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2016-04-04 Home Front: WoT
Barring Muslims would spell a US economic disaster
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Posted by Fred 2016-04-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 No.
Its spelled different.
Posted by Skidmark 2016-04-04 00:41||   2016-04-04 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 It's called addition by subtraction.
Posted by Raj 2016-04-04 01:18||   2016-04-04 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 And, fourthly, it is wholly impractical when most passports do not mention its holder’s faith. It is likely, too, that some, if not most, predominately Muslim states would institute reciprocal rules whereby American citizens and corporations would be deemed unwelcome.

And the downside is ?
Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-04 02:09||   2016-04-04 02:09|| Front Page Top

#4  (i) US is already an economic disaster---it is just that something so big has a lot of inertia.
(ii) Muslims always bring economic growth with them.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-04 03:58||   2016-04-04 03:58|| Front Page Top

#5 HAHAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Chortle.
Was this a late April fools?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-04-04 08:44||   2016-04-04 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Muslim travellers spend an average of $2,000 more than people of other faiths

Mecca is pretty pricey. I wonder how much a falafel sandwich is at Haj time.
Posted by phil_b 2016-04-04 08:55||   2016-04-04 08:55|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder how much a falafel sandwich is at Haj time

About the same as a churro at Disneyworld.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-04-04 09:32||   2016-04-04 09:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, that kind of "barring."
Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-04-04 09:32||   2016-04-04 09:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Of course if we don't bar, or at least restrict, them it would be a different, and much more costly, disaster.
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-04-04 11:16||   2016-04-04 11:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Wonder what impact it would have on Brussels?
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-04-04 12:10||   2016-04-04 12:10|| Front Page Top

#11 This is the dumbest shit I ever heard.
Mohammed is a liability, not an asset. He could blow up any time.
Posted by newc 2016-04-04 12:50||   2016-04-04 12:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Dear author of this piece,

Don't get your panties in a bundle. First, even if Trump were to become President the executive branch doesn't have the authority to enact such a ban. Second, it would be counter to both the US Constitution as well as international law. And third, it would not only be impractical to enforce but impossible. Then again, he just announced if elected he would wipe out the National debt in two terms without touching any entitlement programs. So just relax and try a cool Snake oil on the rocks. It must be good 'cause the Trumpbots are buying it by the case.
Posted by DepotGuy 2016-04-04 13:04||   2016-04-04 13:04|| Front Page Top

#13 The exec branch does have the right under law to limit immigration -- remember Jimmah and Iran?
Posted by regular joe 2016-04-04 13:08||   2016-04-04 13:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Whether or not the executive has the right to limit or allow immigration absent Congressional bills passed on the subject, President Obama has shown how a determined executive can wield his phone and pen to open or close gates to favoured/unfavoured populations.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-04-04 13:28||   2016-04-04 13:28|| Front Page Top

#15 --remember Jimmah and Iran?

Carter's actions were within established law based on national sovereignty. Any changes to immigration enforcement based solely on religion would require new legislation. Even Emperor Obama's "deferrment" policy isn't passing constitutional muster.
Posted by DepotGuy 2016-04-04 13:43||   2016-04-04 13:43|| Front Page Top

#16 I'm not prepared to argue Constitutional law but since when do the rights granted by the US Constitution extend to foreigners? Does your argument mean that these barbarians can use our Constitution against us?

Somehow I always thought that being a sovereign nation means we get to decide who comes here and who doesn't and if they don't like it they can pound sand.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-04-04 14:58||   2016-04-04 14:58|| Front Page Top

#17 tend to agree with Ebbang Uluque6305
Posted by 3dc 2016-04-04 16:20||   2016-04-04 16:20|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm pretty sure I get to decide who comes into my house through the front door, and I know I get to deal forcefully with anyone who wants to set up housekeeping in my guest bedroom. So, pretty much settles it for me.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2016-04-04 17:41||   2016-04-04 17:41|| Front Page Top

#19 Declare war on the Caliphate. Not IS but the concept of the Caliphate with sharia its ideology. Round up all the promoters of sharia and the caliphate and put in internment camps just like germans were in World War II.

Ban general Muslim immigration until such time as the civil war within Islam is over. Trump is right. No more diversity visas for OIC countries.

Treat immigration like the Cold War - you didn't let communists in en masse, why would you let Islamists in en masse? They want to destroy your system also.

Then drop Saudi Arabia as "ally". Ban Saudi funding for mosques, schools, university centres and general think tanks. Any propagandising, stop. Kick out their ambassador. No speaky, no trade until they embrace religious pluralism. Reciprocal rights all the way baby, and we don't need your oil now we have fracking.

Posted by anon1 2016-04-04 19:41||   2016-04-04 19:41|| Front Page Top

#20 also - this is a civilisational conflict.

We can take some economic hardship in return for clearing our lands of Islamist theocratic fascists and saving our civilisation.
Posted by anon1 2016-04-04 19:42||   2016-04-04 19:42|| Front Page Top

#21 Also lucky for us Islamists take over the countries in which they are majority and then they have a nation state which joins the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation.

No need to mess with the first amendment, just ban immigration from OIC states and those who have family/travel there frequently or were born there. Should pretty much do it...
Posted by anon1 2016-04-04 19:45||   2016-04-04 19:45|| Front Page Top

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