If you weren't worried about Iraq, the Middle East, and potential for War Without End, Amen before reading this post, consider changing your mind.
In one of the few comprehensive surveys of how many Iraqis have fled their country since the US invasion, the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants said last month that there were 644,500 refugees in Syria and Jordan in 2005 -- about 2.5 per cent of Iraq's population. In total, 889,000 Iraqis had moved abroad, creating "the biggest new flow of refugees in the world", according to Lavinia Limon, the committee's president.And the exodus may only just be starting.
The majority of those in exodus are Sunni. The Shias, who are a higher percentage of the Iraqi population,
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In the past couple of months Sweden has started to receive large numbers of refugees from Syria, Iraq and a few other war-torn Middle-eastern countries. The ones who claim the right of political asylum are adequately cared for by the immigration authorities. But many don't claim that right.
Refugee program stayed after feds confirm fraud:
Daniel Davies comments on the attempted disproof by incredulity of the Lancet numbers:
Passover is a holiday deeply concerned with inclusion - at one point during each seder night, we open our doors and leave them open wide, and call out "let all who are hungry come and eat." One year, teaching Hebrew School to 10 year olds, I asked them what would happen if they called out and a