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| Mercer: A Muslim Ban Won't Kill Americans -- Accepting Them Might |
| 2017-11-03 |
| [WND] CNN’s Jake Tapper wanted to know if there was anything that could have prevented the murderous rampage, in Manhattan, by a Muslim immigrant who had been recruited to live in America for no good reason. Once upon a time that was known as a rhetorical question. To ask the question would have been to answer it. Broadcaster Mark Levin was no less obscurantist. You can’t bring certain individuals like the culprit, Uzbek Sayfullo Saipov, into the U.S. because ... of their governments, Levin raged on Fox News. There’s no way to vet individuals from chaotic countries with ineffective governments. Sure, you can vet immigrants. Find out which faith they practice. Mark should have said, "You can’t bring Muslims into the U.S. because of their faith. It predisposes them to violence," which is pretty much what President Donald J. Trump stated during his 2016 campaign. The president’s first limited, immigration moratorium has expired. Let us hope that, following the murder-by-Muslim-immigrant of eight pedestrians along Manhattan’s West Side Highway ‐ Saipov ran them over in a rented pickup truck ‐ the president follows through, in the teeth of treasonous opposition, and expands the original "travel ban" beyond the six Muslim-majority nations to which it applied. For a Muslim ban is neither illogical, immoral, nor un-libertarian. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Well said, Zhang Fei. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-11-03 23:16 |
| #4 Mr. Saipov and his family were apparently perfectly moderate Moslems back home. Easy to be a moderate Muslim when surrounded by Muslims, dozens of whom you've known since from birth. Moving to a new society can mean anomie, dealt with by retreating into religion or the expatriate (from the old country) community. This guy went with religion. The problem for us is that his religion is Islam, which can be pretty murderous. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-11-03 23:09 |
| #3 perfectly acceptable in their world. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-11-03 22:06 |
| #2 Mr. Saipov and his family were apparently perfectly moderate Moslems back home. It was once he arrived here that he gradually became dangerous, a pattern reportedly followed by anumber of his countrymen. So even serious vetting would not have prevented perfectly acceptable people going bad the way he did. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-11-03 12:49 |
| #1 When you try to make sense like this the liberal response is inevitably along the lines of "What about the Las Vegas shooting? Isn't that terrorism?" Yes, but this is an illogical argument. The flaw in the argument is that these are two separate problems. Linking the two problems, making them appear to be the same problem, serves no purpose other than to obfuscate and prevent a logical course of action. We have a readily available remedy for Islamic terrorism. Let's do what we can first about Islamic terrorists and then debate what to do about the domestic white boy terrorists. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-11-03 11:12 |