Obama: We’re ‘Reinforcing Terrorist Propaganda’ if We Turn away Refugees
‘If we were to turn refugees away simply because of their background or religion or, for example, because they are Muslim, then we would be reinforcing terrorist propaganda’
Sep 20, 2016 4:00 PM
By Grabien Staff
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"When desperate refugees pay cold-hearted traffickers for passage, it funds the same criminals who are smuggling arms, and drugs, and children. When nations with their own internal difficulties find themselves hosting massive refugee populations for years on end, it can risk more instability. It oftentimes surfaces tensions in our society when we have disorderly and disproportionate migration into some countries that skews our politics and is subject to demagoguery. And, if we were to turn refugees away simply because of their background or religion or, for example, because they are Muslim, then we would be reinforcing terrorist propaganda, that nations like my own are somehow opposed to Islam, which is an ugly lie that must be rejected in all of our countries by upholding the values of pluralism and adversity."