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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
When are the rich Arab Muslim countries of the region going to step up to the plate and take their fair quotas of refugees? To date the five richest Arab nations have not taken one refugee whilst in Europe we're expected to soak up millions.  |
Many,many reasons why the gulf states don't take large quantities of refugees ,probably the biggest reason is that the refugees ,lets use Syrian refugees as an example ,do not want to go to ,for example to Saudi.
A more detailed answer than mine is here
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John Burgess, Former US diplomat with experience primarily in the Middle East
Primarily because those Gulf States don't want to take in refugees. They'd rather spend money to help the refugees... elsewhere. They may take in a few thousand for the sake of PR, but they just don't want them.
These countries are already under some stresses of their own. Suadi Arabia, for example, has severe unemployment. The Saudi gov't put the number around 7% (for men). Other say the number is closer to 35%.
These countries are also among the hardest in the world in which a foreigner can obtain citizenship. Even those foreigners whose fathers or grandfathers have been working in the country cannot obtain citizenship. They're not just going to open their doors for tens of thousands of unknowns.
Then there's the problem of the baggage those refugees are carrying, starting with the expectations of a status quo like they left in Syria, pre-civil war. Syrian culture is not Saudi culture. Syrian religious minorities would find no welcome anyway as only Muslims can be Saudis.
And then there's the fact that the Saudi government intensely dislikes the Syrian government. It considers it to be not only corrupt, but in the fist of both the Iranians and Russians. Neither of those are favorites of the Saudis. They and the UAE, for example, are busy bombing ISIS in Syria because they believe the Syrian government has failed its own people. The sooner al-Assad is gone, the happier the Gulf States will be. And then there won't be as much of a refugee crises.
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