Europe Refugee Crisis

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Argentina Official Says Doors Open to Syrian Refugees
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Sep 4, 2015, 3:58 PM ET
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press

Argentina's cabinet chief said on Friday that the South American nation is willing to welcome more Syrian refugees fleeing their country's civil war.

Anibal Fernandez said that the government eased the entrance of Syrians through a program begun last year, but he didn't specify how many of the refugees had arrived so far. He said the Syrians will be welcomed through the country's tradition of helping out during humanitarian crises.

"When you do something like this, it's a very honest act that springs from affection and solidarity," Fernandez said.

He said he had been troubled this week by the image of a dead 3-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach. The photograph has drawn the world's attention to a wave of migration fueled by war and deprivation.

Since civil war broke out in their country in 2011, more than 4 million Syrians have sought refuge abroad, the largest number from any crisis in almost 25 years, the
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Juan Pablo Terminiello, legal associate at Argentina's office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, estimates that the South American country so far has welcomed less than 100 Syrian refugees. Leaders of the Syrian-Lebanese community, with an estimated 4 million people in Argentina, have asked authorities to speed up procedures so more of the refugees can enter the country.

Neighboring
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welcomed 42 Syrian refugees who arrived in October 2014. Under former President
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, Uruguay initially agreed to receive a total of 120 Syrian refugees.

Current Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa has said that a second group of seven families will arrive later this year. He has rejected criticism by some Uruguayans who believe their country should not accept more refugees.
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solarz said:
Despite the tragic nature of these refugees, there is one critical concern that any nation would be foolish to ignore, and that is the possible, nay, likely, presence of radicalists among the refugees.

It would be impossible for anyone to say that accepting this amount of refugees from areas of radical islamic activity would not provide European radical islamism with thousands of fresh new recruits.
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I don't agree. Politics needs time to develop in a country, a long time. South Korea started with the US installed dictator Sing Man Rhee, who was followed by a series of military dictators until in the late '80's the development to democracy began. It was similar in Taiwan after the dictatorships of Chiang Kai-shek and his son also in the late '80's. In Egypt the beginning to democracy was already frustrated after months but I think if/when democracy comes in that country it must come from inside the country. It cannot be imported by outside forces. Those forces can often maintain dictatorships but they cannot promote democracy, whatever is meant by that term in a country.
So while by interfering in a country you can make it so awful that you promote extremism of one kind or another, and remember that is just what several Western countries were doing in Syria, going as far as planning to bomb the country as they did Libya, you can only improve a country by cooperating with the sitting regime. There is still a difference between cooperating and trading with a country, letting its politics develop autonomously, and helping maintain a dictatorship.
 
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Miragedriver

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kwaigonegin said:
From Syria to Argentina! talk about a serious culture shock.
Les deseo buena suerte'.
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Interestingly enough there is a very large ethnic Lebanese and Syrian contingent in Argentina already. They are erroneously called Turks, since they fled the Ottoman Empire during the First World War with Turkish Passports. They have assimilated well into Argentine society with the exception of having names like Omar an Ahmed.


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Miragedriver said:
Interestingly enough there is a very large ethnic Lebanese and Syrian contingent in Argentina already. They are erroneously called Turks, since they fled the Ottoman Empire during the First World War with Turkish Passports. They have assimilated well into Argentine society with the exception of having names like Omar an Ahmed.

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Are they mainly devout Muslims?
 
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Equation said:
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Hungarians waiting by the highway with food to give to the refugees who will arrive on foot.

I found it on my facebook page. It's such an amazing sight to see.
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Equation said:
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Hungarians waiting by the highway with food to give to the refugees who will arrive on foot.

I found it on my facebook page. It's such an amazing sight to see.
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great that is true humanity
 
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Miragedriver said:
I do not know the exact percentages, however the vast majority are Catholic. There is one main Mosque that I am aware of, but I do not know of any others, if any. That large mosque was pushed through by ex-President Carlos Saul Menem, who is of Syrian decent.


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they were Catholics, me, my self i have Lebanese ancestry, but they were not Muslims but Christians, Latin America still in the late 1800s and early 1900s had strict rules of immigration favoring Catholics over other etnicities
 
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b787 said:
they were Catholics, me, my self i have Lebanese ancestry, but they were not Muslims but Christians, Latin America still in the late 1800s and early 1900s had strict rules of immigration favoring Catholics over other etnicities
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**off topic**

Yes that is absolutely correct. Until the 1950s in Argentina it was only white Christians could emigrate to the nation. That law was removed when Juan Peron fell from power.

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