Dina Jaber loves soccer. So she jumped at the chance to attend a game between the French and German national soccer teams on one of her last nights out in Paris.But her excitement soon turned to fear. The 22-year-old Phoenix resident ended up inside the packed stadium when two suicide bombers blew themselves up as part of Nov. 13’s deadly terrorist attacks.She flew back to Phoenix on Monday, shaken but unharmed, yet was not among the many American who suddenly saw Syrian refugees as a threat to national security.Instead she remained steadfast in her resolve to continue the volunteer work she started before she left. She and her family help Syrian refugees adjust to life in the Valley, even as Gov. Doug Ducey and more than two dozen other governors have raised fears about terrorist infiltrators while asking the federal government to stop sending refugees to their states.The panic over Syrian refugees has reached a crescendo since the terrorist attacks in Paris:”We are a nation at war,” Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said on the House floor before the vote.”The streets of Paris could just as easily have been the streets of New York, Chicago, Houston or Los Angeles. … We must take decisive action to show the American people that we are doing all we… Read full this story
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