Long article, here are some of the salient quotes.
If the Problem Is Muslim Terror, Then What?
Victor Davis Hanson
"...we need to recognize that we have no idea how much some American Muslims support jihadist causes—comprehensive polls don’t exist. Of the few surveys taken, the results aren’t encouraging. The Hamilton College Muslim America poll of April 2003 revealed that 44 percent of U.S. Muslims had no opinion on whether Usama bin Ladin was involved with the September 11 attacks. Only one out of three blamed al-Qaida.
Top U.S. Muslim organizations and spokesmen are no more reassuring when it comes to condemning Islamic terror.
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By analogy, just as no Czech citizens could easily fly to the U.S. from Prague in 1955, so should we be wary of travelers from Cairo or Riyadh.
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Four years after September 11, with the nature of our dilemma clearly before us, why do we still have terrorists operating freely in our midst? Why do we seem paralyzed over the proper course of action to prevent attacks from within?
Part of the problem is the legacy of our domestic history during wartime. Moreover, though the McCarthy period was not, properly speaking, a witch hunt — no witches haunted Salem,
but plenty of communists sympathetic to the Soviet Union moved in and out of the U.S. government during the fifties — it matters little.
The abuses by anti-communist watchdogs have become enshrined in our collective memory as something we must never repeat.
It is now a staple of our history books that the House Un-American Activities Committee was almost more pernicious than 7,000 Soviet nuclear missiles pointed at the U.S.
Consequently, we have since believed it better to err on the side of civil liberties than on the side of national security, should the two conflict — at least until September 11.
Our elite commitment to multiculturalism also hamstrings us from taking the needed security steps.
For 30 years, our schools have pounded home the creed that all cultures are of equal merit — or, more accurately perhaps, - that no culture is worse than the West’s.
Millions of Americans consequently aren’t sure whether radical Islam is just another legitimate alternative to the dominant Western narrative.
Typical of this mind-set, UCLA English professor Saree Makdisi,
excusing the London subway terrorism,
wrote in the Los Angeles Times
that deliberately butchering commuters is no worse than accidentally killing civilians while targeting terrorists in a war zone.
Yet immigration control — as the Dutch and French have learned — may be the most powerful tool in the war against the jihadists. Not only does it help keep terrorists out, it also carries symbolic weight.
In the Middle East, America is worshipped - even as it is hated — constantly slurred
even as it proves the Number One destination for thousands upon thousands of would - be immigrants from the Islamic world.
Just as bin Ladin, Dr. Zawahiri, and the Pakistanis suspected of bombing the London subways were not poor, uneducated, -or unfamiliar with the West, so too we find that those arrested for terrorist activities on our shores seem to hate us all the more because of our liberality.
Perhaps if the message does begin to be heard that
America is as unpredictable as it is merciless toward the advocates and supporters of radical Islam,
then the much praised but rarely heard moderates of the Muslim world will at last step forward and keep the few from ruining things for the many.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_4_muslim_terror.html
If the Problem Is Muslim Terror, Then What?
Victor Davis Hanson
http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_4_muslim_terror.html
From a national security standpoint, the prevention of another September 11 thus seems straightforward—in theory.
Suspend most legal immigration from Middle Eastern countries known to subsidize or tolerate terrorism. Review all current visas and search out and deport violators. Continue to audit carefully the arrivals of Middle Eastern nationals.
Tighten the Canadian and Mexican borders. Extend existing statutes on inflammatory speech and hate crimes to include radical Islamic doctrines that routinely denigrate Americans, Jews, homosexuals, and women.
Hand down long sentences to those convicted of promulgating Islamic hatred and plotting terrorism, with special attention given to Saudi-sponsored charities, madrassas, and mosques.
Renew the Patriot Act, and create a public culture that associates radical Islamicism with fascism.
The wake up America Foundation.com
Last nights program had talk of the immigration, it may have been in the last half hour of the program, it talked about the "Lottery" for visas, last time it was 50,000 last time and one was the shooter that we had at the Los Angeles airport, at the Israel airline desk, July of 2003, I think.
I have not run a search on the lottery for visa's, they were quoting numbers on the terrorist countries that we are allowing to enter by that method.
They said it is only a simple half page application.
Doris Meisner (unsure on spelling of name) was the head of the Border Patrol for Clinton, ex and wives of the men who are Border Patrol Men, say that she is the one who set up the rules that they are still working under today.
But I still have to ask "Why hasn't President Bush cancelled all the communist takeover plans of the Clinton's?"
I have kgo.com on the radio, the Gene Burns program, if you want to listen on air, he has introduced the subject of the request for a fence between Mexico and America.
Gene is a fair host, at least he thinks for himself, middle,
left leaning, but he is intelligent and not bad to listen to.