Posted on 12/08/2015 1:39:56 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I completely get the fury over political correctness. I completely understand that the aristocratic political, media, and academic establishment have been lying to us about Islam and the Muslim world for more than fourteen years. As I explain at length on the home page, it's simply not the case that Islam is a peaceful, tolerant faith plagued by a tiny few extremists. Rather, Islam has massive problem with hate and bigotry - with hundreds of millions of Muslims supporting the worst kinds of religious intolerance and tens of millions more outright terrorist sympathizers. In the refugee controversy, I've repeated over and over that it's foolish to admit a class of refugees when we know the world's leading terror army is attempting to infiltrate the displaced masses or recruit from their ranks. We can be compassionate without making ourselves vulnerable.
But the correct response to political correctness isn't to simply take the opposite position, to answer one form of unthinking ideology with another. By tacking to the opposite of Obama's scolding self-righteousness, Trump isn't charting his own course so much as merely reacting. In fact, now that he's "clarified" that he's not just talking about immigration but a moratorium on all Muslim entry to the United States, he's gone well beyond being the anti-Obama and has reacted straight into foolishness.
Off the top of their heads, even the most hawkish national security conservatives can identify multiple categories of Muslims who should have access to the United States, beginning - of course - with our own citizens. There are many others. What about the interpreters who've laid down their lives to serve our warriors downrange and now find themselves under imminent threat from jihadists? What about members of allied militaries who are training to be the Muslim "boots on the ground" that we need to help take the fight to the enemy? Do we treat the Kurds - who are sheltering so many of Iraq's Christians while also providing the most effective fighting force against ISIS - the same as we treat suspected terrorists? It makes no sense.
On the merits of Trump's proposal, I agree with Ben Shapiro:
Kiss Our Intelligence Apparatus Goodnight. We need to work with Muslims both foreign and domestic. It's one thing to label Islamic terrorism and radical Islam a problem. It's another to label all individual Muslims a problem. That's what this policy does. It's factually wrong and ethically incomprehensible. Donald Trump has just transformed into the strawman President Obama abused on Sunday night.
There is nothing wrong with closing our borders to select groups when confronted with actionable intelligence or to place some groups under greater scrutiny because of known threats. But to treat every single Muslim as a threat, regardless of whether they're from Raqqa, Erbil, Cairo, or Des Moines - and regardless of whether they've tweeted jihadist threats or bled on the battlefield alongside our troops - is to act mindlessly. I would also say Trump is acting maliciously, but I don't think Trump despises Muslims as much as he loves leading the news cycle. This is a political stunt and should be treated as such.
I often speak to audiences on college campuses and elsewhere about the proper response to PC nonsense. I call the formula "apathetic, informed conviction." When formulating cultural or political opinions, one must be completely apathetic to PC pressures - don't react against or capitulate to leftist browbeating. Instead, educate yourself and act through informed conviction. Respond to unreason with reason, to intimidation with a bored shrug, and speak truth even when the truth is unpleasant. In this instance, however, Donald Trump is the voice of attention-seeking reaction, not principled leadership.
Just saying...
More anti-Trump blather???? Trump meant business in his speech last night. Someone needs to take the reins of this country or we’re all going to get killed by these savages.
Donald Trump the Lonesome Rhodes of the 2016 Presidential Campaign.
The Slow Motion Campaign Implosion.
How about the muzzies start cleaning their own house? If you want to crap on the floor, get out and don’t come back. Islam is a political theocracy directly opposite and incompatible with our free society.
Nevermind that sh!t... here come the Trumpty Dumpties to say Trump never proposed such a thing and put his words back together again.
Ask them if they believe that the koran is infallible and if they abide by it. If so, no entry.
>> the wrong response to Political Correctness ...
The first response is often awkward...
In fact, now that he’s “clarified” that he’s not just talking about immigration but a moratorium on all Muslim entry to the United States, he’s gone well beyond being the anti-Obama and has reacted straight into foolishness. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
We now have over 4ooo people dead, killed on American soil due to Muslim attacks in America. We do not have the ability to sort the good Muslims from the bad.We need to aquire that ability.
Trump ‘s call for a moratorium on Muslim immigration is not foolish. It is entirely sensible.
Time to get real rather than just squeal.
Everybody needs to read this article. It catalogs what has happened in various countries almost in lockstep with the rise in the percentage of the Muslim population. Terrorism, political changes, etc. This would give Trump a lot of ammunition if he referenced the facts inside of it.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30675
Squeeze every muslim until he pops. Make life on the planet intolerable for them until they clean their own house. The so-called peaceful muslims need to stop enabling the islamists. If that takes redefining their “religion” as a political movement, so be it.
Trumps Muzzie moratorium is REAL “Hope and Change”. Something that should have happened 14 years ago. And BTW once again the MSM is twisting Trumps statement. Trump NEVER said US citizens who are Muslim would be barred from reentering the country if they left. No joke, I’ve seen about 10 articles so far stating this. It’s unbelievable to me the way the media lies about this guy.
“Trump ‘s call for a moratorium on Muslim immigration is not foolish. It is entirely sensible.”
And legal.
are you equating the Tea Party with the Islamic terrorists otherwise your statement makes no sense? The Tea Party doesn’t cut off heads and hasn’t declared war on the civilized world
A very, very good piece.
we heard that already in another thread and it was just as stupid there
Every single Muslim is a threat if he believes in the Koran.
Go, Trump, GO!
Hardly, I'm pointing out that the LEFT thinks Tea Party conservatives ("cling to their bibles and guns" Americans and returning troops) are the extremists, so......
Get it?
And legal.>>>>>>>>>>>>
Absolutely!
But too bad its illegal though, to stick a gun barrel up the nasel cavity of every leftist in America. They need to feel what its like to have blue steel reaching for their adnoids, because thats exactly what the jihadists of America will be doing to innocent Americans. They need some medicine to combat their political ignorance which now exposes Americans to this unacceptable ISIS violence and imfringement on our liberty.
Give us Liberty or Give us death!
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