Because, you see, “hope” must triumph over “fear.” My piece in FrontPage:
Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has certainly turned American politics on its head. Has it ever happened before in American history that a political party began to frame legislation against an opposing candidate’s proposals before he was even elected – much less one whose election was as inconceivable as the mainstream media would have us believe about Donald Trump? Yet that is exactly what the Democrats are doing: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) is spearheading a bill that would block a President Trump from instituting the temporary halt on Muslim immigration into the United States that he has proposed.
“It’s very narrow in scope,” says Beyer of his Freedom of Religion Act. “We’re not going to discriminate when it comes to immigration based on religion.” He added that his bill was intended to “appeal to hope rather than fear.” In our pusillanimous and puerile age, “fear” is not just a weakness of character, but a moral flaw: if you fear being beheaded or blown up by Islamic jihadists, you’re an evil person. And to be sure, fear is never to be encouraged or given into, but its opposite is not hope, it’s courage and resoluteness.
Beyer is not offering courage or resoluteness. He is proposing a ban on using someone’s religion as a reason for blocking them from entering the country based on the politically correct fiction that Islamic jihad terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, and that therefore to be concerned about jihad terrorists entering the country along with peaceful Muslim refugees is simply a manifestation of bigotry, racism and “Islamophobia.”
What Beyer is offering is “hope” and a rejection of “fear.” We should “hope” that there will be no jihadis among the immigrants. We should “hope” that there will not be another jihad attack a la San Bernardino perpetrated by another refugee like Tashfeen Malik, the San Bernardino jihad murderer who had passed five separate background checks from five separate U.S. government agencies. We should “hope” that the Islamic State will not make good on its threat to send jihadis into Europe and North America among the refugees. We should “hope” that we can continue to pursue self-destructive and suicidal policies without suffering any negative consequences.
To reject all of Beyer’s “hopes” would be, in his view, to succumb to “fear,” and remember: fear is morally wrong. Trump, after all, is like Hitler for even suggesting this temporary moratorium: hard-Left journalist Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill told Bill Maher on Real Time Friday: “I believe that what we’re seeing with Trump has whiffs of how Hitler rose to power.” Yes, of course: Hitler stopped emigration of Jews and kept them in Germany so he could kill them, while Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration so that jihadis won’t kill us — clearly they’re the same thing, if you’re a hardcore doctrinaire Leftist.
Meanwhile, those who vilify Trump for proposing this have never actually come up with any viable alternative proposal for keeping jihadis out of the country. We’re just supposed to reject “fear” and rely on “hope” that it won’t all blow up on us – you know, the “hope” that prevented the jihad attacks in Paris and Brussels and San Bernardino and Garland and Chattanooga and Boston and Fort Hood. The “hope” that leaves us defenseless in the face of the advancing jihad, for fear of appearing “Islamophobic.”
For Leftists like Don Beyer and Jeremy Scahill, the mass murder of innocent non-Muslim civilians in the U.S. is preferable to taking any effective action to defend our nation – for to do so would be to succumb to “fear,” that fear that our Leftist moral superiors insist is a character defect. Why did the U.S. declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor? Instead of giving in to “fear,” it should have laid down its arms and opened the door to unrestricted Japanese immigration. Britain should have done the same thing after Hitler invaded Poland: instituted a ban on anti-Nazi legislation and opened its arms and its shores to the Germans. What could possibly have gone wrong? Primitive man should never have fashioned a spear; he should instead have let the lion maul him; instead, he gave in to “fear.”
Don Beyer and the Democrats are, for the umpteenth time, demanding that the nation choose defeat and suicide.

Didymus says
It’s NOT hope that triumphs over fear. Rather, it’s FAITH that overcomes fear. Not faith in Muhammad but faith in Messiah.
Regards
Didymus
LaLa says
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41:10
Jaem says
That is a great bible verse you quoted. As for this bill, it is not a religion Trump is blocking, it is an evil political ideology. They should know this by now, all they have to do is look at Iran or Saudi or any Muslim based country and see the reality. It is a disgrace to human rights and oppressive to all people especially women.
Angemon says
Democrats are virtue signalling, plain and simple.
David says
ANYONE who believes that we need more Muslims (satan worshippers ) , not LESS in not someone that I would be voting back into any position of leadership!
Our “leaders” have their heads so very far up their behinds, they have no idea what is going on.
My fervent prayer is for GOD the creator to PLEASE BLESS US WITH REAL LEADERS! Instead of these educated imbeciles who now run this country.
duh swami says
God the creator has already blessed us with heart disease and cancer…I prefer the .God.’ who is love…The ‘creator’ should be controlled, not worshipped…
Bob says
Apply that to all of Europe and the UK!!
Gungadin says
David the “elites” occupy all the seats of power and are SO FAR REMOVED from the common man like you and me that they have NO IDEA what the common folks like us have to endure every day. They ride in their limos and look down their noses at the common folks. They have no fear of the muslim killers and rapists cause they would NEVER be exposed to them in any fashion.
They’re protected by private security 24 hours a day. Believe me I know cause at one time I worked among them……..very few give two shitz about their serfs…
D-spot says
A great piece by Robert Spencer. Does he ever get tired of pointing out the bleeding obvious!? Where are the Churchill’s and great orators with intelligence and logic. Politicians with an ability to see what current actions meant for their nations’ future. Look no further than the chaos in Europe, that ship of ‘hope’ has sailed some time ago.
It’s going to get uglier folks.
Bob says
There are no ‘statesmen’ in Europe now – only dithering politicos who’re terrified of Islam, but haven’t the least idea what to do about the growing threat but to cringe and appease.
Carolyne says
I think it’s more than fear. I think its the attraction of the Saudi riyal.
Susan B says
The problem is that the MSM keep the true news from the public and they sell lies as truth. How does a civilization fight that kind of tyranny? Yes what Robert and Pamela do is amazing, however, most citizens are busy working long hours looking after their children and have no energy to do much beyond that. They sit down for a few minutes at the end of the day and are presented with propaganda as true news and unfortunately many buy the lies. Propaganda does work, ask Hitler if he were around to tell us. This poll should give you nightmares, how can two people determined to destroy America be the most admired?????
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/us/politics/obama-trump-francis-clinton-yousafzai-most-admired-gallup-poll.html
linnte says
Ah corn on the cob! Don’t ya know corn is pig food? Soon that will be banned in Muslim Sharia countries like Britain and Europe.
Catherine Campbell says
So, basically, Hope translates to, “Ignore it and maybe it will go away” – ??? “La-la-la-la-la!” Very intelligent, as a policy solution to the greatest threat the western world has faced since Nazi Germany!
King Tut says
what a moron. people like him turned Western Europe into a shit hole it is today.
ScottM says
That’s exactly right. I wouldn’t mind them suffering the consequences of their absolute stupidity – without dragging the rest of us down with them and making us pay for it too.
Northern Virginiastan says
Track H.R. 5207 Don Beyer’s “Freedom of Religion Act” https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5207 and/or subscribe to email alerts
WorkingClassPost says
If they get it passed, that will make a very interesting case, the first time they try to enact it.
Guest says
Democrats are doormats.
common sense says
Isaiah 1 23- “Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.”
Don Beyer has forgotten how many fatherless children there now are and how many children have died as a direct result of Islamofacist attacks. Smug, clueless and faithless fool.
BlueRaven says
Don Beyer belongs to a dangerous bunch, Dems.
SoCalMike says
The face of this man Don Beyer exudes evil.
His smile is as fake as he is evil.
He and Obama have that much in common.
Nabi says
And let’s not overlook the fact that, even at ‘best’, the ideology, religiously enshrining extremist bigotry and misogyny, perpetual voluntary segregation attacks our bastc tenets. What’s to like?
Xero_G says
Islam is a “religion” and aren’t all religions concerned primarily with good morals and treating fellow human beings with compassion and tolerance? Why should Islam be treated any different from any other religion? Is it because it’s the only “religion” on Earth that obligates its followers to subjugate or murder the non-believers until the world bows to Islamic supremacy? Don’t the Buddists, Christians, Hindus and Jews preach the same? (Hell no)! Wise up, Western Civilization.
Dan Jones says
Sure they are, they need more voters… Follow the power and the money…
More End Time News At:
http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=7760
Winghunter says
Trump the narcissist con man has NO intention of banning Muslims, he simply knows that’s what incapable RINOs want to hear.
Trump spent FIFTY YEARS financing political races, endorsing the policies of and paying off mostly Socialist corrupt politicians from the White House on down for the power to push his deals through and yet, mind numbing idiots pretend that what he has said recently since he started running on the Republican ticket could be believed by anyone other than the psychotically gullible.
Islam is NOT a religion. It is a form of government that uses a religious component to hide the legal, political, economic and military components behind in order to position itself to conquer the world. 25% of the population is now Muslim through forced conversion.
What Islam Isn’t By Dr. Peter Hammond
Carolyne says
Hillary Clinton, the traitor on the payroll of Saudi Arabia, might know what Islam is, but she has sold out to the oil sheiks anyway. When she can appoint Justices to the Supreme Court, you, Winghunter (Whatever that is) will lose your First and Second Amendment rights and our country will be taken over and absorbed into the Grand Caliphate which Obama yearns for.
By the way, you have no need to “School” those of us here on the nature of Islam. We know it all too well.
Carolyne says
Some years ago, I think it ended in the sixties, the US had quotas for people immigrating to the US. The countries of Western Europe had the highest quotas as it was thought they were more skilled and many of them spoke English. It was based on the quality of the immigrant and whether or not he could successfully assimilate into the US population. It was subsequently ended and it now seems that those who can do the most harm tour country are preferred immigrants. If Mr. Trump had said that he planned to reinstate quotas with those from certain countries being on the lower end, he would not have caused such a ridiculous uproar and would have achieved the same ends. I will not submit to my government mandateing that I commit suicide by immigrant.
Dean says
Unlike the self-anointed conservative purists that can’t get themselves past Trump, the left has had its way in their multicultural, moral relativistic and political correctness assault on traditional American culture for decades but now know that there is something coming their way that is different, and they don’t like it. It’s the movement and not Trump that is important but those self-appointed arbiters of what is proper conservatism or Republicanism either don’t get it or don’t care. The movement is cultural and Trump tapped into it with borders, illegal immigration, Muslim invasion and anti-political correctness whether he is the best leader of it or not, it’s the Restore American Culture Movement stupid.
hmmm says
speaking of whiny self anointed conservative purists,looks like ben shapiro is having a tough time:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/05/18/little-benji-throws-twitter-tantrum/
UNCLE VLADDI says
There is no crime or perversion a criminally negligent masochist won’t immediately submit to or try to compromise with!
The permanent form of fear isn’t “terror” – it’s masochism. One becomes habituated and acclimatized to being terrorized – even rats being electrified in cages settle down and give up. Islam exemplifies this “Submission” to being extorted. And permanent extortion is called slavery.
In defending islam, these liberal racists demonstrate their preference for “safe” slavery over “risky” freedom of choice.
While not ALL criminal negligence is masochism, all masochism IS criminal negligence.
😉
Like all criminals, leftists are defeatist masochists at heart, having no faith in being able to trust even them selves, and so in stead choosing to slander everyone else as being equally untrustworthy.
Like Muhammad, their defeatism leads to self-fulfilling prophecies, where they attack everyone else, first, then blame their victims for having “made” them attack. Their alibis to excuse their criminal choices are that there is no free will and there were no choices to be made; they pretend to be victims at the mercy of inevitable, “predetermined/predestined” force: victims of society/mere products of their environments, and of course slaves of “allah.”
Masochists pretend to “control” their fears (in stead of trying to learn to recognize and fix mistakes and solve problems by paying attention to their fears) BY causing the same, worst-case scenario, pain-causing problems they fear the most.
(Hence libertine “liberalism,” where they pretend that it’s noble to pretend that fear doesn’t exist, and so always want to “progress” to “freedom” from the fearful pain of self-restraint).
In this way, they hope to avoid the fear of pain, by pre-emptively inflicting that pain on themselves (thus cancelling the auxiliary pain caused by the fear)! See?
But while not ALL criminal negligence is masochism, all masochism IS criminal negligence.
And of course, such criminals are also always all about the subjective double-standards:
What they advocate for in public may be only an attempt to sway everyone ELSE to SUBMIT!
Being selfish, they embrace hypocritical double standards, wanting rights without responsibilities, to never be offended by having their feelings hurt by the painful truth of being accused of their crimes.
And others are expected to have only responsibilities to them – to embrace suicidal masochism as their highest virtue – “TO GO ALONG” (with their criminal lies) “TO GET ALONG” (with the lying criminals)!
“Be a sport! Gimme a pass! We’re all only victims, right?”
In that way alone, (by posing as a “victim”) the Devil pretends he doesn’t exist.
😉
carpediadem says
You can bet that these rhetoricians will have heavy levels of personal security.
They want “hope” for everyone else, but security guards for themselves.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Criminals always advise insane things to their potential victims – like that they should embrace suicidal masochism and refuse to defend them selves, and that the ultimate crime is to cause offense in hurting the criminal’s feelings by accusing them of their crimes – which makes them look stupid or insane to sane folks, and look crafty and ‘realistic’ to other criminals.
Criminals always want subjectivism – double standards – to apply, never universal objective principles. They want rights – especially the false right to remain irresponsible – to apply for themselves, while they also only want their victims to be responsible to them. Sharia “law” follows this crime-model to a T.
hmmm says
if liberals had a brain, they be conservatives!