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Drowned Syrian boy's family was reportedly trying to get to Canada
CBC News ^ | Sep 03, 2015

Posted on 09/03/2015 5:16:13 AM PDT by McGruff

The B.C. relatives of a Syrian toddler whose body was shown in images circulated around the world after it washed up on a Turkish beach had been trying to help the young boy and his family get refugee status in Canada, according to relatives and a member of Parliament.

Aylan Kurdi, 3, drowned along with his five-year-old brother, Gulip, and mother, Reham. The father, Abdullah, survived, according to B.C. relatives who have been trying to get the family to Canada.


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: drowning; refugees; syria
An interesting twist to this story that's making alot of news this morning. Looking at the comments section looks like they are trying to blame it on Canada's conservative government.
1 posted on 09/03/2015 5:16:13 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

The father is the one to blame for killing his family, not Canada.


2 posted on 09/03/2015 5:23:22 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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Saw that pic this a.m.... damn tragic. I wouldn’t be surprised if most of these refugees are Christians or other religious/ethnic minorities.


3 posted on 09/03/2015 5:28:06 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberalism is the poison ivy that infests the garden of society.)
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To: McGruff

Nope. I blame these governments for inviting them in


4 posted on 09/03/2015 5:28:25 AM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: McGruff

Sad about these childen, but will these people ever stand up for their freedom or is the rest of the planet always going to be responsible to coddle them?


5 posted on 09/03/2015 5:35:46 AM PDT by heshtesh (I believe in Sarah Palin, the rest not so much.)
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To: McGruff

No bloating at all on the body, huh.

Hmmmmm.....


6 posted on 09/03/2015 5:39:06 AM PDT by gaijin
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Governments create this carnage by offering generous welfare benefits to anyone getting across their borders.


7 posted on 09/03/2015 5:40:12 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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Let’s buy every single person in the world who wants to come to the US, Canada or some other Western country a first class airline ticket and put them up in a hotel until the date of their flight. The “rich” Western taxpayers can afford it. It will be a good sign of our compassion and the world will love us for it. /sarc


8 posted on 09/03/2015 5:41:18 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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one less muslim scum....no apologies.


9 posted on 09/03/2015 5:46:38 AM PDT by rrrod (Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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To: McGruff
you know what...

I would feel A LOT more sorry for these people if they had the good sense to have rejected the death cult called Islam.

Dont all these morons know that their ancestors were murdered, raped, and forcefully converted to this Satanic Cult? Why if they are trying to escape from these savages are their women still wearing freaking burkas?!

Sorry, but covert to Christianity and THEN we will talk about Asylum.

10 posted on 09/03/2015 7:04:51 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: gaijin

Why hasn’t anyone else noticed that ? It looked like the kid had just done a faceplant into the sand. Drowned corpses don’t look like that.


11 posted on 09/03/2015 3:47:00 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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