Name:   copperline - Subject:   Questions? Date:   10/4/2015 6:05:21 PM

1.  Probably because many of them think that life in Europe would be better, and because they are desparate to find a safe haven for themselves and their families.  The economies of Europe are producing more jobs than the economies in the Middle East, and there is no war going on there.

2.  Probably because they didn't WANT to leave their homeland, and were hoping that the civil war would end.  Picking up your belongings and trekking a couple of thousand miles with your wife and children in tow is a pretty extreme tactic, and one that you would only take up if you had no other choice.

3. I didn't know that they were, and doubt you should take news statements to this effect seriously.

4. Well, Many of them are also young women.   That probably is because the elderly, sick and disabled are less likely to have the strength and tenacity to make an epic journey like this.   Think about it.   Young people are trying to escape war with their new families.

5.  The 5 wealthiest Gulf Nations are primarily Sunni, and Shitte Syrians are bound to be wary of the reception they would recieve there.   Remember this is fundamentally a clash within Islam between two opposing groups,  Sunni & Shitte.   

6.  No, it really is a refugee crisis.

7.  Is that a question or a statement?  Infiltration, really?   Isn't it the same as the Exodus of European Jews to Palestine after WWII?  People fleeing persecution in their homeland and hoping to find safety somewhere else?  

   If your question is whether this massive movement of people could cause problems in Europe, then the answer is that it really could.   If the refugees aren't accepted and successfully integrated into host countries, and experience excessive discrimination there... then I would expect their children to become angry & resentful.   That's not a Trojan Horse, that's what happens when millions of people are displaced by war & poverty.

    I really think we should have more compassion and sympathy for innocent people like these, and quit damning them all because they aren't Christian.