Excellent idea. Don't be like Europe. Stop Muslim immigration.
Just a shame it's on the basis of country instead of religion. Political correctness gone wild, sad!
This isn't even about "having a heart" per se. You have to acknowledge that there are disturbing consequences when you try to regulate the flow of people in this manner. It's unnatural, it generalizes with a broad-brush etc. No one should cheer something like this. It's something that I can understand tolerating but celebrating an EO like this is disturbing.
How far we have fallen.
Note that since I'm not historically illiterate, I'm not talking about "not integrating" or whatever; that's just fine by me. Ostjuden in Berlin didn't exactly assimilate either. I don't mind Muslims dressing differently, praying differently, thinking differently, or eating differently, and I would be a massive hypocrite if I did. What I mind is too many Muslims expecting non-Muslims to conform to their rules, committing acts of terrorism because of their religion, and blaming everything on the West while living conditions for a Muslim in the West are infinitely better than for a Muslim in the Middle East. Violent crimes by Muslim youth cannot solely be understood through socio-economic disparities or whatever: they are rooted in a culture that fundamentally disrepects non-Muslims and views taking over non-Muslim areas through intimidation and street terror as legitimate. Moreover, many Muslims' tendency to act on their disapproval of Jews and LGBT people and on women's freedom poses a big problem and is perhaps inevitable. It is that type of behavior I loathe, and we've got a big problem on our hands here in Europe.
LGBT people are a group that should absolutely be part of an exception to the rule and if this executive order would not include such an exception, that would be an aspect I most definitely do not support.
One of the ironies is that any thinking person who is actually concerned about the deeply reactionary tendencies of political Islamism and who does not use that term as coded language for "brown people that I dislike" would recognize that the greatest victims of this tendency are those who are nominally Muslim (closeted gay people, aspiring professional women, artists etc.). The only way to provide safe harbor for them is to accept refugees who are Muslim. This quandary is probably unresolvable for those who are sincere about fearing Islam rather than fearing Muslims.
This is why earlier I referred to the Holocaust, though the Pogroms in Russia would be a much better comparison. Yes, various dissidents are not religious/ethnic minorities but they do face the prospects of political oppression, discrimination and so on. Atrocities will be committed against them. The West's refusal to stand up for its own values in these cases is despicable and betrays the real reasons for these restrictions.
I'd add that screening based on religion wouldn't work. You wouldn't want to force potential refugees to declare themselves as non-Muslim when they're living in the Middle East. That could be a death sentence.
Just some things to keep in mind, I guess. People are free to support these measures but they ought to acknowledge the collateral damage when doing so. Is that actually congruent with the values held by Europeans/Americans?
