David Martin’s Blog post highlights the massive kind efforts from the Canadian government towards Syrian refugees as juxtaposition towards the efforts of the United States. Martin emphasizes the great difference of populations of Canada and the United States, and the vital fact that Canada took in 39,000 refugees where our great big neighbours down south only took in 13,000. He expresses concern for the waitlisted Syrian refugees who were refrained from entering the United States due to President Donald Trump’s “Muslim Ban”. The United States’ “Islamophobia” is shameful as a nation – thousands of Syrians are unable to flee to safety, unable to begin new lives, unable to be safe from unspeakable harm. David Martin points out that the civil war is not the people’s fault, “it was the tragic result of America’s ill-thought-out and illegal incursion into Iraq”. He follows through by explaining how the Syrian conflict began, through George W. Bush’s involvement with Iraq.
What I want to concentrate on is the United States’ stance towards helpless Syrian refugees. The nations’ perceptions on Islam are truly detrimental to the lives of Syrian refugees. Even those who are not Muslim are affected, as the United States have not matched their efforts to take in refugees to those efforts of Canadians – despite their contrasting enormous population. The racism, the unethical treatment of others, the negative connotations and biases, even to an extent, the “Islamophobic” people are refraining those helpless Syrian souls from bettering their lives.

As another Canadian commenting on another Canadian’s blog, as a message to all my fellow Canadians, please continue these efforts. Please continue to be ethical. Let us forward our nation in place of encouraging Medieval perceptions. An ethical nation has so much more to be proud of, to fight for. Let us push these Americans to follow our footsteps towards a better future.

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Works Cited

Martin, David. “America’s Shameful Treatment Of Syrian Refugees.” The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post, 10 Mar. 2017. Web. 16 Mar. 2017. <http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-martin/americas-treatment-of-syrian-refugees_b_15237804.html>.