Over at PJ Media I discuss the growing defiance of Obama’s suicidal refugee policy:
As of Monday evening, the governors of twenty-four states have declared that they are not going to allow any Syrian refugees to be settled in their states. Barack Obama, predictably enough, is livid.
The governors have all cited, quite reasonably, the security risks involved in taking the refugees. The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, noted that “a Syrian ‘refugee’ appears to have been part of the Paris terror attack. American humanitarian compassion could be exploited to expose Americans to similar deadly danger.” Robert Bentley, the governor of Alabama, agreed, explaining that he did not want any of the refugees in Alabama because “I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm’s way.”
The governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, was similarly security-minded: “No, I’m not interested in accepting refugees from Syria,” he said. “My view on this is the safety and security of the people of the Commonwealth of Mass. is my highest priority. So I would set the bar very high on this.” Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson stated simply that taking Syrian refugees at this time “is not the right strategy.”
Barack Obama remains convinced that it is exactly the right strategy.
He said that the Paris jihad massacre, which were perpetrated by, among others, at least two “refugees” who had just recently arrived in Europe, was just a “setback” that wouldn’t deter him in the slightest from pursuing his scheme to flood the U.S. with at least 10,000 refugees from Syria. He termed opposition to his plan “shameful,” casting American acceptance of the refugees as a moral imperative and saying: “We have to, each of us, do our part, and the United States has to step up and do its part.”
The United States has to do its part, in Obama’s view, but he didn’t explain, and of course was not challenged by his lapdog media, why Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar don’t have to do their part. Those countries, even though they have a linguistic, cultural and religious bond with the refugees, have accepted none of them at all all, citing the risk of terrorism. Why can’t Americans cite the same risk, and likewise refuse to take in these refugees?
Obama didn’t answer that question, but he did imply that objection to the refugees was really all about religious bigotry:
When I hear folks say that, well, maybe we should just admit the Christians but not the Muslims. When I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which person who’s fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted. When some of those folks themselves come from families who benefitted from protection when they were fleeing political persecution — That’s shameful. That’s not American. That’s not who we are. We don’t have religious tests to our compassion.
Fair enough. But do we have common sense limits to our compassion? If the “right-wing extremists” of the administration’s imagining were really as lethal as Islamic jihadis, Obama might have a point about not applying religious tests to our compassion. But unfortunately for Obama’s presentation of the issues involved in the refugee crisis, Christians are not waging jihad around the world. Christian terrorists did not boast last February that they would soon inundate Europe with 500,000 refugees – Muslim terrorists did. The Lebanese education minister did not recently warn that there were 20,000 Christian terrorists among the Syrian refugees in camps in his country – he said there were 20,000 active jihadis. It was not a Christian terrorist, but an Islamic State operative who boasted in September, shortly after the migrant influx into Europe began, that among the flood of refugees, 4,000 terrorists had already entered Europe.
Obama didn’t address those facts. Instead, he portrayed the refugees — all of them — as victims:
The people who are fleeing Syria are the most harmed by terrorism … It is very important … that we do not close our hearts to these victims of such violence and somehow start equating the issue of refugees with the issue of terrorism.
Meanwhile, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes tried to address some of the real concerns, asserting that American officials had “very extensive screening procedures” that they would employ among the refugees. Former NATO supreme commander James Stavridis added his own claim that U.S. officials would be able to vet the refugees “safely and appropriately,” and declared:
We should continue to take a substantial number of Syrian refugees because it is the right thing to do for the international community and because over time they will prove to be citizens of real capability and true grit, like many who immigrated before them in troubled times. The key is serious vetting using all the tools at our disposal.
How he knew that the refugees would “prove to be citizens of real capability and true grit,” he didn’t say.
At the same time, there were discordant voices. FBI Director James Comey doubted that the refugees could be easily vetted: “If we have no information on someone, they’ve never crossed our radar screen … it will be challenging,” he said — and most jihadis from Syria have not crossed the U.S. radar screen, as the U.S. fought for ten years in Iraq, not Syria….
Read the rest here.

sahani says
How one man Obama a muslim born has so much power in america that he is able to create laws and ways to harm many americans by his actions. What is the role of senators ,Governors and congressman.
looks like he has real islamic hidden agenda.
Don McKellar says
His Islamic agenda is out in plain sight for all to see. It’s not hidden at all. He never really has hidden it. In fact the infamous Cairo Speech which laid the groundwork and inspired the Arab Spring was in blatant support of it. But he is like the Emperor with new clothes as far as mainstream media and left-fascists are concerned. It doesn’t matter what he say and does, he is the Magic Negro.
quotha raven says
To Don McKeller – I agree.
In fact, Obama campaigned from the getgo on his plan to FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE the USA. Hope and Change were his motto, and he soon delineated exactly what he would do, right down to closing Guantanamo and imposing nationalized health care on us, no matter what we thought about it. His words have always been those of a cynical, narcissistic dictator. He has never hidden anything of his agenda. Obama himself with his own words flaunted just how dangerous he was and is, how he disdains our Constitution.
One of the first things he did upon taking office, which I imagine NYCers will recall with a chill, was to buzz Wall Street and New Jersey with an Air Force One look-alike and a second military plane following it at a few minutes past 9 a.m. on a bright and sunny, impossibly beautiful morning, just as everyone had arrived at work in the financial district.
These planes circled and dived between Wall St and NJ over the Hudeson River. Just like 9/11/01. People panicked, of course, and there were minor injuries, broken legs, a heart attack, as people fled in terror from their buildings. Remember that? It was explained as a “photo op” and no one questioned it further, but I thought he was acting out a sort of fuck you to Wall Street and it scared the shit out of me. It indicated just how cynical and treacherous this man’s character was. And is. Most of my friends at the time thought I was totally nuts.
The media and voters let this country down. I still cannot understand why people didn’t see through this guy from the very beginning, but if you offer free stuff, lazy lowlifes and criminals will vote for you. His whole presidency has been focussed on allowing more and more lazy, criminally inclined lowlifes into the country and on allowing them to vote, even if they are illegal aliens, for example, under the “motor voter” plan enacted in some states.
That said, I didn’t anticipate that getting those votes and winning the office – twice – was only secondary to his plan to embed terrorism and sharia in our country. Not that his primary agenda was hidden – not at all; he started his presidency apologizing for the west in Egypt, then bowing down and sucking up to Arab kings, and the first television appearance he made was on Middle Eastern television. I believe that to most people, the idea of his selling us out to Islam was (and for many still is) simply inconceivable. His recent arrogance and condescension with regard to Syria to the people he is supposed to be serving is astounding to me. Is Obama simply unassailable? Take another look at his accomplishments, provided by Ralph yesterday, via a retired aid to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Cheers!
Quotha Raven
Benton Marder says
Y’see, Obama considers that any terrorism ensuing from his free admission of jihadis is strictly ‘collateral damage’, anti-social behaviour’, ‘unintended consequences’—provided that ‘the Lord’s anointed’ is not touched. It is his own self that matters, none other and none else.
ich says
OBAMA blaming the Christians. Classic deflection.
Hes a complete feckin tool.
What a despicable coward.
I am sure Jon Stewart and the like think hes wonderful for saying.
Spot On says
Clown Obama is castigating everyone for not even wanting women and children refugees. One of his stooges chided… “Not even 5 year olds?”.
A Muslim women suicide bomber just tried to kill people in the past few days. I even recall some time ago seeing Muslim five year olds wearing child suicide vests.
Peter Charles says
Yes, the womman leaned out of a window in a Paris suburban apartment beiing raided satying “Heklp me, help me! ” trying to lure them closer to take the French cops with her when she blew herself stright to hell. A place she will fit right into.
David Quilty says
The president is imbalanced by word and action and should be removed… new quote from the visit to The Philippines…
“…Scared of Widows and 3-Year-Old Orphans…”
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-terror-attacks/obama-chides-anti-refugee-crowd-being-scared-widows-3-year-n465301
jihad3tracker says
As one of the older (age 67) munchkins here on JW, let me add some history about “clown” Obama, as commenter Spot On writes above.
The only similar circumstance of total shredding for the “comfortable reasonable expectations” about what would happened during a second term in office — happened to Richard Nixon during the Watergate-burglary impeachment hearings. That guy had a borderline mental breakdown.
In all seriousness, I would not be surprised if the same unraveling is playing out with BHO now. We see how, faced with perfectly reasonable caution about Syrian refugees coming to the U.S., he gets increasingly entrenched in mindless repeated remarks about tragic suffering women and children, etcetera.
His emotional resonance since childhood has been, as most of the regular visitors here well know, in the Islamic world. He does not have the mature integrity and inner strength to overcome that, moving beyond it into true patriotism. And let’s be quite honest on a 2nd reason for his seditious behavior: a “person of color” grievance personality trait, which ultra-Leftist upbringing glued into his brain.
So, with more than a year until the next inauguration and Islam exploding on a worldwide scale faster than even I believed possible — including America — NOTHING WILL SUPRISE ME REGARDING HOW UNHINGED BHO BECOMES AND HOW THAT IS MANIFESTED IN WHAT HE DOES. Everyone had better hold on tight.
Spot On says
Clown Obama’s anti US inclinations and his sociopathic personality traits make it quite easy for him to achieve his goal of raising $1Billion dollars for his library. Just think of all the US adversaries who would gladly help Obama raise money for his library.
William says
Obama won’t relent. His track record of perseverance is there to see: he kept pushing Obamacare even against all the polls and he won; he did not relent with the importation of people from Ebola infested countries even when many were calling for a halt. He is now unrelenting with the Syrian refugees importation, even against all odds, safety concerns, governors’ actions, etc. He won’t be impeded.
Mike says
If Obama’s family had been caught up in the Paris bombings as other liberals like Geraldo Rivera, perhaps he might be saying it differently. I quite like Geraldo but previously he was all full of ill thought out compassion towards immigrants from Syria to the exclusion of assessing the risks of infiltrating Jihadists. He like the rest of us still have compassion towards them but the priority is security over compassion and risks should not be taken. The BBC in London is full of Liberal journalists who are similarly minded demanding migrants be let in but one of them yesterday was pictured in Paris in tears looking at the remembrance display.
When it gets up close and personal, liberals get a dose of reality and common sense usually takes over but with the security Obama & family has, they’ll never see any atrocity up close and personal nor be put in a dangerous position. Common sense will not prevail because ideology trumps the safety of US citizens. Through his attempts to dump ten thousand of migrants in the USA (or more), if only 1% are Jihadists, that will add at least 100 Jihadist killers to wreak carnage.
His claims that they will be 100% vetted is fatuous and a lie. Every security expert has said it is impossible and cant be done for these migrants. Normal immigration requires not just a (fake ?) passport, but birth certificate, marriage certificate, medical tests, proof of previous residence (utility bills), proof of financial support, banking records and the like. Has Obama stated these will extra checks will be carried out ? No !
If immigrants from countries that are true allies and Christian based are required to provide this sort of documentation why aren’t they from countries with Jihadists roaming free !!!
worldcitizen1919 says
The wider picture for me is that as this terrorism progresses the Muslims will become the new Jews and find that they are not welcome anywhere and will be denied employment and even entry into universities.
The thing is if Muslims are not willing to come to our nations without trying to force on us their cultures and traditions then they are far better off migrating to a Muslim nation.
Moderate Islam has to distinguish itself from terrorists more openly by joining in the war on terror otherwise I see terrible suffering for Muslims everywhere because they are fast destroying the trust that humanity placed in them to do the right think.
Our nations have taken them in fed a special clothed them and housed them and given them employment, in return they are not asked anything except to respect our people.
It’s not too much to expect.
jihad3tracker says
The essential task for Islam is to spread itself by deceit or open violence — until the entire world is Muslim by voluntary or forced conversion.
ISLAM IS A SUPREMACIST IDEA WITH POLITICAL AND SOCIAL OBJECTIVES — NOT A “RELIGION” IN THE SAME WAY THE CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM, HINDUISM, BUDDHISM ARE.
That is the evidence in Robert Spencer’s 14 books, and all the slaughter and subjugation we see Muslims doing every day.
“MODERATE ISLAM” IS INCOMPLETE ISLAM. Watch David Wood’s video titled “Three Stages of Jihad” at http://www.answeringmusliims.com. Use the search box and type in that title.
The video is almost 25 minutes long — with quotes from the holy Islamic sources, including what Muslims believe are THE WORDS OF ALLAH — as commands which must be obeyed by true Muslims..
dlbrand says
There is no such thing as “Moderate Islam.” As all Muslims know, there is only one Islam: the Islam of the so-called prophet of Islam.
In brief.
gravenimage says
More rot from Taqiyya artist “worldcitizen1919”:
The wider picture for me is that as this terrorism progresses the Muslims will become the new Jews…
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What crap. Jews were not mass murdering Gentiles in the name of their faith. The idea that our concern over violent Jihad is “terrorism” is moral inversion, and ignores the bloodbath of *real* Jihad terror.
More:
The thing is if Muslims are not willing to come to our nations without trying to force on us their cultures and traditions then they are far better off migrating to a Muslim nation.
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This is a Hijira–Muslim invaders are *deliberately* targeting the Infidel West. And forcing their “cultures and traditions”–really, Islam–on us is the *whole point*.
More:
Moderate Islam has to distinguish itself from terrorists more openly by joining in the war on terror otherwise I see terrible suffering for Muslims everywhere because they are fast destroying the trust that humanity placed in them to do the right think.
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There is no “moderate Islam”–why would pious Muslims join in a war on terror–i.e., opposing holy war in the name of their faith?
More:
Our nations have taken them in fed a special clothed them and housed them and given them employment, in return they are not asked anything except to respect our people.
It’s not too much to expect.
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It is foolish to expect that, since it has never happened. Surely the meretricious “worldcitizen1919” knows this.
Isabellathecrusader says
‘Gotta love “States Rights”. Thank you, Dearest God, for the founders putting in that one.
Michael Copeland says
Some of the new arrivals will be jihadis “of real capability and true grit”.
Paris shows us how.
somehistory says
John Bolton was on FOX, Judge Jennine show and had quite a bit to say about the *refugees* and when a country is *obligated* to take refugees.
One thing that stood out in what he said is that it is up to each country to decide who and when and which persons are *invited* in and the safety of the citizens are taken into consideration. Taking *refugees* is not an absolute; they can be refused. And the refugees have to apply for refugee status…not just force countries to allow them in by the hordes. merkle should be made to listen to what he said regarding each country’s obligation being up to each country, not her.
There is a lot more to what he said, and if o had the best interests of all involved in mind, he would listen to those who are saying taking them in now is suicide.
He is helping the beast from satan advance in its quest to subjugate all of mankind.
Sarita says
I frankly couldn’t care less if he’s livid. In fact, I think it’s a good thing. He’s been very laid back as he’s been turning our country into trash for the past 7 years. Now he’s on the way out and I do so hope his legacy is what he’s done to harm this country and the world, because he has been the biggest cheerleader of the Muslims for the past 7 years, encouraging them to do any d###d thing they wanted, and they did just that.
Marken says
These ‘seemingly’ clueless leaders believe it is necessary to flood Europe and North America with Muslim refugees but NOT because of multi-cultural or humanitarian ideals. This is about implementing a world government funded by carbon taxes. This is why you will always hear, ISIS, or the various faces of Islamic jihad as being caused by global climate change. Or for example, Biden saying this morning that we can not give into the terrorist and close our borders or the terrorist win, as if the Islamic terrorist agenda is to close borders! No, the carbon tax will be (is) controlled by private banks and national borders and identities must be broken down. Until we completely understand this, we will continue to interpret the actions of European and American leaders as foolishness, or that they do not understand the Koran or the motivation of Islam. No! They know! These elitists know despite feigning ignorance and holding to the ridiculous line of ‘this has nothing to do with Islam’. It is their view, but we can connect the dots from A to Z: they want us to believe the carbon tax will solve it all and to get to that they need this cultural breakdown. So of course they will be appalled to the resistance taken on by the governors to stop Syrian refugees, that action is just a tiny road block to their plan, and so ceasing ALL Muslim immigration in both Europe and America would be unthinkable to them.
Joe says
All this talk about admitting widows and orphans scares me no end. To paraphrase Lerner & Loewe, “Little boys get bigger every day”. An example from the opposite end of the spectrum: last spring my neighbors attended their grandson’s bar-mitzvah. The kid was conceived only a couple of weeks before his dad was killed in one of the twin towers on 9/11. Time marches on. Unless we closely monitor all the ways said orphans can be radicalized while here in the US, we’re committing mass suicide.
kay says
Re: “As of Monday evening, the governors of twenty-four states have declared that they are not going to allow any Syrian refugees to be settled in their states. Barack Obama, predictably enough, is livid.”
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I looked into this.
States CANNOT block migrant settlements. It’s a federal decision. So says a lawyer on major news media.
States CAN “refuse to co-operate”, which is very very important.
Also, the federal Syrian relocation program CAN be de-funded.
More Ham Ed says
You don’t seem to be gaining any friends with your insult-oriented arrogance-oriented posts.
Angemon says
Divisive as always, sheik Hussein.
Joseph says
Funny how Obama forgot to mention HIS bigot policy against allowing Christian refugees in.
More Ham Ed says
Leftists go directly to name calling and ad-hominem attacks, the same thing jihadis and muslim LEADERS do & Obama is left of the left.
Myxlplik says
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3322649/The-enemy-Nearly-SEVENTY-arrested-America-ISIS-plots-include-refugees-given-safe-haven-turned-terror.html?ICO=most_read_module
America’s Muslim immigrant enemies within, note 3 Bosnian Muslims top the list.
Myxlplik says
Scratch that 6 peaceful Bosnian Muslims arrested for Jihad in the last 18 months
More Ham Ed says
As a routine practice of name-calling and ad-hominem attacks obama says opponents are afraid of widows and kids. Name-calling and ad-hominem attacks, the same thing jihadis and so-called muslim leaders do.
Then hours later a “Muslima blows herself up in jihad suicide bombing”:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/11/france-police-raid-paris-suburb-searching-for-jihad-attackers-muslima-blows-herself-up-in-jihad-suicide-bombing
From one year ago “Islamic State training children to be jihad killers”:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/islamic-state-training-children-to-be-jihad-killers
dlbrand says
We are sending our bombers to IS, and IS, following Qur’anic guidance of retaliation, is sending, through every avenue possible, their bombers to us.
dlbrand says
Mr. Obama’s face darkens with anger (as ahadith provides, so did the face of “Allah’s Messenger” when some of his ummah dared to question his judgment), that anyone would dare to suggestion, never mind argue, there are distinct regard-worthy differences between the Christian faith and the Islamic faith.
Thus, he pleads, the inveterate practice of the US, with respect to how we deal with Islam and the adherents to it, remain firm, unchallenged, unquestioned, and for damn sure, unchanged.
He states, it is dangerous to allow this war to take shape as the West against Islam, aka, the faith of the followers of Qur’an, emulators of the so-called prophet of Islam; yet, all the high profile works we know IS commits find justification in the Islamic “sacred texts.”
Therefore, Mr. Obama, why are you ordering our bombers to bomb IS when all IS is doing is (as your predecessor argued on behalf of the followers of Muhammad : all these people want is to be free to practice their religion) practicing their “religion”?
richard courtemanche says
I get his point but Obama has already imported thousands of unscreened Muslims. Radicals are not all from Syria.
Florence Chia says
In my opinion many Westerners do not realised that by letting in the muslims they are not only destroying their race they are also creating more deaths and suffering to their own people. They think and want the world to know that they are compassionate. But they are not because they do not know that all muslims are evil people. muslims are should I say a different kind of people not like people of other faiths like the Christians, Buddhist, Hindu etc. Westerners should realise that muslims know that many Westerners do not like them and yet they want to enter Europe, America, Australia. Westerners should ask themselves why. Westerners should realise that it is because muslims want to take over the whole world. The so call moderate muslims are really radical muslims they are now acting (these muslims are very good at acting!) to fool the Westerners. My advice to all Westerners is not to vote in leaders who are going to destroy their own people.
Nov Noveltman says
Why aren’t these Republican governor cowards removed from office for requiring religious tests ALL OVER THE PLACE?? Why aren’t Republican voters crying foul?