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2017-11-03 Home Front: WoT

Mercer: A Muslim Ban Won't Kill Americans -- Accepting Them Might

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-03 06:18|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 When you try to make sense like this the liberal response is inevitably along the lines of "What about the Las Vegas shooting? Isn't that terrorism?"

Yes, but this is an illogical argument. The flaw in the argument is that these are two separate problems. Linking the two problems, making them appear to be the same problem, serves no purpose other than to obfuscate and prevent a logical course of action. We have a readily available remedy for Islamic terrorism. Let's do what we can first about Islamic terrorists and then debate what to do about the domestic white boy terrorists.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-11-03 11:12|| 2017-11-03 11:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Mr. Saipov and his family were apparently perfectly moderate Moslems back home. It was once he arrived here that he gradually became dangerous, a pattern reportedly followed by anumber of his countrymen. So even serious vetting would not have prevented perfectly acceptable people going bad the way he did.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-11-03 12:49|| 2017-11-03 12:49|| Front Page Top

#3 perfectly acceptable in their world.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-11-03 22:06|| 2017-11-03 22:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Mr. Saipov and his family were apparently perfectly moderate Moslems back home.

Easy to be a moderate Muslim when surrounded by Muslims, dozens of whom you've known since from birth. Moving to a new society can mean anomie, dealt with by retreating into religion or the expatriate (from the old country) community. This guy went with religion. The problem for us is that his religion is Islam, which can be pretty murderous.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-11-03 23:09|| 2017-11-03 23:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Well said, Zhang Fei.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-11-03 23:16|| 2017-11-03 23:16|| Front Page Top

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