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The Hill: Trump’s immigration ban is “the perfect ISIS recruiting tool”

Jan 29, 2017 10:53 am By Robert Spencer

The Hill is an execrable and cowardly rag, eager to kowtow to Left-fascists and Islamic supremacists, but this is over the top even for it. Their “reasoning” here appears to be that if we defend ourselves against Islamic jihadists by temporarily stopping immigration from jihad terror hotspots, it will only create more jihadists. So we must let that immigration continue, even though Islamic jihadists will be among the immigrants, and that will presumably make for fewer jihadists. If, in other words, we allow jihadis to enter the country and murder a certain number of American citizens, that will pacify other Muslims and keep them from becoming jihadis. But if we stop this immigration even temporarily in an attempt to prevent jihadis from entering the country, Muslims who were hitherto peaceful and moderate will be so enraged that they will take up arms against us.

This is an inversion of rational thought that only the Leftists of The Hill could possibly swallow. It’s tantamount to saying that we must not defend ourselves, because that will only embolden our attackers further. We should instead surrender to those attackers.

Also, Barack Hussein Obama was President of the United States from January 20, 2009 to January 20, 2017. He flung the nation’s doors wide open to Muslim migrants, and heavily favored Muslims over non-Muslims. Did this stop Islamic State recruitment? Did it even slow it down? No, the Islamic State proclaimed itself the caliphate on June 29, 2014, during Obama’s presidency, and repeatedly declared its intention ultimately to conquer the U.S. It also repeatedly called for the murder of Americans. So we have solid evidence that an open-door immigration policy does not in reality pacify Islamic jihadis.

Remember also that the Islamic State declared:

The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam. Even if you were to pay jizyah [tax for infidels] and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation, we would continue to hate you.

Clearly, then, the Islamic State will continue to hate us even without immigration restrictions.

The Hill is outstandingly ridiculous even among Leftist establishment propaganda media outlets.

An image the Islamic State issued in 2015. They didn’t seem happy with us despite Obama’s open-doors immigration policies.

“Trump’s refugee ban is the perfect ISIS recruiting tool,” by Stuart Shapiro, The Hill, January 28, 2017:

Sometimes government actions result in making the problem they are trying to fix worse rather than solving it….

Well, guess who just got some amazing fodder for their anti-U.S. rhetoric? As Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has said, the executive order has given ISIS a “path to rebirth.” An organization that was on the run in Syria and Iraq has just been handed an amazing recruiting tool: A written proclamation from the U.S. president that everything they’ve been saying all these years about the United States being at war with Muslims is true.This recruiting tool is likely to be effective in messages consumed by individuals like those who perpetrated the awful attacks in Fort Hood, Orlando and San Bernardino. So while we will be keeping out individuals who mean the United States no harm and indeed are in many cases the victims of those who do, we will have handed our enemies an important weapon.

By allegedly trying to decrease the risk of a terrorist attack, we may have increased it.

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 11:07 am

    BE SURE TO MAKE THIS POINT WHEN TALKING WITH THOSE WHO SAY “the perfect recruitment tool” or some variation of it:

    What such an assertion really means is AMERICAN MUSLIMS PUT THEIR RELIGION ABOVE LOYALTY TO THE UNITED STATES.

    Which is, of course, exactly what Muhammad and all fully devout worshippers of bloodthirsty Allah insist on — Islam tops everything, including allegiance to countries and their fellow citizens.

  2. Angemon says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 11:13 am

    An organization that was on the run in Syria and Iraq

    Is it the same organization that the Obama administration admitting to cook intelligence reports to make it seem they were losing ground when they weren’t?

    has just been handed an amazing recruiting tool: A written proclamation from the U.S. president that everything they’ve been saying all these years about the United States being at war with Muslims is true.

    Did the US president write a proclamation declaring that the US were waging war on muslims? He didn’t? He merely wrote an executive order halting the admittance into US soil of individuals coming from nations that are openly hostile towards the US? How is that anything other than common sense? And has ISIS been having any difficulty finding recruits so far, under the Obama administration’s “islam is a religion of peace, we’re not at war with islam” policy?

    Bigots like Stuart Shapiro are the worst kind of bigot: if I were to trust what he writes, I’d have to reduce all the reported 1.6 billion muslims in the world to a lump of matter that merely reacts to outside stimulus and have no agency or mind of their own. ISIS claims Trump’s ban, which is based on nationality, not religion, to be war on muslims. Very well – what do individual muslims say, Mr. Shapiro? If they perceive something as innocuous and sensical as Trump’s executive order as as war on them, what else could they possibly perceive as such?

    • stan lee says

      Jan 29, 2017 at 1:36 pm

      Contimplating ISIL’s reactions to us is an effort in futility. The only answer to whether a was between ISIL and us is that there is no “whether” ISIL’s agenda and activities are war,. In eight wasted years of Obama and his Democrat underlings, we were given reworked information concerning ISIL, we went through IS,ISIS, and finally ISIL, maybe another title by next week. It’s irrelelevant whatever they name themselves, there will be no state of peace with them. They did not form for a final result of peace, they exist against all in their path for one thing only: total subservience to ISIL by the rest of the world, and conversion to Islam under the ISIL conception of how Islam should conduct conquest.
      Hopefully, we’ll all come to a common conclusion that ISIL is not “the JV team” which Obama tried to be cute about. They are already here, not in large numbers, but in numbers sufficient to cause big trouble.
      They select the time and place, we have to police and guard everything. But, it must be done, there will be no agreements with them sufficient to bring peaceful existence, it’s either them or us. Iran, to a lesser degree offers only the same conditions. There is no peace table with these people, they will always break agreements. We see what Israel contends with which sums up to one word, Islam, which is on the only real mission it knows: conquest.

  3. IQ al Rassooli says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 11:14 am

    The Hill like ALL leftists and their footstool soldiers have only one purpose in their miserable lives: The DESTRUCTION of Judeo-Christianity and the ascendancy of Islam

    For those Americans who have still not GOT IT, please read the following and try to refute ANYTHING therein~

    Dear American KUFFAR, please always remember that as Infidels/ Kuffar/ Non Muslims, you are NOT the only ones targeted for EXTERMINATION by Muslims (Arabs or otherwise) hence it is VITAL that you realize that one does not need more than two brain cells of logic to understand Muslims & Islam in a nutshell~

    Since every Muslim is Sharia compliant, every Muslim cannot ever be a Law abiding LOYAL citizen in ANY non Muslim nation because these nations do not submit to Allah’s Sharia.

    Hence every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth (80% of current of non Muslim humanity)

    Every Muslim is a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough. (Not ALL Muslims are Terrorists but ALL Terrorists against Infidels are MUSLIMS)

    Every Muslim is therefore a hair trigger Time Bomb primed to go off

    Only in the WARPED imagination of leftists can one find Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist Muslims because in reality Muslims are Muslims just as Nazis are Nazis and no one ever addressed Nazis as Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist

    Therefore, because Sharia prohibits them, no Muslim can ever be LOYAL to the laws or the peoples who are Infidels/ Kuffar

    All other explanations are superfluous and redundant

    It is time for every decent human being to unshackle yourselves from the pre conceived but erroneous notions that ANYONE who is not a Muslim can make PEACE with Islam. All anyone in doubt has to do is READ only chapter 1 to 9 of Muhammad’s Quran

    Keeping Americans SAFE from MUSLIM terrorists must be one of the PRIMARY reasons Presidents of the USA are elected for

    In summation: To HELL with the Human Rights, Civil Liberties, ACLU, ISNA, CAIR and associated TRAITORS in the USA!

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!
    http://www.alrassooli.com
    MAGA & DTS!

  4. Phil Copson says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 11:36 am

    It’s hysterical, isn’t it ? Both hysterically funny, and hysterical (in a non-gender specific way) on the part of The Hill.

    Proposition: “If you don’t let me in, I will kill you.”

    Response: “In that case, you sound like exactly the sort of chap who we shouldn’t be letting in.”

    Suggest that another question should be added to the vetting procedure: “What will you do if we say “No” ?” If the answer is “I will become a jihadi and kill you.” then you send them away.

    On the other hand, if they smile ruefully, and say that they will go home peacefully, you could……..?

    • linds says

      Jan 29, 2017 at 1:58 pm

      I never knew a piggy to open the door when the wolf said he’d blow the house down. Instead the little pig got better at building his house. ..With brick s

    • Norger says

      Jan 30, 2017 at 1:23 pm

      Yes, that’s it exactly. If you don’t let me in I’ll kill you; if you say Islam is violent I’ll kill you; if you publish Muhammed cartoons, I’ll kill you; if you leave Islam I’ll kill you….the list goes on and on…it’s all Trump’s fault you see.. .. he’s turning peaceful Muslims into terrorists.

  5. Kay says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 11:45 am

    National Review has put out a sensible article on the executive order and the reactions, including data and a timeline of jihadi plots in the US since 9/11.

  6. CV says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 11:56 am

    If Immigration ban, like Gitmo used to be, is a perfect recruitment tool, then so is homosexuality, being pro Israel, gambling, prostitution, and the many vices of western societies.
    In short, we better be Sharia compliant or it is a recruitment tool to radical Islam.

  7. Lucretius says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 12:06 pm

    If anti-Americans, be they Islamic or leftist, will go full jihadi if their termite strategy is hindered, great! The we can be their huckleberry to violently put their sorry lives and assemblies down. And let those who like to wring their hands over giving offense wring them instead at the prospect of offending us.

  8. Guy Jones says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 12:06 pm

    The Hill’s posture represents a manifestation of a classic melange of nauseating Leftisti dhimmitude, delusion, ignorance and naivete vis-a-vis Islam — its history, its tenets and the conduct of its adherents. It perpetuates the idiotic Leftist fallacies that posit that Muslim belligerence, hostilities, barbarism and violence must necessarily be caused solely by alleged western (or, Israeli) slights, provocations, policies, etc. that drive otherwise allegedly peaceable Muslims to violence.

    Obama perpetuated the same contrived myth.

    • Terry Gain says

      Jan 29, 2017 at 1:20 pm

      Obama’s other contrived myth is that he is a Christian.

      • Carolyne says

        Jan 30, 2017 at 9:48 am

        And his other contrived myth is that he was born in the US.

  9. Westman says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 12:45 pm

    “…we allow jihadis to enter the country and murder a certain number of American citizens, that will pacify other Muslims and keep them from becoming jihadis. ”

    That only works in France and Germany…….;-)

    • Norger says

      Jan 30, 2017 at 1:25 pm

      I fear that is exactly the “battered spouse”
      mindset we are being encouraged to adopt.

  10. Just think says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    Strange how these anti western peace rights people twist and go to full attack mode (triggered mode) like they are so clever ,in their minds, that they believe they could sell snow to eskimos!
    Where’s all of the studies showing the link of leftist/liberal/colony mentality to a primitive survival tactic whereas someone needs to not think for their selves or question anybody else”s personality as they have heard that group is AOK!!!

  11. Terry Gain says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 1:18 pm

    I think Clinton’s statement demonstrates why a ban is necessary. Think about it. Islam is so supremacist that some Muslims think they have a right to emigrate into every country and if they are not welcome they had a right to engage in Jihad.

  12. William says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 1:33 pm

    Afraid of upsetting the Mohammedans because that may cause them to harm us is dhimmitude. These cowards are dhimmis. It reminds me of the relationship between a bully and his terrorized victims.

  13. somehistory says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    When a dwelling has roaches, it may be necessary to spray into the cracks to get them to come out and reveal themselves.

    There is a headline with hillary saying, “That’s not who we are.” She can only speak for herself as to who she is. She doesn’t even know me, to know who I am.

    Revelation 13

  14. underbed cat says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    Islam should be redefined as a legal system that prefers conversion and has commands to subdue all non beleivers. But they hide that nasty part with a smiling face demure attitude….until they know that they have decieved us, then pull out the commands for jihad, which is brutal. Since they have lots of money, from oil profits, they can buy up media and politicians who have no clue. It is not a crime under sharia to slay the nonbelievers which is called murder in the U.S. or islamic terrrorism. When they flood other countries they do so as refugees but are following the command to hijra, migration that is what we have to stop.

    • Carolyne says

      Jan 30, 2017 at 9:52 am

      Yes, $30 million from Saudi Arabia for the Clinton Foundation and/or Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. They also placed one of theirs in a position closest to Mrs. Clinton–perhaps very, very close. Just because she dresses well in Western clothes, don’t forget she is an associate editor of her mother’s Sharia loving magazine.

  15. don vito says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 2:46 pm

    kufr dhimminitude is, indeed, the recruiting tool.

  16. DRHazard says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 3:14 pm

    The only way to prevent Islamic terrorism is to pretend it doesn’t exist. If you state the obvious, by quoting the Quran for instance, then you will offend Muslims. Some of them, who already believe you should be dead or live in humiliation, will distort and exploit anything you do or say. But if they don’t get around to it the Western media, politicians and religious figures will do it for them, making sure to spit on the First Amendment and people who still believe in it.

  17. Peter says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 3:19 pm

    Great! The more jihadis for him to bomb into oblivion.

  18. Debi Brand says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 3:43 pm

    ”The Hill is an execrable and cowardly rag, eager to kowtow to Left-fascists and Islamic supremacists, but this is over the top even for it,” candidly declares, Robert, in the above article ….

    Speaking to that folly, earlier this morning, on Fox News, I heard one, who I believe is one of our elected officials, state, because our constitution declares, we will tolerate all religions, give no preference to none, therefore, we must do just that.

    In other words, she was stating—and she should set the stage, slides, overhead projector and all, and there show us the flicks of endless acts that have their origin in the commands in the “holy texts” of Islam—we must tolerate obedience to Allah.

    Therefore, I challenge that fool, to gather around her all of her colleagues who share her belief there, step to the stage, and, as stated above, show us flick by flick, city by city—New York, Boston, Orlando, Garland, Moore, San Bernardino, etc.– precisely what it is we are, by the order of our Constitution, ordered to tolerate.

    Then either we agree to do just that, or we muster the courage to revisit that document; do so, precisely with consideration of the realities concerning the doctrines of Islam, and, in brief, where called for, eliminate foolish suicidal orders.

    As most know, as spoken to at another post at this blog, “in the early morning hours of 12 June 2016, in the early days of Ramadan 2016, honoring the tenets of his ‘religion,’” “Omar Siddiqui Mateen obeyed Allah.”

    POSTED BY DEBI BRAND

    http://islamexposed.blogspot.com/2017/01/we-must-per-orders-of-our-constitution.html

  19. davej says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 4:15 pm

    Appeasement has been tried, liberally, for the last 8 years.

    Despite throwing open the gate to invaders, appointing many to top government positions, tolerating the construction of many mosque/barracks in our cities, lying to the American public about the nobility of the religion and shaming any criticism with accusations of “Islamophobia”, they still want to attack us. And they increasingly will attack, no matter what we do. Jihad is just the enforcement wing of hijrah.

    As we should have learned long ago, appeasing a bully just encourages them to bully more as they see it working. You cannot appease a 1400 year old ideology of Submission.

    • Debi Brand says

      Jan 29, 2017 at 4:30 pm

      “You cannot appease a 1400 year old ideology of Submission.”

      Indeed.

      ………………..

      …as Tabari renders the account, “the Messenger of God entered Mecca on that lesser pilgrimage … while Abdallah b. Rawahah was holding his camel’s nose and reciting:

      Make way, ye sons of unbelievers, for him:
      I am a witness that he is His Messenger.
      Make way: for all good is in His Messenger.
      O Lord, I believe in what he says.
      I know that God’s truth is in accepting it.
      We have killed in accordance with its interpretation,
      As we have killed you in accordance with its revelation,
      With striking that removes the head from its resting place
      And makes friend forget his friend. 18

      ………………..

      (http://islamexposed.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-prophet-waged-war-by-means-of.html)

      O well, I’m sure, if we try, we can, somehow, accommodate the Muslims in their above stated tenets of faith and practices thereto.

      Somehow, we must find the “strength” (aka, stupidity) and the “courage” (aka, cowardice) to, as spoken to above in that “beautiful” passion-filled Islamic ode, accept that which the Muslim does that is “in accordance with its [the alleged revelation received] interpretation.” And, as stated, all they thus do “in accordance with” the said “revelation.”

  20. Peggy says

    Jan 29, 2017 at 11:57 pm

    Those evil ghouls can use any excuse they choose but that won’t make any difference to an intelligent person.
    “If you ban us we’ll just get more recruits from your country”. I say they can all leave and never return and our countries will be so much better for it.

    Take as many as you wish, please.

  21. Carolyne says

    Jan 30, 2017 at 9:47 am

    The “Hill” article is just silly. Where is their proof that President Trump’s order will cause anyone to suddenly become a terrorist? Show me some reliable statistics and not some left-wing false statements.

  22. Dick Bulova says

    Jan 30, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    That the immigration ban will only encourage more Jihadis is incorrect. ISIS, Al Queda, etc. already have a very long list of “grievances” against the west. Removing one item doesn’t change their hatred a bit.

  23. kc says

    Jan 30, 2017 at 1:38 pm

    Shouldn’t we just admend the first admendment to read : “respecting an establishment of any non-genocidal supremist religion”, impeding the free exercise of any non-genocidal supremist religion, “

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