It’s a fairly typical day for people to get up and get ready for work, get the kids ready for school, eat breakfast, then rush out of the house. Maybe after you drop the kids off at school, you have time to stop at a coffee shop, sit down, read the paper, and drink coffee, then go off to work. At the end of the day, you come home, eat, help kids with homework, maybe go to a park with the kids for a while, then prepare for bed. During the week, maybe you work in a dinner out with the family and maybe a movie. Yes, this was probably a typical day in the city of Homs, Syria in the not too distant past. But, not now. The city has been devastated.
Imagine going to work and getting a phone call from home that you neighborhood is being attacked by those who should be protecting you, and that you’ve got to go get the kids. When you leave work, you find you car has been bombed and shortly after, your office building is destroyed. When you find you kids and wife, you are left with nothing but the clothes you’re wearing, and with no place to go. What would that feel like? What would you do? This is what hundreds of thousands of people are facing right now in Syria, Nigeria, and other places.
People with professional careers, homes, iPhones, and nice watches, all the typical middle class goods and services… but left with nothing. No jobs, no homes, nothing, nothing. It could happen here, but, it is happening to these people. And, all they want is a safe place for their families to live, and a job. Not too much to ask after having your life turned upside down.
It’s pretty disgusting how our politicians are reacting to the refugees. It’s as if they have to intelligence and no compassion whatsoever.
And, just for some perspective… here are some numbers to digest. These are the top 5 countries with mass killings. The numbers reflect those from January 1 to November 23, 2015. The number injured is much higher. These deaths are from terrorists. Many are attacks on mosques and market places. In Nigeria, they’ve included whole villages and universities, killing anyone who wasn’t a conservative enough Muslim.
Nigeria – 2,405 deaths
Saudi Arabia – 823 deaths
Syria – 462 deaths
Iraq – 327 death
Pakistan – 259 deaths
By the way, France had 162 deaths during the same time period.
Data from Wikipedia with additional links to original news sources.
Meanwhile, back in the United States our own homegrown, white, “Christian,” terrorists continue to kill men, women, and children, with a government that refuses to take action. It is just so perplexing when the bigotry of our own people, including our leadership, just keeps on going, taking no action.