It’s very likely that among the low percentage of Syrian refugees who have even a somewhat positive opinion of the Islamic State, most of them do not share its hateful ideology. It’s more likely that they view the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad as their main enemy, and support any groups fighting him. They may also be especially suspicious of the United States’ efforts to combat the group, because they see the U.S. as having done little to alleviate their suffering under Assad.

And actually as I was reading that The Gateway Pundit assumes that the 13 percent of Syrian refugees with positive views of the Islamic State group would be represented proportionally among the 10,000 Syrian refugees the Obama administration has pledged to admit this fiscal year. According to this math, that means that the U.S. would admit 1,300 “ISIS supporters,” the conservative site declares.

This is just not true. Even if some of the refugees with a “positive” opinion of the Islamic State share the group’s determination to attack the West, it’s extremely unlikely that those people would make it through the United States’ refugee admission system.

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This situation is very similar to Afghan refugees. Many of them supported Taliban but they never exposed it openly.
Hafsa Iqbal 6 years, 2 months ago