An
establishment unhinged
wnd.com
[/] by Pat Buchanan [/]
http://j.mp/0TrumpOK2 or
http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/an-establishment-unhinged/
Calling
for a moratorium on Muslim immigration “until our country’s
representatives can figure out what the hell is going on,” Donald
Trump this week ignited a firestorm of historic proportions.
As
all the old hate words – xenophobe, racist, bigot – have lost
their electric charge from overuse, Trump was being called a
fascist demagogue and compared to Hitler and Mussolini.
The
establishment seemed to have become unhinged.
Why
the hysteria? Comes the reply: Trump’s call for a temporary ban on
Muslim immigration tramples all over “American values” and
everything we stand for, including the Constitution.
But
is this really true?
The
Constitution protects freedom of religion for U.S. citizens. But
citizens of foreign lands have no constitutional right to migrate.
And federal law gives a president broad powers in deciding who comes
and who does not, especially in wartime.
In
1924, Congress restricted immigration from Asia, reduced the numbers
coming from southern and Central Europe, and produced a 40-year
moratorium on most immigration into the United States.
Its
authors and President Coolidge wanted ours to remain a nation whose
primary religious and ethnic ties were to Europe, not Africa or Asia.
Under
FDR, Truman and JFK, this was the law of the land.
Did
this represent 40 years of fascism?
Why
might Trump want a moratorium on Muslim immigration?
Reason
1: terrorism. The 9/11 terrorists were Muslim, as were the shoe and
underwear bombers on those planes, the Fort Hood shooter, the Times
Square bomber and the San Bernardino killers.
And
as San Bernardino showed again, Islamist terrorists are exploiting
our liberal immigration policies to come here and kill us.
Thus,
a pause, a timeout on immigration from Muslim countries, until we fix
the problem, would seem to be simple common sense.
Second,
Muslims are clearly more susceptible to the siren call of terrorism
and more likely to be radicalized on the Internet and in mosques than
are Christians at church or Jews at synagogue.
Which
is why we monitor mosques more closely than cathedrals.
Third,
according to Harvard’s late Samuel Huntington, a “clash of
civilizations” is coming between the West and the Islamic world.
Other scholars somberly concur. But if such a conflict is in the
cards, how many more millions of devout Muslims do we want inside the
gates?
Set
aside al-Qaida, ISIS and their sympathizers. Among the 1.6 billion
Muslims worldwide are untold millions of followers of the Prophet who
pray for the coming of a day when Shariah is universal and the
infidels, i.e., everyone else, are either converted or subjugated.
In
nations where Muslims are already huge majorities, where are the
Jews? Where have all the Christians gone?
With
ethnic and sectarian wars raging in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Turkey,
Yemen, Libya, Nigeria and Somalia, why would we bring into our own
country people from all sides of these murderous conflicts?
Many
European nations – Germans, French, Swedes, Brits – appear to
regret having thrown open their doors to immigrants and refugees from
the Islamic world, who have now formed unassimilated clusters and
enclaves inside their countries.
Ought
we not explore why, before we continue down this road?
In
some countries of the Muslim world, Americans who embrace “Hollywood
values” regarding abortion, adultery and homosexuality can get
their heads chopped off as quickly as converts to Christianity.
In
what Muslim countries does Earl Warren’s interpretation of the
First Amendment – about any and all religious presence being banned
in public schools and all religions being treated equally – apply?
When
is the next “Crusade for Christ” coming to Saudi Arabia?
Japan
has no immigration from the Muslim world, nor does Israel, which
declares itself a Jewish state. Are they also fascistic?
President
Obama and the guilt-besotted West often bawl their apologies for the
horrors of the Crusades that liberated Jerusalem.
Anyone
heard Muslim rulers lately apologizing for Saladin, who butchered
Christians to take Jerusalem back, or for Suleiman the Magnificent,
who conquered the Christian Balkans rampaging through Hungary all the
way to the gates of Vienna?
Trump’s
surge this week, in the teeth of universal denunciation, suggests
that a large slice of America agrees with his indictment – that our
political-media establishment is dumb as a box of rocks and leading
us down a path to national suicide.
Trump’s
success tells us that the American people really do not celebrate
“globalization.” They think our negotiators got snookered out of
the most magnificent industrial machine ever built, which once
guaranteed our workers the highest standard of living on earth.
They
don’t want open borders or mass immigration. They want people here
illegally to be sent back, the borders secured and a moratorium
imposed on Muslim immigration until we fix the broken system.
As
for the establishment, they are saying pretty much what The
Donald is saying. To paraphrase Oliver Cromwell’s speech to the
Rump Parliament:
You
have sat here too long for any good you have done here. In the name
of God, go! [My emphasis.]
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