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Robert Spencer: If Trump Proposal Had Been In Place, OSU Jihad Attack Wouldn’t Have Happened

Dec 5, 2016 10:15 pm By Robert Spencer

Over at The Geller Report, I discuss how Trump’s immigration plan would have prevented the Ohio State University jihad attack:

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Muslim “refugee” and Ohio State University student Abdul Razak Ali Artan last week set off a fire alarm on campus, then drove his car into the crowd of students evacuating the building. Then he jumped out of his car and began stabbing people with a butcher knife. This latest jihad attack on American soil vindicates President-elect Trump on Muslim immigration.

After the attack, Trump tweeted: “ISIS is taking credit for the terrible stabbing attack at Ohio State University by a Somali refugee who should not have been in our country.” Indeed, not only should Artan not have been in the country, but if the proposals that Trump has advanced regarding Muslim immigration had been in place, he would not have been, and the attack at Ohio State University would never have happened.

Trump has called for a temporary moratorium on immigration from countries that are hotbeds of jihad terror activity. KARE11.com reported that “Artan was a Somali refugee and Ohio State student who left his homeland with his family in 2007. They lived in Pakistan before coming to the U.S., where Artan became a permanent resident in 2014.”

Somalia and Pakistan: two epicenters of the global jihad. If Trump had been President and his ban had been in place, Abdul Razak Ali Artan would never have entered the United States at all.

This sensible approach to Muslim immigration is long overdue. Back in 2008, I wrote this in my book Stealth Jihad, among my proposals for how the jihad, both violent and stealthy, could be stymied in the United States:

End Muslim immigration to the United States. This is a simple matter of national security. Immigration policy must work toward the integration of all immigrants, and the all-encompassing societal program of sharia makes the integration of pious Muslims ultimately impossible. While there are undoubtedly millions of Muslims who have no interest in jihad either by violence or stealth, no Islamic authorities anywhere in the world have declared heretical or in any way unacceptable the idea that non-Muslims must be fought against by various means and subjugated under the rule of Islamic law. Unless and until that begins to happen, no one can be sure of the sentiments of any individual believer. Consequently, simply to protect ourselves, there should be an end to Muslim immigration, combined with a clear notice to Muslims in the United States that any action on behalf of sharia supremacism is unacceptable.

But ending Muslim immigration to America must be considered a long-term goal, since such a measure is impossible in today’s political climate. The proposal would inevitably be denounced as “racist,” despite the fact that jihadist supremacism is not a race. But at the very least, immigration officials should immediately adopt a program to screen Muslims entering the United States for jihadist sentiments. This will provide grounds for deportation if an entrant renounces some aspect of sharia supremacism on his immigration application and then works for it once in the country.

At the time, this proposal was greeted with derision, or worse. Even in FrontPage Magazine, which is singular in recognizing the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, then-managing editor Ben Johnson wrote: “Analyzing the problem is one thing; solving it is another. Spencer’s prescriptions on what to do will rankle some and lead to his further character assassination. He is at his best when calling for the government to impose existing laws – and most gets to the point when he calls for a revival of patriotism, the self-assurance necessary to deny Islamic encroachment, white liberal guilt, and multiculturalist recriminations of the greatest nation in the history of the world. He is at his most questionable in calling on the government to ‘End Muslim immigration into the United States.’”

Trump has changed all that, to the extent that now, even the tired, pusillanimous, cowardly “conservative” establishment, late to the party as always, as always leading from behind, is catching up. Back in January 2016, National Review denounced Trump for, among other things, his suggestion that there should be a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration: “Not since George Wallace has there been a presidential candidate who made racial and religious scapegoating so central to his campaign. Trump launched his campaign talking about Mexican rapists and has gone on to rant about mass deportation, bans on Muslim immigration, shutting down mosques, and building a wall around America. America is an exceptional nation in large part because we’ve aspired to rise above such prejudices and guarantee life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to everyone.”

But after the OSU jihad attack, National Review published an article entitled “It’s Time for Honest Talk about Muslim Immigrationm,” saying: “Some immigrants from jihad zones will be involved in murdering Americans. Is this an acceptable price for compassion?”

That was always the concern. The time for National Review’s previous tardy and pallid me-tooism is long past. Abdul Razak Ali Artan proved that. How many more of them must there be before sane immigration policies are implemented?

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  1. CrossWare says

    Dec 5, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    “End Muslim immigration to the United States.”
    Unfortunately that is not enough! The ones already in the country heavily working on their hijra = jihad by migration and out of control breeding. But the islamization process would be much slower for sure.
    The real solution is to examine and outlaw Islam just like Nazism and Communism.
    Once this violent political ideology cult which only masquerading as a religion, then act against it like any other totalitarian ideology will be much easier.

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 1:59 pm

      Crossware, you are right, there is no doubt.. BUT we have to start some where!! The whole Obama plan is to flood us with the pig savages, that must stop. Jan. 20th can not come fast enough.. This Somali filth and his family should have been sent to Kenya, or any other African nation, not here. Obama’s constant love of Muslim refugees is only going to let the terrorists a filth run free, and do the damage they do, as in OSU.. BTW so glad that weak kneed weak man Kasich did not get any father than Ohio!! Hope the folks there do not put him in any more offices, where he can damage their lives.

  2. scherado says

    Dec 5, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    I was in Ridgefield, CT yesterday and saw a top-of-the-fold article in the town’s newspaper, “We Are Ready To Receive Our Refugees”, I thought I was going to vomit, though it was no surprise.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 5, 2016 at 11:52 pm

      I think this is that story, scherado:

      http://www.theridgefieldpress.com/79094/resettlement-committee-is-ready-for-refugee-family/

      So far, Ridgefield is just expecting a single family–but small towns in Europe have been inundated and outnumbered by hordes of ravening Mohammedans.

      It is a local church that is providing the whole family with free rent for six months, car rides, English lessons, and anything else they might need.

      Given their mentioning Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto, they almost certainly expect them to be Muslim.

      All that help will leave them with plenty of free time for raping Infidel children and plotting violent Jihad…

  3. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 5, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    TRUMP WILL REVERSE 8 YEARS OF OBAMA’S MUSLIM-LOVING SEDITION AGENDA.

    REPUBLICAN SENATE & HOUSE MAJORITIES WILL ELIMINATE JIHADI IMMIGRATION.

    There is going to be a long hard struggle to get back from what the TREASON PARTY (Democrats) did to the United States but at least we do not have Hillary as our next president.

  4. don vito says

    Dec 5, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    collaborators will have to face justice.

  5. Robert says

    Dec 5, 2016 at 11:27 pm

    No Muslim No Jihad , Simple Policy , Corrupt Politicians Wants to fool people

  6. underbed cat says

    Dec 5, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    If the goal is worldwide islam and a caliphate….as stated in the book of commands….and to slay infidels, and to migrate to spread islam….hijra….with the goals of implementing sharia….I beleive the doctrine and the books should be analyzed, silencing the truth and facts would only lead to infiltration to subvert and it’s well on it’s way.

    • Bob says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 7:11 am

      When the muslim immigrants have achieved their goal and slaughtered every last infidel, who is going to support them? Have they thought of that?

  7. gravenimage says

    Dec 5, 2016 at 11:39 pm

    Robert Spencer: If Trump Proposal Had Been In Place, OSU Jihad Attack Wouldn’t Have Happened
    …………………………

    Hear, hear!

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 12:40 am

      Yep. That’s the long and the short of it.

      And all US jihadwatchers here posting and lurking need to be Tweeting Mr Trump, President-Elect, and his team, in order to point out precisely that.

      What’s more: the Tsarnaev bombing of the Boston Marathon couldn’t have happened, either.

      And the attempted Times Square jihad bombing – by a Muslim originating from Pakistan – couldn’t have happened, either.

      Might be interesting to go back and list *all* the attacks and attempted attacks and plotted attacks that couldn’t have taken place, if Muslims had been barred from entering the USA, way back when.

      Got Muslims? Got Jihad.

      And although one can’t do a whole lot about those *outside* the gates, one can make damn sure that as few as possible are present *inside* the gates. The fewer ‘cradle Muslims” are present, the fewer stupid or evil Infidels will be exposed to the siren song of Muslim Dawa – especially its most insidious form, “Marriage Jihad” – too. These days, one can’t prevent Infidels from eavesdropping on Islamic sites – which will result in a small percentage turning Islamic – any more than Muslims can entirely prevent Infidel radio, Satellite Tv and internet from presenting *infidel* ideas to curious Muslims. But even so, a broad physical separation of the general infidel population, from the Mohammedan Mob, would make the task of Infidel law enforcement and homeland security a whole lot easier.

      Time to take a ‘Cold War’ approach, whereby the bulk of communists were in recognisably communist countries and no-one (had the Soviet Russians or Chairman Mao been prepared to allow people to depart in large numbers – which they weren’t) would have dreamed of permitting huge numbers of openly-declared red-hot foreign communists to migrate to and settle within non-communist countries and set up Communist-controlled no-go zones, even though there *was* a domestic population of Communists.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 7, 2016 at 8:47 pm

        All true, DDA.

        I fervently hope Muslim immigration is at least curtailed here, if not ended completely.

        It looks as though Australia is taking at least some steps, as well. I am glad to see it.

  8. underbed cat says

    Dec 5, 2016 at 11:54 pm

    Why does the media go after such ridiculous things such as “conspiracy fake theories”…scholarly geniuses,” deliberating” so sincerely and appearing to promote “extremist ” hysteria… if not actually creating it…. but …. never inspected is the doctrine or history of the real conspiracy with a 1400 year old history. So convoluted is the media which is really wigged out by the election and seems to disregard the problems they will never address. So carry on boys jump in the van and roll out the “fake news’ good try. Eat the red fish, no thanks.

  9. underbed cat says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 12:04 am

    Trumps apparent awareness of the problem may have stopped this attack…as he gets in office I do hope the experts such as Robert Spencer will allowed to educate the publc of the details…along with Pamela, and many subject matter experts to really know what is hidden.

  10. Eric Jones says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 1:45 am

    I do not think that banning muslim immigration is extreme. During the occupation of Japan McArthur banned the Shinto religion from education , public and politcal life. Shinto was viiewd as expousing doctrines that lead to Japanses militarism.

    Today Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States ban Syrian refugees as being too dangerous. No one call them raciest for doing so.

    Eric

    • Westman says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 2:34 am

      True, leftists are too busy tearing down their own country to notice. Too many leftists are little more than sustained adolescents who have never taken on real back-breaking drugery to support others.

      Like children, their response, to a perceived challenge to their illogical thought, is to spout tarnishing epithets like facist, racist, Islamophia, and deplorables to stop discussion and hide their inability to think beyond rehearsed lines. Hillary lost an election by substituting scripting for honest dialogue. The left has no new ideas and their old ones can only be obtained thtough despotic power. “Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.” – Daniel Greenfield.

  11. Angemon says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 3:59 am

    Trump launched his campaign talking about Mexican rapists and has gone on to rant about mass deportation, bans on Muslim immigration, shutting down mosques, and building a wall around America.

    Unfortunately for NR, all those issues they tried to demonize Trump with were issues that the general public was interested on – and not just in America. What to do about mass immigration to the US? What to do about islamic terror attacks? Pretending none of that was a problem, or even existed, was the SOP so far, and Americans voted it out.

  12. Odious Truth says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 7:37 am

    Couldn’t Muslims pretend to convert in order to get visas?

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 8:39 am

      Groups like Barnabas Fund have worked for *decades* among the persecuted and oppressed indigenous Christian communities in places like Syria, Egypt, Iraq. They *know* who is who – they know the family trees, the parish churches, the communities, who baptised whose children. They would be able to identify and vouch for them; and they are fairly expereinced, also, in discerning between genuine apostates and the fake variety.

      Declared apostates – and they should be *publicly* declared as such, before being admitted – should be treated as were defectors during the Cold War. Accepted; but with both eyes wide open to the possibility of the ‘double agent’. They would be ‘on parole’; and *genuine* apostates would know, none better, exactly *why* they were being subject to steady scrutiny, and required to ‘report in’ at intervals. Genuine apostates would be only too willing to comply with all requirements, security-wise.

      A further layer of protection would be provided by making it take longer and be more difficult to acquire full citizenship in any western country. Think of Switzerland, Singapore, Japan, and how difficult it is to become citizens of those countries. Again: *genuine* applicants, non-islamic and of good will, would be eager and wililng to comply with all requirements. Fakes would be deterred at least somewhat, and it would make it harder for them to infiltrate.

      • Odious Truth says

        Dec 6, 2016 at 8:47 am

        Wouldn’t that mean that there would have to be a sort of Inquisition to distinguish true from false apostates (that, of course is what the original Spanish Inquisition was designed for)? Would this be viable in a modern secular society?

  13. Abu Nudnik says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 10:07 am

    The proposal really does sound racist and makes me uncomfortable. But I realize that makes me part of the problem. Trump, and you, are right.

    • Laura says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 10:29 am

      Islam isn’t a race. Thus, no, the proposal is NOT racist.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 9:03 pm

      Islam is not a race–it is a violent ideology. Would you consider a plan to keep out Nazis plotting violence in the name of Fascism to be “racist”, as well?

  14. Florida Jim says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 11:05 am

    Follow Trump to security and freedom ban all muslims who follow Islam it is not compatible with freedom period. Ben Franklin and Jefferson knew this 250 years ago. Democrats want all voters so they delude themselves with globalist nonsense until they are beheaded.We can see America is much better without muslims or Democrats.

  15. Robeaver says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    I disagree with your vetting idea Robert. Islam, as we know , allows lying to others. A total ban is necessary, and intense background checks on all immigrants, along with a system like Australia, where education and skills and a job waiting all count towards access.
    The real problem remains: what do do about Muslims already in Europe and North America. Please give this one some thought. I think deportation to country of origin is the only answer, but, again, a lot come with zero documentation. My other thought is the elimination of all mosques.not allowing enclaves.
    We must do something before some greater tragedy strikes………A 911 attack on a nuclear power plant comes to mind. Iran getting nuclear weapons. Civil war,which I think is now coming. Take care.
    Keep up your good work.

  16. Islam the religion of killers says

    Dec 7, 2016 at 5:49 am

    Robert for Trump Admin advisor

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