Nesslig20
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Now before any American starts to criticize the title, read this first.
Remember when Trump said during his campaign that he will ban all muslims entering the U.S. and everyone, including Trump supporters, didn't took that seriously, nothing but a marketing ploy to pander more voters? Well, it has become a reality folks.
This is not a joke nor is it funny. Far from it.
What I am going to write here is mostly the same as in this video by Vox. But I will also add my own opinion about this later on. As you already are aware, Trump has signed an executive order misleadingly called "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States"
Don't judge a book by its cover, or in this case the title. It specifically targets Muslim countries, restricting immigrants from those nations to enter the U.S and it does not address any foreign terrorism. To see the greater picture first, let's first list some facts about the terrorism on America..
1. The majority of the death toll caused by terrorism in the U.S. does not stem from Muslim extremism (well at least until 2015).
It turns out that since 9/11 until 2015, the 48% of the deaths caused by terrorism were killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics, neo-nazi's and other non-Muslim extremists. Whereas 26% were done by self-proclaimed Jihadists. In fact, from 2001 to 2015, twice as many americans have died from attacks by white right-wing groups than by muslim extremists.
While this fact only holds from 2001 to 2015 (2016 changed it) death by terrorism in total is but a fraction of the gun related issue (though I am not going into gun control any further).
2. The majority of terrorism in the U.S. mediated by muslim extremists are not foreigners.
Notice the last statement I wrote previously about 2001 to 2005 that more americans have died from right wing groups rather than muslims, well thanks to the Orlando shooting in 2016 has changed that. But still, the deaths by muslim terrorists is just 1/3 of a percent of the total homicides in the U.S. but besides that, the Orlando shooting was a 29-year-old New York-born American citizen and Florida resident, not a foreign-born radical.
While most american muslims are immigrants, but immigrants are underrepresented among muslim extremists. Most of them are instead converts (muslims with a non-muslim background).
These facts alone should indicate how futile the executive order is in addressing terrorism. But it get's worse.
3. Trump picked the wrong countries.
The executive order lists countries from which the immigrants are restricted to enter the U.S. , but non of the foreign terrorists that have caused trouble in America are from these countries. There are known muslim terrorists that came from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt but these are not on the list.
You would think that this order has almost nothing to do with countering terrorism, and you would be right. This has worse implications. It is specifically a muslim ban act, just like Trump had promised before. Now Trump will not admit that this is a muslim-ban act nor his supporters, but this is betrayed by a loop hole in the executive order wherein it says
"Upon the resumption of USRAP [US Refugee Admissions Program] admissions, the secretary of state, in consultation with the secretary of Homeland Security, is further directed to make changes, to the extent permitted by law, to prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality."
Notice that the people of religious minority are not restricted from entering the U.S. and since the religious majority in the countries are muslim, this act is effectively saying that "fellow christians are welcome, but you muslims are not getting in our country". And Trump has freudianly admitted this with his interview on the Christian broadcasting network, that he prioritizes to help non-muslim refugees, specifically those that are christian.
You cannot get any further from the first amendment. I am not an American and you may be wondering why I care what America does, but this just outrages me. I know enough about America's history that it was founded by and for people who were refugees, escaping religious persecution in Europe, because the government established religious freedom. This is the exact thing that made America great. It is simply ironic (not in the fun way) that the president of the U.S. , who frequently said that he would make his nation great again, is now doing the exact opposite. Countering the very thing that made the U.S. great.
If a country is now restricting people from entering the country based on religion.....it is not a country I would call
"land of the free"
If a country is so afraid of something perceived to be foreign, which is hardly a threat when compared to real threats that come from within its very own nation, such that it is willing to sacrifice its foundational principles of freedom....it is not a country I would call
"home of the brave"
If you are an American, wether you voted for Trump or Hilary or loved or hated Obama, it doesn't matter in this case. If you know this is wrong, take this as an advice and stop your president from doing shit like this. Let him read what is written on the statue of liberty.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Remember when Trump said during his campaign that he will ban all muslims entering the U.S. and everyone, including Trump supporters, didn't took that seriously, nothing but a marketing ploy to pander more voters? Well, it has become a reality folks.
This is not a joke nor is it funny. Far from it.
What I am going to write here is mostly the same as in this video by Vox. But I will also add my own opinion about this later on. As you already are aware, Trump has signed an executive order misleadingly called "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States"
Don't judge a book by its cover, or in this case the title. It specifically targets Muslim countries, restricting immigrants from those nations to enter the U.S and it does not address any foreign terrorism. To see the greater picture first, let's first list some facts about the terrorism on America..
1. The majority of the death toll caused by terrorism in the U.S. does not stem from Muslim extremism (well at least until 2015).
It turns out that since 9/11 until 2015, the 48% of the deaths caused by terrorism were killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics, neo-nazi's and other non-Muslim extremists. Whereas 26% were done by self-proclaimed Jihadists. In fact, from 2001 to 2015, twice as many americans have died from attacks by white right-wing groups than by muslim extremists.
While this fact only holds from 2001 to 2015 (2016 changed it) death by terrorism in total is but a fraction of the gun related issue (though I am not going into gun control any further).
2. The majority of terrorism in the U.S. mediated by muslim extremists are not foreigners.
Notice the last statement I wrote previously about 2001 to 2005 that more americans have died from right wing groups rather than muslims, well thanks to the Orlando shooting in 2016 has changed that. But still, the deaths by muslim terrorists is just 1/3 of a percent of the total homicides in the U.S. but besides that, the Orlando shooting was a 29-year-old New York-born American citizen and Florida resident, not a foreign-born radical.
While most american muslims are immigrants, but immigrants are underrepresented among muslim extremists. Most of them are instead converts (muslims with a non-muslim background).
These facts alone should indicate how futile the executive order is in addressing terrorism. But it get's worse.
3. Trump picked the wrong countries.
The executive order lists countries from which the immigrants are restricted to enter the U.S. , but non of the foreign terrorists that have caused trouble in America are from these countries. There are known muslim terrorists that came from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt but these are not on the list.
You would think that this order has almost nothing to do with countering terrorism, and you would be right. This has worse implications. It is specifically a muslim ban act, just like Trump had promised before. Now Trump will not admit that this is a muslim-ban act nor his supporters, but this is betrayed by a loop hole in the executive order wherein it says
"Upon the resumption of USRAP [US Refugee Admissions Program] admissions, the secretary of state, in consultation with the secretary of Homeland Security, is further directed to make changes, to the extent permitted by law, to prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality."
Notice that the people of religious minority are not restricted from entering the U.S. and since the religious majority in the countries are muslim, this act is effectively saying that "fellow christians are welcome, but you muslims are not getting in our country". And Trump has freudianly admitted this with his interview on the Christian broadcasting network, that he prioritizes to help non-muslim refugees, specifically those that are christian.
You cannot get any further from the first amendment. I am not an American and you may be wondering why I care what America does, but this just outrages me. I know enough about America's history that it was founded by and for people who were refugees, escaping religious persecution in Europe, because the government established religious freedom. This is the exact thing that made America great. It is simply ironic (not in the fun way) that the president of the U.S. , who frequently said that he would make his nation great again, is now doing the exact opposite. Countering the very thing that made the U.S. great.
If a country is now restricting people from entering the country based on religion.....it is not a country I would call
"land of the free"
If a country is so afraid of something perceived to be foreign, which is hardly a threat when compared to real threats that come from within its very own nation, such that it is willing to sacrifice its foundational principles of freedom....it is not a country I would call
"home of the brave"
If you are an American, wether you voted for Trump or Hilary or loved or hated Obama, it doesn't matter in this case. If you know this is wrong, take this as an advice and stop your president from doing shit like this. Let him read what is written on the statue of liberty.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"