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fishpoopoo 11-16-2015 11:19 PM

"I’m a Gay Man and Mass Muslim Immigration Terrifies Me"
 
Spot on. Great read.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-se...-terrifies-me/

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I’m a Gay Man and Mass Muslim Immigration Terrifies Me

by Milo Yiannopoulos16 Nov 2015

I’d hate to be thrown off a roof. I mean, imagine if I landed on this face. But that’s the future Europe and even the US are sleepwalking into if we let wacky progressive hand-wringers keep apologising for radical Islam and calling the rest of us racist for expressing our concern at mass immigration from cultures that care nothing for the rights of women and gays.

You want to see a “patriarchy”? Fly to Riyadh or Tehran. In the former, women can’t drive. (Alright, fair enough, they might be on to something there.) In the latter, gays are hanged, often from cranes in public places. ISIS is even more brutal, hurling fags off the roof after ritually humiliating them. In Raqqa you’ll see women and children sold for a few hundred dollars.

These are the attitudes we’re importing by allowing millions of Muslims to settle in western Europe. Sorry if that sounds intolerant, but remember women and gays aren’t just treated like #^&#^&#^&#^& by ISIS, but mainstream Muslim culture, too. I can’t remember how many Muslim countries have the death penalty for homosexuality. What is it, ten? Eleven?

We now know that at least one of the Paris terrorists came into Europe posing as a “refugee.” This confirms all the worst fears of progressive commentators who were hoping the political Right was wrong about the security threat mass immigration presented.

But there’s a more general concern for liberal western democracies: it’s not just the jihadis, but the attitudes of ordinary Muslims that are a grave cause for concern, not just for the women being gang-raped in Malmö but homosexuals everywhere in Europe.

So you can accuse me of being “islamophobic” if you want, because no, I don’t want to be shouted at or spat on in the street. Maybe my gayness is standing in the way of a Muslim utopia… but I’m going to be selfish here and say maybe we don’t import all the people who want to murder me.

I’m serious. Gay people are getting stoned to death all the time in the Middle East, and not in the fun way: in the throw-big-rocks-at-your-head-until-you-die way. I don’t mean to be callous, but what are we gaining by letting these people in? Why can’t we help them with overseas aid? Why do they need to come here? Aren’t we just encouraging more of them to risk the trip by throwing our borders open?

Put like that, I hope you can appreciate why I’m considering a move to the US and just what you’re giving up by transforming your societies and turning a blind eye to sharia courts where a woman’s testimony is, legally, worth less than a man’s.

You don’t hear progressives complaining about that sort of thing, of course, because somehow crybully Muslims occupy an even more prestigious position on the Oppression League Tables than women and homos. Why are Left-wingers so ferociously pro-immigration from these #^&#^&#^&#^&ing awful countries? I really don’t get it.

Of course, I realise there are some other options available to me. I could always take the veil. Terrorists pretend to be women by wearing it, so why can’t I pretend to be one too, to avoid being queer-bashed in Bradford? Plus, I wouldn’t get hit on by Pakistani rape gangs because as we all know they prefer helpless young white girls to their own beefy, hirsute womenfolk.

But when I think about it, British weather can be awfully muggy, and those things really don’t look very comfy. And how am I supposed to cruise handsome dads in the park wearing a black bedsheet?

From what I can tell, it’s not women and children coming over in these “refugee crises” but strong 22-year-old men. Under ordinary circumstances I’d be fine with a bit of Middle Eastern rough, but I prefer my nocturnal encounters with dark-skinned men to be at least partially consensual.

The Left’s wilful, suicidal ignorance about Muslim culture is at odds with virtually every one of their cherished social justice prescriptions. They look for sexism in “mansplaining” and flirtatious remarks, yet turn a blind eye to a culture where the only acceptable role for women is head-scarfed housewife.

They see intolerance in Halloween costumes, yet ignore the regular atrocities of cultures that mass-murder each other over regional, tribal, and sectarian differences. They think conservatives who disagree with their definition of gay marriage to be bigots worthy of social ostracism, yet welcome into their midst a culture that wants to execute queers like me.

If you don’t believe me, just look at what’s happening in Sweden. A gay pride march that planned to go via a Muslim area was criticised and called “needlessly provocative” by progressives who care more about protecting an immigrant’s right to be a hateful bigot than the rights of gay citizens to express their sexual identity. What am I missing here?

I know this is the point at which I’m supposed to say not all Muslims in the west are bad people, but I can’t bring myself to care about caveats when 1,200 girls are getting raped in Rotherham and Britain is sending more fighters to ISIS than almost any other country. As the journalist and activist Brigitte Gabriel points out, the peaceful majority are irrelevant.

Liberals refuse to face the fact that Muslim immigrants will never adapt to western cultures and become typical Britons without some kind of massive re-education and assimilation. They expect us to expand our progressive worldview by accepting Islam’s bronze-age barbarism.

The problem with accepting all of these people, and their culture, is there’s no place for me in it. You get to have your ISIS friends, or you get to have Milo, because when you invite us to the same party… off the roof I go.

Perhaps this is the Left’s plan all along. Banning me from campuses hasn’t dented my popularity, so perhaps murder is the only way the Left can get rid of me. I would take it as a compliment, but even I’m not egotistical enough to want western civilisation to be destroyed on my account.

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scottw 11-17-2015 05:59 AM

"I think that actions like this are meant to provoke a reaction more than anything else. I wouldn't be surprised if they do these things precisely to stoke anti-Islamic fear...and hopefully...trigger Islamophobic hate crimes." -Spence

:rotflmao:

Jim in CT 11-17-2015 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by scottw (Post 1086515)
"I think that actions like this are meant to provoke a reaction more than anything else. I wouldn't be surprised if they do these things precisely to stoke anti-Islamic fear...and hopefully...trigger Islamophobic hate crimes." -Spence

:rotflmao:

So what are we supposed to do, in order not to play into their hands? When ISIS kills a couple of hundred innocents, are we supposed to pretend that we didn't notice?

FishermanTim 11-17-2015 10:59 PM

It's ironic that you can't even talk about islam and muslim topics without having to think about how "they" will react!

Here's something I was talking to my mother about last night, in regards to the Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris.

When you hear the phrase "Your chickens have come home to roost" you are explaining exactly what France has experienced.
There was a report a couple years back that stated that with the population of muslim immigrants moving to and living in France, that it would not be too long before true French citizens would become the minority.

Now here's what gets me, and is further confirmation of the truly immoral nature of these radicals (and those that benefit from their actions thru apathy)..these animals think nothing of destroying and killing the land that gave them refuge. How screwed up is that?

Another thing I pointed out was what usually happens when any blonde, blue-eye woman marries and moves "back home" with any muslim man...they find out just how little they matter. Of course they wouldn't believe you if you told them that once thet get there you can't leave...EVER! The women, thinking they'll be living a life of leisure in an exotic land, end up living a life as a sex slave or as "property".

Now Obama I pushing to have thousands of Syrian refugees allowed to come here and we're supposed to welcome them with open arms...just like the French and Germans did!

With no real plan to prevent terrorists from joining the migration (just like our really effective immigration system) I would be frightened to think that the government was welcoming the potential animals that would kill thousands here to come here to join the welfare army.

nightfighter 11-18-2015 07:45 AM

Close the borders, across the board. Obama falls back on American values. BS. This is war, an emergency edicts are needed to effect security on our shores. What do you think happened to Japanese Americans during WW2? ,to a lesser extent, German Americans? There are precedents, and we are at war. After seeing the Frontline documentary on ISIS in Afghanistan, I don't know how we can possibly vet these refugees......

fishpoopoo 11-18-2015 08:02 AM

You can't vet them because the Syrian government (which Obozo tried to overthrow, remember?) won't talk to us.

Nebe 11-18-2015 08:13 AM

Am I wrong in thinking that the Syrian refugees that would be coming to the US have been sitting in camps across the boarder in Jordan for years ???
Isn't that a lot different than all the Syrians who dashed across the boarder into turkey and have flooded into Europe ?
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scottw 11-18-2015 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Nebe (Post 1086560)
Am I wrong in thinking that the Syrian refugees that would be coming to the US have been sitting in camps across the boarder in Jordan for years ???
Isn't that a lot different than all the Syrians who dashed across the boarder into turkey and have flooded into Europe ?
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they can ALL come as long as they live in Spence's neighborhood....

Nebe 11-18-2015 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by scottw (Post 1086562)
they can ALL come as long as they live in Spence's neighborhood....

That's already happened... With the Azores
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Jim in CT 11-18-2015 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Nebe (Post 1086560)
Am I wrong in thinking that the Syrian refugees that would be coming to the US have been sitting in camps across the boarder in Jordan for years ???
Isn't that a lot different than all the Syrians who dashed across the boarder into turkey and have flooded into Europe ?
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Yes, I think you might be wrong. Not sure if this is true...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...mid-ISIS-fears

Obama's securiyt folks, are saying we don't have the data we need to figure out exactly who the refugees are. Given that, it does seem to pose a legitimate security concern, does it not?

Everyone wants to help these people. But we can't ignore security.

What a mess.

Nebe 11-18-2015 10:53 AM

That link says nothing about the US. That's all Europe.
The US vetting process takes up to 2 years.
I'm not saying it's perfect.

Your link kind of reinforced what I said. Refugees are dashing into Europe. Not here.
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JohnR 11-18-2015 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Nebe (Post 1086560)
Am I wrong in thinking that the Syrian refugees that would be coming to the US have been sitting in camps across the boarder in Jordan for years ???
Isn't that a lot different than all the Syrians who dashed across the boarder into turkey and have flooded into Europe ?
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Maybe, maybe not. Some reporting states that they have been a queue for 2 years.


FBI Director says vetting would be really hard

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...es-from-syria/

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FBI Director James Comey added in congressional testimony last month that “a number of people who were of serious concern” slipped through the screening of Iraq War refugees, including two arrested on terrorism-related charges. “There’s no doubt that was the product of a less than excellent vetting,” he said.


Although Comey said the process has since “improved dramatically,” Syrian refugees will be even harder to check because, unlike in Iraq, U.S. soldiers have not been on the ground collecting information on the local population. “If we don’t know much about somebody, there won’t be anything in our data,” he said. “I can’t sit here and offer anybody an absolute assurance that there’s no risk associated with this.”

Jim in CT 11-18-2015 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Nebe (Post 1086569)
That link says nothing about the US. That's all Europe.
The US vetting process takes up to 2 years.
I'm not saying it's perfect.

Your link kind of reinforced what I said. Refugees are dashing into Europe. Not here.
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But as John R and I said, the intelligence heads are saying that we don't have th edata we need to figure out who these peopl eare. If that's the case, you want them living next door to you?

Nebe 11-18-2015 12:23 PM

woukd I want them as neighbors? As it stands I have no choice who my neighbors are. I stand a greater chance of getting struck by a car in front of my house than dying in a terrorist attack.

Do you remember what situation Mary and Joseph were in before Jesus was born ? Think on that and think on what your religion is based on.. Love. Acceptance. Giving.
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Jim in CT 11-18-2015 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Nebe (Post 1086576)
woukd I want them as neighbors? As it stands I have no choice who my neighbors are. I stand a greater chance of getting struck by a car in front of my house than dying in a terrorist attack.

Do you remember what situation Mary and Joseph were in before Jesus was born ? Think on that and think on what your religion is based on.. Love. Acceptance. Giving.
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It gets tiresome when every time a conservative says "but", liberals claim that the conservatives don't care.

I want to help these people. But I also want to do it in a way that keeps jihadists out. I do not think that makes me a hatemonger.

The first job of the feds is to protect us.

Nebe 11-18-2015 12:46 PM

Why don't we ban the sale of guns while we are at it. Because someone that is a US citizen "might" shot someone. It's the same logic
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scottw 11-18-2015 01:08 PM

we are so screwed.....

Raider Ronnie 11-18-2015 01:37 PM

This site should start a raffle.
Closest prediction to a terrorist attack in the US (where & when) wins a plug, Rod & reel, charter, ect.......
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Jim in CT 11-18-2015 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Nebe (Post 1086578)
Why don't we ban the sale of guns while we are at it. Because someone that is a US citizen "might" shot someone. It's the same logic
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Not remotely the same logic. First, we have a Constitution that we are not allowed to violate, and the 2nd Amendment of said Constitution says that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. That's pretty clear language. Where in the Constitution does it say we have to allow in refugees?

Second, a gun is an inanimate object. Left alone, it cannot harm anyone. A terrorist is actively trying to murder as many civiliands as possible.

Jim in CT 11-18-2015 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by scottw (Post 1086581)
we are so screwed.....

Yep. When one of the 2 major parties is debating whether or not boys should use the boys' locker room, the complete collapse of civilization cannot be too far behind.

When I started my career at Aetna, on my first day, the HR person gave me a tour, then walked me to my desk and told me to get to work. It never occurred to me to ask where the designated "safe space" was, or to tell him that I use the ladies' room because I choose to identify myself that way even though I have a wee wee. And one day, when some people at my table in thecafeteria said that Catholics were just a bunch of child molesters , it never occurred to me that I should march into to the CEOs office, tell him that my hurt feelings were his fault, and ask him to (1) denounce his white male priviledge, and then (2) resign.
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Security would have dragged me out of there by by neck, and taken me to the closest mental institution. Which is probably Wesleyan University.

Nebe 11-18-2015 03:52 PM

I hear the cafeteria is great there.
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Jim in CT 11-18-2015 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Nebe (Post 1086589)
I hear the cafeteria is great there.
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OK, that was a good one, gotta give credit where credit is due.

Nebe 11-18-2015 04:08 PM

:hihi:
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PaulS 11-19-2015 01:21 PM

Just bf WWII we turned away a ship full of Jews trying to escape Germany. Many of those Jews where later killed by the Nazis. That was a break from our one of our core principles and was a stain on our country. Seems like history is repeating itself.

Jim in CT 11-19-2015 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by PaulS (Post 1086637)
Just bf WWII we turned away a ship full of Jews trying to escape Germany. Many of those Jews where later killed by the Nazis. That was a break from our one of our core principles and was a stain on our country. Seems like history is repeating itself.

"Seems like history is repeating itself"

Yes, it's exactly the same thing, provided that European Jews all across the continent were blowing up stadiums and machine gunning concert halls and stabbing everyone they could get their hands on and taking to the streets daily by the millions to chant "DEATH TO AMERICA."

Were the European Jews doing those things? If not...then it's not history repeating itself.

PaulS 11-19-2015 02:24 PM

The European Jews were not. (Edit - Actually the reason the ship was turned away was bc it was thought they where security threats and/or communists.). The overwhelming majority are just trying to escape death. I read we let in 750K since 9/11 and there were either 3 or 0 people arrested for terrorism. Basically none.

Did we stop Saudi's after 9/11 even though I think all but 1 were Saudi nationals? The terrorists in France where almost all homegrown from France and Belgium. Lebanon let in 1,000,000 and we can't settle 10,000?

Nebe 11-19-2015 02:29 PM

Anne Frank was one of the Jews who's family tried to come here and was turned away.
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PaulS 11-19-2015 02:54 PM

She had a co-author on her book.

Nebe 11-19-2015 03:04 PM

In the end of that book she comes out of the closet.
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Jim in CT 11-19-2015 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by PaulS (Post 1086643)
The European Jews were not. (Edit - Actually the reason the ship was turned away was bc it was thought they where security threats and/or communists.). The overwhelming majority are just trying to escape death. I read we let in 750K since 9/11 and there were either 3 or 0 people arrested for terrorism. Basically none.

Did we stop Saudi's after 9/11 even though I think all but 1 were Saudi nationals? The terrorists in France where almost all homegrown from France and Belgium. Lebanon let in 1,000,000 and we can't settle 10,000?

There is no comparison whatsoever between the security threats posed by a boatload of European Jews, and a boatload of Syrian refugees (unless you can check them out, which Obama's leaders are saying we can't).

"Did we stop Saudi's after 9/11 "

Did we let any in that we couldn't determone who the hell they were?

"we can't settle 10,000"

Not if we have no way of determining who they are.

"Lebanon let in 1,000,000 "

Are the jihadists trying to kill every Lebanese person they can find? Nope. They want to kill us, though.

We can talk about whether or not we shoul dlet these people in. But it's the height of intellectual dishonesty to compare this situation with the European Jews. The Jewish extremists weren't hijacking planes and then flying them into our biuldings.

PaulS 11-19-2015 03:57 PM

And there is no proof the ones trying to immigrate are the extremists. We all agree they need to be vetted and if they can't pass the vetting, they can't get in.

Are the states that don't want them going to stop people from visiting as tourists or even as students? What about the extremists with the French passports? Wouldn't they have gotten in?

Jim in CT 11-19-2015 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by PaulS (Post 1086656)
And there is no proof the ones trying to immigrate are the extremists. We all agree they need to be vetted and if they can't pass the vetting, they can't get in.

Are the states that don't want them going to stop people from visiting as tourists or even as students? What about the extremists with the French passports? Wouldn't they have gotten in?

"And there is no proof the ones trying to immigrate are the extremists"

Correct, the bad gyus don't wear signs, if they did, things would be easier.

What we can do, is go through a reasonable vetting process, to make sure these people aren't on any terror watchlists, things like that. That's what we typically do. But with these refugees, according to Obama's own security folks, we can't do that.

So what do we do? Make them promise that they won't blow anyone up? Is that good enough? we shoul ddiscuss that.

I'll concede that a large majority aren't terrorists. But if keeping out all of them stops one attack in the future, is it worth it to keep them out? Maybe, maybe not. We should be able to discuss it, without the d*ckhead-in-chief saying that anyone who isn't ready to welcome them with open arms, "isn't tough". That doesn't advance this. The man is utterly incapable of having a conversation with anyone who doesn't kiss his ring. I have never seen a POTUS so vindictive. And unless we elect Alan Greyson or Michael Savage, we never will again. I hope.

JohnR 11-19-2015 06:44 PM

More to the story of WW2 Jews on the ship. As usual, things are more, ahem, nuanced.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article....uleId=10005267

Don't read every meme and think it is true.

spence 11-20-2015 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1086661)
Correct, the bad gyus don't wear signs, if they did, things would be easier.

What we can do, is go through a reasonable vetting process, to make sure these people aren't on any terror watchlists, things like that. That's what we typically do. But with these refugees, according to Obama's own security folks, we can't do that.

That's not true, we do have a very good vetting process. We may not be able to run conventional background checks like you'd do for a US citizen but that doesn't mean there isn't a good process in place. It's very different than what happens with refugees heading to Europe.

Quite simply, it would be orders of magnitude easier for a terrorist to sneak into the US via other means than by posing as a UN refugee.

While we must remain vigilant, this is primarily a political issue to stoke fear of Muslims to rally voters = exactly what ISIS wants.

Given Trump's recent behavior I'm starting to wonder if he's on their payroll.

Jim in CT 11-20-2015 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by spence (Post 1086699)
That's not true, we do have a very good vetting process. We may not be able to run conventional background checks like you'd do for a US citizen but that doesn't mean there isn't a good process in place. It's very different than what happens with refugees heading to Europe.

Quite simply, it would be orders of magnitude easier for a terrorist to sneak into the US via other means than by posing as a UN refugee.

While we must remain vigilant, this is primarily a political issue to stoke fear of Muslims to rally voters = exactly what ISIS wants.

Given Trump's recent behavior I'm starting to wonder if he's on their payroll.

"That's not true"

I'm just repeating what Obama's own people are saying. I guess you know better than them.

"this is primarily a political issue "

Well, if it's political, it's bi-partisan, because 47 Democrats joined the GOP in passing a bill to slow things down.

"stoke fear of Muslims to rally voters = exactly what ISIS wants"

ISIS wants voters to be motivated by Islamophobia? ISIS wants us to elect someone like Trump, who would be wuick to bomb them into extinction? I don't think so. ISIS would rather see Trump than Obama? Come on.

They want us all dead, or to at least get us to force our women to dress like ninjas and prevent them from going to school.

detbuch 11-20-2015 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by spence (Post 1086699)
That's not true, we do have a very good vetting process. We may not be able to run conventional background checks like you'd do for a US citizen but that doesn't mean there isn't a good process in place. It's very different than what happens with refugees heading to Europe.

I keep hearing that we have this very good vetting process . . . but the process remains a mystery . . . are we just supposed to take the statement as a validation of itself? That's not a sarcastic question. Would really like to know. Have you looked into the process, studied it, and from that concluded we have nothing to fear from jihadists sprinkling in a few of their own amongst the thousands of refugees?

Quite simply, it would be orders of magnitude easier for a terrorist to sneak into the US via other means than by posing as a UN refugee.

That sounds huge . . . "orders of magnitude" . . . makes it sound like there are "orders of magnitude" ways for terrorists to sneak in. So, even without the supposed orders of tininess posed by massive immigration we are in deep doo-doo. Unless the terrorists are very slow on the uptake, "orders of magnitude" of them must have already snuck in. How can that be? I thought we were being competently protected from such danger. Why would we want to add another, albeit a supposed small order of magnitude, way for the terrorists to enter? And how are we to trust the word of our would be "protectors" about their very good vetting process if they have already allowed this great order of magnitude ways for terrorists to sneak in?

While we must remain vigilant, this is primarily a political issue to stoke fear of Muslims to rally voters = exactly what ISIS wants.

This sounds reminiscent of supposedly stoking fear of Obama's election by creating "codes" to let us know he is black. Sometimes, political times I guess, the obvious is arguable and needs to be revealed in sneaky ways.

It must not be the simple explanation that there is a danger, certainly a fear of it, that some (even in orders of tininess) jihadists could successfully pose as mere immigrants to enter. No, no . . . we must be reminded that the jihadists are Muslim (even though we are told by our "protectors" that they really are not Muslims). Ergo, as in the codes for Obama being black implied that voting against Obama would be racist, wanting a hold on the plan to emigrate thousands of people from a region full of terrorism would be code for being anti-Muslim. There is a tangle of twisted contradictory "logic" in this narrative . . . but so well wrought that it is almost plausible.

And, voila, this is exactly what ISIS (or al Qaeda, or pick your name for whatever Islamic--but not really--terrorist group) really wants. ISIS doesn't really want hundreds of thousands of Muslims who oppose them to emigrate to other places from the world they want to claim as their own. Presumably, they would rather they all stayed in place so they could risk a battle against them. That's why they are slaughtering thousands of Muslims who can't escape.

Again, the twisted logic. But seemingly plausible if you examine situational "contexts" rather than the whole.


Given Trump's recent behavior I'm starting to wonder if he's on their payroll.

There is ZERO evidence of that.

spence 11-20-2015 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by detbuch (Post 1086705)
I keep hearing that we have this very good vetting process . . . but the process remains a mystery . . . are we just supposed to take the statement as a validation of itself? That's not a sarcastic question. Would really like to know. Have you looked into the process, studied it, and from that concluded we have nothing to fear from jihadists sprinkling in a few of their own amongst the thousands of refugees?

Everything I've read seems to indicate it's pretty good. First off, when you apply you don't get to choose which country you go to. Given the small % of refugees potentially headed to the US that alone would make it difficult to make a plant, which doesn't consider all the additional interviews and 1-2 years of process.

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That sounds huge . . . "orders of magnitude" . . . makes it sound like there are "orders of magnitude" ways for terrorists to sneak in. So, even without the supposed orders of tininess posed by massive immigration we are in deep doo-doo. Unless the terrorists are very slow on the uptake, "orders of magnitude" of them must have already snuck in. How can that be? I thought we were being competently protected from such danger. Why would we want to add another, albeit a supposed small order of magnitude, way for the terrorists to enter? And how are we to trust the word of our would be "protectors" about their very good vetting process if they have already allowed this great order of magnitude ways for terrorists to sneak in?
I wouldn't think for a terrorists to find their way to Mexico and get across the border would be that difficult if they were well funded. A wall wouldn't stop them.

The bigger issue is likely dealing with domestic intelligence and also without a support structure you're basically a lone wolf. It would take some time to build the infrastructure so that you could capitalize on a person or persons who find there way here.

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This sounds reminiscent of supposedly stoking fear of Obama's election by creating "codes" to let us know he is black. Sometimes, political times I guess, the obvious is arguable and needs to be revealed in sneaky ways.
So Obama being black was obvious? Was the code that he was black or that his color and name made him different?

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It must not be the simple explanation that there is a danger, certainly a fear of it, that some (even in orders of tininess) jihadists could successfully pose as mere immigrants to enter. No, no . . . we must be reminded that the jihadists are Muslim (even though we are told by our "protectors" that they really are not Muslims). Ergo, as in the codes for Obama being black implied that voting against Obama would be racist, wanting a hold on the plan to emigrate thousands of people from a region full of terrorism would be code for being anti-Muslim. There is a tangle of twisted contradictory "logic" in this narrative . . . but so well wrought that it is almost plausible.
It's not that complicated, it's called stereotyping.

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And, voila, this is exactly what ISIS (or al Qaeda, or pick your name for whatever Islamic--but not really--terrorist group) really wants. ISIS doesn't really want hundreds of thousands of Muslims who oppose them to emigrate to other places from the world they want to claim as their own. Presumably, they would rather they all stayed in place so they could risk a battle against them. That's why they are slaughtering thousands of Muslims who can't escape.

Again, the twisted logic. But seemingly plausible if you examine situational "contexts" rather than the whole.
I'll give you this, your logic is twisted.

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There is ZERO evidence of that.
I can't think of any sane reason why he's saying what he is. Like climate change, there may not be direct evidence, but there also is no other known conclusion.

detbuch 11-20-2015 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by spence (Post 1086708)
Everything I've read seems to indicate it's pretty good. First off, when you apply you don't get to choose which country you go to. Given the small % of refugees potentially headed to the US that alone would make it difficult to make a plant, which doesn't consider all the additional interviews and 1-2 years of process.

Sounds like a crapshoot in which we might only get a small percentage (whatever number that would be--tens, hundreds, thousands?) of the plants, or if the dice rolls against us, a higher percent of them than we deserve. It also sounds like a very expensive process. Not only in the arduous vetting of each of the thousands of refugees, but in the financial support when they are accepted. It is also one of those egregiously "unfair" policies which severely limits the number of normal immigrants we allow compared to the "order of magnitude" of refugees we accept every year. Unfair as well to the number of average Americans who have to watch their pennies in order to help pay for the refugees.

Seeing as how it would take up to two years for a refugee to be admitted, wouldn't it be better in that time to aggressively wipe out ISIS so it wouldn't be necessary to have refugees?


I wouldn't think for a terrorists to find their way to Mexico and get across the border would be that difficult if they were well funded. A wall wouldn't stop them.

Better to kill them before they get to Mexico. Hmmm . . . are you saying that the "order of magnitude" of terrorists coming here through Mexico is huge compared to those who could (and have done) sneak in as refugees? Do we have any numbers on the through Mexico route? And how many does it take, once they're here, not only to commit acts of terror, but to recruit American jihadists?

The bigger issue is likely dealing with domestic intelligence and also without a support structure you're basically a lone wolf. It would take some time to build the infrastructure so that you could capitalize on a person or persons who find there way here.

Actually, I hope your faith in the present system is justified. The brief synopsis you've given is not persuasive. Especially in light of rapid change in tactics. Systems in place are always some "order of magnitude" behind new tactics created to subvert them.

I'ld feel better about stamping out ISIS . . . as Trump suggests.


So Obama being black was obvious? Was the code that he was black or that his color and name made him different?

His color, obviously black, didn't make him more "different" than he obviously was. No code was needed for that. And it certainly didn't make him different from the millions of Black Americans except in degree (half white--was there any code for that?). Any "code" to appeal to racists was obviously a waste of words. Racists didn't need the code. Those who were not racists would wonder what the fuss was about. Creating some notion of a secret "code" was not as silly as it appears. It deflected from the validity of a "difference" in policies.

It's not that complicated, it's called stereotyping.

As in stereotyping someone as anti-Muslim.

I'll give you this, your logic is twisted.

Following your twisted path creates a twisted journey

I can't think of any sane reason why he's saying what he is. Like climate change, there may not be direct evidence, but there also is no other known conclusion.

Hmmm . . . in your sentence I detect various codes and stereotyping.


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