Argumentative Essay On Syrian Refugees

Even though it was determined that none of the Paris attackers were Syrian refugees, Americans are terrified and frightened by the idea of granting asylum to the refugees. Americans believe that “terrorists” can go undetected and possibly act as Syrian refugees thanks to the political hysteria and false information. As stated by OpEd news, “[Americans’] reasoning is based on political hysteria and not grounded in any rational policy considerations.” (Cole, OpEd News). Many republican aspiring presidential candidates are misinforming the public by giving them false information regarding the total “vast numbers” of incoming refugees that could possibly be infiltrated ISIS members is causing Americans fear. For example, as claimed by the republican candidates; Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly …show more content…
If there were a group of radical Christians pledging to murder anyone who had a different religious view than they, we would have a different national security situation," (Cruz). Sen. Ted Cruz has also stated that most of the incoming refugees are Muslims, specifically Sunni Muslims and 3% of the refugees are Christians, which is true according to the State Department (Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley and D’Angelo Gore). Due to the miss leading news and the propagating of such information, people are starting to think the Sunni Muslims are the cause of the problem, and are automatically starting to assume that all Muslims are associated with terrorism. As stated by former CIA military analyst, Kenneth Pollack, “In [fact], much of the fighting has taken place in heavily Sunni areas ([but that’s] because most of the country is Sunni)...much of the Sunni-controlled territory is controlled by ISIS, and nobody except absolute lunatics WANT to live under ISIS.”