This claim has been circulating for a long time but now it is really getting the full Big-Lie treatment from mainstream media propagandists. Subsequent graphics show Ben Franklin warning of the dangers of German immigrants; the ‘Know-Nothings’ displaying ‘anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant sentiment’; an illustration of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Ku Klux Klan members in front of a burning cross and hating Italian immigrants; a woman in front of a Ford dealership deeply concerned about Jewish immigration to the United States; ‘repatriation’ of Mexicans during the Great Depression; a Japanese internment camp during World War II; and recent efforts in California and Arizona to curb illegal immigration.”
To dismiss concern about Muslims in the U.S. as mere “nativism” is to ignore the fact that these groups targeted by “nativists” were not committing terrorist acts or threatening the imminent conquest of the U.S. When this claim was articulated as “Muslims are the new Jews,” Bill Maher noted: “Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren’t 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for being gay.” Indeed, and no one is calling for or justifying genocide of Muslims now; there is no individual or group remotely comparable to the National Socialists in any genuine sense.
The late Christopher Hitchens also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero: “‘Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,’ Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like.”
All those who have excoriated Trump for his statements regarding a moratorium on Muslim immigration have ignored the problem that Trump was trying to address. None of his critics have come up with any alternative plan to prevent jihad terrorists from entering the country. Instead, they dismiss concerns about jihad terror as “nativism,” trying to browbeat and intimidate us into submission and silent acceptance of their globalist agenda.
“PBS Introduces Lesson Plan To Indoctrinate Students Against Trump Immigration Proposals,” by Eric Owens, Daily Caller, September 14, 2016:
Just in time for the 2016 election, San Francisco PBS affiliate KQED is offering a Common Core-ready lesson plan designed for public school teachers who want to indoctrinate students with a love for open borders and a deep suspicion of anyone who favors the immigration restrictions proposed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The lesson plan — which comes complete with “safe space” suggestions — is offered by way of a section of the taxpayer-funded television station’s website called “The Lowdown” (“connecting newsroom to classroom”).
The lesson, released this week, centers around a graphic comic entitled “Fear of Foreigners: A History of Nativism in America.”…
The second graphic in the comic shows Trump “calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
A bold, black-and-white box then informs students that “some Americans find his rhetoric alarming, but it follows a long tradition of anti-immigrant discourse.”
The next comic graphic informs students that “we still sometimes have a tendency to blame newcomers for national problems, especially in response to tough economic times and threats to national security.”
Subsequent graphics show Ben Franklin warning of the dangers of German immigrants; the “Know-Nothings” displaying “anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant sentiment”; an illustration of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Ku Klux Klan members in front of a burning cross and hating Italian immigrants; a woman in front of a Ford dealership deeply concerned about Jewish immigration to the United States; “repatriation” of Mexicans during the Great Depression; a Japanese internment camp during World War II; and recent efforts in California and Arizona to curb illegal immigration….
A second bold, black-and-white box instructs students that “it’s not surprising that Mexican immigrants and Muslim communities are the targets of this recent bout of nativism” because “countless Americans still struggle economically and the nation remains on edge after recent ISIS-inspired attacks.”…

August West says
US Tax payer funded anti-opposition agitprop pure and simple.
Karl Marx’s playbook is making a come back. These days it is as important as Mohammad’s playbook.
PBS is an instrument of the US Government, and has finally resorted to openly publishing officially sanctioned agitprop against the opposition candidate.
google “soviet anti capitalist agitprop” and see other examples of same.
Lenin, Marx, Engels, Stalin, Trotsky and the rest must be proud.
When Trump is elected he should privatize PBS. This should have happened a long time ago.
These days there is always an Orwell analogy – this one is rather obvious:
Trump = Goldstein
The week before election day will almost certainly be Hate Week here in the US.
jewdog says
This approach doesn’t just ignore the very legitimate concerns people have about Muslims, it denigrates them in a condescending way. The result will be to antagonize those who do have those concerns and they will be more likely to support Trump.
August West says
So.. .this is a government funded and directed marketing program. It is certain to fail and have consequences that can not be imagined.
I am guessing that the kids in the classes wont buy it either. Like us, they are perfectly capable of figuring out that the only people who yell Allahu Akbar and then self detonate are Muslims.
Shane says
Wrong, they are buying the propaganda that they are being taught about Islam being a religion of peace and that Jihad does not mean holy war. The students this message in school, college, from most news media, from the entertainment media, and from this government funded group, PBS. Time to stop federal funding of PBS, as it is a left wing organization that is no longer needed.
CogitoErgoSum says
And the reason Ben Franklin did not welcome Germans is ………..?
What was it about Germans that Franklin disliked? Was it just their appearance or was it their customs and habits? Personally, I have a hard time identifying a German from an Englishman. Could Franklin have been put of by the Germans’ refusal to learn and speak English or to take part in the democratic process? Did the Germans tend to keep to themselves and live by their own set of rules? Did they have a disdain of all things English? Do those traits remind you of another group of people? Well …….. no need to question about that. Franklin was simply a bigot who hated Germans because they were Germans.
But …….. most Germans seems to be completely accepted into American society today. Why is that? What happened?
gravenimage says
Actually, Benjamin Franklin published the first German language newspaper in America–Die Philadelphische Zeitung–and he printed Moravian religious books in German.
The idea that he was categorically opposed to German immigration is quite false.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, I can’t imagine that a man with a mind that worked as logically as Franklin’s mind seemed to work would just pick out Germans for dislike with no reason. I hope these lesson plans take into consideration all aspects of the story.
gravenimage says
Well, I doubt they will, Cogito Ergo Sum, since they are just intended to paint Americans as bigots and Trump’s concerns about Jihad terror as “Islamophobic”.
Angemon says
Were Native Americans consulted in the making of this comic?
Carolyne says
Germans, Catholics, Jews, etc. did not live by a creed which demands they kill all infidels. Women are not counted less than camels by these groups. Nor did they recommend pedophilia and child marriage. It is not the person to which we object, it is their lack of human values. Unfortunately since they were taught this from the cradle, there is no hope they will change. Trump is right. We must not let these animals into our country until they can be adequately investigated as to their intentions once they get here.
gravenimage says
Very true, Carolyn.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM says
. A concept is either true or untrue. There is no concept of “very true”..idiot
gravenimage says
Really? *That’s* all you have to contribute here?
But then, this should not surprise–the only other comments I’ve ever seen this poster make are cryptically calling other posters ‘brown-nosed sheep’.
Steve says
Why would you call her an Idiot. I can tell your a leftest by your actions. A person that has a lack of spelling or grammar has a opinion very much. Want to name call? Look in the mirror.
Shapleigh says
No way, you can have degrees of truth. For instance if someone was to say that Kabooom is a schmuck and sounds like a Nazi I would say that to be ‘totally true’. On the other hand, if someone was to say that Kaboooom is simply projecting his or her own misery on other people, I might reply that I don’t know Kaboooom, so therefore it could be somewhat true.
JIMJFOX says
WW3 started decades ago- most likely with the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran;
Death to America; The Great Satan, etc.
The West has failed to recognise it, that’s all- because it is unlike any ‘war’ that we have
experienced in centuries. The enemy is within, invited by us, supported and paid to do his
work of destruction by our leaders. Jihad cannot be named, surrender must be absolute.
John Boston says
I disagree with Trump. He says we should stop Islamic immigration until we can “vet” Muslims properly. This is wrong. There is no “vetting” that will remove the contagious plague of Islam from these people’s hearts or minds. Islam needs to stop right at our borders, permanently.
A Muslim cannot be a citizen of a free nation, because (1) he is already a citizen of Dar al-Islam, the House of Submission, and not of Dar al-Harb, the House of War. Dar al-Islam is locked in conflict with Dar al-Harb until the latter converts to Islam or is destroyed. Thus, the Muslim is a citizen of a hostile nation; (2) He is under Islamic law, Sharia, which is above “man made laws”. (3) He holds women beneath him, because “men are in charge of women” Qur’an 4.34, “women are a degree below men” and are “tilthes” to be “tilled” by their husbands at any time or in any way the man wants Qur’an 2.223; 2.228. Therefore he cannot accept equality of the sexes.
gravenimage says
There is no doubt that Trump’s understanding of the threat of Islam is imperfect–but it is still much savvier than that of most in the West–including his appalling opponent.
Aardvark says
Or at least what they admit to understanding…
DJ says
Interesting that the BBC jumped on Trump for saying he knew more than US Generals about the threat the country faces. I suspect he has been briefed by Flynn and Coughlan amongst others. They will have told him how political senior appointments are and how politics has undermined the armed forces.
Defen0derofIsliam says
You have no understanding of Islam beif at all.
gravenimage says
“Defen0derofIsliam”–whose misspelling of his own name is becoming more bizarre all the time–wrote:
You have no understanding of Islam beif (sic) at all.
……………………………..
What exactly did John Boston get wrong? Is “Defen0derofIsliam” pretending that the Minnesota mall stabber and NYC bombers are actually loyal citizens of the United States? Is he pretending that Muslims don’t consider women’s testimony to be worth half that of a man, and that is is Halal for Muslims to beat their wives?
Aardvark says
I understand mohammedan beef.
It’s from cattle that have been killed as slowly as possible in order to inflict as much pain as possible.
No civilized person would want to eat it.
Praeceptor Maximus says
PBS gets funding from George Soros. I stopped watching it a long time ago. That stupid David Brooks! I can’t stand that man. He hates Trump. What always baffles me about him is that the man is a Jew and Muslims hate Jews, so one would think that at least he would consider Trump’s proposal of a temporary ban on Muslims from terrorist-infested countries. This whole nonsense of indoctrinating school children against Trump is right out of Orwell’s 1984. Frankly, if I had a school-age child I would opt for home-schooling. There is no point in sending my child to school anyway. The standards of education are so low that is beyond belief and on top of that children get brainwashed, so when they grow up they are stupid to the nth degree. No thanks.
abad says
This is why Muslims should be deported back to the Middle East if all they want to do is kill each other.
Let the rest of the western world go on with its quiet life.
Muslims.
gravenimage says
PBS introduces lesson plan claiming that Muslims in U.S. are “targets of nativism”
………………………..
Grotesque–as though rational concerns over Jihadists murdering us was about “nativism”.
And this indoctrination of children is in my own backyard. KQED is my local PBS affiliate.
tgusa says
Who cares, I don’t
Let them dig their own graves. Out of the way, easier for us.
We live today by the rules that we alone define!
gravenimage says
Well, this tripe is being targeted to a captive audience of American children. I rather think we have to care.
tgusa says
Oh we care, the enemy does not. But we don’t acknowledge certain things. But perhaps we do… sometimes, It is a war of deception. I hope, my friend, that you get where I am coming from..
Kay says
It’s scary how kids are being targeted. It’s hard for them to hear anything but pc “news” and they don’t always want to listen to their parents at length.
They’ll be voting in 2 or 3 years.
tgusa says
NOT VERY BRIGHT ON THEIR SIDE
Rob says
When did PBS get to comment on the current election and use public money to do it?
PBS, FBI, DoJ and IRS all linked up in support of Democrats.
gravenimage says
Damn good questions, Rob.
billybob says
Someone needs to take them to court and expose this racket.
Custos Custodum says
What court?
Kay says
This nativism argument is the kind I hear most often and it slides right into . . .
charges of racism.
I think I’ll print out Robert’s intro here to be prepared for the next time I hear about nativism.
Cmdub says
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Defen0derofIsliam says
You are than far rightwing criminal who does not approve of public tv criticized your far right racist view.
gravenimage says
“Defen0derofIsliam” wrote:
You are than (sic) far rightwing criminal who does not approve of public tv criticized your far right racist view.
………………………….
Note that “Defen0derofIsliam” believes that opposing having our tax dollars used to whitewash his violent creed makes one a *criminal*.
“Defen0derofIsliam” has made it clear many times that he has no understanding of American law or our Constitutional freedoms.
But note: complaining about this would certainly be criminalized *under Sharia’ah law*.
In other words, he is just confirming above poster John Boston’s observation that pious Muslim cannot be loyal citizens of civilized Infidel countries.
As for the idea that opposing Jihad is “racist”, this is especially bizarre coming from “Defen0derofIsliam”, who has claimed before that he is a white Texan convert going by the name “Brian Hoff”.
Is he accusing Cmdub of racism against Caucasians?
pdxnag says
Who said: “I have been made victorious through terror.”?
Westman says
Only illogical leftists would hammer upon the historic loss of aboriginal culture at the hands of their own culture while, simultaneously, inviting in a foreign culture that has the stated intent of replacing theirs.
Florida Jim says
PBS is a Marxist swamp hating america and despising the fact that America has been and is the greatest and best country God ever produced. All of the problems in america have come from Democrats who then lied for 55 years to brainwash children. Slavery a democratic institution, Abortion , hatred of ideas, black separation, strangling people with taxes and rules like Russia and Hitler, Democrats have been wrong on everything look at the 60’s radicals as examples of a society gone bonkers.
Here is their formula, never passe out simply installed in every school in America.:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/how-democrats-are-implementing-the-communists-plan-to-destroy-america/
Please study this it has been kept from Americans by Democrats for 55 years.
Hummer says
PBS doesn’t need my tax dollars to promote wrongful propaganda and I want it stopped. Let the leftists support it-I want to opt out now.
PRCS says
“we still sometimes have a tendency to blame newcomers”
“recent efforts in California and Arizona to curb illegal immigration”
There’s nothing nativist or xenophobic about wanting to curb that.
It is about controlling illegal MIGRATION (coming here merely “for the jobs”).
Let’s be clear. Coming here to work–illegally–is no more an issue of immigration than coming here for that purpose legally.
It is not about immigration, asylum seekers, or the refugees who’ve had their asylum requests approved.
For those who don’t know: foreign laborers are eligible to come here to work in our agricultural industry–legally–via the H2A visa.
https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/h-2a-temporary-agricultural-workers
You’ll likely never see that on a PBS program or spoken about by pandering politicians.
epistemology says
I think the way Trump talks about Mexicans is racist. You can’t blame the ordinary people for their government, it’s got out of the people’s control. You have to respect other human beings
But what he says about Muslims is spot on. They don’t deserve human rights as they reject them. Muzzies are the same scumbags as Nazis. It’s as Golda Meir said there will only be peace when they love their children more than they hate us. Nobody else is ready to sacrifice their children to some stupid moon idol. Islam is cruel and totally irrational and that makes its adherents stupid deprives them of all mental capacity. I can’t respect anybody who is part of that Nazi supremacist community.
Just get rid of Islam and the world will be a little bit better.
Defen0derofIsliam says
You are than mad dog with rabies hater of Islam. You are not even human being.
gravenimage says
Does it come as any surprise that “Defen0derofIsliam” does not consider a “filthy Infidel” like epistemology to be a human being?
And we all know what *that* means–that he is fair game for any Muslim violence:
Qur’an 8:12:
“I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads, strike off the very tips of their fingers.”
Qur’an 8:59-60:
“Let not the unbelievers think they will ever get away. They have not the power so to do. Muster against them all the men and cavalry at your command, so that you may strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your enemy…”
Qur’an 9:73:
“Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate.”
Qur’an 9:123:
“Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous.”
And finally, Qur’an 9:5, the “Sura of the Sword”, which is considered the penultimate “revelation” of the Qur’an:
“When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.”
God, I hate Islam.
David says
All I can say is; if you can’t yet see the active hand of some brutal and Satanic force in these random acts of terror ALL perpetrated by insane or Demonic muslims , you are Blind Indeed!
The (very dark) spiritual element must be recognized and targeted for any of us to survive.