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by andyl 3864 days ago
Absolutely serious that elements of the refugee population belong to groups that engage in torture/beheading/rape/enslavement. We have no idea how to tell the good from the bad. Just takes a small number of radicals to cause huge damage and disruption. Not worth the risk.
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elements of the refugee population belong to groups...

This is categorically different to your grandparent statement implying by negation that "refugees[...]have elements that were beheading, torturing, killing and enslaving".

Group T (terrorists) might intersect with group R (refugees) (suggested by "elements of [R] belong to groups [T]), but there is no evidence of this and even if there were it would likely point to a quantity that is well below the margin of error in sampling. This is an entirely different logical statement to "elements of [R] do the evil things of group [T]".

You must be clear when you make scaremongering statements that suggest refugees engage in terrorist activities, because your first statement was clearly wrong yet emotive and therefore easily spread. This doubles down with your second statement, particularly when you have zero evidence to support your restated claim.

Some refugees do participate in terrorism! Paris attackers had links to Syria. Tsarnaev brothers had links to Chechnya. Not worth the risk.