The Manchester Guardian has always been a far left piece of shit newspaper that casts everything in a very skewed light. If there were any poetic justice in this world, its offices would be bombed by a massive suicide attack by people it has been casting as victims for decades. It is one of the major contributors to the entire culture of victimization that is turning the West into a society of whining, incompetent, hypersensitive infants.
But enough about them and their red banner. Their article is very careful to avoid noting that many of the citizens are the children born to all the Somalis that the US was stupid enough to take in back in the 1990s. This community moved to Minneapolis, where it has not integrated. This community is the basis for the taxi drivers who refused to take intoxicated passengers or passengers with dogs for religious reasons. This community has spawned recruits for al-Shabaab in huge numbers (note they left out other jihadi groups when talking about this case, cherry-picking their data to create a false narrative, something the Guardian is good at doing). It has led to domestic terrorism, and it is fueling a massive influx of more of the same as these people slowly but surely take advantage of the immigration laws to invite their entire extended families to the US.
The Syrian refugees, if resettled in the US, run the risk of becoming the same problem. Perhaps it won't happen now, but it will happen within 10 years as children grow up. The problem is that unless and until they integrate fully into American life they will be alienated and ripe for recruitment by ISIS or whatever crazy group comes out of the woodwork next.
And you're right - we have no OBLIGATION to take anyone. People can call us mean or heartless or whatever, but I fully support limiting immigration of refugees coming from a civil war that helped to create ISIS (oh yes, I saw this whole argument about whether they started in Iraq or Syria, but the Syrian civil war was where they really got started; prior to that they were marginalized and had no place to gather and plan).
EDIT: I just added a link to a PDF with over 50 names of Americans who have joined al Shabaab. The list is not exhaustive.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
