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Why are refugees from Syria heading to Europe?

Recently, I read a number of articles of the plight of refugees from Syria making their way to Europe. Many don't make it. When I look at the world map, I see Syria is relatively close to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Why do the refugees not head to these countries? They share the same language, religion and customs. I am not saying that Saudi Arabia and Egypt don't have their own problems but I rather deal with these problems than to see a refugee toddler wash up on the shores of Europe.

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Er, unaware about the origins of the ISIS ideology? Sunni dominate ISIS!

    Syria was a secular country, unlike S Arabia, where only Sunni enjoy life. Shia are er suppressed.

    Syria had Christians, Kurds, etc.

    ISIS wants to inflict Sunni ideology, their 7 th century version!

    http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/04/major-... "4 million Syrian refugees who have fled to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq—where a refugee crisis has long been brewing. In Lebanon, Syrian refugees now comprise one quarter of the population."

    Syria has become a prize for er the gulf monarchies! That being so, why would fleeing Syrians run to them?

    Antique states are worried, about their own stability, by the influx!

    http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-09-03/what-are-gul...

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42...

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42... "Lebanon is now a host of over 2 million Syrian refugees, ...the UK, has lesser than 25.000.

    (Turkey) "We wanted to act like some smaller regional United States, therefore we should pay for those 1.8 million refugees who were forced to cross the border and settle in our camps.”

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    I would guess that the rich Arab countries dont have the same humanitarian laws as Europe, nor the same welfare benefits, nor employment. Europe is a beacon for refugees. Those rich emirates only want cheap labor from outside. The father of the little boy could not save his wife or another child.

  • 6 years ago

    -Sadly, it's because They've heard it's the "Land of Opportunity" back in Syria & adjoining Countries... And to a DESPERATE People who've lost EVERYTHING ( & who are now are losing Their Lives as well ), the Road to Berlin must sound like it's Paved with Gold... .. . :(

    Source(s): The Tragic -and True.
  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Most aren't. There are 2.1 million refugees in Turkey, 1.2 million in Lebanon, 620,000 in Jordan, 250,000 in Iraq, and 130,000 in Egypt.

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    It is young people, especially fighting-age men, who are being recruited by Europe.

    Europe probably wants them for some terrorist organizations or other black-market stuff.

    Then they can pick them off or increase hatred against Muslims.

    It also serves to weaken or soften Arab countries, much as economic sanctions has done.

    The Middle East is being left with only old people, as Europe once was.

    I don't want to spread disinformation, but that's what I heard on a recent 108morris108 video, but I can't find it now.

    He also said that Middle Eastern countries have asked Europe to please stop recruiting their young people.

    As of this time, Europe has absolutely no border controls in place and that seems to be the policy, not just with border guard strikes.

    Italy Opens the Door to Disaster

    APRIL 13, 2015

    Muhammad, however, was surprised to see that the Italian authorities took little interest in who these hundreds of migrants were, or where they intended to go.

    “Nobody checked us upon reaching Italy,” he says. “No coast guard, no policeman ever asked if we had papers. Nobody registered us, nobody took a photo of us, nobody took our fingerprints, no one asked us who we were.”

    When Muhammad asked the Italian police at the asylum center if he had to stay there, one said that he was welcome to sleep there, “but if you want to leave, you can leave.”

    While Muhammad was speaking with the policemen, other Syrians in the refugee center discovered that the back door to the center was open. They walked out, and disappeared into the night. The police then locked the back door.

    But that little obstacle was not about to stop Muhammad and the men he had befriended during the boat trip. They quickly scaled the 10-foot wall around the basketball court that served as part of the refugee center. The police never tried to stop them. Then they walked to the Catania railway station and took a train to Milan, in northern Italy. From there Muhammad continued to Berlin, while his friends left for other destinations.

    Once in Germany, Muhammad visited the police, asked for asylum, and was registered as a refugee.

    http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/13/italy-islamic-...

    Commercial vessels on busy Mediterranean routes asked to assist with waves of migrants

    By: Liam Moloney

    ROME—In September, Italian authorities ordered oil tankers owned by Mediterranea di Navigazione SpA to help in five operations to rescue 600 boat people trying to cross from Libya to Italy in flimsy vessels.

    The rescue operations cost the group €100,000 ($109,473) in extra costs, such as fuel and personnel. Now, managing director Paolo Cagnoni is considering changing his vessels’ routes to avoid the flow of migrant boats that is likely to surge this spring.

    http://founderscode.com/widespread-refugees-from-m...

    news channels have been interviewing several of these fake refugees. Many came from Ghana, Nigeria and many other parts of Africa

    How large is Africa? Africa is larger than all of Europe, combined. Does Gentiloni actually imagine that these “refugees” have absolutely nowhere at all to go in a large continent like Africa, and simply “must” get to Europe, of all places?

    The refugee and asylum system needs to be closed down. It is being misused all the time. The EU is a massive problem and is constantly importing terrorists and creating an unsafe future for citizens all across the region. The Eurocrat leaders in charge of these policies need to be charged with treason and dealt with accordingly.

    https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/it...

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    There are four million Syrians in Muslim countries, namely Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. If you had to choose where would you go?.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Saudi Arabia won't accept any of them. So much for Muslim hospitality.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    It is stable and there is little chance of you and your family being marched out of your home and getting executed by the ISIS thugs because you are not the right kind of Muslim.

  • 6 years ago

    they might share the same basic religion but they are not of the same sect. fact is they hate each other even more than they hate the great infidel.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Not so many,or such levels of freebees in moslim States though.

    The desperate are not seeking language,religion,or customs,,they're chasing benefits.

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