A car is worth a lot more than those items though . <| sep |> How exactly did things work out when the indigenous tribes of North America decided to not worry too much about the 300 settlers of Jamestown ? They didn ' t worry ? I think they worried . But they couldn ' t fight the diseases so they died . I see this argument often , usually voiced by Americans . If you think that argument holds any weight , you are obliged to disavow your citizenship and leave the USA immediately . Unless you are a native american , that is . In any case , no one argues that nonnative americans should abandon the USA . 35 years later , just a generation , Rome was burned to the ground by a savage army of Goths and other brutish illiterate barbarians . The leader of the attack was Alaric I , who personally murdered thousands of Roman citizens . Historians believe that Alaric had been a child among the Gothic refugees at the Danube incident , 35 years earlier . You conveniently omitted parts of that story to promote your narrative . At the time , there was no one left to guard the Balkans . Yet they were confronted with a sizable and desperate fighting force . They tried the standard Roman practice of allowing barbarians to settle in order to recruit them as troops , since it was the only thing they could do . Due to food shortages , that practice backfired and the Romans desperately tried to fight them off . After a lot of fighting , Theodosius I negotiated peace in 382 . This is what actually happened and unfortunately this reduces your narrative to modernday political propaganda . Also , you realize that these Goths were christians , right ? History is filled with many other examples . Not really . History has a lot of examples were accepting refugees was the just and moral thing to do . You bring one example , misconstrue it , and use it as an argument . What about the other times Rome was sacked and refugees were not allegedly involved ? What about the sacking of Constantinople that actually destroyed the empire in 1204 , a destruction perpetrated by their christian european brothers ? In each case the victims could have made exactly the same points that you are making about the Muslims . There aren ' t that many of them . for now They are innocent refugees fleeing conflict . They don ' t have any military strength . Yes , except they wouldn ' t and didn ' t make these points . Your post is optimistic . Stupid , ignorant , and optimistic . Nonetheless I hope you are right . Well that is great but maybe instead of labeling opinions you disagree with as stupid , you can tell us how Rome should have handled its crisis and also how Europe should handle its own crisis now .