Syrians are a Terror Threat, Here are the Numbers
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
Syria is a terror state. It didn’t become that way
overnight because of the Arab Spring or the Iraq
War.
Its
people are not the victims of American foreign
policy, Islamic militancy or any of the other
fashionable excuses. They supported Islamic
terrorism. Millions of them still do.
They are not the Jews fleeing a Nazi Holocaust. They
are the Nazis trying to relocate from a bombed out
Berlin.
These are the cold hard facts.
ISIS took over parts of Syria because its
government willingly allied with it to
help its terrorists kill Americans in Iraq. That
support for Al Qaeda helped lead to the civil war
tearing the country apart.
The Syrians were not helpless, apathetic pawns in
this fight. They supported Islamic terrorism.
A 2007
poll showed that 77%
of Syrians supported financing Islamic terrorists
including Hamas and the Iraqi fighters who evolved
into ISIS. Less than 10% of Syrians opposed their
terrorism.
Why did Syrians support Islamic terrorism? Because
they hated America.
Sixty-three percent wanted to refuse medical and
humanitarian assistance from the United States. An
equal number didn’t want any American help caring
for Iraqi refugees in Syria.
The vast majority of Syrians turned down any form of
assistance from the United States because they hated
us. They still do. Just because they’re willing to
accept it now, doesn’t mean they like us.
If we bring Syrian Muslims to America, we will be
importing a population that hates us.
The terrorism poll numbers are still ugly. A poll
this summer found that 1
in 5 Syrians supports ISIS.
A third of Syrians support the Al Nusra Front, which
is affiliated with Al Qaeda. Since Sunnis are 3/4rs
of the population and Shiites and Christians aren’t
likely to support either group, this really means
that Sunni Muslim support for both terror groups is
even higher than these numbers make it seem.
And even though Christians and Yazidis are the ones
who actually face ISIS genocide, Obama has chosen to
take in few Christians and Yazidis. Instead 98.6%
of Obama’s Syrian refugees are
Sunni Muslims.
This is also the population most likely to support
ISIS and Al Qaeda.
But these numbers are even worse than they look.
Syrian men are more likely to view ISIS positively
than women. This isn’t surprising as the Islamic
State not only practices sex slavery, but has some
ruthless restrictions for women that exceed even
those of Saudi Arabia. (Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front,
however, mostly closes the gender gap getting equal
support from Syrian men and women.)
ISIS, however, gets its highest level of support
from young men. This is the Syrian refugee
demographic.
In the places where the Syrian refugees come from,
support for Al Qaeda groups climbs as high as 70% in
Idlib, 66% in Quneitra, 66% in Raqqa, 47% in Derzor,
47% in Hasakeh, 41% in Daraa and 41% in Aleppo.
Seventy percent support for ISIS in Raqqa has been
dismissed as the result of fear. But if Syrians in
the ISIS capital were just afraid of the Islamic
State, why would the Al Nusra Front, which ISIS is
fighting, get nearly as high a score from the people
in Raqqa? The answer is that their support for Al
Qaeda is real.
Apologists will claim that these numbers don’t apply
to the Syrian refugees. It’s hard to say how true
that is. Only 13% of Syrian refugees will
admit to supporting
ISIS, though that number still means that of Obama’s
first 10,000 refugees, 1,300 will support ISIS. But
the poll doesn’t delve into their views of other Al
Qaeda groups, such as the Al Nusra Front, which
usually gets more Sunni Muslim support.
And there’s no sign that they have learned to reject
Islamic terrorism and their hatred for America.
When Syrian refugees were asked to list the greatest
threat, 29 percent picked Iran, 22 percent picked
Israel and 19 percent picked America. Only 10
percent viewed Islamic terrorism as a great threat.
By way of comparison, twice as many Iraqis see
Islamic terrorism as a threat than Syrians do and
slightly more Palestinian Arabs view Islamic
terrorism as a threat than Syrians do. These are
terrible numbers.
Thirty-seven percent of Syrian refugees oppose US
airstrikes on ISIS. 33% oppose the objective of
destroying ISIS.
And these are the people whom our politicians would
have us believe are “fleeing an ISIS Holocaust.”
Seventy-three percent of Syrian refugees view US
foreign policy negatively. That’s a higher number
than Iraqis. It’s about equal to that of Palestinian
Arabs.
They don’t like us. They really don’t like us.
Obama’s first shipment of Syrians will include 1,300
ISIS supporters and most of the rest will hate this
country. But unless they’re stupid enough to
announce that during their interviews, the
multi-layered vetting that Obama and other
politicians boast about will be useless.
It only took 2 Muslim refugees to carry out the
Boston Marathon massacre. It only took 19 Muslim
terrorists to carry out 9/11.
If only 1 percent of those 1,300 Syrian ISIS
supporters put their beliefs into practice, they can
still kill thousands of Americans.
And that’s a best case scenario. Because it doesn’t
account for how many thousands of them support Al
Qaeda. It doesn’t account for how many of them back
other Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas that
had widespread support in Syria.
While the media has shamelessly attempted to exploit
the Holocaust to rally support for Syrian migrants,
the majority of Syrians supported Hamas whose
mandate is finishing Hitler’s work. The Hamas
charter describes
a “struggle against the Jews” that culminates in
another Holocaust. Bringing Hamas supporters to
America will lead to more Muslim Supremacist
violence against Jews in this country.
But all of this can be avoided by taking in genuine
Syrian refugees.
While Obama insists on taking in fake Syrian
refugees, mainly Sunni Muslims from UN camps who
support terrorism and are not endangered in Jordan
or Turkey, both Sunni countries, he is neglecting
the real refugees, Christians and Yazidis, who are
stateless and persecuted in the Muslim world.
Instead of taking in fake refugees who hate us, we
should be taking in real refugees who need us.
Obama and Paul Ryan have claimed that a “religious
test” for refugees is wrong,but
religious tests are how we determine whether
a refugee is really fleeing persecution or is just
an economic migrant.
The Sunni Muslims that Obama is taking in do not
face persecution. They are the majority. They are
the persecutors. It’s the Yazidis and the Christians
who need our help. And these real refugees, unlike
the fake Sunni Muslim refugees, are not coming here
to kill us. They truly have nowhere else to go.
Syria is a disaster because its rival Muslim
religious groups are unable to get along with each
other. Bringing them to this country will only
spread the violence from their land to ours. Instead
of taking in the religious majority that caused this
mess through its intolerance, we should take in
their victims; the Christians and Yazidis who are
being slaughtered and enslaved by ISIS.
During the entire Syrian Civil War, Obama
has only taken in
1 Syrian Yazidi and 53 Christians.
It’s time that we had a refugee policy that
protected the persecuted, instead of their Muslim
persecutors. It’s time that we listened to Syrian
Christians in this country who oppose
bringing tens of thousands of
Syrian Muslims to terrorize their neighborhoods the
way that they are
already terrorizing Syrian Christians in
Germany.
Syrian Muslims are a nation of terrorist supporters.
They destroyed their own country. Let’s not let them
destroy ours.
It’s time that we kept our nation safe by doing the
right thing. Let’s take in the real Christian and
Yazidi refugees and let the fake Sunni Muslim
refugees and terrorist supporters stay in their own
countries.