In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said Sunday that American aid toward refugees should be geared toward Christians who are fleeing persecution in Syria, as opposed to those who are Muslim.
“I think we need to do thorough screening and take in a limited number,” Bush said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “There are a lot of Christians in Syria that have no place now. They’ll be either executed or imprisoned, either by Assad or by ISIS. We should focus our efforts as it relates to the refugees for the Christians that are being slaughtered.”
The White House’s plan to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees has come under attack from Republican presidential candidates in the wake of Friday’s terror attack in Paris, which claimed at least 129 lives and wounded at least 350. Officials say one of the attackers held a Syrian passport and appears to have come through Greece among the throngs of refugees, increasing fears that ISIS is using the crisis as a way to infiltrate Europe.
Bush said that the U.S. should use a careful screening process to ensure refugees are in fact Christian, saying “we need to be obviously very, very cautious.”
Bush isn’t the only GOP candidate to say U.S. compassion as it relates to the refugee crisis should focus on Christians. “President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s idea that we should bring tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America — it is nothing less than lunacy,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in an interview with Fox News on Saturday.
“Now on the other hand,” Cruz added, “Christians who are being targeted, for genocide, for persecution, Christians who are being beheaded or crucified, we should be providing safe haven to them.”
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Probably not. The Supreme Court has held consistently, for more than a century, that constitutional protections that normally benefit Americans and people on American territory do not apply when Congress decides who to admit and who to exclude as immigrants or other entrants. This is called the plenary power doctrine. The Court has repeatedly turned away challenges to immigration statutes and executive actions on grounds that they discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, and political belief, and that they deprive foreign nationals of due process protections. While the Court has not ruled on religious discrimination, it has also never given the slightest indication that religion would be exempt from the general rule.
There is even precedent for Trump’s plan. In 1891, Congress passed a statute that made inadmissable people who practice polygamy (directed, at the time, at Mormons), and in 1907 extended this ban to people who “who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy.” While Congress later repealed the latter provision (the former seems to be still on the books), no court–as far I know–ruled it unconstitutional.
The plenary power doctrine is universally loathed by scholars and some have argued that it is effectively a dead letter. But any honest answer to a journalist’s question about whether Trump’s plan to ban Muslim immigration is unconstitutional should start with the plenary powers doctrine, and observe that it would be an uphill battle to persuade the Supreme Court to abandon a century of precedent. Unfortunately, that is not what scholars–who certainly know better–are telling journalists. They are likely being abetted by journalists and headline writers who don’t like the idea that Trump’s ban would be lawful. Not everything that is stupid or offensive is unconstitutional.
(N.B.: blocking American Muslims overseas from entering the country would certainly be unconstitutional, and blocking immigration by Muslims would raise complicated international-law questions.)
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More than 99.9% of people who are “obsessed” with Israel never commit terrorism.
Dennis Prager writes: According to the father of the San Bernardino terrorist, Syed Rizwan Farook, his son was “obsessed with Israel.”
In an interview in the Italian newspaper La Stampa, the senior Syed Farook said, “My son said that he shared [Islamic State leader] Al Baghdadi’s ideology and supported the creation of the Islamic State. He was also obsessed with Israel.”
Likewise, the Los Angeles Times reported that “As the investigation unfolded, friends and family of the shooters came forward to offer snapshots that may point to what motivated Wednesday’s attack, including Farook’s apparent fixation on Israel and Malik’s devotion to a fundamentalist strain of Islam.”
There is no greater predictor of violence than Jew-hatred. It predicts violence as accurately as does animal torture.
But while it is universally acknowledged that childhood torture of animals predicts violence, relatively few people understand that the same holds true of Jew-hatred.
Given that I have found no exception to this rule, one would think that non-Jews would learn from it and immediately oppose Jew-haters. But, incredibly, that is not the case. Most non-Jews have regarded Jew-hatred as the Jews’ problem or, as in the case of Israel-hatred, the Jews’ fault.
In the 1930s, when Western democracies had a chance to crush the Nazis, they did nothing despite the fact that Hitler and Nazism were as obsessed with the Jews as Syed Farook was with the Jewish state. The West regarded Hitler’s anti-Semitism as essentially the Jews’ problem. Eventually, about 50 million people were killed, 44 million of them non-Jews.
So, too, when Israelis were being murdered by Palestinian Muslim suicide bombers in the so-called Intifada, the murders were largely ignored, or worse, “explained” by Western liberals as the understandable Palestinian reaction to Israeli occupation.
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Here is my favorite paragraph of the story: “Despite her misgivings, Farrah decided that she trusted Deen and wanted to make a sex tape with him as a personal memento to celebrate her sexuality.”
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If we don’t import Muslims to do the jihad that Americans won’t do, won’t life be boring?
Is Donald Trump sincere about banning new Muslims from entering the country? Can he do it legally and politically? Perhaps he is staking out a bargaining position, which plays well with the portion of the electorate he wants to vote for him. Perhap he will settle for an end to chain migration and more thorough background checks.
Jews are more sensitive to fissures in society. That’s why Jewish groups like the ADL are going nuts condemning Trump. Movements towards Gentile cohesion, such as National Socialism, have often not been good for Jews.
Here is a classic Jewish response I found on Facebook:
I’m seeing hateful comments and memes about Muslims that make me uncomfortable.
The reality is, many people who don’t like Muslims also don’t like Jews. Right now, they’re talking about Muslims, but the tide could turn and Jews could be next.
Another reality is, you likely have friends or co-workers who are Muslim, and you don’t know it, and you are offending or upsetting them with your comments and memes, but they aren’t saying anything to you.
Mainstream Islam and mainstream Muslims DO condemn terrorist acts. We don’t see it on TV because it’s not “good TV”. It’s not polarizing. It doesn’t create sound bites.
I don’t like to see a whole religion attacked for the actions of some.
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I expect the National Front will get about 20% of the Jewish vote on Sunday.
REPORT: The group representing half a million French Jews has called for “mass voting” against nationalist political party Front National following its wide wins in regional elections on Sunday.
Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF), the French equivalent to the Board of Deputies of British Jews, issued a statement ahead of further voting this weekend, saying: “Go out and vote by the masses to block the FN, a xenophobic and populist party. Do not allow the Republic to fall.”
The party is anti-Europe, anti-globalisation and anti-immigration, and is often seen as hard on the causes of terrorism, which has led to accusations that it is anti-Muslim. Its success was this week being seen as a reaction to the latest terrorist atrocities in Paris, following earlier attacks by jihadists in January.
French Jewish leaders have distanced themselves from the party, which is led by Marine Le Pen, in part because of its association with her father Jean-Marie, who founded it. He was however recently expelled for saying Nazi gas chambers were a “detail of history” and defending war-time collaborator Philippe Petain.
Marine has sought to shed the anti-Semitic image her father gave the party, but while some European Jewish groups have initiated dialogue, most continue to refuse meetings.
In March last year, when the party won control of 11 towns across the country, the Conference of European Rabbis, said: “The French electorate is either not taking the threat from the far right seriously or they do not care. In either case, this result should sound alarm bells across Europe that the politics of hatred are making a formidable comeback.”
Three months later the European Jewish Congress (EJC) filed the lawsuit in Paris, after the 85-year old Jean-Marie, after he used a phrase for ovens when responding to criticism from Jewish singer and actor Patrick Bruel.
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ISIS is Islam. The prophet Mohammed embodied Islam. They all want the same thing — world conquest.
JPOST: The Islamic fundamentalist organization known as Islamic State released a video Friday, showing one of its jihadi militants threatening to attack Israelis in Hebrew, promising that “soon there will not be one Jew left in Jerusalem.”
ISIS’s Syrian branch posted the clip to Youtube, depicting a masked terrorist, dressed in military fatigues and holding a rifle, speaking Hebrew with an Arabic accent, while making ominous threats against the Jewish State.
“We will enter al-Aksa mosque as conquerors, using our cars as bombs to strike the Jewish ramparts,” the ISIS militant said.
“Do what you will in the meantime until we reach you,” the jihadi continues. “Then we will charge you ten-fold for the crimes” you have committed against the Palestinian people.
“We assure you that soon there will not be a single Jew left in Jerusalem and throughout the country,” adding “we will move to eradicate the disease” of the Jewish people “worldwide.”
According to a new report by The Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor of MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute), Islamic State has launched a media campaign releasing a series of videos in support of terror attacks and encouraging Palestinians to carry out more.
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* Shrewd move by Trump, advocating a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
Trump’s proposal comes in response to the level of hatred among “large segments of the Muslim population” toward Americans.
“Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” Trump said in the statement.
These statements by Trump should give a boost to his popularity , especially among republican primary voters.
* In last night’s speech to the nation, Obama pushed for restrictions on purchase of weapons by those on “no-fly lists,” even though neither assailant was on a “no-fly list.” He made passing reference to the assailants’ possession of pipe bombs, but somehow he didn’t think through the problem. These two people were determined to kill Americans, and, if somehow they couldn’t use the assault rifles, they would have resorted to the pipe bombs. So I am not sure why he just seeking ineffective restrictions on fire arms. He also called for Muslim religious leaders around the world to reform Islam, acknowledging that Islam was in need of reformation. But he didn’t say what a rational leader would have said, namely that until Islam was reformed the U.S. would no longer accept any Muslim immigrants. He has basically handed a powerful issue to the Republicans and left poor Hillary Clinton to defend an extremely unpopular position to the American public.
* What is surprising that the father would openly talk like this, it’s clear the Muzzies are becoming more brazen – which is worrisome. It’s also shocking to see USA Today print this. People are getting scared.
That said, the entire family reeks of Salafism, they weren’t some lapsed beer drinking Muzzies but old school buggers doing what allah wanted. All junior did was simply follow the Koranic demands to their logical conclusion – jihad.
Heck he was radicalized merely by growing up in that family, but like a good jihadi played the Dr. Jeckl and Mr. Hyde game with the infidels until it was time to strike.
I bet if one does a background check on their friends and relatives you’ll find a entire network devoted to supporting jihadis. It’s very doubtful junior was alone in this, he had help.
* I bet Farook Sr. is on disability. His wife said he’s “mentally ill” and takes meds in court when she filed for divorce. After 40 quarters of work you’re eligible for disability as an immigrant. Somebody should research Asian SSI claims. There are so many scams it would blow the average American’s mind. And not just Muslims, mind you. The Chinese are masters of this. It’s a wonder California hasn’t already bankrupted the US all on its own.
* I haven’t seen anyone yet remark how strange it was that the day after their son/brother killed 14 people, the Farooks already had a Benjamin Crumpish “family lawyer” supplied to them by CAIR, who then called a press conference where they gave statements.
Did Charlie Mason’s actual family have a press conference? Did the press lap it up and write up sympathetic profiles of family members who weren’t mass killers? I don’t think we have ever heard so much, from so many, of the relatives of a mass murderer the very week of the mass murder.
* I hate to say it, but once we decided that discrimination against American citizens was wrong, that kicked out much of the philosophical justification for discriminating against foreigners too. How can you support equal civil rights for African Americans, and then argue that maybe we should discourage any more Africans from coming over?
It’s no coincidence that both kinds of discrimination were legislated out of existence within the same year.
* I’m fascinated by the loose threads that the media just allows to flutter away unchecked.
On the day of the San Bernardino shooting, there was an intense manhunt for the third person in the SUV, who police saw run away from the vehicle during the shootout.
I watched live on television while helicopters broadcast the police moving from house to house in search of this person. One reporter on the ground even reported that the individual had a shootout with police while running through people’s backyards; he cited as evidence a dead dog on the ground with bullet wounds.
The third person was supposedly captured, but I haven’t heard or read a single thing about him/her since.
* Rand Paul is now calling for a moratorium on immigration from the “middle east” (presumably from Pakistan too?). This is shaping up to be a battle between gun control on the left and immigration control on the right. Overton Window shifting again – I don’t recall immigration control brought up in response to terrorism outside of the Steve-o-sphere before.
* The Arabist Malcolm Kerr, the father of Steve Kerr, coach of the reigning NBA champions Golden State Warriors, was assassinated in his office as head of the American University in Beirut in 1984.
Link: The reason we decided to dig into Sayid Farooq’s collection of literature found at his residence (the works of Sayid Qutb in particular) and ties to the Islamic Society’s Corona-Norco branch (the Islamic Society of Corona-Norco aka “ISCN”) in “Some Interesting San Bernardino Developments” is because we suspect his jihadist associations played a large part in how he was “matched” with Tashfeena. Our sources in the San Bernardino Police Department report that Sayid’s father stated his son had begun distancing himself from his family as far back as 2010 and that they didn’t really know Tashfeena all that well either. We can’t say that we’re surprised given how Sayid’s family have been going to the Islamic Center of Riverside (a real-deal moderate institution) in favor of the ISCN. That happened two years ago. You know what also happened two years ago? Sayid traveled to Saudi Arabia to meet his wife who he had first met online. In fact his family noticed he had become increasingly “conservative” since his trip. As previously stated in yesterday’s article, we assess that it was likely a foreign facilitator who recruited him that “paired” the two up for a marriage. Furthermore, we suspect that Sayid met with this individual during his time in Saudi Arabia. Our staff is working with our Saudi Mabahith contacts to identify this individual. We’d like to assume the FBI is already doing this themselves, but the vibe we’re getting from our Department of Homeland Security (DHS) peeps implies this isn’t happening.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he is calling for a “complete and total shutdown” on Muslims entering the United States.
Trump says in a statement released by his campaign Monday that his proposal comes in response to the level of hatred among “large segments of the Muslim population” toward Americans.
Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski says Trump’s proposed ban would apply to “everybody,” including Muslims seeking immigration visas as well as tourists seeking to enter the country.
Donald J. Trump called on Monday for the United States to bar all Muslims from entering the country until the nation’s leaders can “figure out what is going on,” an extraordinary escalation of his harsh rhetoric aimed at members of the Islamic faith in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.
“Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine,” said Mr. Trump, the leading Republican candidate for his party’s 2016 presidential nomination.
“Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” he said.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Trump confirmed the authenticity of the statement. Asked what prompted it, Mr. Trump said, “death,” according to the spokeswoman.
Mr. Trump made his remarks a day after President Obama delivered a national address from the Oval Office urging Americans not to turn against Muslims in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Mr. Trump is expected to say more at a rally at the USS Yorktown in South Carolina on Monday evening to mark the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Experts on immigration law and policy expressed shock at the proposal Monday afternoon.
“This is just so antithetical to the history of the United States,” said Nancy Morawetz, a professor of clinical law at New York University School of Law, who specializes in immigration. “It’s unbelievable to have a religious test for admission into the country.”
She added: “I cannot recall any historical precedent for denying immigration based on religion.”
Ms. Morawetz said that the United States has long regretted policies that banned the immigration of Chinese at the end of 19th century.
“It’s a very sad chapter in American immigration history that we would think is behind us today.”
Mr. Trump has a track record of making surprising and even extreme comments whenever he is overtaken in opinion polls by other Republican candidates – as happened on Monday just hours before he issued his statement about Muslims. A new Monmouth University survey of likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers found that Mr. Trump had slipped from his recent top spot in the state, which holds the first presidential nomination contest on Feb. 1. According to the poll, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas earned 24 percent of support in the poll, while Mr. Trump had 19 percent and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida had 17 percent.
Mr. Trump, who boasts about his strong poll numbers at the beginning of virtually every campaign speech, launched an unusually stinging attack against Ben Carson, another Republican candidate, when Mr. Carson took a lead in Iowa polls this fall; Mr. Trump, citing Mr. Carson’s memoir about his sometimes-violent youth, called him “pathological” and compared his state of mind to a child molester’s.
While several of the Republican presidential candidates have called for increased intelligence gathering and more aggressive investigations of suspected terrorists, as well as a halt to Muslim refugees entering the United States from Syria, Mr. Trump’s pointed suspicions about Muslims have been in a category by themselves.
At his campaign rallies, he has drawn strong applause from thousands of voters for his calls on the government to monitor mosques, and he has refused to rule out his earlier proposal to enter names of Muslims in America into a database. He has also made a series of ominous comments about President Obama’s leadership in fighting terrorism, suggesting that there was “something going on” with Mr. Obama that Americans were not aware of.
The proposal drew immediate condemnation from Muslim-Americans. Eboo Patel, the president of Interfaith Youth Core, based in Chicago, said, “I’m standing in a building right now where I am looking up at the Sears Tower, which was designed by Fazlur Rahman Khan,” a structural engineer originally from Bangladesh who was behind what is now known as the Willis Tower.
“What if we had barred Russians from America because of the Cold War? Who would have invented Google?” Mr. Patel asked, referring to Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin.
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
