Persuasive Essay On Syrian Refugees

For thousands of years countries went without borders, with open arms to adventurers and seekers, but what happened in this world to create this need for controlled and closed borders? One justifiable argument is that these borders are a result from the colonization of 3/4ths of the world by many European countries. Their need to control and “civilize” foreign countries that had not heard of their god killed millions and set up these borders between different colonized territories. Since the 1500s, western countries have felt it to be their right and their duty to control and keep a watchful eye over other countries in the “less developed” (as it is tended to be called) part of the world. One heavily watched region is the Middle East, watched

A columnist for the Qatari Al-Sharq, Ali Al-Rashid, wrote, “The Arab and Islamic states, their governments and peoples, bear no small share of the responsibility for the situation of the Syrians and for their ongoing exodus to Europe… because this ongoing and growing stream of refugees that is flowing into Europe, especially in recent months, has several underlying causes. Perhaps the most important of these [causes] is the restrictions that have been placed on Syrian refugees in most of the countries bordering Syria where they have been compelled to stay, whether [restrictions] on [finding] employment with reasonable pay that would meet the basic needs of sustenance, or in providing education for their children and health services for their families. In these countries they are also subjected to constraints on their freedom of movement…” (memri.org). The first question to be asked is why would the bordering Islamic/Arab countries exhibit such restricting policies on the Syrian refugees, especially enough for them to want to risk their life crossing oceans just to get to Europe? In response to Syrians heading to Europe and risking their lives, we hear nothing from rich Gulf countries and the silence is deafening. We see that there are 1.8 million Syrians that have migrated to Turkey and 1.17 million that are in the less sufficient Lebanon (as of July 9th of 2015), so

Unfortunately it took this widespread death to get more people to pay attention, but the quickly brought upon and massive amounts of attention has only made the EU feel pressured on its decisions dealing with the crisis. But what even considers this to be a crisis? The EU has had many talks on the matter and why they think they should be forced to be responsible for this matter. It can be argued that we are referring to this as a crisis due to a massive influx of people in such a short amount of time, but one must not think of just the numbers, but of the way the EU is failing the international community to help share the burden of such a large and helpless amount of people. Yet some countries and their people share quite different views on the matter. Alan DuPont of The Australian says, “German Chancellor Angela Merkel has opened a Pandora's box of future ills for Europe by her well-intentioned but poorly conceived decision to offer safe haven to any asylum-seeker who can reach the safety of Germany's borders,” and continues on to refer to the refugees as migrants, belittling their efforts and the fact that they must leave in order to survive. It seems outside of Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Sweden, most other areas aren’t attempting to aide