10,000 Open Their Homes to Syrian Refugees
As European governments shut their doors to waves of refugees desperately fleeing wars in the Middle East and Africa—and as the world grapples with the image of little Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler whose body washed up on a Turkish beach on Tuesday— heroic individuals from Iceland to Germany are offering up their homes to Syrian refugees in a show of hospitality.
Earlier this week, 10,000 residents of Iceland volunteered to house refugees coming from Syria. The outpouring of basic, decent hospitality from this tiny nation stands in stark contrast to the treatment of refugees across the rest of the European continent, where police are deployed to stop migrants from boarding trains and arrest stowaways on boats heading for England. In summits on the crisis, European leaders take jabs at their neighbors and policymakers plot ways to stem the flow of the bereaved in the worst refugee crisis since World War II.
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