{"id":90815,"date":"2016-03-22T15:50:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T23:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90815"},"modified":"2016-03-22T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T23:50:32","slug":"halting-islamic-immigration-is-commonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90815","title":{"rendered":"Halting Islamic Immigration Is Commonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FranklinGraham\/posts\/1119225144800332\">Reverend Franklin Graham says on Facebook<\/a>: Join me in praying for the victims and families of the Muslim terrorist attack in Belgium today. Islamists have told us we will see more of these attacks and we have to take their threats seriously. I have long supported a temporary halt to immigration, especially for those coming from Muslim countries, until we have a vetting program that works and we can know who these people are. If we can&#8217;t get an accurate background check, they don&#8217;t come in. It&#8217;s as simple as that. What happened in Brussels, in Paris, and in New York on 9\/11 will happen again inside our borders unless something changes because the current administration has lowered the standards and our President even refuses to acknowledge this as Islamic terrorism. Our country is in trouble\u2500we have a void in leadership. Pray that God will give us a strong leader for this nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverend Franklin Graham says on Facebook: Join me in praying for the victims and families of the Muslim terrorist attack in Belgium today. 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