Gov. Raimondo Ignores Serious Risks to Rhode Islanders Posed by Syrian Refugees
Jewish community especially endangered
On February 22, at 2:15-3:15 at the State House in Providence, former Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich), former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rhode Island State Representative Mike Chippendale, and Dr. Charles Jacobs, President of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, will call on Gov. Raimondo to reconsider her unconditional welcome to Syrian refugees, whose culture rejects basic American values.
Jacobs said, “We are a country of immigrants. We welcome people who come here to join us and bolster our way of life. We see and sympathize with people fleeing war and violence. But an influx of Syrian refugees may pose a significant danger to Rhode Islanders, and especially to the Jewish community here.”
He said, “Three top Obama administration officials are telling us that Syrian refugees cannot be properly vetted for connection to terror and jihadist ideology.”
FBI Director James Comey has stated that “We can query our databases until the cows come home, but nothing will show up because we have no record of them.”
Congressman Peter King, Homeland Security Counterterrorism Subcommittee Chairman says that “There is absolutely no real way of vetting these refugees coming in. . . . it definitely puts the United States at risk.”
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says he has a “huge concern” about ISIS’s ability to infiltrate the country via Syrian refugees.”
Jacobs said, “In all the national discussion, no one has raised the question of the deeply ingrained hatred of the West – and particularly Jews -- that is inculcated through Syrian educational intuitions – starting from childhood. Yet studies of Syrian school curricula show that practically every Syrian will have been taught these hatreds. This is the sad consequence of growing up under a Ba’athist regime – a violent authoritarian movement with its roots in 1930s European fascism. But in the U.S., no one is talking about Syrian cultural values. Even Jewish community leaders have failed to take note of this danger.”
A study of Syrian textbooks, written in 2000, concludes that the regime works to “indoctrinate children with the idea that it is their duty to wage Jihad and become martyrs in the service of the state and its ideology.” The study also found that extermination of the Jews is stated as an obligation in an eleventh-grade textbook.
The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace published a report in 2001 that revealed Syrian school textbooks teach that Jews “are portrayed as enemies of the Arabs since antiquity, of Islam since its inception, of all mankind, of the prophets and of God himself” and “The Holocaust is justified, though its magnitude is exaggerated by the Jews.” The textbooks also teach that martyrdom is an ‘exalted value’ and encourage students to study ‘actual or imagined attacks on civilians.’
Dr Jacobs argues: “We need to heed the lessons of Europe. We are inviting in people from a radicalized culture that rejects tolerance and teaches hatred of women, gays, Jews, and democracy.
Jewish leaders in Europe have spoken about the growing violence against the Jewish community surging from Muslim immigrants. Sexual assaults and violent anti-Semitism now affect much of Western Europe. Before we can admit hundreds of these refugees, we must first gauge the threat they pose and examine the ideas they support.”
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