"Primarily because those Gulf States don't want to take in...

"Primarily because those Gulf States don't want to take in refugees. They'd rather spend money to help the refugees... elsewhere. They may take in a few thousand for the sake of PR, but they just don't want them."

Syrian culture is not Saudi culture. Syrian religious minorities would find no welcome anyway as only Muslims can be Saudis.

And then there's the fact that the Saudi government intensely dislikes the Syrian government. It considers it to be not only corrupt, but in the fist of both the Iranians and Russians. Neither of those are favorites of the Saudis. They and the UAE, for example, are busy bombing ISIS in Syria because they believe the Syrian government has failed its own people. The sooner al-Assad is gone, the happier the Gulf States will be. And then there won't be as much of a refugee crises.