Ok, what Would Jesus do?

This may (probably will) not be universally popular, but that's not why I write.

       There are some  truly evil, Xenophobic and downright ignorant  posts flooding social media this week re: Syrian refugees. One such simply says "kill all them (sic) "Mo-Fos",  another refers to Syrian refugees as "Anti-Christ cockroaches."  These are obviously the products of troubled minds with no attempt made to reason or think the situation through. Another is even more troubling because apparently the author believes he is truly perceptive regarding the matter. He states:  "If only there was some kind of history somewhere in the world we could use as an example of what could go wrong....!"  

        Reflecting on this last piece of sophistry makes me wonder exactly what the writer's intention might be.  Apparently he has some example in mind of an influx of immigrants having a  negative impact on the receiving populace. On further reflection, I was able to think of a couple of such cases. here they are, couched in my response as written.

        "There are examples: 15th to 20th century North America, only white Christian Europeans  were the "cockroaches" and  First Nation's people were the victims. There is another more recent example -  1940's Palestine, but in this case European Jews were the "cockroaches" and indigenous Arabs were the victims.  Of course both groups of  receiving populations  were demonized and recast in the roles of ignorant and  vicious savages. Military actions were then undertaken to relegate them to specified areas where they could be "controlled." 

        These  writers have it dead wrong because they have no objective perspective, which seems to be a common symptom of current Far Right lunacy. The persons fleeing Syria are far more analogous to the Cubans who fled Castro, only instead of  including  the jailbirds, whom Castro also released, they are largely  professionals and family people who thought the civil war would be soon over, just as in Cuba, they thought the Castro thingy  wouldn't last. The best analogy may well be Marco Rubio's  family, who, just like most of these people, sick of war and seeking a better life, left their homeland for The United States. 

        As for the "Anti-Christ" statement, space prohibits the entire doctrinal explanation of why that is laughably false. In brief, however,  slightly more than 10% of Syrians are Christian, and are the most endangered Syrians if they stay. Many Syrians are converting to Christianity, and per Fox News (yeah, I'm citing them here ) only 10% leave the faith after converting.

        And what is particularly perturbing to me is that, most of the Republican Far Right candidates are decidedly "anti-Christ" in their actions and attitudes. One cannot help but notice that many of  these  people (Huckabee, Santorum, Jindal, Walker et al) never seem to actually ask themselves "What would Jesus do?"  Maybe it's because  they don't really care for the answer?"