A small number of people have been posting up a storm on my Facebook page over the past week or two — in some cases, these are professedly believing Latter-day Saints who challenge exhortations from the First Presidency and other Church leaders (and it sometimes appears, even from the Savior himself) to care for refugees. In an effort to make their case, they use Sweden and Germany and France and Australia and Switzerland as admonitory examples, portraying them as essentially under siege, in the grip of refugee-inflicted terror, with citizens too frightened to go out of their homes at night. One described Paris as having been transformed by an influx of refugees into “a third-world hell-hole.” Some have seized on this week’s terrorist attack, carried out by a British-born Muslim, one of the United Kingdom’s three-million-member Muslim community, as decisive proof that refugees shouldn’t be accepted into the United States of America.
So I’m very grateful, in that context, to Norman Naime for alerting me to this important article:
Welcome to Wimberg: Population 1,800 (+300 Refugees)
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