OK. I can imagine that it is a frightening and daunting prospect to have a 'caravan' of up to 7000 people heading for your border unbidden. They are looking for a better life. Rather than accusing them of being potential terrorists, why not make sure that they can find a better life in their homeland? Rather than accuse them of being Arabs (haven't we forgotten that it was the Arabs that gave us the concept of the zero, something that we use everyday in our computers, to mention but a thing), shall we be compassionate and pragmatic? I have no time for national leaders who stoke fires borne of ignorance, rather than dampen them down.
Three years ago, a caravan of more than a million people spilt over the borders of Europe, fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East. Some drowned in the Mediterranean, but most were welcomed (up to a point) and assimilated into various European countries. Granted, they spoke a different language, came from a different culture, and indeed, there were one or two undesirable elements among them. But otherwise, they were people like you and I.
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