US Congressman Chides Refugees,
Says If He Were Syrian, He Would Stay and
Fight
By Lee Fang
November 20, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" - "The
Intercept
" -Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., appearing on talk radio
this week to discuss his opposition to resettling Syrian refugees,
said the “first thing” that needs to be done is to “get away from”
referring to the individuals fleeing Syria as “refugees.”
Perry explained that while “some of them” are leaving
a civil war, he would have stayed.
“With all due respect, if there’s a civil war in my
country, I stay and fight for my country,” Perry said during a
discussion with Clarence M. Mitchell IV, known as “C4,” the host of
a program carried by WBAL radio in Baltimore.
“There is absolutely no reason they need to be coming
to America,” Perry continued.
Listen to the exchange here:
Who Perry thinks they should fight for is not clear.
Does he think they should join the ranks of Syrian strongman Bashar
al-Assad? Or is he referring to any number of Syrian rebel groups,
including ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, among others? I sent a request
for clarification to Perry’s spokesperson but did not receive any
word back.
He presumably is not suggesting
that children and the elderly take up weapons. Of the over 4 million
Syrian refugees counted
by the U.N., 38 percent are under age 11,
more than half are under 17, and only 22 percent are men between
ages 18 and 59.
Perry currently sits on both the House Homeland
Security Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa.,
Perry’s colleague on the Homeland Security Committee, also dismissed the
dangers faced by Syrians. In a letter to President Obama this week,
Barletta referred to those fleeing Syria as “so-called ‘refugees.'”
Elected officials around the country have used the
terrorist attacks in Paris to call for rejecting Syrian refugees.
Today, House Republicans plan on bringing a vote on legislation
designed to curb refugees entering the United States from Syria.
See also -
Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors
Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era:
During the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States resisted
accepting large numbers of Jewish refugees escaping the Nazi terror
sweeping Europe, in large part because of fearmongering by a small
but vocal crowd.
WorldNetDaily Pundit: 'Bomb Mecca Off The
Face Of The Earth': Columnist
Burt Prelutsky writes today that he has an ingenious but
“politically incorrect suggestion” of how to defeat ISIS, namely
that the U.S. “bomb Mecca off the face of the earth, letting the
Muslims know once and for all that our God is far more powerful and,
yes, vengeful than their own puny deity.”
