Thursday, December 10, 2015

Should they be so sanctimonious?

Donald Trump has done it again. He said that all Muslims should be banned from entering the US until " our country's representatives can figure out what is going on". The statement looked totally premeditated and it seemed that he enjoyed making it because he repeated " what the hell is going on ", knowing that it would unleash a firestorm of outrage. Earlier he has suggested surveillance of all mosques in the US and a database of all Muslims living in the country. Criticism was swift and severe, especially from liberals. " The fact is what Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving for president, and for Republican candidates for president to stand by their pledge to support Mr Trump, that in and of itself is disqualifying," said the White House Press Secretary. Some think that Trump is a closet Democrat who is dragging the Republican Party to the right so as to help Hillary Clinton win the presidential election next year. Whatever politicians may say many Americans support Trump's views. 49% of Republicans and 41% of Democrats supported a database on Muslims and 56% of Americans agree that " values of Islam are at odds with American values". 68% of Trump's supporters will vote for him even if he runs as an independent. So, are all these Americans redneck Christian fanatics, like the man who killed 3 people, including a police officer, at a Planned Parenthood clinic, because he is against abortion? An American Muslim wrote an angry article, listing wrongdoings by the US and European countries against Muslims. True, but why do millions of people from Muslim countries beg to enter western countries if they are so bad? The US used nuclear weapons against Japan, napalm in Korea and cluster bombs and agent orange in Vietnam but citizens of these countries do not go around killing innocent people as happened in Paris and San Bernadino. The writer says that these are a " vast minority of the Muslim world ". Are they? ISIS did not emerge from the air like some jinn but received financing from wealthy Arabs from Gulf countries. The governments of these countries are known to be financing Sunni terrorist groups throughout the world. Turkey has been bombing Kurds, who are the only group fighting ISIS on the ground, as opposed to bombing them from the air. And then there is Pakistan. The Mumbai attacks were planned and coordinated by the ISI when anti-Hindu Congress was in power. Hafiz Saeed is walking around free as is Dawood Ibrahim, both protected by the ISI. Even now Pakistan is trying to hide terrorist schools in Multan. We know about Bin Laden. If governments are financing and protecting terror groups then we are not talking about 'tiny minorities', are we? Not only do so-called liberals keep insisting that it is a tiny minority but if anyone disagrees he is a bigot. Sanctimonious liars. 

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