about the situation in Davos, Brown said: "I understand people's worries about their jobs. I understand people's anxieties about employment across the country. But we are doing everything we can both to get economic growth moving in our country and to help people who are unemployed, to help them into new jobs."

In London, the Downing Street spokesman said the government understood that contracts for the construction work in question were awarded "some time ago when there was a shortage of skilled labour in the UK", and added: "That's obviously not now the case."

The spokesman said ministers would be "speaking to the industry in the next few days to ensure they did all they can to help the British economy".

Pressed on the matter, the spokesman was unable to say what meeting had been set up or with whom. He could not say which government department was leading the negotiations.

He insisted ministers were doing all they could to shore up the economy, and said: "What we have tried to do with the points-based [immigration] system is ensure that British workers are given the opportunities that exist in the labour market first."

More than 700 BP and Ineos workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland walked out this morning after an 8am union meeting. Police were called to the Aberthaw power station near Barry, south Wales, and 400 workers at a refinery in Wilton, near Redcar, Teesside, downed tools.

In Davos, the prime minister said: "I came into politics to help people out of unemployment, to help people who were poor by building an economy that was confident and strong to weather this storm. I believe that the action we have taken to help people in work stay in work, to help people who lose their jobs get jobs again ... is the way to do it."

Brown said it was important for the world not to retreat into protectionism with the erection of new trade barriers in response to the global crisis.

"This form of deglobalisation, which will lead to trade protectionism if it's not stopped, is something I'm warning people about," he said.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jan/30/brown-british-jobs-workers

proo212:


Actually he does want to stay in the EU! But his back-benchers and a lot of the UK population want UK out of the EU especially with the this crisis. That is why all promise of referendum has never being honoured. He cant back out of this one.

Gordon Brown (Labour/NewLabour) was the one that said BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKERS. If this is one of the most racist countries in the world, why are you still there? Why dont you try France or even Germany and see how welcoming these countries are? If you dont integrate, you're left on the sidelines (and I speak as a German resident from the UK).

The Uk bends over backwards to accommodate immigrants unlike other countries in the EU...

Ola, forgive me for sidetracking your post

ifeness:


I was born in this country and it seems you know little

ifeness:


EU migrants are taking all the jobs apparently. So Cameroon is against anything migrant be it from Germany or Iraq. Unless you earn above £50,000 obviously.

ifeness:
So biased. Is Germany a christian country? European countries are now Circular and not Religious as you think.

There is always a life after God.

ifeness:


We could talk about Terrorists,also the British and United States of America being the biggest Terrorist(Hiroshima etc).But don't you think you are deviating from the topic you started?

ifeness:


The refugees do not want to go there. They want to go to Europe,Germany especially. Turkey is an Islamic country which is presently housing thousands of refugee. Get your facts right before making biased statements.

parisbookaddict:


Its secular not circular mr agnostic. .

Many of the European countries all have a reasonably sized christian population and are founded on christian values and principles.

ifeness:


Seems you are twisting the topic. You opened this thread to try to claim Christian European countries(which they clearly ain't) are taking in migrant as an act of being good Samaritans. But haven lost the argument you are twisting it to terrorism.

Arabs ain't terrorist OK! 99% of the Migrants are displaced people due to war started in their countries by the U.S and NETO

ifeness:


Don't forget to touch yourself

parisbookaddict:

Away with u the ignorant noisemaker