Richard Shelby's Tasteless and Cruel Advertisement

This past weekend, while watching television, my Sr. Senator from Alabama, Richard Shelby aired the following campaign advertisement:

https://youtu.be/FPFS4xJ-E_U

So my question is not so much for Richard Shelby, who is pandering to Alabama electorate's propensity for racism, but instead is for Dakota Roberts of Tuscaloosa, is What is Wrong with You?

The claim that President Obama is "out of touch" about taking in 10,000 Syrian refugees shows a complete lack of compassion and understanding of the calling of Christians, Jews, and Muslims, many of whom, among all faiths, live in Alabama:

Jewish Scripture supporting Welcoming the Stranger: 
Deuteronomy 10: 19 You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:34 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

So we've got a long tradition in the Jewish faith about making sure that strangers are treated with dignity and respect such that it is a command dating back to days of Moses. 

Jesus was pretty clear about what to do: 

Matthew 25:35 I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me..

Here is a link to help Syrian refugees eat and drink:
www.unrefugees.org/donate

Islam's sacred text the Q'uran also addresses this concept:
Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah , the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler… (Al-Baqarah 2:177)

Now, Dakota, let's be clear what you are saying makes President Obama, and the several million Americans who think opening our borders to these Syrian Refugees, results in he and us, being out of touch:

• Giving hungry people food and water who are trying to leave a war zone.  Nobody wants to stay in a war zone. Nobody wants to go to a war zone.  Even soldiers. 
• Watching Fathers and Mothers put their children on make shift rafts to cross the Mediterranean Sea.  No parent in their right mind would ever willingly do this unless the other options are worse.  i.e. staying in a war zone where they will die or otherwise watch their sons be forced into ISIS's army or their daughters be forced into sexual slavery. (here is a reminder of what you are saying we should turn a blind eye too):

 
So, Dakota, as Richard Shelby's mouthpiece, I think I can ask now, in light of knowing you are in favor of denying people safe haven to eat, drink, and be safe, What is wrong with you?  Can you honestly look a Syrian parent in the eye and say "tough luck, sorry that your daughter is going to be raped."  I would hope not, but Senator's Shelby's position seems to be exactly that.  Are you sure you want to stand up for that?

The political advertisement makes a false illusion that Syrian Refugees were the cause of the November 2015 Paris attacks.  Like most difficult situations and topics, a closer reading of the facts shows several countries of origin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks#Identification

Right here in Birmingham, Alabama, the Birmingham Islamic Society donated fifty coats to clothe the local poor and homeless.  Why did they do that?  Because the local church that annually performs that coat drive said this year's donations would be given to Syrian Refugees and our fellow American Citizens that practice Islam did not want our local poor and needy to go without coats.  Certainly, we should quake in our boots at what level of kindness our fellow Americans would receive if 10,000 Syrian refugees were shown a similar kindness.  

Life is complicated and Syria's tragedy is horrible.  But saying "no" is just plain wrong.  So when you say "no", I've got to ask "What is wrong with you?"  Where is your moral compass?  And how can we help you get the magnet off of that compass so you can find some compassionate direction.  I dare say you could some help from our local Islamic Society.