What difference at this point does it make
All this focus on one smacks of advocacy reporting.
“Women and children first” has a completely different meaning to Muslims — than it does to civilized people.
Why would you flee to economically ruined Greece?
Why did your Muslim buddys in Ankara turn you out?
Prayers for for all involved.
Someone call Obama and Hillary Clinton and ask them to explain the chaos in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Egypt and if they may have had a hand in it
She has since clarified that she did not apply to sponsor Abdullah Kurdi and his family, but her other brother, Mohammed, and that the application was rejected for being incomplete. Somehow this relevant fact has gotten lost in all the outrage at how supposedly callous the Canadian Government is for refusing their non-existent application.
As tragic as the death of two toddlers and their mother is, particularly in so horrible a fashion, Canada is not to blame. Abdullah Kurdi made a poor choice to put his family in danger by crossing open water on an overloaded boat, whose captain abandoned them to fend for themselves when the water got rough.
Why don’t you go ask your muslim brethren for asylum and leave the Christian countries alone!
What’s so bad about Turkey that they felt they had to escape?
I feel awful for the little boy. I also feel awful for the Western world, which is being flooded with fake refugees. Something is very odd about this sudden influx of invaders. It reminds me of the “unaccompanied minors” that flooded the US last year, all of a sudden. I would not be surprised if someone or some group is coordinating all of this. It is not organic.
Something smells fishy about the father’s story.
This particular man and his family had already safely escaped from the war in Syria, according to ALL of the various reporting.
What’s not clear, is why he decided it was suddenly time to risk his wife and children’s lives on an illegal human smuggler’s (AKA pirate) tiny unsafe boat, in order to illegally enter another country.
Is this Kurdi . . . a Kurd? That would engage my sympathies more. But I do wonder about where the story came from.
I would observe that many so called refugees are really economic refugees. The European Union calls for the very first country they set foot on to do this. - That one country is the one that must document house and feed the new comers.
If that country has serious economic problems the new comers soon know. That country has it's own poor and needy, their own housing problems. Off the newcomers go to those countries where the system has a free ride. The newcomers are not stupid.
Just a statistic from Canada may be of interest. If a Canadian citizen had worked all their lives and did not have a civil service/industrial extra pension- sheer poverty. Total is two payments of about $1100 per month. A new "refugee" in Ontario gets the equivalent of $2,400 for starters.
Like I said the new "refugees" ain't stupid. Excuse my ramble. Have a great Labour Day weekend!