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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Refugee Crisis -- A Modern Trojan Horse

Two weeks ago now, 14 years later we, as a nation, took pause to remember September 11, 2001. Yes it has been 14 years already since that deadly attack on the American people, and it is something that will be burned into our collective psyche for the rest of our lives. We will never forget September 11, 2001. Or will we? Or have we already?

Currently, there is a “crisis” in Syria, and the people are fleeing the multi-faceted civil war going on in that small Middle East nation. There are at least three major factions fighting each other, and it is creating havoc for the people of that nation, so much so that the men, women, and children are fleeing for their lives. They are flooding European nations that are near to Syria. Or are they really?

Some studies have suggested that, in many groups of refugees, the makeup of the people include women and children and elderly but that 80 percent are men between the ages of 18 and 30. That just so happens to be the age of a soldier. In fact, we have reason to believe that some of those young men are indeed members of ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other Muslim extremist groups that are bent on the West’s destruction. The problem is, we don’t know which of them are or how many there are.

The media has portrayed this as a mass human exodus with unimaginable suffering.

What we hear from people on the ground in the areas affected is that this is not true.

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