Ben Carson on Tuesday said that the U.S. should not accept refugees from Syria because they will be easily targeted by terrorists, adding that Americans’ resentment of Syrian refugees could increase the likelihood of refugees’ “radicalization.”
“You bring a lot of people here from another culture and what they will tend to do is congregate together, that’s a natural thing, which makes them much easier targets for radicalization,” Carson said on Breitbart News Radio. “Particularly if you bring them into an environment where a lot people of are resentful of the fact that they are here. That’s just going to create incidents that will increase further the likelihood of radicalization.”
The retired neurosurgeon has also argued that Syrian refugees don’t want to come to the U.S., and that they should instead be sheltered in countries like Jordan. Carson recently returned from a trip to Jordanian refugee camps for Syrians.
“The Syrians themselves were pretty adamant about the fact that they want to go back to Syria. That’s what they’re looking for,” he said on Fox News Monday night.
H/t Buzzfeed News
Dear Ben,
Please read your bible again. Your understanding of rudimentary concepts like “love thy neighbor” is severely lacking.
Cheers,
Jesus
Good God. So because some people treat minorities like shit we should keep them away. Because it’s better for them…
“We’re too racist and bigoted to let the Syrian refugees seek shelter here and our racism and bigotry will only make them hate us.”
Am I really REALLY witnessing a POTUS candidate make this fucking argument? REALLY?
Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “I’m not saying we should abandon all our principles and the fundamental, core values upon which our nation and society were founded…no no…I’m saying we already have, and that we should just go with it…”
Right, so we shouldn’t help them because some Americans, coughrepublicanscough, are assholes who will resent helping them and that might alienated the refugees. So the solution is to leave them to suffer and die, because not being assholes is to much work.
there is an Arab community in Dearborn who would like to talk with you.
(though its Breibart, this is the part of the movie, where that reporter should have asked about if that’s a racist thing to say. Anyhowwww)