Rytis Lisauskas

Professor Bowers
Persuasive Final
12/18/2015
No to Syrian refugees
Refuges should not be taken from countries that are known to cause terroristic acts.
Talking about refuges there should be a limit controlling the amount of refugees migrating to
Europe and America. First, all refugees have more of a negative effect on countries they migrate.
It is understandable that every country should accept the people that are fleeing their own
countries from the dangers such as war. But that should have very strict rules based on the
history of the country that they are coming from.
Europe has lots of experience with large numbers of Muslim refugees. And the outcome
has been mostly negative. Most European countries are bad at assimilating people from other
countries, especially from the Muslim cultures. And large number of people from Muslim
cultures are bad at assimilating into non-Muslim cultures, according Dennis Prager on national
review. This is one of the reasons that conflicts occur when the two groups get mixed up
together. Furthermore, one interesting importance, children of the immigrants the ones born
and raised in European countries are usually the most radical and anti-Western. It is worth
recalling that the 9/11 terror attack on America was planned by Muslim immigrants living in
Germany, said Dennis Prager.
There are several main points that I have to support my claim that refugees from
countries that are known to cause terroristic acts should be rejected. First, the unknown danger,
many innocent lives could be taken away from planned attacks that are almost impossible to stop

from happening. For example, on the evening of 13 November 2015, a series of coordinated
terrorist attacks occurred in Paris. Three suicide bombers struck near the Stade de France,
followed by suicide bombings and mass shootings at cafes, restaurants, and music festival in
Paris. According to John Bacon, attacks in Paris left more than 130 people dead and hundreds
wounded. It is a pretty big number of people who died or got seriously injured, and that was the
cause of less than 10 terrorist who are known as ISIS. Its been said that this terroristic act has
been planned in Syria, the country where ISIS is from. In addition, ISIS threatens every country
that is involved in the destruction of ISIS. According to a militant who calls himself Al-Ajkar
Al-Iraqi, We tell countries participating in the crusader campaign: We swear that you will
experience a similar day to the one that France experiences; since if we have struck France in its
heart in Paris then we swear that we will strike America at its heart in Washington. This
would be my best argument of why United States should not accept Syrian Refugees, because of
the threats and the danger we see that is happening in other countries. It is always best to learn
from others experiences, and it would be a bad idea not to do that.
On the other hand, my second main point approve this idea once again of why we should
not accept refugees. Money plays a big role knowing the great amounts of refugees the United
States takes in. America receives around 70,000 refugees a year and that turns out to be around 4
billion in terms of supporting them. But that is not counting the danger that we are bringing to
the United States. It is known that some terrorist who are registered as refugees were the ones
that cause terroristic acts and they are mainly from Syria. Knowing that, there is a chance that
fake refugees who are members of some terroristic group such as ISIS could be using this
opportunity to enter the country. Once they are in, there is nothing that we can do. Greater

damage could be done not only in the terms of money but something more important, lives.
Innocent lives could be taken away by terrorist, because of their crazy beliefs.
Overall, I talked about the possible dangers that could occur in our country and how we
could try to prevent that from happening. I included the France terror attack to show what
happens when large numbers of refugees enter countries. It is believed that some of the refugees
are not really refugees they just pretend which is a smart idea if terrorist such as ISIS want to
enter the country. Basically banning the refugee intake from Syria until the conflicts resolve
wouldnt hurt our country for sure; in fact it would benefit us in many other reasons. That brings
to the second point that I talked about which is economics. It would hurt our economy, slightly of
course nothing too dramatic, but that money could be used for something that our country needs,
instead of being a good heart and spending it for something that could hurt us. At the end, in my
opinion, it would be best to stop taking Syrian refugees until the conflict down there resolves, but
until then we should not risk anything.

"Walker: 'We Shouldn't Be Taking More' Syrian Refugees." TheHill. N.p., 09 Sept. 2015.
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Dennis Prager "Europe Is Making a Fatal Mistake." National Review Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec.
2015.

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