[FreedomToCreate]

Just to add, but a lot of responsibility is being dumped on western nations who are acting out of humanity. But no one is mentioning the complete failure of extremely rich and near by Muslim nations from doing anything (Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Singapore). Countries with the same underpinning religion as a majority of refugees won't even accept them, and this really shows their own values. For humanities sake, we accept refugees, but don't be a fool and think its going to go well.

[mrow84]

Non-western countries also take large numbers of refugees:

"Turkey hosts 2.5 million refugees from Syria, more than any other country worldwide

Lebanon hosts approximately 1.1 million refugees from Syria which amounts to around one in five people in the country

Jordan hosts approximately 635,324 refugees from Syria, which amounts to about 10% of the population

Iraq where 3.9 million people are already internally displaced hosts 245,022 refugees from Syria

Egypt hosts 117,658 refugees from Syria"

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/02/syrias-refuge...

[FreedomToCreate]

I know, its the Gulf countries that are the main culprits.

[hasenj]

OT nitpicking but Singapore is neither nearby nor culturally similar.

[FreedomToCreate]

Yeah you are right. I meant to write Malaysia which is a Sunni Muslim nation.

[hasenj]

Still geographically far and culturally different. Although sharing religion does create some familiarity but in reality I don't think the culture is similar.

[jb613]

what is culture other than behaviors, beliefs, values? In those respects, Malaysia is much more similar than any European or western country.

[nommm-nommm]

>Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Singapore

Singapore? Singapore doesn't belong on that list.