IMPORTANCE OF TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER MIGHT NOT BE FULLY UNDERSTOOD FOR GENERATIONS

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Separating ourselves from the hysteria over Trump’s Executive Order
on immigration, this is the crucial paragraph if you want to understand
what Trump’s Administration is doing (full text of the statement here). At the end of this article I’ll explain it line by line.

In order to protect Americans, the United States must
ensure that those admitted to this country do not bear hostile attitudes
toward it and its founding principles. The United States cannot, and
should not, admit those who do not support the Constitution, or those
who would place violent ideologies over American law. In addition, the
United States should not admit those who engage in acts of bigotry or
hatred (including “honor” killings, other forms of violence against
women, or the persecution of those who practice religions different from
their own) or those who would oppress Americans of any race, gender, or
sexual orientation.

As we find ourselves at the end of the first week of the Trump era,
we see this weekend’s screaming press outrage over Trump’s Executive
Order and the complete shock that he’s enacting one of the core planks
of his campaign. For some reason people have been conditioned to believe
that promises made by politicians during election campaigns will all be
broken.

There’s only one thing that’s happened this weekend which anyone
should be mildly concerned about; it has to do with reports of Green
Card holders having issues at airports. It’s reasonably clear from the
text of the order that this shouldn’t be happening; either the reports
are false or rogue elements in the Immigration Service are deliberately
being overzealous to cause public issues. David French at National
Review has a very good article on the hysterical overreaction:

However, there are reports that the ban is being applied
even to green-card holders. This is madness. The plain language of the
order doesn’t apply to legal permanent residents of the U.S., and
green-card holders have been through round after round of vetting and
security checks. The administration should intervene, immediately, to
stop misapplication. If, however, the Trump administration continues to
apply the order to legal permanent residents, it should indeed be
condemned.

The press have gone into a meltdown over the immediate clamping down
on movements of people from seven specific countries. Interestingly, the
only country mentioned by name in the order is Syria. Seth Frantzman
also noticed this and dug a millimetre deeper than the entire rest of the press:

Go back and read it again. Do a “ctrl-f” to find “Iraq”.
Where is “Iraq” in the order. It’s not there. Only Syria is there. So
where are the seven nations? Where is the “Muslim ban”? It turns out
this was a form of fake news, or alternative facts. Trump didn’t select
seven “Muslim-majority” countries. US President Barack Obama’s
administration selected these seven Muslim-majority countries.

The Department of Homeland Security
targeted these seven countries over the last few years as countries of
concern. In February 2016, “the Department of Homeland Security today
announced that it is continuing its implementation of the Visa Waiver
Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 with the
addition of Libya, Somalia, and Yemen as three countries of concern,
limiting Visa Waiver Program travel for certain individuals who have
traveled to these countries.” It noted “the three additional countries
designated today join Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria as countries subject
to restrictions for Visa Waiver Program travel for certain individuals.”
[read the rest]

Central to what the press and the usual grievance mongers (CAIR,
ACLU, ADL and the usual alphabet soup of far left groups) are doing is
to draw a false analogy between refugees from the Middle East today and
Jews who tried to flee the genocide of the Nazis. Signing the order on
International Holocaust Memorial day (and making a mistake
by not specifically mentioning Jews) ensured that the press would jump
on this bandwagon. This is done with carefully constructed (sometimes
faked) photographs, especially of children. Dead child on a beach and
dazed child in a hospital: I don’t even need to include photos, these
are etched into your heads.

Back when I wrote about this in September 2015, I pointed out the enormity of this false equivalence.

So I was just wondering if I could ask something of all
those people quick to claim that Syrian refugees are the new 1930’s
Jews.

UNHCR persons of concern refugee numberFor those Jews who managed to
escape Nazi Germany, where were the refugee camps, like the ones in
Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan today hosting 4,088,099 registered refugees
(6th Sept). Because I’ve never heard anyone mention them. I’m sure a lot
of Jews must have been saved in those camps.

As far as I know, in 1939 there were precisely zero Jewish countries
and zero safe and secure refugee camps. I suspect if there had been a
Jewish country or even a refugee camp it would have taken in some
refugees. Worse: the major nations of the world, especially Britain,
blocked Jews from reaching safety and sent them back to be murdered by
Hitler.

Interestingly, the UNHCR “Persons of concern” website
where I got my numbers from doesn’t seem to be working right now, so I
can’t check for new numbers. The main number still stands: there were no
refugee camps for Jews in 1939 and there are today many millions of
Muslim refugees in (relatively) safe camps across the Middle East.

What has changed since I wrote that post is the seething societal
problems currently ripping apart Europe. Every European nation that has
accepted refugees is going through huge internal upheavals. I scarcely
need to enumerate the problems, ranging from mass groping all the way up
to huge mass casualty terror attacks in Nice, Berlin, Paris and
elsewhere. Additionally, also since I wrote about the false equivalence,
the UK voted to leave Europe and controlling immigration was one of the
big factors in that.

Again, David French from National Review:

But don’t tell CNN’s chief national security correspondent, who last night tweeted this:

False. False. False. Religious considerations are by law part of
refugee policy. And it is entirely reasonable to give preference (though
not exclusivity) to members of minority religions. Finally, you can
read the entire executive order from start to finish, reread it, then
read it again, and you will not find a Muslim ban. It’s not there.
Nowhere. At its most draconian, it temporarily halts entry from jihadist
regions. In other words, Trump’s executive order is a dramatic
climb-down from his worst campaign rhetoric.

So I’ll come back to the very first paragraph I showed you. That is
the one that indicates what this new administration is actually
thinking. And I believe it indicates that they know exactly what they’re
doing. This isn’t something they put together in a week; this is
evidence of their entire thinking on Islam and the defence of the west.

They’re going to treat Islam as a hostile political ideology. That is
what has been needed for decades. It is the reversal of the “Islam is a
religion of peace” doctrine set in place by Bush on September 17, 2001.

In order to protect Americans, the United States
must ensure that those admitted to this country do not bear hostile
attitudes toward it and its founding principles.

That statement should, quite rightly, strike terror into the hearts
of anyone looking to promote Islamic law above the United States’
existing constitution. That is made even more explicit with the next
sentence:

The United States cannot, and should not, admit
those who do not support the Constitution, or those who would place
violent ideologies over American law.

This would apply to a communist overthrow of the United States (I
guess), but the only real threat on the global stage today is the
ideology of Islamic supremacy.

In addition, the United States should not admit
those who engage in acts of bigotry or hatred (including “honor”
killings, other forms of violence against women, or the persecution of
those who practice religions different from their own) or those who
would oppress Americans of any race, gender, or sexual orientation.

If you read that paragraph and immediately think #MuslimBan, then
you’re bringing your own impressions of Islam. The text doesn’t mention
Islam, but we all know that the leading ideology that sanctions bigotry,
hatred, violence against women, and oppression is not Buddhism.

This section, again without mentioning Islam or Muslims, arrives at
the heart of the problem. Islamic values always lead to intolerance.
Islam’s guiding texts are all fundamentally devoted to separating the world between believers and non-believers.
All of our liberal freedoms and our equality stem from a
Judeo-Christian belief that all men are created in the image of God and
are equal before equitable laws. That is not at the heart of Islam.

That same Islamic ideology led 56 member states of the UN to ignore
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and replace it with the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, which opens with:

Reaffirming the civilizing and historical role of the
Islamic Ummah which God made the best nation that has given mankind a
universal and well-balanced civilization in which harmony is established
between this life and the hereafter and knowledge is combined with
faith; and the role that this Ummah should play to guide a humanity
confused by competing trends and ideologies and to provide solutions to
the chronic problems of this materialistic civilization.

The idea that God made Islam the best nation is not a statement of
equality. It is a supremacist statement. The Constitution of the United
States doesn’t and obviously shouldn’t begin with “God made White
America the Best Nation”. Every Islamic nation considers Islam to be
superior to any other ideology.

That is what we are dealing with: 56 nation states and millions of
indoctrinated followers who are religiously compelled (with a depth of
fervor the godless left can no longer comprehend) bound to profess the
supremacy of their civilization, whilst anyone with open eyes knows the
United States Constitution is one of the greatest acts of foundational
liberal freedom in history.

America is an astonishing social experiment. If it continues to open
its borders, it will be overrun like Europe by those who desire its
destruction, and could quite literally sink back into darkness. Whilst
being so harshly condemned by those whose freedoms they are safeguarding
so determinedly, Trump’s team, in its first week, has put out a
document the importance of which might not be fully understood for
generations.