A Name to a Crisis

A 3-year-old boy washes ashore on a Turkish beach. Aylan Kurdi

Seventy-one migrants suffocate in a truck in Austria.

Rula Jabbour's father fled Syria when he was tipped off that terrorists were on their way to kidnap and behead him. Months later, Jabbour's cousin, pregnant with twins, was killed in a terrorist rocket attack. Rula now worries about her 13-year-old sister who is still living in Syria with their parents.

The Syrian refugee would be less disturbing if it remained nameless. How would your view change if you had a Syrian immigrant living next door? Let's say you become good friends.
A family of six Syrian refugees arrived in Texas today. Their names are not released; only their picture. I wish the names would be known. 

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