Muslim Believers Should Be Welcome as Visitors–but Not as Immigrants
Patrick J. Buchanan, VDARE, June 13, 2016
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Where did Omar Mateen learn to hate not just homosexuality but the homosexuals themselves? Where did he come to believe that they deserved to die and he had a right to kill them?
Where might he have gotten such ideas? Who teaches this?
Well, not only do the Taliban and ISIS hurl homosexuals off buildings and stone them to death but 10 nations–Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Yemen and Pakistan–impose the death penalty for homosexual acts.
Peoples of these nations approve, for such laws find sanction in the holy book, the Quran. Sharia teaches that homosexuality is a vile form of fornication, punishable by death.
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A co-worker said Mateen had an abiding rage over the behavior of American women. Where did Mateen get that idea?
After San Bernardino, where an ISIS-adoring Pakistani woman and her husband perpetrated a massacre, Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, until they could be better vetted, and we “can figure out what the hell is going on,”
This was regarded as quintessentially un-American.
But “refugees” from the Syrian war have been found abetting Islamist atrocities in Paris. Terror cells containing “refugees” from Syria’s civil war have been discovered in Angela Merkel’s Germany.
We are learning that second-generation Muslims like Mateen seem susceptible to Islamist imams preaching terror against the West to advance the restoration of the caliphate.
Does this not suggest a pause, and a long hard look before we continue with a policy of warmly welcoming all refugees fleeing the half-dozen wars roiling the Islamic world?
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The policy that should result from this reality is that while we fight side-by-side to annihilate our common enemies, ISIS and al-Qaida, the West should give up the idea of democratization and secularization of the Islamic world.
And those who believe Islam is the one true faith, to which all of mankind must eventually submit, should be told that they are welcome as visitors–but not as immigrants. For that would ensure endless conflict.
The more Islamic the West becomes, the less it remains the West.
