As a Christian nation, we should base our treatment of those who wish to flee Syria on Jesus’s command to love others as we love ourselves. That does not mean that we owe every Syrian welfare for life in the U.S. The first critical point is to realize that not all “refugees” are equal. Christians, and other religious minorities, who face death on sight are on par with Jews fleeing Nazi Germany and we are obligated to help them. Similarly women, children, and the elderly or infirm need to be helped. But Muslim men of military age who have decided that they don’t want to risk their lives to solve the problems of their own country have no real claim to anything other than short-term help to avoid being slaughtered. After all, who would have sympathy for Northerners who demanded that England take care of them because they didn’t want to fight against slavery in the American Civil War? If a country has a problem, be it slavery or ISIS, the...(Read Full Article)