Why not allege that *some* of them are prone to making ridiculous, ill-informed and unsubstantiated generalisations? At least you'd have something in common...Not sure what their religion has to do with anything, but given that the great majority of Syrians practise Islam, I don't know what else you might expect. In what way is this sinister?If you were not so busy pondering the lessons of history, you might know that the countries bearing the vast majority of the burden are indeed Syria's regional neighbours: over 2 million in Turkey; over a million in Lebanon (a small and relatively insecure country). You can see other figures here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War.The numbers of refugees accepted per 1,000 people in the recipient country are: Lebanon 232; Jordan 87; Turkey 21; Canada 5; Germany 2.4; UK 1.9; Australia 1.4; US 0.9. In other words, nearly one in every five people in Lebanon today is a Syrian refugee; that's the equivalent of about 80,000 in the London Borough of Ealing alone.For what it's worth, I believe history to show that refugee crises, left unmanaged, sow the seeds of problems for the next generation. Still, let's not be hasty...Winston Churchill used to speak of "the futility of experience, and the confirmed unteachability of mankind"; he would have found plenty of depressing evidence in some of the posts on this thread. Well done, Sara, for championing the better side of human nature.
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