by Phyllis Schlafly
Eagle Forum November 18, 2015
The Friday night massacre of over 100 people at a
soccer game, a rock concert, and five restaurants in Paris was apparently
committed by 8 men working on behalf of ISIS, also called ISIL or the Islamic
State. The day before the attacks, President Obama was on television reassuring
George Stephanopoulos that “ISIL continues to shrink in its scope of
operations” and that “we have contained them.”
Next week, some 20,000 people (including President
Obama, John Kerry and 3,000 journalists) are expected in Paris for the UN
convention on climate change, which Obama in May called “an urgent and growing
threat to our national security, contributing to increased … refugee flows.”
Based on a passport found next to his body, one of
the 8 Paris terrorists was Ahmad al-Mohammad, 25, a native of Syria who passed
through the Greek Island of Leros on Oct. 3 and crossed from Macedonia into
Serbia on Oct. 7. He was part of the huge army of migrants flooding into Europe
this year claiming to be refugees from the civil war in Syria.
Shortly after the coordinated attacks, France’s
socialist president announced his decision to close the borders of France. “We
must ensure that no one enters to commit any crimes, and also that those who
have committed crimes can be arrested if they try to leave the country.”
Close the border – what a great idea!
Unfortunately, France eliminated most border checkpoints as part of Europe’s
Schengen agreement, which is how a Syrian so-called refugee got all the way
from Serbia to Paris without being stopped.
Some say stricter border controls can’t prevent
“homegrown” terrorists such as the Paris perpetrators who were native-born
French citizens. But in virtually every case, “homegrown” terrorists are sons
of Muslim immigrants who are drawn to their ancestral faith and homeland
instead of assimilating to Western values.
For instance, the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the
Boston Marathon in 2013, grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts in a family of
ethnic Chechens who came here in 2002 as refugees from Dagestan and frequently
visited the country they were supposedly escaping from. At least 22 young
Somali men who grew up in Minneapolis have left to train or fight with
terrorist groups in Africa.
Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who killed four
Marines and a sailor at two U.S. military recruiting offices in Chattanooga in
July, grew up in a family of Palestinians who came here in 1996 and frequently
went back to the Middle East for reasons unknown. On the same day as the Paris
massacre, FBI Director Comey told reporters he would not reveal what the FBI
had learned about the Chattanooga shooter’s motivations because “We don’t want
to smear people.”
While the Obama administration pledged to admit
10,000 Syrian refugees in the coming year, Hillary Clinton said in the Democratic
debate that “we should increase numbers of refugees; I said we should go to
65,000.” Not to be outdone, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has called for 100,000
Syrians to be brought here.
Hillary promised that refugees would be put through
“a screening and vetting process,” but FBI Director James Comey and National
Counterterrorism Center Director Nicholas Rasmussen both testified in October
that it is simply not possible to screen them adequately. Speaking cautiously
and carefully, Comey said “there are certain gaps in the data available to us”
and Rasmussen offered the understatement that “the intelligence picture we have
of this particular conflict zone is not as rich as we would like it to be.”
When the first Syrian refugees began arriving in
New Orleans last week without notice to local officials, Louisiana Governor
Bobby Jindal sent President Obama a letter demanding answers about how they
were screened and whether they will be monitored. Jindal concluded that in
light of the Paris attack, “it would be prudent to pause the process of
refugees coming to the United States.”
Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX), a freshman member of
Congress whose son is a Navy SEAL, recently addressed the House for 45 minutes
about refugee resettlement. “I found out that no one was asking – much less
answering – the questions of who, how, when, where, and how much regarding
these refugees.”
Babin continued, “nearly 500,000 new refugees have
come into the United States under the Refugee Resettlement program since
President Obama first took office.” Refugees “have been resettled by private
contractors across this country in over 190 towns and communities whose local
citizens have little to no say in the matter.”
Babin cited numerous examples of refugees or their
children who have been found with ties to terrorist organizations or have even
traveled overseas to join the fight against America. Although more than 90
percent of recent Middle Eastern refugees are on welfare, Babin noted that “the
five wealthiest countries on the Arabian peninsula – Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain – have not taken in a single refugee that
we know of.”
A Quinnipiac poll taken in September found that 58
percent of respondents thought that admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees “would
pose a threat to the national security of the United States.” Tell your member
of Congress to eliminate refugee resettlement from the spending bill that must
be passed by Dec. 11.
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