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"Is Donald Trump Right About Closing the Border to Muslims?"
blog ^ | 12/07/2015 | Russell Moore

Posted on 12/08/2015 2:29:20 PM PST by MacNaughton

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To: MacNaughton

How about closing the border period, for the time being? Let us regroup, assess our policies and decide who should be here and who we should be letting in. We need to revisit the 1965 immigration act. The American people never had a say.


21 posted on 12/08/2015 2:40:22 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: VRWCmember
It was only a day or two later that he walked back those comments

I t was only yesterday that he came out with this position. Maybe it feels like more.

22 posted on 12/08/2015 2:40:49 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: MacNaughton

Yes.

If the Soetoro regime can close the doors to CHRISTIAN refugees - none of whom are waging a jihad against anyone throughout the world, than we SHOULD shut the same doors on the Muslims.


23 posted on 12/08/2015 2:40:54 PM PST by joethedrummer
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To: stboz

“What’s the procedure? Ask them if they’re muslim? “

To come here legally requires a visa. Visas are obtained at the local consulate. I would imagine if we wanted say, Christians and Druze, we’d ask them to prove they are either, which should be easy enough. If they can’t prove that then no visa.

Don’t let anybody in without documentation.

As an aside, I was at the DMV in Tampa getting the runaround because my 98 year old mother could not prove her married name was legitimate. She’d given up her driver’s license and they wouldn’t issue an identity card because she didn’t have a driver’s license. At the next window was a man who spoke no English. The clerk simply asked him to raise has hand and swear he wasn’t lying about his name. They gave him (I think a driver’s license) and he was on his way. Can’t tell you how annoyed that made me. The clerk gave my mother a fishing license and used that as her identity document. Apparently this identity requirement at the clerk level is a huge joke. I no longer believe in anything the government does.


24 posted on 12/08/2015 2:43:09 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: MacNaughton

100 percent correct.... OK so what is more extreme.....
A. Refusing to enforce standard immigration laws and then bringing in thousands of Muslim refugees when your own intelligence has informed you that ISIS has infiltrated them, seeing first had that a terror attack happened at the hands of an Islamic terrorist that your own ICE department failed to identify or stop and having your own FBI commissioner admit that the vetting process for these people is flawed...

B. Asking our government to halt the influx of Muslims until we can be assured that any radical Islamic Jihadists are not infiltrating our immigration programs.

That is what we are up against... Obama and Liberals have traveled so far to the left that reasonable suggestions are now being labeled as some king of racist far rightwing attempt at isolationism.


25 posted on 12/08/2015 2:44:08 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (Obama has destroyed the office of the presidency.)
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To: MacNaughton

If you follow islam in America you need a GPS, listening device and un-hackable means of being monitored 24*7.

islam is a concurring brainwashing device and can not be trusted in a free country.


26 posted on 12/08/2015 2:44:21 PM PST by soycd
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To: MotorCityBuck

Yes and hell yes!!!


27 posted on 12/08/2015 2:46:38 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: MacNaughton
Guess I'm alone, but no, he is not right. I suspect he knows this and phrased his "proposal" in a way to create the biggest media splash.

When he amends it to suspending immigration and refugees from certain countries, and we'll have to be a bit careful here, then it works. Of course it also bars Christians, but it's a firm standard. When he amends it to bar people holding certain ideologies, sure. Of course that will require distinguishing radical from non radical Muslims. We once banned socialists, we can ban those who support radical Islam. But the State Dept makes the decision, so it could be problematical. Partial country bans are also possible, only admit immigrants who are non ideological and whose presence benefits the United States. Is that a bizarre concept, do something that benefits our country. But banning based on religion, that won't work. Besides, they'll lie. Or "convert", LATEST MUSLIM ASYLUM SEEKER SCAM: Quickie Conversions of Convenience

28 posted on 12/08/2015 2:47:24 PM PST by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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To: MacNaughton
There must be some medium between letting nobody in and letting everybody in.
US Citizens, Visa and Green card holders should be allowed.
No papers, no entry.
People who traveled to suspect areas should be questioned.
Same rules as for everyone else.
Asylum seekers: Camp with no entertainment until verified.
Troublemakers and those who wish to leave are sent back.

29 posted on 12/08/2015 2:48:23 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: MacNaughton
Until all Non-Muslim countries have a discussion about Islam and its directive to force its way of life on ALL INFIDELS, Muslims are unwelcome. How they feel entitled to come to a Non-Muslim country and then have 51% of its immigrant population demand Sharia Law and 25% of the immigration population agree with violent Jihad. AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO ACCEPT THAT?

https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2015/06/23/nationwide-poll-of-us-muslims-shows-thousands-support-shariah-jihad/

According to the just-released survey of Muslims, a majority (51%) agreed that "Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to shariah." When that question was put to the broader U.S. population, the overwhelming majority held that shariah should not displace the U.S. Constitution (86% to 2%).

Even more troubling, is the fact that nearly a quarter of the Muslims polled believed that, "It is legitimate to use violence to punish those who give offense to Islam by, for example, portraying the prophet Mohammed."

30 posted on 12/08/2015 2:49:02 PM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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But the government should not penalize law-abiding people, especially those who are American citizens, for holding their religious convictions.

Phony strawman. Trump never suggested American citizens would be affected.

31 posted on 12/08/2015 2:49:55 PM PST by kabar
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To: MacNaughton

Carter did it to Iranians.


32 posted on 12/08/2015 2:54:09 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Excuse me, but I see a Constitutional problem with refusing entrance to the United States to American citizens returning home, who are not accused of anything, never charged, never even suspected. This is one of the things about Trump that makes me uneasy. He’s too quick to speak in overly broad terms. Makes for a good sound bite, but bad policy.
You need to remember that there are millions of secular Muslims who have never set foot in a Mosque, never read a word of the Koran, and hold no Muslim beliefs.
A more narrowly targeted policy like the one proposed by Ted Cruz makes a lot more sense to me.


33 posted on 12/08/2015 2:54:11 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Chgogal

Minor correction. The that 51% supporting sharia is of American Muslims, not worldwide, where I’m sure it’s much higher. 24% in the US advocate violence for insulting Mohammed, and 54% say there are violent jihadists already in the US. Only 15% say know. Wonder what they hear around the Mosque.


34 posted on 12/08/2015 2:54:45 PM PST by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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To: Jim Robinson

I wonder if Kipling had Islam in mind when he wrote “The Mother Hive” ?


35 posted on 12/08/2015 2:56:34 PM PST by beelzepug (2 Timothy 2:23 Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments...")
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To: MotorCityBuck

Yes he is, and the Gope can kiss my grits


36 posted on 12/08/2015 2:57:32 PM PST by Zenjitsuman (A)
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To: VRWCmember

All he really said was to stop Muslim immigrants UNTIL our representatives figure out what is going on. Read his actual comment not the BS twist presented by the media.

Any Muslim who travels to a terrorist nation should not come back. Look at what Farook returning did for San Bernadino.


37 posted on 12/08/2015 2:58:37 PM PST by nclaurel
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To: kabar
This time, the Republican presidential frontrunner suggests that the United States should close the border to all Muslims including Muslim-Americans traveling abroad.

So this is a false statement?

Do you have any evidence to suggest that he is wrong? I don't mean to be confrontational, I know that Trump has been badly misquoted and misconstrued by the press on many occasions and this may be one of them. But what I heard Trump say was very broad-brush. I didn't hear any exceptions.

38 posted on 12/08/2015 2:59:56 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: stboz
They will lie and say they're not muslim. Then what? Draw straws?

Use the reverse method that ISIS currently uses.

We ask them to recite a passage from the Koran.

If they do, they can't come in.

If they try their hardest, and still cannot... then they can enter.

/sarcasm

All for barring entry by nationality, or complete moratorium. Using religion is just going to lead to more problems, as it is unworkable.

39 posted on 12/08/2015 3:02:13 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
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To: MacNaughton

More stupid people who didn’t read Trump’s press release. It’s a stand down, a moratorium - “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”.


40 posted on 12/08/2015 3:02:15 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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