Argumentative Essay About Refugees

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Every day since last Friday, we’ve been cautioned not to make any connections with the mass migration from Syria through the Balkan. Even now, when it has become a fact that one of the terrorist did masquerade as a Syrian refugee just a month before the attacks, we are still being bullied into saying and thinking: no, there is no connection.

Politicians in Europe and in America alike are going crazy. Any normal person with a tiny hint of self-preservation would say: ‘Okay, let’s take a step back. Let’s pause, think, and assess the situation.’ We should be doing those things, we should be considering: Is there any possibility of increased threat with the enormous influx of refugees from Syria?

Security personnel have been warning of this effect for months

That is: you & me.

Nevertheless, I don’t think that it’s my war to fight. Even though, I feel for those Syrians who are oppressed by them, I think the only way the Syrian people could show the West that they sympathize with our values is by staying home and fighting for their country, for their freedom. Because the fact is that you can’t give freedom to those who are not willing do something for it. Freedom is a nice hallmark, a nice brand but it means nothing unless you are willing to ‘fight’ for it.

And there are plenty of healthy Syrian people to fight. Many of them are already in Germany. How is that for an army? Why don’t these men stay at home and fight ISIS if they so oppose its values and conduct? Why aren’t they protecting their wives and children, why aren’t they fighting for their dreams and their country? Why are they fleeing?

Think about it! Let’s say, that in your country a radical minority group starts to wreak havoc and threaten the nation. What do you do? Do you start running, perhaps cross oceans to reach ‘safety’? No! You fight back, that’s what you