Next time someone says to you that a “Muslim pause” in immigration is bigoted, ask, “If the U.S. doesn’t do so, and among those Muslim immigrants or Syrian refugees are killers, and if -- God forbid -- a Topeka mall food court is shot to pieces, what do you tell the parents of a five-year-old who was out for a Saturday with his grandparents and slaughtered?”
What would you say? If you’re an elite (a leftist, particularly), you might argue that innocents dying is tragic but doing so for a principle is noble. Bigotry is bad; inclusion and diversity are good. Most Muslims in or entering the U.S. aren’t looking to gun down Americans. This is true – as far as it goes. Then why exclude Muslim immigrants based on the bad actions of some? Aren’t there bad players in most every segment of society?
It’s easy to pronounce from on high as the nation’s elites do. In fact, many in the nation’s increasingly out-of-touch political establishment do so, too. That includes establishment Republicans, who are in sync with the left that a halt in Muslim immigration is bigoted.
But the wager is that if an elite’s child was mowed down in a hail of bullets by a Muslim extremist, lofty-sounding principle wouldn’t do much to ease the pain or ever fill the void. Solidarity hashtags on Twitter, candlelight vigils, and ribbons galore amount to a hill of beans when the loss is personal, as those losses have been in San Bernardino and Paris. And lest we forget, on 9/11.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/who_wants_to_die_for_an_abstraction_.html
What would you say? If you’re an elite (a leftist, particularly), you might argue that innocents dying is tragic but doing so for a principle is noble. Bigotry is bad; inclusion and diversity are good. Most Muslims in or entering the U.S. aren’t looking to gun down Americans. This is true – as far as it goes. Then why exclude Muslim immigrants based on the bad actions of some? Aren’t there bad players in most every segment of society?
It’s easy to pronounce from on high as the nation’s elites do. In fact, many in the nation’s increasingly out-of-touch political establishment do so, too. That includes establishment Republicans, who are in sync with the left that a halt in Muslim immigration is bigoted.
But the wager is that if an elite’s child was mowed down in a hail of bullets by a Muslim extremist, lofty-sounding principle wouldn’t do much to ease the pain or ever fill the void. Solidarity hashtags on Twitter, candlelight vigils, and ribbons galore amount to a hill of beans when the loss is personal, as those losses have been in San Bernardino and Paris. And lest we forget, on 9/11.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/who_wants_to_die_for_an_abstraction_.html
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