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Europe
Syrian refugees lured to Europe by a cheaper route and false stories
2015-09-21
[Rudaw] Europe is caught in a crisis it cannot contain. After years of discouraging and strict asylum laws, refugees are now traveling there by the thousands.
The asylum laws are not strict. It takes the Euros 1 to 3 years to judge an asylum request. In the meantime you get benefits and housing. That is not strict.
They want to get away from war, but at the same time they are misinformed. When I spoke to Syrians wanting to leave the relative safety of Iraqi Kurdistan, I found out they had misconceptions about the rules and regulations awaiting refugees in the EU. They had been told by those who had reached Europe that it will be easy, and that they will be provided with a house and a job.
Plus they'll be in the vanguard of the Islamic revolution in Europe...
I spoke to a Syrian mother who had taken her 6-year-old daughter with her on a boat from Bodrum in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 to the Greek Island of Kos, before stepping for fear of drowning. I asked her how she could risk splitting the family by leaving her husband and son behind. She was convinced that they would be allowed to join her in a couple of months and that the authorities would even pay for their ticket.
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