There are just so many things that the people who are paralyzed with fear of the Syrian refugees so deeply fail to understand. The first of those is the fact that we shouldn’t be acting in such a reactional, paranoid and bigoted way that we prove Da’esh’s primary criticism of America as true. That’s exactly what we do when we say we’re going to reject every Syrian refugee—the people who are in the process of trying to escape terrorism—because of one.