The Problem Isn’t Religion, The Problem Is Islam

April 24, 2013 17 Comments

The media reported yesterday that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were motivated by their religion in bombing the Boston Marathon. What religion that would be is anyone’s guess if one listened to any number of media outlets yesterday. I choose to believe they were emasculated Wiccan’s, after all they could be any religion. Oh wait, that’s right, they’re Jihadist Muslims. Yet another in a long line of violent Muslims from a false religion that has been hellbent on conversion by the sword from its very founding. We’re not supposed to talk about that though, it might be a “rush to judgment” as Obama warned. Apparently 1300 years of bloodshed is too quick to judge a religion to say nothing of its violent scriptures.

This is perhaps the biggest problem with the country today, at least as it pertains to terrorism. We’re afraid to call a spade a spade. As such we have a whole series of violent events at the hands of radical Muslim terrorists and we pretend like they’re one off events. Obama has treated the Benghazi attacks, the Fort Hood shooting and the Boston Marathon bombing as though they have no connection whatsoever. He treats them like they have even less of a connection to the 9-11 attacks. Yet they’re all connected to Islam.

The country, being led by the media, does the same thing. On Sunday night 60 Minutes ran a piece about what a nice boy Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was, so polite and kind, he was even on the wrestling team. Ever since information started coming out about him we’ve been told he was a nice guy and that everyone who knew him was surprised he bombed the Boston Marathon. Meanwhile we’re told his brother was a controlling jerk. Thus we’re supposed to have sympathy for a 19 year old man who bombed the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 180. Spare me the “he was a nice guy” line.

Yet that’s what the country is eating up right now. The media is pushing sympathy for this terrorist. The media is interested in the individual psychology of the terrorist but is completely uninterested in discussing the root cause: Islam. The last three administrations all made the same mistake, failing to connect terrorism to Islam itself. Bush forever called Islam a religion of peace, Obama and Clinton have pretended like terrorism was our fault and/or individual events which are completely unconnected. Yet they are connected, by Islam.

This is the same media that was very quick to blame Tea Party conservatives last week before we knew who was responsible for the bombings. It appears they can easily connect events when they want to. Yet with Islam the media refuses to connect the dots. Why? Islam is a religion with 1 billion followers worldwide. If 1% of them are radical and thus potential terrorists, we’re talking about 10 million people who are potential terrorists. Odds are the number is well above 10 million. Yet the media and the Obama administration refuse to connect all the dots. All of the Islamic terrorist events are separate, unconnected and unrelated. If they are connected, it’s our fault. Blame never goes to Islam. Though you could bet that had the bombings last week been performed by a member of the Tea Party somehow Sarah Palin would share the blame.

Until our country confronts the real problem in these terrorist attacks you can guarantee we’ll face more of them. The problem is Islam and so long as we continue to allow immigrants from Islamic countries to enter, be it via asylum or student visas, you can guarantee we’ll see more homegrown terrorists like the Tsarnaev’s. So long as we allow illegals to flow through our borders, giving them citizenship for free for their crimes, you can bet that we’ll have more homegrown terrorist events.

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Why Forcing Through Amnesty For Illegals Is Wrong

April 23, 2013 11 Comments

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were in the United States legally. Dzhokhar became an American citizen last year after having largely grown up here. Tamerlan was a resident alien, here legally though the government could have deported him based on a 2009 arrest for domestic violence. As recently as six months ago the Russian government warned our government about Tamerlan and his ties to radical Islamic groups. Our Federal government did nothing about it. The FBI had interviewed him two years ago due to his ties to radical Islamic groups, again the government did nothing. Tamerlan could have been deported for those ties, Dzhokhar it appears was never questioned about his brother prior to becoming a citizen.

We have clear problems with our immigration system. The Saudi national who was at the scene of the bombings last week and questioned by the FBI before being released is apparently on the do not fly list. He’s here on a student visa, supposedly going to a school in Findley, Ohio. So why does he have an apartment in Boston? This is just another in a long line of terrorists who the government granted student visas to. Even if you believe this guy isn’t a terrorist, in the very least the Feds have lost track of him. After all, he’s supposed to be going to school in Ohio yet he lives in Boston. All of this is part of our immigration system, which if it isn’t outright incompetent at least has glaring holes.

Yet progressives on both sides of the aisle what to rush through a bill that would grant amnesty to illegals and make it more difficult to enforce existing laws. We’ve been told that we ought not dare “politicize” last weeks bombings by tying them to immigration. We really don’t need to politicize the Boston Marathon bombing, we need only point out the glaring problems our immigration system has. We allowed a terrorist to become a US Citizen without properly vetting him. We could have deported a person known to have terrorist ties and yet chose not to. We have a 20 year old with a student visa for a school in Ohio who apparently lives in Boston. Why doesn’t the government know that?

All of these people are here legally yet the left, including supposedly conservative Sen. Marco Rubio, want to give amnesty to a bunch of people living here illegally who we know nothing about. How many of them are terrorists? How many of them are really from the middle east, sneaking over one of our borders undetected? Suddenly we’re going to make these criminal terrorists American citizens. This issue goes well beyond a few million poor Mexicans living here illegally. When the government doesn’t appear to have control of our legal immigration, it seems utterly absurd to try tackling illegal immigration.

Yet to suggest this is nothing short of outrageous these days. We’re expected to bury our heads in the sand and ignore the very clear legal immigration problems we have. When the left cannot win the argument, they’ll just call us racists for wanting to enforce the law. Obama and members of both parties are going to try to force amnesty for illegals down our throat over the next two months or less. They’re going to push even harder before we fully understand what happened in last week’s bombings. We need to fight back on this one. How can we legalize millions of people here illegally when we can’t even count on the Federal government to do background checks and routine checks on people who are here legally? How can we justify allowing millions of people to simply to declare themselves here legally without any checks whatsoever?

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Obama Fundamentally Transforming America Through Lawlessness

June 27, 2012 2 Comments

The Obama administration won a partial victory in the Arizona immigration case decided on Monday. They were also defeated on the major point of the legislation. Arizona law enforcement can now ask people they arrest or question whether they’re here illegally. The administration’s response to this defeat has been disturbing. They’ve decided not to respond to any Arizona police agency which tells them they have an illegal. In short the Obama administration lost, so they’re taking their toys and going home. Childish perhaps but it’s the latest in a long line of brazenly lawless actions. We Americans need to decide whether we want to be a nation of laws or a nation of an imperial President.

It’s the President’s job under the Constitution to enforce the laws passed by Congress and signed by the President. The Constitution doesn’t allow the President to pick and choose which laws passed and signed by previous governments he will enforce. It also doesn’t permit the President to write new laws on his own. In just the past couple of weeks we’ve seen the President brazenly write new immigration law, creating a whole new class of immigrant worker. All of this was contained in the Dream Act, which Obama wasn’t able to get through Congress even when his party held a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. Now Obama outright refuses to enforce immigration law as written, refusing to work with Arizona to arrest and deport people here illegally.

This is hardly the first time Obama has refused to enforce the law. The President has refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act. Eric Holder refuses to acknowledge a Supreme Court ruling that explicitly allows states to require picture ID to vote. Holder is likely going to be held in Contempt of Congress this week for refusing to hand over documents in the Fast and Furious case. Obama is claiming executive privilege when none exists. The list goes on and on, we have a very lawless administration.

Obama’s refusal to enforce immigration law has nothing to do with lack of funding, which has long been the excuse for not enforcing such laws. His refusal has everything to do with the fact that he lost at the Supreme Court. Likewise, he couldn’t get what he wanted on immigration from Congress so he unilaterally wrote the law himself. The Constitutional law professor apparently doesn’t like separation of powers. He also doesn’t like enforcing laws he doesn’t like, nor does he like Supreme Court rulings that don’t come down in his favor. If Obamacare is ruled unconstitutional tomorrow, would it surprise anyone if Obama decides to unilaterally declare the mandate law?

Let’s say a Republican President was unable to get a tax cut through the Congress. Rather than enforcing the law as written, the GOP President declared that the IRS would no longer be collecting said tax and no one would be penalized for not paying it. This would be a brazen disregard for existing law, it would likely result in impeachment and rightfully so. It’s the President’s job to enforce the law. Let’s say a state instituted tougher laws against bank robbers (bank robbery is a Federal crime) and a Republican President didn’t like the tougher laws and challenged them but lost at the Supreme Court. If that President then refused to work with the state to prosecute bank robbers, the public would be outraged and rightfully so.

These examples unfortunately are exactly what Obama is doing right now with immigration and the Arizona law. Immigration isn’t even the issue here, we can disagree on which policy on immigration is right or wrong. The issue here is what the law is and whether its being enforced by the President. The same is true of the Defense of Marriage Act. We can disagree on whether the law is a good thing or not but that’s not the issue. The issue is that it’s the law and the President is refusing to enforce or defend it. We can disagree over whether picture ID should be required for voting. But the Supreme Court has ruled it Constitutional in an opinion penned by the most liberal Justice, Stephen Breyer.

What Americans need to ask themselves is whether we want to be a nation of laws, where Congress passes them, a President signs them and whoever serves as President enforces them or we want to have an imperial President who picks and chooses which laws he wants to enforce. Do we want legal certainty when we elect a President or do we want uncertainty? If we want legal certainty, meaning we want to know that the laws on the books will be enforced, then we must reject the imperial actions of Obama. If we want the President to pick and choose based on his personal whims, opinions or based on which lobbyist or voting bloc offers the most, then we must support Obama. But in doing that we must recognize that we are creating legal uncertainty and we’re bringing down the foundation of our nation. We have always been a nation of laws, Obama is fundamentally changing this. Did Obama’s voters really bargain for this in 2008?

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Obama’s Deportation Order Screams Political Desperation

August 23, 2011 2 Comments

The Obama administration is playing fast and loose with America’s immigration laws. Last week the administration declared that it will no longer deport illegal aliens who don’t have a criminal record. The law of course requires deportation of all aliens here illegally. While the administration claims they’re setting up a case by case priority system, the reality is that they’re ignoring the law.

Why would the Obama administration ignore our immigration laws? The President is in a tough re-election battle, his numbers are down. He’s playing politics with our immigration laws and with public safety. In early August 160 Hispanic activists were given full access to White House aides and top Presidential advisors. The end result is the amnesty light that the President declared last week. These Hispanic activists guaranteed support for Obama in exchange for changes in deportation enforcement. It is clear as day.

The President is playing politics with our immigration laws and ultimately with public safety. But it’s worse than that. He’s essentially buying votes by administratively changing the enforcement of immigration laws. Obama knows he has no chance of any major immigration overhaul passing Congress. If he wanted one so badly, one wonders why he didn’t push hard for it when the Democrats controlled Congress with a filibuster proof Senate. Now that the President’s re-election appears to be in serious jeopardy, suddenly he cares about Hispanics and their alleged issues.

Hispanics however are not like blacks in that they don’t vote overwhelmingly for one party. Obama won the Hispanic vote by a two to one margin, but Bush was always even with his Democrat opponents. Hispanics have not overwhelmingly adopted the socialist outlook and they have not been told for several generations that they must be unified as blacks have. So if Obama thinks he’s going to buy these votes with a change in immigration status he may be wrong.

The problem for Obama is that he views everything through the prism of race. He so much as said so in his first book. In his mind Hispanics views things the same way because they have common issues across their race. This however ignores the pesky fact that they don’t have common issues across their race, just like whites and Asians don’t. In fact, neither do blacks despite what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton may say.

Hispanics have always been a group with diverse views and political outlooks. Many are Republicans because of the GOP’s pro-life platform. This shouldn’t be surprising considering that many, if not most, Hispanics are Catholic. Cubans tend to be Republicans because of the GOP’s opposition to Castro. Other groups of Hispanics are Democrats because Dems tend to support lenient criminal punishments or because of their position on immigration. The Hispanics have, wisely, not viewed politics through race and have instead viewed politics as individuals. The end result is that as a group they’re more important and more influential. They’re important to both parties whereas blacks can be ignored by both parties because their votes tend to be a certainty.

Obama is playing politics, trying to buy the votes of Hispanics through administration shenanigans. His move screams desperation, especially in light of the fact that he did nothing on immigration when his party dominated Congress. Obama’s decision puts Americans at risk. In the end, Obama’s decision will have more political negatives than positives. For the few Hispanic votes that may be swayed by lax deportation enforcement Obama will lose independent votes of all races who simply want the law enforced. Worse, Obama gives the GOP another issue to brow beat him with. Obama’s desperation is growing.

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