ohsherrie wrote:OK, so I swallowed the Branstad thing, but the doesn't make anything else I said any less true.
These people haven't assimilated within any culture that has allowed them.Their culture is not compatible with any democratic culture. Have you read about the atrocities they're committing in Europe? Don't wait to hear about it in the MSM because you won't. Surely you're not so naive as to think there are no terrorists among them?
Read the article. They go through TWO YEARS of scrutiny before they are allowed to move to the US. TWO YEARS. If ISIS wants to get somebody in the US, they are better off sending them to Canada and having them cross the border. Yeah, it's foolish to say it is a guarantee that no terrorists are among them but it is a foolish and inefficient way to get them here....and is a very ignorant excuse to be for banning refugees, or all "Muslims".
You also fail to consider that you have been living with Muslims in the US for hundreds of years. To say things like they are not compatible with western society is also ignorant and ignoring history.
You point out the most radical of examples to define an entire religion. But, what about Bangledesh, Indonesia, or even India? These countries all have large Muslim populations...but none of these issues you mention. IMO, it is short sighted, racist, bigotry to repeat the things you are. Perhaps learning the bigger picture before you repeat such false claims would help you a bit.
Again, I will say that Iowa has welcomed thousands of refugees. That is a FACT. I do not see this state having any problems with terrorism. The only thing that frustrates me is it adds more competition for jobs....but, right now, that's really not much of an issue either.
Then you take a pic like FF's. It's stuff like that which reminds me of Germany's propaganda against Jews. I would rather be in a country that welcomes people trying to escape tyranny and death, and not be led by a tyrant who closes borders based on paranoia and sends tens of thousands back to their country to die in a gas chamber, or beheaded, or shot and dumped into a mass grave. It is pretty pathetic that people exist in this country that has a symbol that says that we welcome them. I feel it is unAmerican, unpatriotic, and wrong.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.That is America. Refusing them and sending them back to their death is wrong.