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No, It Is Not Un-American to Prefer Christian Refugees to Muslim Refugees
Townhall.com ^ | November 18, 2015 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 11/18/2015 8:27:01 AM PST by Kaslin

On Friday, Muslim terrorists murdered 129 people in Paris. At least one of the ISIS perpetrators apparently entered Europe as a "refugee" from Syria -- he was found with a refugee ID. ISIS has already claimed that they have infiltrated the Syrian refugee population to the tune of thousands of terrorists.

On Monday, President Obama announced that it would be purely un-American for Westerners to ban unvetted Muslim immigrants from the Middle East while allowing Christian targets of genocide to enter the West. He called such an idea "shameful," while passionately calling for Americans to "open our hearts" to more refugees. He praised bordering countries Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon for taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees; Obama said that showed their "belief in a common humanity." He added, "And so we have to, each of us, do our part. And the United States has to step up and do its part. And when I hear folks say that, well, maybe we should just admit the Christians but not the Muslims ...That's not American. That's not who we are."

Every aspect of this little speech is wrong. Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon aren't taking in Muslim refugees out of some great commitment to common humanity. They're doing so because their other choice involves setting up fences and machine guns to stop the waves of refugees crossing their frontiers. And as we know, Muslim countries have a rotten history of absorbing fellow members of their ummah: For 70 years, since the creation of the State of Israel, tens of thousands of Palestinian Arabs have lived in refugee camps located in Muslim lands. By contrast, the State of Israel has taken in every Jewish refugee seeking asylum, from Russian emigres to Moroccan immigrants, from Ethiopian refugees to Syrian expatriates.

And the West has good reason for skepticism toward Muslim refugees. While Muslim refugees who stay in the Middle East split evenly between males and females, the vast majority of refugees entering Europe are males of fighting age. Muslim immigration has already led to massive increases in crime from France to Sweden, and cultural fragmentation from Great Britain to Austria. Terrorism is only the latest threat -- and even that threat is obviously not exaggerated. Vetting refugees from Syria is nearly impossible given its status as a failed state. Vetting Muslim refugees is totally impossible given the fact that radical Muslims can easily masquerade as less-radical Muslims.

So why does President Obama, along with the global left, seek more Muslim immigration? Because President Obama does not believe that Islam, as a religious philosophy, presents any threat to the West. He believes that radical Islam doesn't exist. It's merely the hallmark of global poverty, probably affected negatively by climate change; if the West redistributed its wealth, ceased its "colonial" attitudes toward the Middle East, all would be well. The materialism of Marxism would win the day.

Never mind that this argument is entirely without evidence. Never mind that Muslims from Western nations have left wealth to join the impoverished ISIS fighters. Never mind that Osama Bin Laden himself was a wealthy man who lived in a cave to plan attacks against Westerners. Ideology matters, but to the self-centered Marxists of the global left, only their ideology matters: Everyone else has merely fallen into nasty ideas thanks to lack of resources.

And so we must give them our resources, endanger our own citizens. To do anything else would be un-American, according to the people whose idea of Americanism involves the rejection of the very ideas upon which America was founded.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; immigration; refugeecrisis; syrianrefuges

1 posted on 11/18/2015 8:27:01 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

My grandfather had to swear that he wasn’t a polygamist or believer in the practice of polygamy when he filed his paperwork in 1912.


2 posted on 11/18/2015 8:29:57 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Kaslin

Well, the Christians won’t be trying to blow us up.


3 posted on 11/18/2015 8:33:23 AM PST by Fido969
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To: cripplecreek

Can we make em’ eat a ham sandwhich, bag of pork rinds, some hot links wrapped in bacon...... I mean before we tell them they can’t come in?


4 posted on 11/18/2015 8:33:37 AM PST by kjam22
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To: Kaslin

Oh but they are only bringing women and orphans. LOL!


5 posted on 11/18/2015 8:44:30 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Kaslin

Ojerk is the only person I know of that has an a$$hole on both ends of his body.


6 posted on 11/18/2015 8:49:50 AM PST by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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7 posted on 11/18/2015 8:50:03 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Kaslin
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8 posted on 11/18/2015 8:58:50 AM PST by verga (I might as well be playing chess with pigeons.)
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To: Kaslin

Christianity is a religion. isslam is a violent, world-domination movement cleverly disguised as a religion. No comparison is possible.


9 posted on 11/18/2015 9:17:29 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Kaslin

Right and JUST to remind everyone ... especially NOW at Thanksgiving... it was Christian Europeans who colonized this country and built America.


10 posted on 11/18/2015 9:18:41 AM PST by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: Kaslin

This title could be made stronger.

Instead of:
"No, It Is Not Un-American to Prefer Christian Refugees to Muslim Refugees"

It should read:

"It is American to Prefer Christian Refugees over Muslim Refugees."



11 posted on 11/18/2015 9:51:13 AM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: SMARTY

"Angola bans Islam and shuts down all mosques across the country it 'clashes with Christianity'" [From 2013]

We need to do this here in the US.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3359918/posts/posts



12 posted on 11/18/2015 9:52:08 AM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

True, however I can not change the title


13 posted on 11/18/2015 10:25:02 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: I want the USA back

BTTT


14 posted on 11/18/2015 10:26:26 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Yes, my comment wasn’t directed at you, but the article and the article title. Sorry for any confusion.


15 posted on 11/18/2015 10:26:40 AM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

I know that and no offense taken. It would have mad a perfect title


16 posted on 11/18/2015 10:34:35 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

What’s shameful is allowing Obama to continue as president. He should have been arrested/impeached before now.


17 posted on 11/18/2015 11:50:31 AM PST by oldtech
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To: oldtech
You really don't think the rats would go along with impeachment, do you?

I do agree with the arrest though

18 posted on 11/18/2015 11:55:51 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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