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Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
The political and media elite erupted again this week when President Trump stated that, if reelected, he would “absolutely revoke citizenship from naturalized criminals” and take strong measures to protect Americans from violent offenders who entered under our increasingly broken immigration system. He reminded audiences that he has the authority to do so, and that protecting the American people is not only legitimate — it is the first responsibility of the commander in chief. The statement immediately reignited the debate over immigration from radicalized regions and the now-infamous “Muslim Ban.”
The truth is that the “Muslim Ban” was never a Muslim ban. Critics shouted the phrase loudly and often enough that many Americans never learned what the policy actually did. The original executive order did not prohibit Muslims from entering the United States. It restricted travel and refugee entry from seven countries racked by civil war, controlled by terror networks, or lacking reliable identity-verification systems. Those countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — were identified not because they were Muslim, but because they were unstable, violent, or compromised states. In other words, the ban was targeted at the highest-risk points of entry, where terrorism was statistically the most concentrated and where vetting was impossible. That’s not bigotry; that’s basic national security.
And given what we know today, it was one of the most responsible foreign-policy decisions made in the last quarter-century.
This week’s headlines provide fresh, horrifying evidence that the threat is not theoretical. After the killing of an innocent National Guard troop and the critical wounding of another by a shooter reportedly here illegally from Afghanistan — a country President Biden handed back to the Taliban in a historic failure — Americans are once again confronted with the consequences of importing instability and hoping for the best. Afghanistan is now once again a global terrorist incubator. To pretend that migrants from such environments present no risk is willful ignorance dressed up as compassion.
At the same time, in Europe, a story emerged so brutal it would be dismissed as implausible if it appeared in a film script. According to multiple reports, including Fox News coverage of Dutch prosecution statements, a Muslim father and his two sons in the Netherlands have been charged with drowning their 18-year-old daughter in a swamp because she adopted what they called “a Western lifestyle” and refused to wear a headscarf. It is being investigated as an honor killing — an execution carried out in the name of “family purity.” That phrase alone should send chills down the spine of anyone who cares about human dignity.
Honor killings. Forced circumcision of girls in Sudan. Female genital mutilation across large portions of North Africa. Wife-beating legalized or tacitly protected in parts of the Middle East. Public executions for leaving Islam. Children forced into child marriage. Women treated not as human beings but as property whose “value” is based on obedience. These are not fringe anomalies. They are cultural norms in large swaths of the Muslim world. They openly defy the American idea that life has inherent worth.
That American principle — the belief that every individual is created in the image of God — the Imago Dei — is the foundation for the concept of human rights. Remove that principle, and freedom collapses into barbarism. A culture that treats women like disposable furniture and kills its daughters for autonomy cannot peacefully integrate into a society that believes human beings possess sacred dignity.
This is not an abstract concern. It is personal. On Sunday, over brunch, I tried to explain these realities to my sons. It was painful, because we personally know Muslims whom we count as friends — moderate, thoughtful, kind people. People who enjoy the liberty that America provides. People who do not practice the extreme devotions of fundamentalist Islamic law. But that leads to a hard and unavoidable truth: what makes them good neighbors is precisely what makes them bad Muslims according to the strictest demands of their own doctrine. The only Muslims who flourish in a free society are those who reject the most rigid and brutal demands of orthodoxy. That is not prejudice — that is observable reality.
It is not racist to ask whether importing large populations from cultures that endorse or tolerate honor killings, female mutilation, and religiously justified violence is wise. It is not hateful to protect daughters from being murdered in the name of purity. It is not bigotry to insist that those entering our nation embrace the belief that women and children have intrinsic value.
And yet, thanks to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, refugee and asylum pipelines from volatile regions expanded dramatically, often over the objections of national security officials. Skeptics were shamed into silence. Even questioning the wisdom of unchecked entry became grounds for accusations of racism. Meanwhile, families buried their children, communities buried their soldiers, and media outlets shrugged.
Now, after preventable deaths, President Trump faces impossible moral math: act boldly and be called cruel, or do nothing and allow the killing to continue. There is only one morally defensible path. Revoking citizenship from naturalized criminals is not extreme. Halting asylum fraud is not extreme. Restoring travel restrictions from radicalized nations is not extreme. Speeding deportations of violent offenders is not extreme. Protecting innocent American lives is not cruelty — it is leadership.
The harshest policy is the one that allows more innocent people to die.
The left insists strong borders are unkind. No — burying a soldier while explaining we refused to act is unkind. Telling parents their daughter died because we chose ideology over safety is unkind. Watching terrorists exploit compassion and slaughter our citizens is unkind.
America must choose. Civilization or chaos. Security or suicide. Courage or appeasement. We cannot survive a world where every value is negotiable and every boundary is erased. We have a duty to protect the civilization our ancestors built with blood and hard-won wisdom.
It is time to rethink what the media mocked as a “Muslim Ban.” It was never a ban on a religion. It was a shield for our people. And it may be the only thing that prevents more funerals.
a muslim ban is never going to happen . the barbarians are here to stay . the democrats and rinos will make sure of it . a blanket ban on all barbarians is needed but no one , and i mean no one has the courage to do it . omar and her horde of white ants will continue to rip off americans , and those who were voted to represent their constituents will continue to obfuscate all the while waxing lyrical about the religion of peace and telling one and all that not all muslims are terrorists . they may not blow you up or slit your throat but will cheer when one of their own carries it out . in israel they pay their peaceful muslim citizens to murder jews . its in the koran , so they have to .
You are correct. Past the tipping point as Muslims have attained a critical mass as evidenced by their growing and malign influence/power in many key areas of the US: universities, government, etc. There are far too many progressives in the US enabling Islam to flourish. The fact that Trump is president has not been materially obstructive to their agenda given the mayor elect of NYC and many other political wins. Sooner or later the Dems will be in the WH. There is no reason for optimism in the US nor the West.
“The only Muslims who flourish in a free society are those who reject the most rigid and brutal demands of orthodoxy. That is not prejudice — that is observable reality.”
I am ABSOLUTELY all in favor of banning all Muslim immigration to America and the West. Even deporting all Muslims that are already here.
But EVERY religion, including Christianity, when practiced fully, seriously, following its most rigid and brutal demands ends up creating a totalitarian theocracy. The American Puritans would NEVER have allowed personal and individual freedom to every American to worship any which way their own minds decided to worship. That kind of personal freedom is SECULAR freedom. The American Puritans founded a brutal theocracy because they were SERIOUS about Christianity. They wanted not even an ounce of secularism but a totalitarian Christian theocracy.
Islam is a dangerous, harmeful movement hiding its actions as a Religion. It is incompatable with USA Constitution and a National Secruity threat.
There are two books I have read which reveal the true nature of islam : Raymond Ibrahim’s Sword and Scimitar and Edward Gibbons A History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Both of these books detail the violence and brutality of islam, which is driven on by two promises to the gullible individual muslims, namely to have riches from the plunder of the vanquished, or to have a place in their version of heaven with the eponymous virgins. islam is a destructive force when it conquers an enemy, usually Christians and what remains either never recovers or takes centuries to return to some semblance of civilisation.
One of the shocking factors in islam’s military successes was the treachery on the part of their supposed opponents; over centuries of conflict, time and again forces on the Christian side allied themselves with the muslims. And I think that is what is happening today all over the West, betrayal of us to the forces of barbaric behaviour as it slowly creeps up on us until they believe themselves powerful enough to revert to historic type.
Just can’t stop coming after Christians can you. Where are your sources for the brutal theocracy that the Puritans created. And where are these dastardly Puritans now. How are they affecting you now, besides stoking your silly paranoia
You are a neuoritc fraud.
What’s wrong with not inviting people into your house who hate you.. After all it is your house. The same is true for any country. Show me any Arab/Muslim country that invite none Muslims, and let them established
large temples and let them Proselytize local population.
Only stupid Americans do such thing. Unlike communists who said we will give capitalist enough rope to hung themselves. Islamist will lie and deceive you until they feel strong enough to slit your throat.
Like oil and water Muslim and none Muslims can’t be mixed.
In truth, most countries “racked by civil war, controlled by terror networks, or lacking reliable identity-verification systems” tend to be Muslin majority.
To be fair, Trump’s action was more logic based than anything misrepresented by the left.
I hope Pakistan is on the travel ban list.
To hell with the Muslims and their constant attacks. Ban them all, not because they’re Muslims, but because the Koran and the Constitution are not compatible.
Satanic, and political Islam, and Western is like trying to mix oil, and water, it will never mix. An Islamic free society is one of the ways to go.
So when do armed westerners get the green light. We know the Muj is armed and many of their guns are stored in the basements of their s-hole mosques.
And now there is a s-hole mayor who will unleash a jihad after he is formally put in power in NYC.