If anyone does a generic search of the words “Muslim Immigration” through Google you will come up with more than twelve million different sources on this issue. Likewise, if anyone does a search on the “Syrian Refugee Crisis” you will get well over seventeen million different sources. This search gives a small glimpse into how large this issue is. This is why many people are interested in how the United States is going to respond. There are many different views on what should be done given the current circumstances. However, I think there is a piece missing; out of all the interpretations and ideas I have seen no one has talked about how a Christian should respond to this situation in light of the teaching of Jesus. This is a very different
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He is a second generation immigrant to the United States, and has firsthand view of the conflict. In His essay "The Vicious Cycle of Muslim Immigration" he argues that if we allow Muslim Immigration into western countries they will experience a lot of the same problems of resentment and violence as those in Europe. He uses the problems Germany is having with their immigrant population as a demonstration for his argument because experts in Germany are becoming "skeptical about the wisdom of admitting refugees in large numbers" (3). He wants the reader to look at this from an objective standpoint and analyze the possible dangers of bringing in immigrants when they are not given the proper help in integrating. This is why many people are warning against mass importation of Muslim immigrants. Salam is not alone in his views on this …show more content…
Aziz Huq in his essay “America’s Refugee Debt” brings to light that the United States is required, as a country that has been involved with the Syrian conflict, to show “minimal humanitarian morality” to help ease the crisis (3). In other words what needs to be done to aid Syria, should be done, to the extent that it is not detrimental to the individual or country. Huq suggests that this requirement may have been filled by the United States giving four and a half billion dollars to help aid refugees and resettlement (3). Four and a half billion may not go as far as some may think though. Huq states that refugee camps are overcrowded with more than four million externally displaced persons and this does not factor in the nearly eight million people without a place to live within Syria (2). Paying for food and supplies for all those people would use that money up quickly which is one of the reasons resettlement is so expensive. Reihan Salam showed that 8.1 billion is being spent on refugees in Sweden alone (3). This means that the United States 4.5 billion is only covering half of what a country might spend on housing refugees from the Syrian crisis. In this way I could not see how the United States has met the requirement for minimal humanitarian morality and we need to do
He is a second generation immigrant to the United States, and has firsthand view of the conflict. In His essay "The Vicious Cycle of Muslim Immigration" he argues that if we allow Muslim Immigration into western countries they will experience a lot of the same problems of resentment and violence as those in Europe. He uses the problems Germany is having with their immigrant population as a demonstration for his argument because experts in Germany are becoming "skeptical about the wisdom of admitting refugees in large numbers" (3). He wants the reader to look at this from an objective standpoint and analyze the possible dangers of bringing in immigrants when they are not given the proper help in integrating. This is why many people are warning against mass importation of Muslim immigrants. Salam is not alone in his views on this …show more content…
Aziz Huq in his essay “America’s Refugee Debt” brings to light that the United States is required, as a country that has been involved with the Syrian conflict, to show “minimal humanitarian morality” to help ease the crisis (3). In other words what needs to be done to aid Syria, should be done, to the extent that it is not detrimental to the individual or country. Huq suggests that this requirement may have been filled by the United States giving four and a half billion dollars to help aid refugees and resettlement (3). Four and a half billion may not go as far as some may think though. Huq states that refugee camps are overcrowded with more than four million externally displaced persons and this does not factor in the nearly eight million people without a place to live within Syria (2). Paying for food and supplies for all those people would use that money up quickly which is one of the reasons resettlement is so expensive. Reihan Salam showed that 8.1 billion is being spent on refugees in Sweden alone (3). This means that the United States 4.5 billion is only covering half of what a country might spend on housing refugees from the Syrian crisis. In this way I could not see how the United States has met the requirement for minimal humanitarian morality and we need to do