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by dragonwriter 3866 days ago
> Anne Frank and the other (mostly Jewish) refugees of that time had no marked, large-scale habit of beheading or blowing up anyone who didn't agree with them.

Neither do Syrian refugees.

The people from whom the Syrian refugees are fleeing do, but then, that's kind of why they're fleeing.

(Equating the Syrian refugees with Daesh, et al., is like equating the 1930s European Jewish refugees with the Nazis.)

> Welcoming hordes of militant Muslims is most certainly suicidal by comparison.

The screening of refugees by the UNHCR before referring to a country for resettlement, and, in the case of the US, by the numerous US agency responsible for screening before admission, makes it extremely unlikely that any substantial number of the refugees admitted to the US for resettlement would be "militant Muslims", so the idea that "welcoming hordes of militant Muslims" is even on the table for discussion is misguided.