Posted on 11/28/2015 6:26:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The jihad waged by radical Islam rips at France from within. The two mass-murder attacks this year that finally induced President Francois Hollande to concede a state of war are only what we see.
Unbound by any First Amendment, the French government exerts pressure on the media to suppress bad news. We do not hear much about the steady thrum of insurrection in the banlieues: the thousands of torched automobiles, the violence against police and other agents of the state, the pressure in Islamic enclaves to ignore the sovereignty of the Republic and conform to the rule of sharia.
What happens in France happens in Belgium. It happens in Sweden where much of Malmo, the third largest city, is controlled by Muslim immigrant gangs -- emergency medical personnel attacked routinely enough that they will not respond to calls without police protection, and the police in turn unwilling to enter without back-up. Not long ago in Britain, a soldier was killed and nearly beheaded in broad daylight by jihadists known to the intelligence services; dozens of sharia courts now operate throughout the country, even as Muslim activists demand more accommodations. And it was in Germany, which green-lighted Europe's ongoing influx of Muslim migrants, that Turkey's Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan proclaimed that pressuring Muslims to assimilate in their new Western countries is "a crime against humanity."
So how many of us look across the ocean at Europe and say, "Yeah, let's bring some of that here"?
None of us with any sense. Alas, "bring it here" is the order of the day in Washington, under the control of leftists bent on fundamentally transforming America (Muslims in America overwhelmingly support Democrats) and the progressive-lite GOP, which fears the "Islamophobia" smear nearly as much as the "racist" smear.
This, no doubt, is why what is described as the "controversy over Syrian refugees" is among the most deceitful public debates in recent memory -- which, by Washington standards, is saying something.
Under a Carter administration scheme, the Refugee Admissions Program, the United States has admitted hundreds of thousands of aliens since 1980 -- and, as the Center for Immigration Studies explains, asylum petitions have surged since the mid-Nineties. If there is a refugee "crisis," it most certainly is no fault of ours: For example, the U.S. took in two-thirds of the world's refugees resettled in 2014, with Canada a distant second, admitting about 10 percent.
Those figures come from an invaluable briefing by Refugee Resettlement Watch, which illustrates that the Syrian component is but a fraction of what we must consider. Tens of thousands of what are called "refugees" have come to our shores from Muslim-majority countries. From Iraq alone, the number is 120,000 since 2007, notwithstanding the thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars sacrificed to make Iraq livable.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan proclaimed that pressuring Muslims to assimilate in their new Western countries is "a crime against humanity."
Many of the refugees are steered to our country by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Naturally, the UNHRC has a history of bashing Israel on behalf of Palestinian Islamists -- indeed, it works closely with the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, one of Hamas's most notorious sympathizers. The UNHRC works in tandem with the State Department, which resettles the refugees throughout the U.S. with the assistance of lavishly compensated contractors (e.g., the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, other Christian and Jewish outfits, and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants) -- often absent any meaningful consultation with the states in which Washington plants these assimilation-resistant imports.
Responsibility for vetting the immigrants rests with the Department of Homeland Security. As the ongoing controversy has illustrated, however, a background check is only as good as the available information about a person's background. In refugee pipelines like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Sudan, such information is virtually nonexistent. (But don't worry, we can rest assured that the UNHRC is doing a fine job.)
Let's assume for fantasy's sake, though, that the vetting is perfect -- that we have comprehensive, accurate information on each refugee's life up to the moment of admission. We would still have a calamity.
There are two reasons for this, and they are easily grasped by the mass of Americans outside the Beltway.
For nearly a quarter-century, our bipartisan governing class has labored mightily to suppress public discussion of the undeniable nexus between Islamic doctrine and terrorism. Consequently, many Americans are still in the dark about sharia, classical Islam's societal framework and legal code. We should long ago have recognized sharia as the bright line that separates authentic Muslim moderates, hungry for the West's culture of reason and individual liberty, from Islamic supremacists, resistant to Western assimilation and insistent on incremental accommodation of Muslim law and mores.
The promotion of constitutional principles and civic education has always been foundational to the American immigration and naturalization process. We fatally undermine this process by narrowly vetting for terrorism rather than sharia adherence.
Yes, I can already hear the slander: "You are betraying our commitment to religious liberty." Please. Even if there were anything colorable to this claim, we are talking about inquiring into the beliefs of aliens who want to enter our country, not citizens entitled to constitutional protections.
But the claim is not colorable in any event -- it just underscores how willful blindness to our enemies' ideology has compromised our security. Only a small fraction of Islamic supremacism involves tenets that, in the West, should be regarded as inviolable religious conviction (e.g., the oneness of Allah, the belief that Mohammed is the final prophet, the obligation to pray five times daily). No one in America has any interest in interfering with that. For Muslims adherent to classical sharia, however, the rest of their belief system has nothing to do with religion (except as a veneer). It instead involves the organization of the state, comprehensive regulation of economic and social life, rules of military engagement, and imposition of a draconian criminal code.
Unlike the Judeo-Christian principles that informed America's founding, classical sharia does not abide a separation of spiritual from civic and political life. Therefore, to rationalize on religious-liberty grounds our conscious avoidance of Islamist ideology is to miss its thoroughgoing anti-constitutionalism.
Sharia rejects the touchstone of American democracy: the belief that the people have a right to govern themselves and chart their own destiny.
Sharia rejects the touchstone of American democracy: the belief that the people have a right to govern themselves and chart their own destiny. In sharia governance, the people are subjects not citizens, and they are powerless to question, much less to change, Allah's law. Sharia systematically discriminates against women and non-Muslims. It is brutal in its treatment of apostates and homosexuals. It denies freedom of conscience, free expression, property rights, economic liberty, and due process of law. It licenses wars of aggression against infidels for the purpose of establishing sharia as the law of the land.
Sharia is also heavily favored by Muslims in majority-Muslim countries. Polling consistently tells us that upwards of two-thirds of Muslims in the countries from which we are accepting refugees believe sharia should be the governing system.
Thus, since we are vetting for terrorism rather than sharia-adherence, and since we know a significant number of Muslims are sharia-adherent, we are missing the certainty that we are importing an ever-larger population hostile to our society and our Constitution -- a population that has been encouraged by influential Islamist scholars and leaders to form Muslim enclaves throughout the West.
The jihadism that most threatens Europe now, and that has been a growing problem in the United States for years, is the fifth-column variety. This is often referred to as "homegrown terrorism," but that is a misnomer. The ideology that ignites terrorism within our borders is not native: It is imported. Furthermore, it is ubiquitously available thanks to modern communications technology
In assessing the dynamic in which ideological inspiration evolves into actual jihadist attacks, we find two necessary ingredients: (1) a mind that is hospitable to jihadism because it is already steeped in Islamic supremacism, and (2) a sharia-enclave environment that endorses jihadism and relentlessly portrays the West as corrupt and hostile.
Our current refugee policies promote both factors.
One last point worth considering: Washington's debate over refugee policy assumes an unmet American obligation to the world. It is as if we were not already doing and sacrificing far more than every other country combined. It is as if there were not dozens of Islamic countries, far closer than the United States to refugee hot-spots, to which it would be sensible to steer Muslim migrants.
Yet, there is nothing obligatory about any immigration policy, including asylum. There is no global right to come here. American immigration policy is supposed to serve the national interests of the United States. Right now, American immigration policy is serving the interests of immigrants at the expense of American national security and the financial security of distressed American workers.
Our nation is nearing $20 trillion in debt, still fighting in the Middle East, and facing the certain prospect of combat surges to quell the rising threat of jihadism. So why is Congress, under the firm control of Republicans, paying for immigration policies that exacerbate our peril?
-- Andrew C. McCarthy is a policy fellow at the National Review Institute. His latest book is Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama's Impeachment.
Once again NR uses the wrong tool on the wrong nail, and in an article so poorly written that it would have raised Bill Buckley's hackles (may he RIP). GOPe isn't dead because they are "progressive-lite" but because they are thoroughly corrupt sell-outs. They don't actually care about ideology. They (well their crony-capitalist backers) just want their cut of the deal.
Once folks get it through their heads that GOPe is too venal to have ideological scruples they will begin to understand the depth of the betrayal of what used to be America.
There is nothing more dangerous than Islam.
It is a corrosive poison within any society.
John Quincy Adams on Islam
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).
The one question we should be asking is “What do these people bring with them that the Republic or its Citizens want or need?”
Typically, the UNHRC will assign first world countries to take a given quota of refugees. Most of them will meekly comply, including the United States.
Japan will say, "You want us to take 500? Give us 500 resumes." They will then reject about 498 of those resumes for various reasons the most common reason being that "applicant is unlikely to assimilate into, contribute to or be happy in Japanese society." The two accepted normally have some compelling issue such as a PhD or long marriage to a Japanese national.
The UN complains to Japan who will, at best, agree to look at more resumes and repeat the same process.
Why can't we adopt the same logical approach?
I am bookmarking for later reading but a quick glimpse suggests to me that this piece is dangerously conservative for the National RINO Review. I wonder how it got past the Romney editorial staff.
Outlaw Islam
Expel all Muslims
Stop all aid to Muslim lands
FINALY,FINALY,A national publication has recognized the problem with National Reviews Andrew McCarthy taking a 10 pound hammer slamming the spike known as Sharia and with one blow driving it home. For years I’ve been saying this;
It’s interesting the way socialists approach theological concepts but when it comes to Islam they are not the only ones who refuse to approach the issue. That even includes leading Christian clergy including Pope Francis.
Followers of Mohammed not only claim, but truly believe that God has authorized them to kill those who refuse to submit to their version of God’s will.
That is a basic tenet of that religion. A claim which goes unchallanged. While it’s understandable for atheists which most socialists are, not to approach that claim on a theological basis. Because simply eliminatimg those who believe in its execution will not end its practice. Islam must be discredited and condemed.
It’s bewildering why many Christian clergy concerned about “political correctness “ refuse to address what an insult to God it is and worse yet are unable to condem then convince and convert its advocates and adhearants they are followers of an evil creed .
The Koran which was not given to Mohammed by God but by some angel .Demanding enforcement of sharia law which draws heavily from the Torah.It is a pseudo religious concoction using monotheistic selected texts, taken and misconstrued from the old .(bible) and new testaments.
Both of which cite the Almighty has granted free will to accept or obey his laws and is the final judge not man. Sodom and Gormora , “Let he who is without sin cast the stone†are outstanding examples from both books. One deals with sin and God’s decision toward a group the other to an individual, neither is left to man.
Yet followers of Mohammed under the severest of penalties are forbidden to read either which would refute that assertion in a creed which institutionalizes disgusting arab tribal views, observances,and customs. Claiming adhearants are authorized by our Creator to demand submission to it or suffer an ignominious death administered by followers of Islam simply because they answer the call to prayer 5 times a day.
http://www.theusmat.com/islamandfreewill.htm
70,000+ vets living on the streets of America.
close to a million Americans (according to Drudge) don't have toilets.
American's parents borrow to the eyeballs to put their kids in colleges that are dysfunctional.
Bridges and roads falling apart... Our National debt won't be paid off by even by our great grandchildren...
AND the blowhards in DC want us to PAY millions every year to support Muslim men who fled their country rather than fight for it? Muslim men who want American soldiers to go, die, be maimed and fight in their place?
Hell no. Protect them in their own country - build refugee safe zones... feed them... but we can't afford to support them here. Our country's broke.
And “progressive lite” suggests what ideological scruples? Besides cowardice?
The question is very simple : why exactly do we need to import any of these people?
Terrorism is actually A FAVOR done by these people, as it tends to WAKE UP people, whereas they would be much more dangerous if they simply stayed quiet, had kids, and kept flooding in.
At least Europe still HAS A CHANCE to stop them...for probably a few more years...and we have a chance to elect Trump.
Also as usual, it will all be ignored by anybody in power and influence.
Such is the wicked power of massive delusion, the gorilla might of Political Correctness, and the virulent leaking of the rot of Progressive Liberalism which continues to gush it's policies and ideologies of death and destruction into our national mainstream where they turn once sparkling spring water into a festering muck of decay and increasing rivers of spilled blood.
Please watch this short vid by a courageous lady who saw her small community indunated with Muslim refugees. She started the Resettlement Watch website referred to in this article.
Take 4 minutes. Spread this info.
Ann Corcoran on Refugee Resettlement - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/embed/6PzT8vEvYPg
Perfect summation. Great writing by Andrew, so clear a blind bat can see the truth.
Thanks AllAmerican...
One more time for the fun of it:
We have:
70,000+ vets living on the streets of America.
close to a million Americans (according to Drudge) don’t have toilets.
American’s parents borrow to the eyeballs to put their kids in colleges that are dysfunctional.
Bridges and roads falling apart... Our National debt won’t be paid off by even by our great grandchildren...
AND the blowhards in DC want us to PAY millions every year to support Muslim men who fled their country rather than fight for it? Muslim men who want American soldiers to go, die, be maimed and fight in their place?
Hell no. Protect them in their own country - build refugee safe zones... feed them... but we can’t afford to support them here. Our country’s broke.
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