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Again. Your opinion. But no more valid than mine.
Of course you are entitled to your opinions and on reflection maybe I was a little harsh. This is an important issue and one that will affect us all sooner or later. I don’t think it is correct to conflate terrorism with immigration, whether by refugees or otherwise, and I was objecting to the inference you were making. Of course there is always a risk that terrorists may hide themselves in the refugee stream, which may have happened in France, but the overwhelming majority of refugees are genuine and are fleeing from terrible conditions. They should not all be tarred with the same brush and careful screening can minimise any risk. Also, I object to this matter being politicised in such a way. Your statement seems to suggest that our borders have been thrown open to dangerous extremists because of Green policy. That is disingenuous and simply wrong.
Equally, it is wrong to judge an entire group of people on the basis of a single characteristic. It is grossly unfair, not to mention utterly senseless, to exclude entire populations just because they happen to come from Islamic countries. Do you seriously believe countries like Ireland, Spain, the USA, or France itself are not perfectly capable of breeding their own terrorists? Such a suggestion isn’t even logical.
You are not really paying attention are you?
About six months ago, an IS spokesman said that they intended to flood Europe with migrants and to use that flood to infiltrate their fighters.
The IS affiliate in Libya seized control of a number of port towns and started encouraging migrants onto boats rather than trying to stop them as had been the case when others were running those towns. Earlier this year, IS started to become active in Turkey. Is it really a coincidence that hundreds of thousands of Syrians who had spent years in Turkey suddenly decided to get on boats to Greece and then hike up through the Balkans into Western Europe?
The current elevated flow of migrants into Europe is clearly being driven by IS in order both to destabilize European nations and to infiltrate IS personnel into Europe.
Terrorists make a lot of scary threats. That is what makes them terrorists. Very few of those threats materialise. They do not want refugees in their territory anyway and very few will be convinced to fight for Isis. They had very little to do with refugee movement. You are mostly believing Isis propaganda at face value.