Quote:There are about 1.6 billion Muslims in the world.   That's why ISIS wants to sell this narrative of "Islam vs the Western world."   So they can have 1.6 billion allies.  

 

The Western world wants to sell the narrative of "Terrorists vs the Western world."   The West doesn't want to draw a line and put 1.6 billion people on the other side of it.   We can't win that war.   By saying he would ban all Muslims from entering this country, Trump plays right into the ISIS narrative that this is all about Islam vs the West.  

 

A large part of what attracts people to the United States is that we are a free and open society, that we have a Bill of Rights and religious freedom as part of that.   By banning all Muslims from entering this country, we make ourselves look like hypocrites.   We are no longer a beacon of hope, a "shining city on a hill" as Reagan used to say.   The Statue of Liberty says, "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free."  Nope, sorry, we're closing the door.   All you people who had the dream of making it to the United States, the land of freedom and opportunity, you can't come in right now.  

 

By the way, Turkey is a majority Muslim nation and a NATO ally!   I wonder if the ban on Muslims will extend to the President of Turkey.  

 

By the way, for every one person who is killed by a terrorist, about a thousand people are killed in car wrecks. 

 

 

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, 1.1 billion support Shariah law. Sorry, but if you support Shariah law, you support violence and oppression of non-Muslims, women, and homosexuals and should not be allowed in. How can you not say it is NOT Islam vs The West when the overwhelming majority of Muslims support an anti-west ideology?

 

Did you know we shutdown immigration between the 1920s to the 1960s? We're we not Americans during that time frame? I don't think so, but you claim we were.

 

Did you know that Rand Paul just pushed a bill to shutdown immigration from Turkey (and also many other super-majority Muslim nations)? It isn't just Donald Trump calling for action.

 

Can't argue about your car wreck statement. I can't wait for automated cars.

 

Look, the immigration system sucks. There is no way to accurately vet people and prevent terrorists or potential terrorists from entering. The system needs to be improved. The action of sitting back and opening the flood gates is the extreme opposite of what we should be doing, but happens to be what our president and Hillary Clinton suggest we do. Maybe we can't stop all terrorists, but putting a pause on Islamic immigration until we get an accurate system developed is a logical thing to do. Will it stop all of them? Again, no it won't, but we have to do something. Whether it is blocking nations or blocking the religion, both are better than sitting on our hands.

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