While the US, like any other country, is morally obligated to help people in need, such as Syrian refugees, there is no reason why these particular refugees should physically settle in the United States. However, the current practices of the US government towards dealing with these refugees are downright dangerous and insufficient and do nothing to diminish the overall risk these refugees pose.
A useful tool to determine the demographics of a country is to analyze a population by religion. Of the Syrian refugees already accepted to the US only 2.7% are Christian, according to the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center. To put this into proportion, the Christian population in Syria is 10%, according to the CIA World Factbook. What
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David Cameron himself admitted that “new figures show that some 190,000 British Muslim women—or 22%—speak little or no English despite many having lived [there] for decades. 40,000 of these women speak no English at all." This has already been proven to have disastrous effects, such as the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels which not only sheltered a prominent orchestrator of the terrorist attack in Paris but has also served as a powerful recruiting ground for young people to fight overseas for ISIS, according to the American Freedom Defense …show more content…
As there are no recent statistics for Syrian Muslims, we can instead take statistics from surrounding countries and expect them to be reasonably accurate. For example, there are high rates of radicalization in nearby countries such as Iraq or Jordan, according to the Pew Research Center, as the percentages of Muslims in both of those countries that support the implementation of Sharia law is at 58% and 67%, respectively. For the reader’s reference Sharia law is an extremely conservative Muslim legal code in which men can beat their wives for what they believe to be highhandedness and “highway robbers” are encouraged to be crucified or mutilated. We can then look at developed countries with significant Muslim populations. For example, in Britain, 1 in 5 young Muslims believe that honor killings of women are acceptable. In the US, 19% of American muslims responded to a survey saying that they were favorable toward Al Qaeda, according to the Pew Research Center. To put this into proportion, this means that 500,000 American Muslims are favorable toward Al