Cincinnati Enquirer: Americans Should Welcome Syrians, Other Refugees

No question, the Paris attacks are an abomination to humanity and blasphemous in any religion. We stand stricken and outraged. Even fearful. We feel Parisians’ vulnerability, the soft underbelly of an open society. We probe our own weaknesses, and ponder our response toward the group that claimed the attacks as its own – the Islamic State, a terrorist entity that pretends to champion Islam. The call from some of our political leaders to halt the flow of a modest number of Syrian refugees — estimated to be 10,000 — into this country, half of whom are children, is a knee-jerk solution looking for a problem. The selective nature of the proposed moratorium — targeting refugees from only one country — is also troubling because there’s no confirmed, direct link between Syrian refugees and the Paris attacks.