The Syrian Refugees: March 2016

Monday, March 28, 2016

The backlash on the muslim Syrian refugees

Hello readers! I hope you're all doing well. In recent news headlines you've probably for sure read about the recent bombing at the brussels airport. I contemplated mainly talking about that but it honestly makes me too sad to even write about. So instead of talking about the attack in particular, I've chosen to write about the effects that things like these bombings and anything with ISIS have on the Syrian refugees and the dangerous environment thats being created for them. I hope you choose to read on because this topic is important and it is a type of lesson as well.

All muslims are violent, terrorists and/or extremists. Thats what most people think. In the world, there are very educated people on stuff like terrorism but there are also non educated people when it comes to things like terrorism. Non educated people just simply think that all muslims are terrorists. One non educated person you all definitely know is Donald Trump, who as you all know thinks that all muslims are terrorists and plans to deport them when he becomes president.... He is irrelevant so i will not be talking about him anymore in this post.

Now back to the important subject here... the backlashes on the muslim Syrian refugees. As we all sadly know, there has been a recent outbreak of terrorism attacks such as the ones in paris, the multiple shootings and bombings in Egypt as well as the most recent one mentioned in my introduction the bombing at the Brussels airport. (Please take a look at these links to see some other attacks that have occurred lately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_July–December_2015 & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_January–June_2016 ). In this post i will mainly be basing myself on the attacks in France and the attack in Brussels because I've read a lot about those two in particular. The attack in France was perpetraded by the Islamic State(ISIS) and the attack in Brussels also perpetrated by the Islamic State. The Islamic State is a militant group that follows islamic fundamentalism which is simply religious mouvements practiced in earlier times. The leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is one of the most wanted men and the U.S. state department has offered a 10 million dollar reward for anyone with information on his location or any information that could help with his capture.

The backlashes on the Syrian refugees caused by these bombings are that since 97% of the Syrian refugees coming into the western countries are muslim, people think that they are terrorists and are therefore mistreating them. Since the attack in Paris in the month of November Paris has decided that they will no longer be taking in refugees, Britain has also decided that they will no longer be taking in refugees, Hungary and Australia as well, Another country that has decided to no longer take in refugees is the United States. They will let the 1500 Syrians that are already in the country stay but they will not be taking in any more. Those countries closing their doors to accepting more refugees is causing innocent non terrorist Syrians to have to stay in the war countries risking their lives. Innocent children will die because of this. In my opinion I think that its very too bad that because of corrupt men and women that are part of groups like ISIS innocent people will die and not be granted access to a better life.

Im not going to lie. Since the attack in Paris and Brussels I've started worrying about if the terrorists would ever plan an attack in Canada. Im not worried that it would happen in Windsor because when the terrorists plan an attack they want to kill many people. But I do fear them planning attacks in big cities like Ottawa and Toronto... and in both cities I have family. My dad has told me to not worry, but do you blame me for worrying? I know that I am not the only one worrying and i also know that im not the only one thinking about how Canada should stop letting refugees in. I know everyone deserves a fair chance at a better life but so do I. Thanks for reading, I hope you've enjoyed reading this:)

Sources;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

A bright future

Hello readers! I hope you liked reading my last post as much as I enjoyed writing it. This subject is very important to me and I absolutely love writing about it. So to continue with my next post, I will be talking about what the future holds for the refugees. Like what kind of jobs are out there for them, the education opportunities for the children as well as the teenagers and the health care that will be provided for the refugees. I will mainly be focusing on those things in the countries of Canada and Germany since those are a few of the countries that are permanent homes for some of the refugees.

So to get started I will be talking about the job opportunities in Germany. One of the main reasons Germany was so open to taking in so many refugees is because they were hoping that since their work force is expected to drop 6 million people by 2030(since the death rate is higher than the birth rate now) that the big number of Syrian refugees would come in and create more jobs and take the jobs that are available. That is good for Germany because it helps keep a growing expansion. In Germany they have a bit of a crisis. With the birth rate getting lower there aren't enough young people to work in manual labor factories. When I say manual labor factories I mean jobs such as a car assembly line or a pipe factory. The job domain in Germany needing the most people is for sure the industrial section. Like I mentioned in my last post is that there is also a lot of job opportunities in private business`s like ones such as flooring, roofing, baking, cleaning services. Stuff like that. It isn't a problem at all for refugees in Germany to get a job because there are so many job slots open. An interesting fact I read was that even if every refugee aged 26-47 got a job, there would still be more job slots open.

Now for education. Around 60 universities are offering free courses and some are even thinking of paying for Syrian students full university education. Not all universities and colleges are offering things like this so not every refugee is available for things such as a free education. But the ones that aren't offered free education aren't left abandoned and do get help. For younger children in grade school, Germany has recruited 8,500 people to teach child refugees German so that they can attend German elementary schools. All of the elementary schools across Germany are accepting children and the school boards of Germany have figured that they will have to recruit 20,000 new teachers to teach in the expanding schools. All in all, Germany offering permanent homes to the refugees is beneficial to both the refugees and the country of Germany.

However, in Canada its a much different story for job opportunities. The refugees are going to face a very hard time finding any kind of employment. When they do find it they are going to be in minimum wage jobs with no benefits or any kind of pension. Adding in the factor that many refuges don't speak English or French it makes it even harder for them to land any of the jobs that are available. Jobs are key to being able to support you family. The Syrian families that are sponsored are alright because when they cant find jobs they always have their sponsors to fall back on. But the Syrian families that are government sponsored and aren't finding any type of employment wont be able to support their families and they don't really have anyone to fall back on. They will face a much more difficult time. Jobs are difficult to come by for any Canadian but the Syrian refugees will encounter even more difficulties finding gainful employment.

All of the child refugees coming in face some difficulties. Even though all the elementary schools in Canada offer free education, the children face some difficulties. An essential thing that the Syrian children don't have is the ability to speak English and or French. But another challenge they face is adapting to the idea of school. Some of the children don't even know what school is so it will definitely be a process for them to adapt. In an article I read it said ``it will be difficult for the children to grasp the concept of studying in a building that wont get bombed``. That hit me very very hard because young innocent children shouldn't have to worry in the morning about if they will get bombed at school or not. I understand that the children will face difficulties but they are difficulties that can be overcome, I am just happy that the children will not have to worry anymore about getting bombed at school.