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The Barbarians

Written by Kerby Anderson November 19 - 2015
No doubt you have heard the phrase, “the barbarians are at the gate.” It described what happened when the barbarian hordes descended on Rome. Mark Steyn employs a powerful turn of phrase with the title of his recent column: The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. He was writing about the jihadist attack on Paris, but he could just as easily have been writing about any country in Europe or even in North America. It is easy to see that refugees are flooding into Europe from Syria and other parts of the Middle East. We also know that ISIS operatives have used this mass migration to infiltrate these countries. At least one of the jihadists who attacked innocent citizens in Paris came into the country this way. The barbarians are in the country precisely because there is no gate. The open borders in the European Union have allowed them to move freely and attack at will. The ironies surrounding this terrorist action are many. The president stated in one interview on Good Morning, America that ISIS had been contained and is not gaining strength. His administration also announced that the U.S. State Department is planned to open a processing center for Syrian refugees in Erbil, Iraq. After all, we need to be able to process the 10,000 refugees America has decided it will take. In light of these recent attacks on places like Beirut and Paris, shouldn’t the world leaders get together to plan appropriate measures and strategies? Well, sleep well America. Many of these leaders are coming together this month in Paris. But they aren’t gathering to discuss Muslim terrorism. They are meeting to talk about climate change. You have to wonder how serious all this talk about fighting terrorism really is. We need more than mere promises and candlelight vigils. We need world leaders to be as serious about fighting jihadists and Muslim terrorism, as many of them seem to be about fighting supposed global warming. Viewpoints by Kerby Anderson

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