In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, many Democrats are scolding anyone who has tried to link the massacre to the Syrian refugee crisis. A survey, however, reported that possibly hundreds of thousands of refugees support the Islamic State.
According to a poll by the Arab Opinion Project, under the Doha-based Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, found that 13 percent of Syrian refugees hold a positive view ISIS — including 4 percent that had a very favorable opinion.
More than 1-in-8 refugees have positive views about ISIS; 1-in-25 have very favorable views.
That may not seem like a lot, but considering there are 4.28 million Syrian refugees registered by the United Nations Refugee Agency, the numbers add up quickly.
Using the percentage from that survey to the overall population of Syrian refugees would mean that more than 557,000 have a positive view of ISIS — including more than 170,000 with a very positive opinion.
Those are startling and frightening numbers, considering how few terrorists it took to pull off the attacks in New York City, London, Madrid, and Paris.
At least one of the terrorists involved in the Paris attack had a Syrian refugee passport on him at the time of the attack.
The Greek government confirmed he registered as a refugee in October.
None of this has seemed to sway the White House. President Obama’s deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, said in an interview on Fox News Sunday that the administration does not intend to halt its plan to take in up to 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year.
“We have very robust vetting procedures for those refugees,” Rhodes said to Chris Wallace.
It’s not exactly comforting to know the same administration that couldn’t run the Veterans Administration, the Obamacare website, or the IRS have an effective vetting system for thousands of Syrian refugees.
In 2013, the FBI stated that lax background checks were to blame for “several dozen” Al Qaeda terrorists slipping in to the U.S. as Iraqi refugees.
Add 10,000 new Syrian refugees to the mix, and more attacks could be coming to America.
