cods wrote on May 27
th, 2017 at 10:47pm:
Brian Ross wrote on May 27
th, 2017 at 10:24pm:
And as I have pointed out, Soren, the UNHCR is not the be all and end all of Refugee matters internationally. When you acknowledge that your source was flawed, then we might be able to continue this conversation. Until then, you're as usual, just pissing into the wind. Tsk, tsk
I think even you would have to admit brian that Muslim countries which already surround places like Syria...would be rather selective in who they take in.. I believe there are many branches of Islam..I mainly know of Sunnis and shiites .. who seem to hate each other.....so I could only imagine it would be harder to just walk into an Arab country and say I want asylum......I did read somewhere where countries like Turkey and Egypt were starting to be more careful or selective......did I read that wrong??..
btw dont you think all sources are flawed after all the stats they tell us ...... are mostly weeks old....
and I believe it goes for all sources...
Statistics only provide, as you have pointed out, indirectly, a snapshot of events or attitudes at the time that they are gathered, Cods. Anybody who has studied statistics knows this. What is interesting is longitudinal surveys, those taken over extended periods - usually of the same peoples' attitudes - allowing you to measure what their thinking is to events around them. FD and the other Islamophobes like to quote the Pew Surveys. Problem is, if you look at the attitudes of Muslims at various times over the last ~17 years, they have changed quite markedly, as events have occurred, realisations of what the implications of their attitudes have become and so on. However, they never quote the later surveys for some reasons. Could it be because they aren't as explicit as the early ones? Who knows? Tsk, tsk.
As for the Muslim countries which surround Syria - they have taken IIRC about 1 third of the Syrian population in as refugees. Jordan in particular has let in a couple of million Syrians. Just as they let in previously, a large number of Palestinians. Turkey has let in even more. So, to claim that they don't accept refugees is false but typical of the Islamophobes.
As to them becoming "more particular" about who they accept, I have no idea, I must admit. However, it really isn't all that surprising really. They are just as subject to the same fears and myths as are the West, it appears.