Saudi Arabia pledges to build a mosque for every 100 refugees in Germany, but other Arab states don't dare welcome them

Critics worry that terrorists could use the crisis to infiltrate the west.

Saudi Arabia is offering to build enough mosques in Germany to provide one for every 100 refugees who enter the country, according to German media. Germany is welcoming thousands of refugees from Syria who are fleeing the Islamic State and the regime of Bashir al-Assad.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Saudi Arabia is offering to pay for the construction of enough mosques in Germany to facilitate the needs of every 100 refugees that enter the country. The offer comes as Europe has been flooded with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq.

Fanning out across Europe, seeking refuge, some 4 million refugees are looking for a place to settle down as war ravages Syria. In Syria itself, another 6.5 million are displaced. There are only 10.6 million Syrians, just half of the nation's total population, still living in their homes. Syrians now make up 20 percent of the planet's refugees.

These people have needs, including food, shelter and other basics. They also want their spiritual needs met and since nearly all of them are Muslim, that means they want mosques. To meet that demand, Saudi Arabia is offering to build a mosque for every 100 refugees accepted by Germany. Similar offers may be extended to other nations.

There is another side to this story. The refugees are streaming into Europe instead of into Islamic countries. Saudi Arabia has welcomed some of the refugees, but other Arab states are denying entry to most of these people. These nations have incredible wealth, mostly because of their oil industries, but they would rather build mosques abroad than welcome these refugees into their territory.

The reason is simple, they fear Islamic State terrorists which could be using the refugee crisis to infiltrate other nations. They also fear the impact these desperate populations could have on their own political and economic stability. Better to pawn them off on Europe and the west than deal with them themselves.

The western world, being much more attuned to humanitarian concerns, lets these people in and will eventually provide homes. Even Pope Francis has ordered that every Catholic parish house at least one family.

This may be the right thing to do from a moral standpoint, but it is risky. Without any way to screen individuals who are illegally forcing their way across Europe or who are being smuggled in, there is no way to ensure that none of these people poses a terrorist risk.

Such infiltration is probable. The Islamic State seeks to goad the world into fighting it because in their belief, this will bring about the Islamic apocalypse. However, the world has been painfully reluctant to fight them. It should be clear to the Islamic State that they will need to do much more harm in the world if they want to goad other nations into a final apocalyptic battle in the town of Dabiq.

Seeking to inject terrorists across Europe and the United States, the refugee crisis provides the perfect opportunity.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia will build mosques to serve people the other Arab states won't dare allow.

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