Syria has become the center of conflict in the Middle East, reported the German newsroom deutsche-wirtschaft-nachrichten.de.
Recent fights in the city of Aleppo have led to an increased wave of refugees leaving the country for safety, paying thousands of dollars for the dubious passages to Europe – a continent that is being swept by immigrants.
“There is a basic need to have security,” said Réka Bordás, a junior from Hungary double majoring in international peace building and psychology. “My husband said when he was a missionary in Germany they taught a man from Iran. They asked him, ‘What do you like about Germany?’ He said, ‘The security. That I can walk down the street without fearing.’”
Thirteen-year-old Ahmed, from Syria, recounted his experience of the war to German news website dw.de. “My grandfather was shot by snipers,” he told them. “Two days before we fled, the airplanes came. They came over and over again and shot many missiles. Many people died.”
Even after his family left, news of the war followed on television, the radio and in the stories from other refugees. “The children have seen all that with their own eyes,” said Abeer, Ahmed’s mother. “They have experienced the massacre and the war. That was their everyday life.”
Refugees not only seek asylum in Europe, but also go to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey, says amnesty.org. According to dw.de, over 135,000 refugees have already crossed the various borders of Europe in the first half of 2015, which is more than came in all of 2014.
Michael Murdock, associate professor and department chair of Political Science observed, “[European countries] fear their economic prosperity is going to be destroyed. They fear they will be defined by immigrants.” A fear that would not be founded on solid rock “if they would integrate them better in society.”
Bordás said, “I have seen many posts on Facebook from my family and friends at home about these immigrants and what they do; some people support them, some people are afraid. They are just afraid there are terrorists among them. On the big scale, they are afraid the Christian Europe disappears.
“There are many Muslims, and [the Europeans] are just afraid from this different culture. I can kind of understand it, because Europe has been Christian for thousands of years.” The situation in Europe stays highly unstable.
Murdock said, “If the economy goes really bad, praetorianism [the control of a society by force or fraud, according to dictionary.com] is going to rise. If the economy recovers, then the immigration problem won’t be as bad, because they will need these immigrants for there is need of labor. The growth will absorb them. So all depends on the economy.”
Meanwhile, the Middle East stays a cacophony of competing cultures, wars for power, oil and land and an endless conflict between religions, sects, faiths and fanatics. Bordás continued with compassion, “We don’t experience how it is to have our home in war and your life in danger.”
Bishop Paul Staples from Laie, when reflecting on the world’s commotion, said, “It’s the students here who are going to bring peace.”
The German newsroom reported the state of the affected European nations. Turkey has spent over $6 billion on the refugees. The promised 70 million Euro from the EU have stayed a mere promise by the present day, although a stabilization of the situation in Turkey would be beneficial for Europe.
The disunity in the reaction between European countries continued to draw a chaotic picture on the subject, as informed by the dw.de. Sweden is up front in acceptance and integration of the migrants. The Netherlands have earned harsh critics on their migrant policies. Austria stays in the middle as the famous alpine country. Poland only wants to accept Christians and Spain has closed all its frontiers to Africa.