12/11/2015 -
Pat Buchanan Townhall.com
Calling for a moratorium on Muslim immigration "until our
country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on,"
Donald Trump this week ignited a firestorm of historic proportions.
As all the old hate words -- xenophobe, racist, bigot -- have lost
their electric charge from overuse, and Trump was being called a fascist
demagogue and compared to Hitler and Mussolini. The establishment seemed to
have become unhinged.
Why the hysteria? Comes the reply: Trump's call for a temporary
ban on Muslim immigration tramples all over "American values" and
everything we stand for, including the Constitution.
But is this really true? The Constitution protects freedom of
religion for U.S. citizens. But citizens of foreign lands have no
constitutional right to migrate. And federal law gives a president broad powers
in deciding who comes and who does not, especially in wartime.
In 1924, Congress restricted immigration from Asia, reduced the
numbers coming from southern and Central Europe, and produced a 40-year
moratorium on most immigration into the United States.
Its authors and President Coolidge wanted ours to remain a nation
whose primary religious and ethnic ties were to Europe, not Africa or Asia. Under
FDR, Truman and JFK, this was the law of the land. Did this represent 40 years
of fascism?
Why might Trump want a moratorium on Muslim immigration? Reason one:
terrorism. The 9/11 terrorists were Muslim, as were the shoe and underwear
bombers on those planes, the Fort Hood shooter, the Times Square bomber and the
San Bernardino killers.
And as San Bernardino showed again, Islamist terrorists are
exploiting our liberal immigration policies to come here and kill us. Thus, a
pause, a timeout on immigration from Muslim countries, until we fix the
problem, would seem to be simple common sense.
Second, Muslims are clearly more susceptible to the siren call of
terrorism, and more likely to be radicalized on the Internet and in mosques
than are Christians at church or Jews at synagogue. Which is why we monitor
mosques more closely than cathedrals.
Third, according to Harvard's late Samuel Huntington, a
"clash of civilizations" is coming between the West and the Islamic
world. Other scholars somberly concur. But if such a conflict is in the cards,
how many more millions of devout Muslims do we want inside the gates?
Set aside al-Qaida, ISIS and their sympathizers. Among the 1.6
billion Muslims worldwide are untold millions of followers of the Prophet who
pray for the coming of a day when sharia is universal and the infidels, i.e.,
everyone else, are either converted or subjugated.
In nations where Muslims are already huge majorities, where are
the Jews? Where have all the Christians gone?
With ethnic and sectarian wars raging in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,
Turkey, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria and Somalia, why would we bring into our own
country people from all sides of these murderous conflicts?
Many European nations -- Germans, French, Swedes, Brits -- appear
to regret having thrown open their doors to immigrants and refugees from the
Islamic world, who have now formed unassimilated clusters and enclaves inside
their countries. Ought we not explore why, before we continue down this road?
In some countries of the Muslim world, Americans who embrace
"Hollywood values" regarding abortion, adultery and homosexuality,
can get their heads chopped off as quickly as converts to Christianity.
In what Muslim countries does Earl Warren's interpretation of the
First Amendment -- about any and all religious presence being banned in public
schools and all religions being treated equally -- apply? When is the next
"Crusade for Christ" coming to Saudi Arabia?
Japan has no immigration from the Muslim world, nor does Israel,
which declares itself a Jewish state. Are they also fascistic?
President Obama and the guilt-besotted West often bawl their
apologies for the horrors of the Crusades that liberated Jerusalem.
Anyone heard Muslim rulers lately apologizing for Saladin, who
butchered Christians to take Jerusalem back, or for Suleiman the Magnificent,
who conquered the Christian Balkans rampaging through Hungary all the way to
the gates of Vienna?
Trump's surge this week, in the teeth of universal denunciation,
suggests that a large slice of America agrees with his indictment -- that our
political-media establishment is dumb as a box of rocks and leading us down a
path to national suicide.
Trump's success tells us that the American people really do not
celebrate "globalization." They think our negotiators got snookered
out of the most magnificent industrial machine ever built, which once
guaranteed our workers the highest standard of living on earth.
They don't
want open borders or mass immigration. They want people here illegally to be
sent back, the borders secured, and a moratorium imposed on Muslim immigration
until we fix the broken system.
As for the establishment, they are saying pretty much what The
Donald is saying. To paraphrase Oliver Cromwell's speech to the Rump
Parliament:
You have sat here too long for any good you have done here. In the
name of God, go!
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