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Sometimes I wonder if you or people writing comments like you ever think of being in the shoes of someone escaping a war, and how idiotic and xenophobic your worries look like (not to mention the lack of minimal understanding of the Israel-Palestinian conflict).

Europe has a pretty good wall called the Mediterranean sea. You make it sound like coming to the Netherlands from Syria is as easy as your summer trips to your favorite sunny destination.

So stop being a total insensible person and at least let governments help people which are in desperate need, and hopefully save some lives, if you don't want anything to do with it. And if you're worrying about your personal security you can well complain about traffic, pollution, suicides and all the other causes of death which are way more likely than terrorist attacks and which also your government could help to prevent.




I think you're too naive on the nature of people. I do think refugees should be helped, especially refugees that are under the greatest of threats from Islamic governments. I'm thinking about Jews, Christians, gay people, minorities (e.g. Yezidis), children and woman.

But we need very strict screening and currently this is not happening in Europe. A Libanese minister already warned Europe that 2% of immigrants could be ISIS terrorists [0].

The first priority of our governments should be to keep their own people, the taxpayers that make the government possible in the first place, save from harm. Only then are we able to help other people.

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[0]: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/1-in-50-...




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