Posted on 08/18/2015 7:56:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Immigration has been part and parcel of American history and society from the origins of our country. But the nature of immigration has changed dramatically in recent years, and with it entirely new challenges and dangers that the United States has not confronted before. As it has been getting easier and easier to come to our shores, more and more new arrivals have brought with them venomous political and religious doctrines with them that pose grave dangers for our nation.
The United States was founded by Englishmen of the Christian faith. Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, there were six Williams, six Thomases, and four Georges. There were no Running Bears, no Alfredos, no Kareems, and no Abduls among them. This basic fact of our history is important to bear in mind when we consider who we fundamentally are as Americans.
Yes, the American native peoples had once occupied the territory upon which this country eventually came to be. And to settle this vast land, the original English founders of America welcomed immigrants from other European lands. The Dutch, Germans and Scotch-Irish have been here almost as long as their English brethren. And yes, Africans have also been here from the beginning, but brought here involuntarily in chains.
The Englishmen who established our country were a unique breed of people. They came from England, which in those days had the most developed true constitutional form of government devoted to the protection of individual rights. But these were no ordinary Englishmen. The colonists believed in even more radical (for the time) notions of liberty and freedom.
Immigrants have always been an important source of strength, and a source of concern for America. As the American Industrial Revolution got under way, more and more immigrants came to the Land of Opportunity. These immigrants seemed to be increasingly alien in philosophy and religious belief, Catholics coming from Ireland, Italy, and the Hapsburg Empire and Jews from Germany and the Russian Empire.
Assimilating these disparate peoples into the American melting pot was not always easy. It is not merely a stereotype that they were usually poorly educated, and often prone to clannish group loyalties and corruption, and even criminality. After the Russian Revolution a very few were even committed to a Bolshevik coup in America. But they were also very often the people from their relatively backward and poor countries who had the ambition to leave behind their old village and its settled traditions and cross the Atlantic in search of a dream. And they were part of a larger European and Judeo-Christian civilization.
The next wave of immigrants have come from Mexico and further south. For the most part these new arrivals have also brought both ambition and a desire for a better life. But modern day Mexico and Central America are also failing states, engulfed by uncontrolled violence and criminal gangs that dwarf earlier undesirable immigrant elements. The task of distinguishing between modern model citizens and vicious thugs has gotten harder. (That said, my own personal impressions of Hispanic immigrants has been exceptionally positive: hard working people grateful for the chance to live in this great country.)
The even more recent wave of immigrants from the former Soviet Union has been yet even more problematic. Russia is a hopelessly corrupt society and some Russians have brought that mindset with them. Social Security and Medicare fraud are rampant among the Russian immigrant community, and among my numerous contacts in the Russian-American community, a disturbingly large percentage seethe with contempt for the United States.
But the most problematic group of immigrants, by far, are Muslims from Africa and the Middle East. Senior al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki was an American citizen of Yemeni descent. Nidal Hassan, who killed 13 people at Ft. Hood, is an American of Palestinian descent. Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who murdered five people in Chattanooga, was a naturalized American citizen of Jordanian descent. The list goes on and on, and will get longer with time.
In the 19th century, an immigrant from southern or eastern Europe would have spent a month or more to get to Ellis Island, and would have been gladdened by the sight of the Statue of Liberty. They brought no particular ideology with them, other than a devotion to the social traditions of the old country. And once they arrived, they were by and large transplanted in a new land.
Today’s immigrants from the Middle East and Africa are only a ten-hour flight from what many may naturally consider their true homeland. If Italian Catholic peasants came from a very different culture from America, these immigrants come from very nearly a different world. I have spent a lot of time in the Middle East and can have some respect for its cultural traditions, but far too many in this benighted corner of the planet have no respect for the United States, but rather bitter hatred.
This most recent wave of immigrants are often more resistant to easy assimilation and more reluctant to accept this country as truly their own. It is a ridiculous and dangerous myth that possession of American citizenship automatically means loyalty to America. And in our modern internet connected world, not only is communication a hundred fold easier, so is command, control and even more dangerous, exhortation to jihadist terrorism.
I do not mean to suggest that a majority of Muslim immigrants are disloyal to America or a threat to our national security. I do wish to suggest that the nature of immigration today is very different from past times, and that we carefully consider those differences as we debate who should be allowed to come to our country and to whom we should confer the benefit of American citizenship.
They tend to blowup more then you average immigrant.
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Of course Muslim immigrants are different.
They don’t come to assimilate and adopt their new country.
True believers of the Koran come to destroy the existing culture and establish a global caliphate.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
Can a devout Muslim be an American patriot and a loyal citizen?
Consider this:
Theologically, no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon god of Arabia.
Scripturally, no. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam and the Quran (Koran).
Geographically, no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.
Socially, no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.
Politically, no. Because he must submit to the mullah (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America, the great Satan.
Domestically, no, because he is instructed to marry four women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34).
Religiously, no. Because no other religion is accepted by his Allah except Islam (Quran, 2:256)
Intellectually, no, because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.
Philosophically, no, because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co - exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.
Spiritually, no, because when we declare “one nation under God,” the Christian’s God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as our heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran’s 99 excellent names.
Therefore after much study and deliberation....perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both good Muslims and good Americans. Call it what you wish...it’s still the truth. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country.
Because liberal fools (yes, I know, that's redundant) consider being overrun by raghead camel humping sons of whores to be a legitimate and necessary part of multicultural inevitability. It's self sacrifice at the altar of the goddess of "Tolerance."
and they have sex with goats...
Great post.
I do not mean to suggest that a majority of Muslim immigrants are disloyal to America or a threat to our national security
Why not? If they follow the Koran/Islam then they have a natural hostility to any place that has freedom and liberty. The whole point of Islam is to either subjugate non muslims or kill them off. There is no freedom or liberty under Islam.... Unless you are a muslim, correction a male muslim..........
No more mohammedan immigration. At over 300 million people already it is not like our population numbers are collapsing. We don’t need a whole lot more immigrants. And the relatively few we might need (or want) should not be picked from groups that want to slit our throats.
“Therefore after much study and deliberation....perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both good Muslims and good Americans. Call it what you wish...it’s still the truth. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country.”
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Worth repeating.
When moozlums get beyond a small percentage in a society, they actively begin to destroy that society...or should I say “transform” that society.
Isn't it ironic? I figure it will make for good reading in a book I probably will never write.
The number one obligation of American officeholders is to protect the people of the United States. Permitting Islamic immigration is to break that oath. The Bush wing of the GOP has been as bad as the Obama Democrats.
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