Syria refugee/migrant crisis

As the migrant/refugee crisis drags on, and our leaders twiddle their thumbs and squabble over who does what.....these are some reflections of mine.

These are people, families with kids like ours... It breaks my heart to read the comments/posts loaded with hate and indifference. The root of it is fear and just plain old selfishness. These people are just seeking a better life.
It could be us....and if it were us, we'd expect compassion...yet we find it hard to be compassionate towards others.
I'm sick of all the bullshit excuses I've been hearing ad nauseam...there could be ISIS terrorists among them (like, when have ISIS ever left anything to chance?) ....they will take our homes, our jobs, our tax-funded benefits (I wonder whether any of the people spreading these hate posts have ever lived on benefits in a foreign country ....it is humiliating, to say the least.. Who would want to do so on a whim??) .... they are Muslims, they will destroy our churches etc (not all Muslims are radical Muslims...there are millions of Muslims in the world..why do we generalise from the actions of a few thousands???)
It is shameful that some people use news stories, inflate them out of all proportion, and add their own spin to them before passing them off as facts...and all this to fuel their own sick agenda..
And it is even more shameful when people who are meant to be 'good' people allow themselves to be manipulated by these so-called 'news reports' which in reality are nothing more than scurrilous opinion pieces.
It is a disgrace that people do not realise or care that they are being used, when anyone with half a brain knows that you should always check the source of that article you're reading...

I agree that the huge influx of refugees is a massive logistical headache...but many European governments have done nothing to prepare for it. The war in Syria has been going on for more than four years...shouldn't that have warned us that at some point these people would be displaced simply because the situation in their home country is untenable?
Yes, Assad needs to be taken out, this massacre of the Syrian people needs to be stopped in much the same way that ISIS needs to be stopped. But what about the big guns, the ones who have the power to put an end to this, who can make it safe for migrants/refugees to return to their homeland...have they done anything about it???
Even so, their wrong does not make our indifference, selfishness and plain hatred right.

No one (not even "economic migrants") leaves his home country, unless leaving is the only choice left. If you are in any doubt, try moving to another country legally and you will maybe understand better....
Just think before you spew hate ... If you were desperately seeking a better place to raise your children than your war torn home country, if you had crossed the desert on foot, and the sea on a rickety boat just to get to the better countries...and found that you are unwanted, that you are going to have to fight for every single breath you take... How would you feel? Would it hurt? Would your feet bleed when you have to walk thousands of kilometres ??  Would your heart break seeing your son exhausted from all the walking when you are unable to carry him on your back?
I know mine would.