The Importance Of Syrian Refugees

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In the summer of 2015, Europe experienced the highest influx of Syrian refugees as a consequence of the civil war led by the Al-Assad family which ruled the country undemocratically since the 1970’s. After the Arab springs, a revolution which began in 2011 led to disbanding of numerous authoritarian regimes the Al-Assad’s refused to stop down and started a brutal civil war. This led to various groups of individuals fighting for varied ideals to fight one another. During this time, the extremist group ISIS used this period of chaos to enter the war with the intent of establishing a totalitarian Islamic regime of their own. Soon thereafter ISIS became one of the most successful extremist organizations on earth. During this civil war, both ISIS …show more content…
In my opinion, the world should have welcomed these asylum seekers with open arms in order to not only provide these people with help, but to alleviate the burden on major nations that receive the highest number of refugees, yet whose economies and infrastructure’s are unable to adequately support them as is in the case of Greece. Countries like Italy completely refused to accept asylum seekers altogether. It took the photo of the death of a Syrian boy lying dead on a beach in Turkey for countries like Germany to change their policy and begin allowing refugees to seek asylum in their country. In 2015 alone Germany took in approximately 964,574 asylum seekers according to TheGuardian, while the entire European Union only took in half a million asylum seekers in 2014. Many people fear that providing aid to these refugees will increase the number of Muslims in their nation however it’s been shown that the percentage increase in most of these countries will be from 5 to 6 percent.
Even if people fear acts of terrorism at the hands of the refugees according to John Stuart Mill’s view of Utilitarianism the best moral action is the one that provides the greatest happiness for the greatest number, therefor, although there would be some level of fear amongst the inhabitants of these nations, there would be much more happiness and much less suffer in the world if these refugees were provided asylum. As Mill stated the happiness of the individual was of no importance but rather the happiness of the masses, as would be the case in this

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