Are European nations discriminating against Syrian refugees? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
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When it was Bassil’s turn to reply, he was surprisingly honest by saying, “We are concerned about the strategy followed by some countries to choose the people they receive in their countries based on certain specifications such as culture and religion. For us, such attitudes, in addition to direct financial support for displaced people in Lebanon, are nonproductive positions. On the one hand, [these positions] encourage the displaced not to return to their homeland, and on the other, contribute to emptying the region of its essence; that is, the diversity of religious groups.”
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