First some facts: The five attackers till now (16/Nov/2015) are not Syrian, but French or Belgian citizens. They are linked to Daesh, and some of them were in Syria in the last couple of years. None of them came back to France in the contingents of asylum-seekers coming from Syria.
This puts the French government in front of a double dilemma:
- An ethical dilemma: Should they stop receiving asylum-seekers from Syria, because the para-military force they are running away attacks French citizens in their own capital? Or should they reinforce that reception, because brutality is not hitting others anymore, but their own people?
- A political dilemma: Should the French government be commanded by a brutal military force? Should they react, as Daesh seems to expect, creating a clear discrimination to Syrian (or more wider, Muslim) population and immigrants?
Both questions are not easy to answer properly. IMHO there's a proper answer:
- To show that current Syrian asylum-seekers are not and cannot be seen as guilty for this violence.
- To show that those being violent are very specific groups, and not some country citizens or some religious population.
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