They’ll say the Christian refugee is not Christian at all because he or she is practicing a form of taqiyah (deception).

I understand the point you were getting across but Syrians are escaping a secular dictator, Yemenis are escaping a humanitarian catastrophe brought on by Saudi bombing, Libyans are escaping a power vacuum left from the fall of Gaddafi, Somalians are escaping rampant poverty and corruption, etc. etc.

Same situation. I’m very close to a Syrian refugee family, and they are absolutely terrified. I feel they have every reason to be.

Like, seriously. Where are all the liberals who said Obama drones Muslims in Yemen. Now that Yemen is in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe, and the current President doesn’t want to accept any refugees from there, will these same people say anything?

Unfortunately, this is one of the more popular ideas that Trump has. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some who lean Democrat who also support this horrendous policy.

There’s a Syrian woman in her late 40s who comes to my mosque. She has two little kiddies, ages 7 & 4 (both girls). Her family lived in Hama but managed to flee before Assad laid siege to the city, and fled afterwards to Zataari camp in Jordan. Life in the camp was difficult, and a man tried to rape her before a…

Sorry to go massively off-topic but it looks like Trump just signed the order to ban refugees from Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and a ban on visas to anyone from the aforementioned countries as well as Somalia, Iran and Sudan.

I had a roommate who dropped a long-time boyfriend (dating well over a year) after he said he looked at all those leaked photos. It was really awesome. She didn’t even blink, just told him it was over.