Aside from the staggering fact that you didn't know that most of Ireland wasn't part of the Union, you still didn't address my point. In the event of mass civil war in the Republic, refugees fleeing the conflict should, under your logic, go straight to Italy as it's the spiritual home of the country's majority religion. I doubt the Italians would be very pleased.

 

Also, does it not occur to you that some of Syria's neighbours are becoming unable to cope with mass refugee in-migration? And perhaps these countries are less wealthy than the UK and other European countries and so their less developed infrastructure will react many times worse to the strain than ours would?

 

What am I saying, of course it didn't. That would require rationality.

Aside from the staggering fact that you didn't know that most of Ireland wasn't part of the Union, you still didn't address my point. In the event of mass civil war in the Republic, refugees fleeing the conflict should, under your logic, go straight to Italy as it's the spiritual home of the country's majority religion. I doubt the Italians would be very pleased.

 

Also, does it not occur to you that some of Syria's neighbours are becoming unable to cope with mass refugee in-migration? And perhaps these countries are less wealthy than the UK and other European countries and so their less developed infrastructure will react many times worse to the strain than ours would?

 

What am I saying, of course it didn't. That would require rationality.

As I said earlier, one quarter of Lebanon's population was made uf of Syrian refugees several months ago and the current figure will be a lot higher. There is hardly a nation on Earth that could possibly cope with that sort of influx.

 

One of the biggest problems is that many of the refugees are children and, hardly surprisingly, the education system in Jordan and Lebanon simply cannot handle them all. If they continue to miss out on their education, the long term implications for Syria will be immense.

I know I have had a few glasses of wine but muslims spiritual home is Mecca which last i knew was in Saudi Arabia

 

Muslims make annual trip there to pray

 

When muslims pray at home or in mosque they face Mecca when they are on their prayer mats

 

When a muslim dies he is buried with his feet facing Mecca or something

 

So where was I wrong in my post? :unsure:

Do you really think that all of the refugees are Muslims? You may recall - although, given your past record, I doubt it - that St. Paul converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus. That is, Damascus in Syria. One of the few positives about the Assad regime is that they have generally been tolerant of all religions with the obvious exception of Judaism.

oh my god Craig in this thread

 

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