Phobias

There are a lot of phobias going around today. In a poll on a local television station 88% of the people that took the poll think that we should close our borders to the Syrian refugees.

xen·o·pho·bi·a
ˌzenəˈfōbēə,ˌzēnəˈfōbēə/
noun
intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.

Is·lam·o·pho·bi·a
izˌläməˈfōbēə,is-/
noun
dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.

But there is a greater threat from anyone coming here from any country. So what are we going to do, close all our borders? Then what about home grown terrorists?

It doesn’t even make any sense, why spend years sitting in a refugee camp waiting to get vetted with the possibility of being discovered when you can get a stolen or forged passport and come here immediately.

By denying refugees we are playing right into ISIS strategy of creating more tensions between Christians and Muslims to bring about another world war. It is creating a climate of "Them Against Us."

This is not the first time fear has run rampant, during both World Wars we persecuted Germans and in World War II we rounded up Japanese people and put them into concentration camps.

It was wrong then, it is wrong now.