@albert69, while your logic is okay as far is it goes, empirical examples prove otherwise.
Because I want to keep this non-political, I’ll give general unspecified examples, and then bring it home to the response of one university.
If you notice, there’s a really big city on the East Coast that has lost literally thousands of people to terrorists. The city has been struck by terrorism several times. If you also notice, it’s a city that is not afraid of terrorism. Why is this? More and more people from outside of the city want to live there. Overwhelmingly the city has opted in favor of welcoming refugees and offering sanctuary to other groups. It has done this historically. Open to outsiders. Hey, they even put up a statue there to welcome immigrants. But I digress.
Why does this City welcome Muslims in light of being struck by Islamic terrorism? Do the residents simply not “get it”? Or is it because they are rational, have personally experienced it, and actually understand the odds? The odds are low. More, they also understand the huge advantage of welcoming people, with their intelligence, conviction, and drive.
Currently the City in setting itself up as a sanctuary city is doing its best to block electronic records of its community that might be used by the Fed Gov to register people in the future.
It’s also a City that turned out in the thousands for days and days after the recent election to protest a certain Office-Elect (dogcatcher perhaps?) who happens to live there, because of what that candidate stands for and may I add that the city overwhelmingly did not vote for said candidate–whoever you might imagine that person to be–though said candidate calls the City his/her hometown. This is because he/she likes to scapegoat certain groups, including Muslims. That person is not well loved in his/her hometown. Think on that.
Because this discussion is verging on the political and we really need to keep it on the academic, I want to bring the above examples home to campuses and colleges. One Ivy University in that unnamed city has set itself up as a sanctuary campus, for example. Again, stupidity? Or experience and rational decision making, knowing that overwhelmingly over time, the refugees and immigrants have reinfused the city with energy and smarts, making it one of the smartest, fastest-moving, most successful economies in the world for hundreds of years, and one of the biggest engines of positive change. The city welcomes all people. The people make the city successful. The colleges in the city have followed suit.