Posted on 03/23/2016 6:17:56 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Right after the attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, Donald Trump did something bizarre. He spoke the truth. Appearing on Fox and Friends, the GOP presidential frontrunner declared that, “This all happened because frankly there is no assimilation.”
OK, Trump’s comment wasn’t entirely true. The attacks are also likely related to the fact that Belgium is participating in the U.S.-led bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. ISIS said so when it claimed responsibility. And terrorism scholars have shown that the group doesn’t attacks Western targets at random. It targets countries—in monstrous and utterly unjustifiable acts of murder—that are fighting it militarily in the Middle East.
Still, Trump’s point about assimilation was important. If many European countries struggle to integrate their Muslim immigrants, Belgium does a particularly poor job. The unemployment rate for Belgians of North and sub-Saharan African descent is between 40 and 50 percent. Last year, the BBC reported that of Antwerp’s 2,600 police officers, only 22 are non-white. In 2011, Belgium became the first country in Europe to ban the veil nationwide.
In an essay last year, the Nigerian-born writer Chika Unigwe, who lived for many years in Belgium, noted that even non-white people born there are often described as “foreigners.” She concluded that, “Assimilation, for a Belgian with non-European roots, is a near-impossible task.”
All this is terrific news for ISIS, which has called for eliminating the “grey zone” which allows Muslims to remain true to their faith while also living peacefully in the West.
So Trump’s diagnosis of the Brussels attack makes sense. Which is why the proposals that he and Ted Cruz offered in response to it are so idiotic.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
There isn’t anything new to learn from Belgium.
“The attacks are also likely related to the fact that Belgium is participating in the U.S.-led bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. “
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In other words, the terrorists aren’t at fault?
Wow just a sad and sorry example of the PC Mindset that is going to be the death of the West.
Author absolutely refused to set aside his PC dogmas and deal with the real facts about Islam, Terrorism and Jihad. His PC dogmas have been brainwashed so deeply he simply cannot comprehend that his world view is a primary barrier to effectively dealing with the problem of Islamic Terrorism.
There isn’t anything new to learn from Belgium.
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Agree. we’ve had since about 622 A.D. to learn the reason for Belgium.
The treatment is isolation, disinfection, separation. Send ‘em back, watch the ones you don’t get rid of like hawks. Bug all mosques; blow up the ones whose followers commit terrorist attacks.
Sure, it’s draconian, but you don’t treat an infection by being nice to the microbes
The author wants to bring in more, give them positions of power in the police, give them make-work jobs, and generally grovel to them in matters of foreign policy, hoping that will somehow make them nicer. What a fool!
But, not an uncommon sort of fool.
The atlantic is blaming the Belgians for the subhuman savages bombing and killing innocent Belgians.
Peter is describing ways in which he believes Belgians should assimilate into islamic culture. Lesson for today children: Don’t be a peter!
Exactly. This is the Atlantic. They are the high priests of leftwing dogma. This article merely demonstrates, if further proof were necessary, that the Left in this country have completely lost their ability to reason and engage in rational thought.
All the intellectuals seek motive. What was the motive when ISIS members volunteered to behead their mothers in a show of solidarity with their murderous brethren? This is not about motive or cause. It’s about a murderous cult - like the Aztecs or the Khymer Rouge.
Excellent point
Regarding the discontinued NYC Mosque surveillance:
“the program didn’t yield a single terrorism investigation.”
Because Bambi won’t allow any coordination or follow up!
"The U.S. Air Force has fired off more than 20,000 missiles and bombs since the U.S. bombing campaign against ISIS began 15 months ago..."
That was back in December of last year.
If ISIS could bomb us 20 THOUSAND times in a little over a year we'd justifiably nuke them.
I don't know why anyone is surprised when we can't just bomb other countries with impunity.
Terrorism caused by Unemployment, racism and Western intervention.
Same old stuff.
20,000 smart bombs? They should call them safe bombs.
The Obama administration isn’t really trying to take Isis out. It is all for show.
There is literally NOTHING to be learned from this schmuck. Zero.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=peter%20beinart
I don't care what you call them, you'd probably do something yourself if people in another country bombed us 20 THOUSAND times. Or are you the type to just sit and take it?
The Obama administration isn’t really trying to take Isis out. It is all for show.
well 'the show' earns an encore back home. I wish some of the people in Washington so quick to shed blood overseas understood how that works.
It might be that way financially also, until we slide into total financial collapse the powers running the show pretend all is well. My God look at the D's running for office, promising the sun, moon and stars and more, just vote for them. And the masses are, dumb.
Yeaaah, if there was Sharia law everywhere, there will be no problem, we will be all walking around with no heads.
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