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After attracting severe criticism on social media and from members of the Muslim community around the world, Saudi Arabia has defended itself saying that the kingdom has accepted more than 2.5 million refugees since the Syrian conflict began. The oil-rich nation also claimed that it has given permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of Syrians ever since 2011.
Rich Gulf nations have been condemned for not welcoming Syrian refugees, who are fleeing the civil war and the Islamic State (Isis) onslaught in the country and making perilous journeys to Europe via sea. While numerous countries apart from Europe are embracing thousands of migrants, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar have been blamed for remaining silent on the issue.
However, according to the Saudi Press Agency, an unnamed official of the Saudi foreign ministry has said that nearly 2.5 million Syrians have been given shelter in the Islamic kingdom. The official stressed that Syrians are not treated as refugees and are not placed in camps “to ensure their dignity and safety”.
Al Jazeera quoted the foreign ministry official as saying: “[it was] important to clarify these efforts with facts and numbers in response to media reports, which included false and misleading accusations about the kingdom.
“Saudi Arabia was keen to not deal with them as refugees, or to put them in refugee camps, to preserve their dignity and safety, and gave them complete freedom of movement. [We] gave [shelter to] whoever chose to stay in the kingdom, which are in the hundreds of thousands, proper residency … with all the rights that are included like free health care and engaging in the workforce and education.”
The Saudi Press Agency added that the Opec heavyweight has provided around $700m (£453m) to aid agencies in Syria and has set up clinics at refugee camps. Moreover, Syrians given residency in Saudi Arabia have access to work, schools and free medical care.
Further, the official said that humanitarian aid has been provided to those countries who have been accepting Syrian refugees.
39 Comments on "Saudi Arabia Says It Has Taken In 2.5 Million Fleeing Syrians"
Plantagenet on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 10:48 am
Considering that the population of Saudi Arabia is about 28.5 million, this would imply that almost 1 in 10 people in Saudi Arabia is a Syrian refugee.
Is that true?
J-Gav on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 11:06 am
You’ve got a point there, Plant.
That was my reaction too … How does any country accommodate 2.5 million people over such a short period of time without even having recourse to refugee camps? They’re all supposed to be in “residences.” Very fishy.
BobInget on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 11:19 am
Exactly where are these 2.5 million refugees?
Not a single news service has been able to verify
this obvious falsehood. Why did two and a half million people flee into the arms of the very people oppressing them from the onset.
“The official Saudi Press Agency quoted an unnamed official at the Foreign Ministry as saying the kingdom does not consider those it has taken in as refugees and does not house them in camps “in order to ensure their dignity and safety.”
I question why KSA would issue such transparent fakery? Not for local consumption surly, 2.5 million homeless are difficult to miss in a total population of 29 million.
Here’s my theory.
If a massive construction crane had collapsed
on a new office complex or hotel killing hundreds, damage to Saudi religious dominance would be muted.
Falling cranes on the most holy of holy places in Islam is quite another kettle of fish.
I believe Saudi Religious leaders are quite rattled by the ‘accident’. Coming so close to
the Hajj will be taken by the faithful as some kind of ‘omen’. At least this could be the fear.
In the West, such weather related accidents
are called ‘an act of God’. I really don’t know if Muslims view Allah as ‘all powerful’ or
not. I suspect they do.
The Saudis have plenty to feel guilty about having financed Syrian opposition forces for five years.
“Saudi Arabia is a desert country encompassing most of the Arabian Peninsula, with Red Sea and Persian Gulf coastlines. Known as the birthplace of Islam, it’s home to the religion’s 2 most sacred mosques: Masjid al-Haram, in Mecca, destination of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, and Medina’s Masjid an-Nabawi, burial site of the prophet Muhammad. Riyadh, the capital, is a skyscraper-filled metropolis.
Posted note:
When we had a flash flood here a few years ago I remarked to my ‘C’ fundamentalist neighbor ‘it was an act of God’. That person
avoids me today as I offended her. (god)
Boat on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 11:28 am
Every country always has stress when it comes to adding population. How much is this going to cost over the long term. Is the addition sustainable when it comes to energy, housing, food, water etc. How will it impact taxes. If governments were open and honest and communicated their plans of how to handle additions the fear would be much alieved.
The US for example kept bringing in millions of immigrants when unemployment was over 10%. How smart was that. You think the unemployed understood? The conversation should start with what population is sustainable. Do we really want to live at the maximum population that a country can handle. If the public is involved with the information that drives the decisions the fear of decisions would diminish or not. But we would be a more informed voter.
wHow
BobInget on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 11:32 am
On another even more serious note;
Northern California is burning, out of control.
How many more disasters before Climate Changes get credit?
GregT on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 11:38 am
Boat,
Do some research on how ponzi schemes work, and you will quickly figure out why population numbers must keep increasing.
apneaman on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 11:40 am
Too bad there was not some way they could prove it, like with ubiquitous visual recording devices. Someday.
BobInget on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 11:44 am
I’ve vowed never to insult fellow posters
‘Boat’.
KSA issuing such blatant, easily refutable falsehoods shouldn’t be excused even from the political right. The best thing so called ‘conservatives’ to do in this case is hope no one noticed KSA’s pants on fire news-release. In point of fact, Saudis have been deporting thousands of foreign workers it deems ‘security risks’.
Boat on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 11:58 am
Bob.
I used to be that way about insults. I have received enough flack that now I do occasional drive by comments for fun. However they are much milder. I don’t mind counter views on anything but basic human emotion require a little fight back. Lol
Boat on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 12:01 pm
GregT,
That is one conspiracy theory.
Boat on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 12:27 pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/migrants-coming-into-europe-reach-record-highs/2015/09/13/5c2732e9-dc33-4528-850d-94361c7b0917_story.html
Sign of the times.
Hello on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 12:44 pm
Only the west is stupid enough to import muslims by the truck load.
Boat on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 1:39 pm
hello,
What do you have against Muslims?
joe on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 1:57 pm
It’s hard not be confused about what to think of Muslims when western media (Israeli influenced) propaganda has always told us they are mostly jihad loving suicide loving pedophiles who just want to end Israel and steal money. And that was before 9-11.
Oh but their just fine when pro Russian slavs have a beef with them, or it serves European elites aging population interests.
GregT on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 2:18 pm
Boat,
“That is one conspiracy theory.”
One conspiracy that will no longer work for us in North America, due to aging demographics. Call it a theory if you like, it won’t change reality.
apneaman on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 2:26 pm
joe, since there are over a billion of them it’s a pretty safe bet that they have their angels and demons at the extremes and everyone else filling in the rest. If I was living in America, I would be more concerned with the Christian right. Spend some time researching them and go to some of the sites and definitely check out the comment section. They have a very narrow range of who is acceptable in their utopia and I for one would not last long if they gained/took power. Nor would a lot of people. Fanatics are fanatics and troubled times are their best opportunity. Ape behaviour is highly malleable and predictable and even more so under pressure. They have it down to a science.
The psychology of evil
Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials.
http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil?language=en
The Psychology of Evil: The Lucifer Effect in Action
Prof. Philip Zimbardo, the conductor of the infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, has become a leading authority on the psychology of evil: How is it that people are induced to commit evil, even when they consider themselves “good” people? What social dynamics encourage—or discourage—cruelty toward other human beings? The Lucifer Effect offers a full reconstruction of the 1971 experiment based on archival video, subject diaries, exit interviews, and other contemporary material. It then gives an introduction to the psychology of social morality as it has developed over the years. The book culminates with an examination of the prisoner abuse scandals of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and elsewhere, challenging accounts that would hold individual soldiers solely responsible for their actions, and indicting the chain of command for knowingly creating conditions that would lead to degrading treatment and torture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uCaAGx_dPY
Davy on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 3:17 pm
Ape Man, if I gained power I would make you my science advisor with broad powers and unlimited budget. You would then be free to solve AGW climate change but if you fail you will face the firing squad with boat as the firing squad commander.
apneaman on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 3:26 pm
Well Boss man, my first recommendation is to spike the water supplies of the ME, Ukraine and all the Red states with copious amounts of Ecstasy, cause they need the love the most. Fuck it just skip right to global cloud seeding with X. Lets all go out happy.
Dredd on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 4:51 pm
They must be running out of slaves.
theedrich on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 7:48 pm
“Saudi Arabia Says It Has Taken In 2.5 Million Fleeing Syrians.” Considering KSA’s history of secrecy, mendacity and general savagery, this statement is dubious in the extreme. Consider Zero Hedge’s report on what is happening in Europe:
“The good news for Germany is that at least the tens of thousands of Muslims migrants will have a place to pray: just as ‘generously’ Saudi Arabia — in lieu of actually accepting any asylum seekers — offered to help Germany cope by building at least 200 mosques. The Gulf state said it would build one mosque for every 100 Middle Eastern refugees who entered Germany. It will be busy building a lot of mosques.” — Zero Hedge, 2015 Sep 9
It is so nice that Germany, like western Europe in general, has decided to allow itself to be drowned by les misérables from Allahland while the corrupt head of the beheaders, Saudi Araby, refuses to accept any of them itself. Of course, Germany et al. must make sure to imprison any traditional German/European “racist” who dares object to the Obama-caused tidal wave. Sort of reminds one of the Canadian loonybin on this continent, where the Nomenklatura destroys as many Whites as it can find a “racism” excuse to do so. The fact that western “democracies” allow themselves to be bought out by hate-filled leftists and megalomaniacal egalitarians shows just how inimical such governmental systems are to the biological existence of the peoples who made their existence possible in the first place.
What a wonderful legacy of guilt-driven Christianity.
apneaman on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 9:50 pm
I’m not sure where you get your information, but it’s none too accurate. Actually 82.6% of the population of Canada is of European ancestry, so for someone like you, this place is more fitting. Also our immigration is tightly controlled and English is an official language. So is French, but that’s mostly back east and it’s still white european so it gets bonus points eh? We only have 35 million in the whole country which is probably less than just the illeagles America has. So once again if you want to get away from those unwashed brown masses you despise you’ll like it up here. I live in a Suburb of Vancouver that has a big east Indian population and I have to say these are some of the Whitest people I have ever known. They do their culture festivals a couple of times a year, but as for the rest of their lives they are full blown Canadian crackers. Cars, college, junk food, hockey, fat, suburbs, blind obedient consumer zombies. There is a significant conservative core in Canada that you are not aware of. Not American whacked out conservatives/libertarian, but more like an old fashioned british empire hangover don’t rock the boat too much and don’t over react and be fair type deal. It’s fading but it’s still there. Nothing you would ever learn from whatever website gurus you worship.
Makati1 on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 11:03 pm
Ap, the uS is way ahead of you. “DRUGS R’US” is the new national motto. The Red countries, not so much. It take money to be a druggie.
http://time.com/4505/heroin-gains-popularity-as-cheap-doses-flood-the-u-s/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexican-opium-production-rises-to-meet-heroin-demand-in-us-10478139.html
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/09/10/cia-and-the-drug-business/
Drugs of all kinds are a multi hundred billion dollar per year business in the US.
Makati1 on Sun, 13th Sep 2015 11:17 pm
Ap, has that new border wall gone up between the unwashed 320+ million Americans, 140+ million Mexicans and the other “rabble” south of Mexico, and your pristine European ancestry “Conservatives”?
You know, the 40+ foot high concrete and steel one with concertina wire and machine gun towers at 100 meter intervals from the Pacific to the Atlantic? If not, the southern hordes will be in your neighborhood before you can say “Unwanted”. LOL
When the migration starts, it will envelope the globe. Wait and see. No one will be immune or escape it. No one.
apneaman on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 12:16 am
No worries here, Mak. The retards are going to take care of it for us.
Border wall between Canada, U.S. worth ‘looking at,’ says Republican presidential hopeful
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/border-wall-between-canada-u-s-worth-looking-at-says-republican-presidential-hopeful
theedrich on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 1:57 am
Well, apeman, regardless of the fast-diminishing 82.6% European population, your country still incarcerates those who dare say anything politically incorrect about the rest. Since you live near hyperlib Hongcouver with its imported Chinese gangs, you must know about the laws favoring all Commonwealth ThirdWorlders. That city is almost as leftist as Seattle, three hours to the south, the only city to have a statue of Lenin from the old USSR in it.
Makati1 on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 6:32 am
Ap, the US cannot afford to build a chicken coop these days and pre-presidential promises are worthless.
HARM on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 11:39 am
“Hongcouver with its imported Chinese gangs”
Vancouver’s east asian gangs have nothing on Wall Street. The bankster gang holed up there has literally taken over the entire world economy and owns most politicians. There’s no “gang” more dangerous than that one.
zoidberg on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 12:37 pm
Lies all lies.
Also lies co2 produced by burning fossil fuels is the number one driver of climate change. Hint it’s the sun that drives our climate.
apneaman on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 1:00 pm
theedrich your just another ignorant ugly American who thinks he understands other cultures he knows nothing about. Your countryman planty is doing the same the thing about India over on the other thread. Go on vacation and/or read a couple of articles from your favorite idiot and you’re an instant expert. That’s because you view them through your prefabricated ideological lens. Your country and citizens are so highly propagandized from day one that it’s a wonder any of you (not you) are decent at all. When I lived in the US my mother in law asked me what I thought of Americans. I said “Often wrong, but never uncertain” Never have so many been so sure about so much yet known so little. It does not even matter what their political leanings or religion are. I have never seen so many people that have 100% certainty every time they open their mouths. America has produced some of the smartest people in the world and it’s like the rest think it rubs off on them by default. Being unsure is like a crime in the U.S. and combine that with a decades long anti-intellectual anti science movement and you get what you have today. Canada is going down no doubt and PC and leftism has something to do with it, but nowhere close to the damage wrought by neoliberalism courtesy of American think tanks that gained a much longer reach and influence with the internet. I can even hear it in the lexicon. I hear Canadians use their words now (6-7 years), words that were never a part of the Canadian lexicon. Americans are the last people on the planet to be criticizing anyone else’s shortcomings a failures because you guys are right off the fucking charts on every metric. Scale is everything. All apes and ape societies are fuck ups but the scale of it in America is unbelievable. Why not eh? Everything else is super hyper large in the US. As bad as things are getting here it’s still like disneyland compared to the US and it’s not a commonwealth thing because GB has turned into a giant shit hole as well. The race is on the US vs GB who will collapse first. Apes are fucked theedrich and you’re the worst of the bunch. You should be ashamed you had it all just a few decades ago all the money all the brainpower all the military power and you threw it all away. You’ll go down in history (if anyone is around to write it) as the fastest falling empire and you only have yourselves to blame. Ya ya it was a bunch of elites behind it all, but y’all sold out for a few more shiny gizmos no questions asked. If you can take credit for throwing off the yoke of the elitists British empire then you can take the blame for the reverse. You couldn’t do fast it enough if you tried, You rushed to dismantle the country the minute Ronnie started promising more goodies. Sure same thing is happening here and in other countries, but the pace was much much slower here and only really took off big time when they got their man Harper in a decade ago. Personally, I do not like Canada’s hate speech laws (and a bunch of other ones too) but is not being able to legally call some one a “nigger” to their face the most important thing in your life? Is that what will make or break a country? Would you feel impoverished living under such a law? I guess you are ok with the Patriot act and the NDAA? Your constitution has been gutted and your main beef is Canadian hate speech laws. I don’t think they have any Guantanamo Bay like camps where they drag you away for years on no evidence and have no due process (who has that anymore?) I’ll take the hate crimes and the rest of the shit I don’t like for the rest of my life over living in the US where over half the people are fucking bat shit crazy and volatile. My condolences to the normal one who just want to live and let live.
apneaman on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 1:07 pm
zoid you’re beyond hope, but that’s ok because we all are.
zoidberg on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 2:16 pm
Far out man.
Davy on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 2:18 pm
I will say one thing Ape Man your ugly American tirade will make the asswipe from the P’s day when he ever gets up from his slumber.
apneaman on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 2:55 pm
If it’s any consolation Davy, I consider you one of the normal ones (sort of;) and my point was more about casting stones than American bashing – you don’t need me for that as an ever growing number of your fellow citizens are increasingly doing it. If TPTB go much further they just might unite the left and right. Make them put aside that largely fabricated “cultural war”. Anytime the press tags some issue with the word “war” you can be sure there are nefarious reasons behind it. The cultural war – take a handful of very real, but manageable differences and crank up the propaganda machine to blow them all out of proportion – divide and rule. Might end up with a war on the government and/or banker/elites or a civil war. Kinda of a war on the common man been going on for awhile now don’t ya think?
Davy on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 3:14 pm
My country is in bad shape and much of what you said is true. Fuck I admit it we have turned into a degenerate race. I am going to maintain my anti anti-American stance where unfair, unbalance, and inflammatory comments are taken. If the world had an angelic country like a race of Avatar people to feel good about then I would bow to them. The rest of the world is dumbass especially Canadians who are like little little brother jealous of bigger brother. The rest of the world sucks too.
Most people live local and could give a shit about our uptight asshole comments here. Most of us here are basically uptight assholes who think we know it all and that is just not true. The simplest ugly American around here is closer to the truth then we are. We Are going places that is abstract and detached. These people live local. We could take some advice from them. We are the ugly intellectuals of the rabble board at PO.com. Nothing to feel special about.
onlooker on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 4:11 pm
Good point Davy. I also am an American and not proud of it yet i also know some really nice people here. We sit here on the computer while people in many places are struggling to survive. They have to work many hours a week just to get by. So AP is right their has been a long standing war going on against the common people. In the meantime the fake War on Terrorism is the distraction the elite wished for yet it is becoming somewhat of a revelation for the masses for the blatant and clear truth that 911 was an inside job. It as never just about people uniting it was about them realizing that the powers that be did not really ever have their interests in mind. I myself do not feel like an ugly intellectual because I feel what most of us here are chronicling the “truth” of the world no matter how uncomfortable that may seem to ourselves and to others.
Davy on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 4:24 pm
Ok, onlooker, I was trying to feel better about being part of a degenerate race. There probably is a condition that falls under that attitude. You know, if you are part of a degenerate race you try to make everyone a little more degenerate so you don’t look as degenerate.
onlooker on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 4:47 pm
Yea Davy I get what your referring too. I will say though that no matter the nastiness of some people in the world their are also very good people who feel for others. Also, the elites and super wealthy and those of that ilk are the ones that are bereft of redeemable qualities. So none could be as low as they are.
seen from sirius on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 6:35 am
If that is true, it means that Syria’s population of 22,5, taking into account the 2 million who are in turkey , the hundred of thousands in Lebanon, the more than 1 million fleeing reight now to Europe, and the hundred of thousand of refugees in diverse other countries, has probably halved, and doesn’t exceed 11-12 million right now. Mind-blowing.
It seems unfortunately that in our so called “enlightened times” as in the deep past, war is still the ultimate way of regulating population growth in a given territory.
joe on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 9:21 am
Modern European society reminds me of the Incas who let in the foreigners and never imagined they could vanish. Oh how the tables have turned. Ha Ha Ha!
I heard the immigrants are giving carpets to the Europeans as gifts for welcoming them. Watch out for that smallpox Europe!