Ben Carson compared the Syrian refugees to rabid dogs. Donald Trump says he would have them back. Syrian refugees who are these monsters that terrorize American politicians? Meet Heba, a young 20-year frightened and desperate, who dreams of being an artist and just made a risky escape from the territory controlled by the Islamic State in northern Syria.
She was arrested two months ago with her sister by vigilantes of the Islamic State because the daughter of his sister as a baby, was very short skirt --apesar of the girl have only three months to live. "It was crazy!" Heba said, shaking his head. "I was a baby!"
Heba says she and her sister argued, saying that babies should have some freedom to show the skin, and after the family was dismissed with a warning.
But Heba, confident and courageous, may have spoken too frankly or sarcasm, so police took a critical look at your clothes. She even had the hands and face covered, but the authorities complained that her abaya (long robe) was not wide enough to turn it into a shapeless figure. The police stopped her for hours, until the family freed paying a fine ten dollars (about R $ 40.00).
Heba was lucky because other women were whipped for violating the dress rules. Her sister saw a woman accused of adultery be stoned to death. "If I were using it," said Heba me, pointing to the skinny jeans she wore at the time, "my head would be cut off." And she laughed.
I talked to Heba after the girl left her mother and brothers in Syria (his father died years ago of natural causes) and fled with some relatives on a perilous journey through Turkey, then on a boat overcrowded to the Greek island of Lesbos. Asked Heba and her family to eat a pizza --the western food is prohibited by Islâmico-- State, and as we walked to the pizza she made a joke to point passersby who would be beheaded by EI for improper dress, contact with the opposite sex or other miscellaneous offenses.
"It's a difference of one million per cent," he said, referring to the life in the West. "When you come out of that area, feels very good. His whole body relaxes."
Americans are understandably fearful of terrorism after the attacks in Paris, and this fear is channeled to the Syrian refugees. Therefore, the political handlers portray refugees as a threat that the screening process can not identify, and nearly half of Americans are against President Barack Obama's plan to admit ten thousand Syrians over a year.
In fact, despite the impressions left by American politicians and the EI, in general Syrians they are more educated and middle class than many other peoples of the region, and women are more independent. The artistic aspirations of Heba are not uncommon.
The concerns of Americans about security are legitimate, but screening of refugees is a rigorous process that lasts two years. It would be much simpler for EI infiltrate the US sending people with European passport (such as that effected the attacks in Paris) on tourist visas, or just use supporters who are already US citizens.
The antirrefugiados legislation that was passed overwhelmingly in the House, in fact end the entry to Christians and Yazidis have been especially targeted by extremists.
In person, Syrian refugees are less frightening than they are frightened. Heba did not allow me quoting her last name or publish your photo, for fear that her family suffered reprisals, and can not contact her mother for the same reason. (I do not mention the city where she lived because she is terrified that the EI try to identify and punish his family for his escape and talk to a Western journalist.)
Indeed, Ben Carson, you want to compare this woman who loves freedom with a rabid dog?
Donald Trump, when you said about the Syrian refugees, "If I win, they will come back," you really wanted to deport Heba back to EI to be whipped or beheaded?
Heba is fed up with violence and extremism --but now in the West, is a new kind of political extremism that seeks to refugees like her. These Syrian refugees are potentially accused of being terrorists of whom fled.
"We have no links to terrorism," said Heba me, not understanding that one can fear it. "We are running away from it all."
Heba showed me his abaya which she puts in her backpack. He says he never wants to use it, so I asked him why not throw it away. "I'm afraid," admitted the young. "If they send us back, I'll need it."
Ben Carson and Donald Trump, Heba is not a rabid dog or an insane terrorist, but a desperate young man whose life hangs in the balance. Let's abandon this absurd fear and let Heba throw away your abaya forever.
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