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Migrant Crisis
Refugees at Budapest Keleti railway station 2015-09-04
More than four million Syrians have been forced to escape the never-ending civil war ravaging their country and flee from the barbaric terror group carving a bloody trail across the Middle East.
The vast majority live in overcrowded refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq. These migrants elect to leave their homes because they remain continuously under threat from ISIS by staying, so record numbers of migrants are making the perilously long journey trying to reach Europe.
Yet, as the debate rages between politicians in Europe over how many each country, territoryy and region can offer refuge to, the nearby super-wealthy Gulf nations of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain have refused to offer sanctuary to a single Syrian refugee.
The world has been transfixed in recent weeks by the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe, watching an influx of migrants unprecedented since World War II. Their plight was chillingly highlighted on Wednesday, 2 September 2015, in the internet image of a drowned Syrian toddler, his lifeless body lying alone on a Turkish beach.
After that sad image hit the web, the Gulf countries started to allow refugees to cross their borders in huge numbers. Here are tsome recent statistics for the migrants fleeing.
Kuwait – 764,149,331
Bahrain – 16,849,800
Qatar – 157,992,727
UAE – 359,148,206
Saudi Arabia – 387,077,881
Oman – 15,180,000
