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trueblue
Joined: 15 Jun 2014
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 Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 9:50 pm Post subject: Syrian Refugees in Limbo in South Korea |
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If find this very strange. South Korea, of all places.
Syria to South Korea is quite a geographical span...
I honestly hope South Korea does not take them. It is times countries in that part of the world take in refugees. Muslims belong with muslims, with a few exceptions here and there.
Again...this strange.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/01/asia/south-korea-airport-syrians/
(CNN)The men sleep where they can on airport benches, while others stand or crouch in every corner. Small suitcases and plastic bags filled with treasured possessions fill in the gaps until there is no more floor space to be seen.
This waiting room at Seoul's Incheon airport is not for a delayed flight. Instead, it's a temporary home for 28 Syrian men waiting to hear if they can enter South Korea or will be deported back to the war-torn country they have fled.
Muhammed is in his early 20s. He escaped from Aleppo when his house was destroyed and Bashar al-Assad's government called him up for military service.
"Some are running away from joining the army, some are running away from the government and the military service," he said through a mobile video call. "We ran away from Syria because we don't want to be part of the war. We don't want to hold a gun."
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Syria's 'lost generation' of girls
This cramped waiting area has been home for Muhammed for six months. His lawyers say the Syrians are among 180 would-be refugees who are packed into airport facilities that should, at most, hold 50. South Korea's Justice Ministry says only 116 people are there.
There are no beds, no windows and only one shower each for men and women. The Syrians are limited to three meals a day of burgers and Coke. Most of them eat just the bread as the meat is not halal, or permissible for Muslims under Islamic law. The refugees get occasional monitored walks through the duty-free store to stretch their legs.
The Justice Ministry refused CNN access to what they call the "repatriation waiting room," citing security concerns, but Muhammed filmed the area to show us where he is living.
When asked about the conditions, Justice Ministry officials said the refugees' situation was the responsibility of a committee overseeing airline operations. But the committee said they have asked the government to take responsibility. With everyone passing the blame, lawyers fear conditions will simply not improve.
Muhammed's family is still in Syria as they didn't have enough money for them all to leave. The refugee, who came to South Korea through Turkey and China, says he knows he is better off than many of his fellow countrymen facing a dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean.
"I have friends who died in the sea and I'm so sad about that," he said. "I couldn't try that way because I saw my friends and thousands of other people drowning in the sea."
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Immigration authorities rejected Muhammed's initial request for asylum on arrival, saying he didn't have a clear reason for applying for refugee status and that he came to South Korea not directly from Syria but from a safe country. His lawyers are arguing that China, which regularly sends North Korean refugees back, and Turkey, which Amnesty International claims is banishing some refugees, are not safe countries.
From 1994 until now only three Syrians have been granted refugee status in South Korea. Another 668 have been allowed in under "humanitarian status" since 2014, a new effort for South Korea in helping with the Syrian refugee crisis. These Syrians, while safe, are not eligible for benefits and are expected to return home once the reason they fled has resolved itself.
Lawyers tell us they struggle to find work in a highly competitive country where youth unemployment is rising.
But for now even this is a distant dream for Muhammed, who misses the days he was in college in Syria, studying finance, before the civil war began. It's a world away from sitting in a cramped airport room for months on end, waiting for someone he has never met to decide his fate. |
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CentralCali
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:19 am Post subject: Re: Syrian Refugees in Limbo in South Korea |
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| trueblue wrote: |
| Muslims belong with muslims |
You're quite the Nazi, aren't you? |
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trueblue
Joined: 15 Jun 2014
Location: In between the lines
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 3:21 am Post subject: Re: Syrian Refugees in Limbo in South Korea |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
| trueblue wrote: |
| Muslims belong with muslims |
You're quite the Nazi, aren't you? |
A National Socialist? Hardly....
But take a look around. What happens when muslims start spreading into other parts of the world? They demand the host country cater to them and their ways. Then, no-name, clueless back-slappers start to dismantle their own culture..for them.
Thus, you are quite the ignorant toss-pot, aren't you? |
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Swartz
Joined: 19 Dec 2014
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 3:39 am Post subject: Re: Syrian Refugees in Limbo in South Korea |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
| trueblue wrote: |
| Muslims belong with muslims |
You're quite the Nazi, aren't you? |
Listen to yourself. You're reading from a script. No thoughts of your own, no original ideas, like a dog following orders, just regurgitating the worn out words your masters taught you. And you expect people like me to believe you're an informed individual?
Of course all people belong with their own kind. That's common sense, the most basic variety in existence. It should not have to be justified or explained, that's how obvious it should be.
The deranged, the 'not-sees,' the fascists, or whatever you want to call them, they are the ones who go along with and help reinforce this top-down, civilization destroying notion that the entire world should be allowed to enter European nations by the millions, and that anyone who disagrees should be shamed with the utterly meaningless, Trotskyite label of “racist.”
East Asian societies won't collapse into war like many in the West will (and are about to) because they aren't stupid enough to throw away their nation's future for the sake of appealing to a fictional multicult ideology and not being called a racist. |
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trueblue
Joined: 15 Jun 2014
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 3:48 am Post subject: |
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C'mon CC...I stood up for you once. You can do better than this..right?
So, when you I am a Nazi, are you suggesting that I should put people that are not of my ethnic decent into a labor camp, leading ultimately to death (if, that in fact, happened as we know it)?
What is it specifically, that inspires you to label me as a Nazi? I simply feel the majority of muslims belong in THEIR OWN COUNTIES...not int west. And, fit hey are to seek asylum somewhere else, there is no room for debate on who should be adapting to who. I know, it is against the mantra(s) of modern liberalism and you may get a headache...but there is hope for you yet. |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Syrian Refugees in Limbo in South Korea |
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| Swartz wrote: |
| CentralCali wrote: |
| trueblue wrote: |
| Muslims belong with muslims |
You're quite the Nazi, aren't you? |
Listen to yourself. You're reading from a script. No thoughts of your own, no original ideas, like a dog following orders, just regurgitating the worn out words your masters taught you. And you expect people like me to believe you're an informed individual?
Of course all people belong with their own kind. That's common sense, the most basic variety in existence. It should not have to be justified or explained, that's how obvious it should be.
The deranged, the 'not-sees,' the fascists, or whatever you want to call them, they are the ones who go along with and help reinforce this top-down, civilization destroying notion that the entire world should be allowed to enter European nations by the millions, and that anyone who disagrees should be shamed with the utterly meaningless, Trotskyite label of “racist.”
East Asian societies won't collapse into war like many in the West will (and are about to) because they aren't stupid enough to throw away their nation's future for the sake of appealing to a fictional multicult ideology and not being called a racist. |
Don't forget about resisting the Jewish Bolshevists who control the West. Why oh why can't people see this? So long as you cherry-pick evidence and take statements out of context, throw in a few non sequiturs, and dismiss anyone who calls it all rubbish as being sheeple who have been duped by the Jews, then as quick as you can say "Kruger-Dunning" it all becomes crystal clear. |
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Swartz
Joined: 19 Dec 2014
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: Syrian Refugees in Limbo in South Korea |
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| chellovek wrote: |
| Swartz wrote: |
| CentralCali wrote: |
| trueblue wrote: |
| Muslims belong with muslims |
You're quite the Nazi, aren't you? |
Listen to yourself. You're reading from a script. No thoughts of your own, no original ideas, like a dog following orders, just regurgitating the worn out words your masters taught you. And you expect people like me to believe you're an informed individual?
Of course all people belong with their own kind. That's common sense, the most basic variety in existence. It should not have to be justified or explained, that's how obvious it should be.
The deranged, the 'not-sees,' the fascists, or whatever you want to call them, they are the ones who go along with and help reinforce this top-down, civilization destroying notion that the entire world should be allowed to enter European nations by the millions, and that anyone who disagrees should be shamed with the utterly meaningless, Trotskyite label of “racist.”
East Asian societies won't collapse into war like many in the West will (and are about to) because they aren't stupid enough to throw away their nation's future for the sake of appealing to a fictional multicult ideology and not being called a racist. |
Don't forget about resisting the Jewish Bolshevists who control the West. Why oh why can't people see this? So long as you cherry-pick evidence and take statements out of context, throw in a few non sequiturs, and dismiss anyone who calls it all rubbish as being sheeple who have been duped by the Jews, then as quick as you can say "Kruger-Dunning" it all becomes crystal clear. |
Don't really know what you're getting at, but again, it takes a special kind of goy idiot to call himself a Marxist then make claims about not being duped by Jews. There's no better signifier that one is completely lost intellectually. |
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