Repost of my thoughts, which have not changed —
Keep the Muslim immigrants out of our borders — all of them or as many as we can at this late date. There are some who foolishly believe Muslims are just like us only differing by praying on mats pointed to Mecca with their faces on the floor. Wrong! Their history belies their intentions toward you. Do not be beguiled by the weakest among them; be warned by their most violent and pernicious and be aware it is impossible to tell the difference. Ask yourself, what is the value to us from the world of Mohammedanism? What of value has it contributed to human society in the last 500 years? Name one worthy thing besides couscous it has given the world in that time?
There is one common thread for all the misery, death and suffering in the Middle-East, which is pervasive and dominant...Islam. To welcome its adherents and believers into your midst is to welcome coming misery, suffering & death in equal proportions until they reach majority at which time misery metastasizes. The formula here is not hard to discern. They complain about discrimination as a minority until they gain control at which time their discrimination against other religions is all consuming. There is a ring of fire and death around Muslim territory in the Middle-East, South-East Asia, Africa and the 'Stans. Any area Islam touches is consumed by and impaled by the eon-and-a-half-old program of proselytizing with force by their zealots of the religion. To invite them in is to invite the enemy into your camp. Keep Islam at the ring.
While the plight of these peoples is in most cases heart-rending, there is a huge problem with taking them in, which the Europeans are confronting now. The elephant in the room is that the very source of problems and their own miseries that cause the influx in the first place will be brought with them - Islamism. The Jihadis are not radical Islamists, they are fundamental Islamists who actually believe what their holy texts command, consequently acting thereon. Whichever sect to which they ascribe, the other half is trying to exterminate and vice versa because of something as stupidly inane as a disagreement over who was to rule the religion after its hideously violent and malevolent founder croaked. If they will kill each other willy-nilly for something so trifling, it should be no surprise they will joyfully kill you, yours and your dog with no thought whatsoever.
I have little doubt that if Aztec priests were still around ripping beating hearts out of maidens and tossing them down the steps of their pyramids, we would still find the same elements who excuse Muslims their zealotry would be excusing the priests as deserving of our ecumenical consideration, after all, "They want the same things we want." No, they do not.
No country could be condemned for refusing infusions of large foreign populations of people infected with a dread disease or pestilence, yet I submit that is exactly what the religion most of these immigrants bring with them is. Don't you quarantine the exposed to a disease before the possible carriers can spread the pathogen, not wait to see if it manifests? Like those exposed to the ebola virus, rationality decrees you exclude entry, but unlike ebola those carriers of Islam never reach a point at which they can be considered safe. Certain numbers of them can and will turn terrorist positive at any moment. This has been proven over and over and over, as the stacks of dead bodies of non-believers will attest. It is a social conundrum...what do you do with a terminally infected group of carriers? There is no baby here, it is all bath water.
Yes, this opinion is discriminatory. Somehow "discrimination" got an unjustified bad rap. Discrimination is a basic and fruitful self-preservation imperative choosing between that which is beneficial and that which is not; that which is inimical and that which is not. When groups have a long and documented predilection for killing/subjugating your kind, you must, at the least, shun them.
Would you invite the Mafia to come settle down in your community? One difference: the Mafia has not been known to gratuitously bomb your marathon races.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution