The same applies for the US where some 10,000 Syrian refugees were offered asylum. No committee or media outlet to welcome them, and although some communities showed them support, they have also been subject to a wave of opposition, including 31 governors who have demanded that refugees be banned from entering the US territory in the wake of attacks in Europe. In the heat of the election campaign for the US presidency, the issue of hosting Syrian refugees on American soil has taken a particularly emotional turn.
Yet it happens to be that the Europeans and Americans have the wrong target in their crosshairs by making the displaced responsible for terrorism. To date, no jihadist who had committed attacks in Europe or the United States came from the refugee communities. On the contrary, many of these terrorists were already residents or even Western citizens, and we won’t be able to block their paths with xenophobic attitudes and tougher immigration laws.
Which is quite logical: it is not a refugee who flees war and violence to escape death, who fights tooth and nail to get a residence permit, who struggles to find a job... It is not this man who plots suicide operations. It’s a matter of logical coherence.