Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Opuscula

Trump doesn’t
Ban Muslims
From America

IF PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTED TO BAN MUSLIMS from entering the U.S., his executive order would have listed 52 Muslim-dominated countries and not just six. (See table at end of blog entry.)

If the president wanted to ban Muslims from nations whose citizens have financed or committed acts of terrorism on U.S. citizens, he should focus on

    Saudi Arabia (financing terror)

    Morocco (pilots of 9-11 planes))

in addition to the counties he specified in the executive order.

The media and the leftists are wringing their hands, “woe is me’ing,” and hitting the streets with signs claiming that the president is banning ALL Muslims from entering the U.S.

As with most things that aggravate the leftists, this is a half truth — indeed, only 6/52nds of the truth. Of the 52 – fifty-two — Muslim majority countries around the globe, only 6 — six — are mentioned in the executive order. Let’s see:52 minus 6 = 46
Muslim-dominated countries whose citizens are NOT banned from entering the U.S.

And that doesn’t include other countries where Muslims make up a sizeable percentage of the population — including Israel where Muslims make up more than 14% of the total population.

Obviously — for anyone who can, and is willing, to think and do minimal research — Trump’s executive order is NOT about Muslims; it is about all citizens of only six — count’em, 6: Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen — countries that are famous for terrorism.

It IS interesting that Trump failed to ban immigrants from Morocco and Saudi Arabia, the latter if anyone remembers the photo, the place where the ex-president groveled before the nation’s king. He also might have considered banning residents of “Palestine” since they have an ongoing record of murdering civilians — including the elderly and infants — for the terrible crime of living in, or just visiting, Israel.

Aljazeera , under a headline reading Trump signs new 'Muslim ban' on six countries reminds that Under the Republican president's order announced on Monday, a 90-day ban on travel to the US will be imposed on citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen.

Aljazeera also notes that travelers holding valid visas issued prior to the order and green card holders will be allowed into the U.S.

THE MISSING LINK

The U.S. has a notoriously weak vetting process, and an equally weak visa and passport check process (albeit the passport checks are getting better). Any terrorist with designs on disrupting life in the U.S. and a few Saudi Arabian riyals can buy phony documents — a passport from an allowed country and, if necessary, a visa — from expert forgers. Getting on a U.S.-bound aircraft with that phony ID avoids any inconvenience of a “no fly” restriction.

During the ex-president’s lame duck days he promised to tighten vetting of people from more than six Muslim-dominated countries and, indeed, banned immigration and visitors from those countries for — not 90 days — six months. The vetting process was jobbed out to civilian contractors for initial investigation, then to the State Department for a cursory check. This was the “strict” vetting process under the previous administration.

The leftists and some Muslims in America contend that Trump’s 90-day ban — conveniently ignoring the ex-president’s 6 month ban — will cause Muslims to hate America. If that is so, why are so many Muslims trying to come to the U.S.? Is it because the Muslim-dominated countries they want to leave lack personal freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. (even for illegal aliens).

Certainly not all Muslims are terrorists or even potential terrorists; as with all peoples, there are good and bad.

Closing U.S. borders to specific people has a history going back to the 1882.

A compromise that surely will NOT please the leftists is to intern citizens of selected countries — currently just six — in special camps as the Democrat’s FDR did to Japanese-Americans, German-Americans, and Italian-Americans and as several presidents did to American aborigines (sending them to “reservations”).

    According to The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, “Arkansas played a part in the international drama of 1980, when 125,000 Cubans left their homeland for a new life in the United States. Roughly 25,000 of these Cuban refugees—called Marielitos because they had departed Cuba from the port of Mariel—were housed for a time at Fort Chaffee in Sebastian County. Their presence in Arkansas created social and political tension widely thought to have had an impact on the Arkansas governor’s race of 1980.”

    Overall, of the roughly 125,000 Cubans who entered the United States in the 1980 boatlift, 103,000 were released into American society relatively quickly. Those detained for a longer time included 1,200 suspected of serious crimes in Cuba and 600 diagnosed as severely mentally ill; the rest were suspected only of political crimes in Cuba or other minor offenses. Over time, ninety-eight percent of the Marielitos joined the United States population. Most live in south Florida or in New York City or northern New Jersey. Few, if any, of the Marielitos chose to live in northwest Arkansas.

    The move was not a happy one for the citizens of Arkansas.

No one argues that the U.S. is what it is today because of immigrants — legal immigrants — and most thinking American’s are willing to accommodate legal immigrants regardless of race, religion, or any other descriptive.

However, there IS precedence for banning entry into the U.S. not only from countries — e.g., Trump’s six-nation ban — but specific races (regardless of religion). (See Closing U.S. borders paragraph, above.)

Specifically refugees.

Democrat FDR refused entry of slightly less than 1000 Jews escaping Hitler’s death squads because there might be a nazi spy in the group. The boat, the Saint Louis, returned to Germany where many of the passengers were murdered.


The following table is excerpted from Islam by country.

#Country/Region[1]Muslim percentage (%) of total population

1

 Afghanistan

99.8

2

 Albania

58.8[27]

3

 Algeria

98.2 [1] - >99[28]

4

 Azerbaijan

98.4

5

 Bahrain

70.2[31]

6

 Bangladesh

86.3[32]

7

 Bosnia-Herzegovina

50.7[35]

8

 Brunei

67[36]

9

 Burkina Faso

60.5[38]

10

 Chad

58[28]

11

 Cocos (Keeling) Islands

80[48]

12

 Comoros

98.3

13

 Djibouti

97

14

 Egypt

90[50]

15

 Guinea

84.2

16

 Guinea Bissau

50[56]

17

 Indonesia

87.2[60]

18

 Iran

99.7

19

 Iraq

98.9

20

 Jordan

93.8

21

 Kazakhstan

70.2 (official census)[64]

22

 Kosovo

95.6

23

 Kuwait

74.1[67]

24

 Kyrgyzstan

88.8

25

 Lebanon

59.7

26

 Libya

96.6

27

 Malaysia

61.4

28

 Maldives

100

29

 Mali

95[28]

30

 Mauritania

100[70]

31

 Mayotte

98.8

32

 Morocco

99[74]

33

 Niger

98.3[76]

34

 Oman

87.7

35

 Pakistan

96.4

36

 Qatar

77.5

37

 Saudi Arabia

97.1

38

 Senegal

95.9

39

 Sierra Leone

71.5

40

 Somalia

98.9[85][86][87][88]

41

 Palestinian Territories

97.5

42

 Sudan

97.0[92]

43

 Syria

90

44

 Tajikistan

99

45

 Gambia

95.3

46

 Tunisia

99.8

47

 Turkey

98.6

48

 Turkmenistan

93.3

49

 United Arab Emirates

76

50

 Uzbekistan

96.5

51

 Western Sahara

99.6

52

 Yemen

99



Central Asia

80



South Asia

31.4[105][106]



Southeast-East Asia

12



MENA

91.2



Sub-Saharan Africa

29.6



Europe

6



Americas

0.6


World Total

23.4

Numbers to the right of the percentage refer to notes on table on the web.



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