“Trump’s executive order plays right into the ISIS narrative. It says that there’s a clash of civilizations. It says that all of Islam is our enemy. ISIS, which has perhaps, that has a few hundred thousand followers dreams of convincing all of Islam — dreams of convincing 1.5 billion Muslims that they are at war with America and the West.”
The “reasoning” here appears to be that if we defend ourselves against Islamic jihadists by temporarily stopping immigration from jihad terror hotspots, it will enrage Muslims, and thereby create more jihadists. So we must let that immigration continue, even though Islamic jihadists will be among the immigrants: doing 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 partially and 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.
Is Sherman serious? This is 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.
“Calif. Dem Compares Trump White House To ISIS ‘Bent On Destroying Civilization’ [VIDEO],” by Kerry Picket, Daily Caller, February 3, 2017:
WASHINGTON — California Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman compared ISIS to the Trump White House Friday morning during a one-minute speech on the House floor….
“As many have explained on this floor, Trumps executive order — his Muslim ban — repudiates our values and violates our Constitution. After 20 years on the foreign affairs committee I think it’s important to come to this floor and explain how that executive order is harmful to our national security,” Sherman said.
He went on to say, “Trump’s executive order plays right into the ISIS narrative. It says that there’s a clash of civilizations. It says that all of Islam is our enemy. ISIS, which has perhaps, that has a few hundred thousand followers dreams of convincing all of Islam — dreams of convincing 1.5 billion Muslims that they are at war with America and the West.”
He concluded, “We do not have a clash of civilizations. We have a clash between civilization and the forces of darkness bent on destroying civilization — whether they reside in Racca or at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
robert saunders says
Have the refugees move into this congressman’s district. Actually right next door to him. that way they can kill him easily. Kafir that he is!
Frank says
Destroying civilization? What civilization???
Hope President Trump can bring us back a few glimpses of it!.
miriamrove says
Well said. M
Jack Holan says
Brad, You’re right Trump has been in office 2 weeks and look at what he has judged guilty of: single handedly disenfranchised 1/2 of America Obama,ruined life for people of color who kicked in the door to get here. Guilty. toughening up the vetting process to filter out terrorists without regard to Race Creed Religion National origin Guilty not sensitive to climate change because it is junk science wit Lloyd Philips UN Author of Climate Change now Debunks it having completed worldwide ice core studies that contradicts Guilty
somehistory says
It isn’t violating the Constitution. And this fool’s *values* come out of a can. He doesn’t speak for anyone that values human life, truth, virtue, integrity, or morals.
It’s getting old. These liars and idiots pretend they speak for everyone, speaking of *values* and saying “that’s not who ***we*** are.”
And what is more, all of islam….every word of the unholy writing from satan…is my enemy.
mortimer says
There’s no excuse for Harvard lawyer Sherman (J.D.) not knowing that the US constitution allows the President to exclude classes of aliens. Sherman is knowingly MISLEADING his listeners to inflame them. That is unethical.
Stan Lee says
The Democrats are proving that they can’t take a reverse. It’s actually a waste of time for Conservative Republicans to gather after each “Stupidcrat” utters anything demeaning about whom we’ve elected to carry the colors.
I say to hell with them, and let’s not dignify their stupidity with responses very few will ever read anyway.
The major percentage of them will never read Jihad Watch, it’s too enlightening for them to ever dare to read it and disrupt their poisoned thoughts. All we need to do is to carry-on as the people who are loyal to the United States and our Constitution and never mind them, our mission is to contribute in efforts to “Make America great again!”
Vic says
Well said. My father used to say there is a big difference between Ignorance and Stupidity. One is correctable but the other one is not.
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than evil is. Against evil, one can protest; it can be exposed and, if necessary, stopped with force. Evil always carries the seed of its own self-destruction, because it at least leaves people with a feeling of uneasiness. But against stupidity, we are defenseless. Neither with protest nor with force can we do anything here; reasons have no effect. Facts that contradict one’s own prejudice need only to be disbelieved – in such cases stupid people even become critical, and when facts are unavoidable, they can simply be swept aside as meaningless isolated cases. Stupid people, in contrast to evil ones, are satisfied with themselves. Indeed, they become dangerous in that they may easily be stimulated to go on the attack. Therefore, more care must be taken in regard to stupidity than to evil…
Closer examination reveals that every strong external development of power, whether of a political or religious nature, strikes a large portion of the people with stupidity…
The biblical saying, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, (but fools despise wisdom and instruction)” [Proverbs 1:7] says that the internal liberation of people for responsible life before God is the only real way to overcome stupidity.”
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
David Scoltock says
Here we have Trump’s problem, he pisses off fol on both sides of the isle.
Steve Klein says
Former Carlyle Group executive whose law firm (Baker Botts) defends Saudi royals against 9/11 victims’ family law suites wonders if “Israel’s Lawyer” wants to succeed.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/james-baker-interview-donald-trump-ronald-reagan-214742
‘Does Trump Actually Want to Succeed?
Jim Baker on how to run a White House that works, why the world is so scared right now—and how the new president could stop screwing up.
By SUSAN B. GLASSER February 06, 2017
Westman says
Sad. Another American who wouldn’t pay the price for his descendent’s freedom in spite of his amazing accomplishments. Perhaps it would be a good lesson for CA if was out of the US for a while and had to provide its own defense.
He has a stellar record as an educated person, and a financial conservative, yet is a darling of NOW, ACLU, HRC, Sierra Club, NAACP, AFL-CIO, etc. He’s even liked by the League of Conservation Voters. Obviously, he’s an economic conservative and a social-liberal; a kind of , “give it all away but pay as you go”, Democrat.
With such a track record, there are only two possibilities: he knows Islam is a long-range problem for Democracy and can’t afford the political fallout, or, he is simply ignorant of Islam’s political ideology. Virtual reality comes easily in CA.
To me, his statement is the equivalent of thinking like Neville Chamberlain’s, “Peace In Our Time”. All it does is delay the inevitable to later, when the price will be higher or out of reach. Putting a band-aid on cancer is not a solution.
JawsV says
Sherman is a leftist moron.
don vito says
Brad, prove what you said is true! Otherwise it is just, you know, FAKE!
IQ al Rassooli says
It is becoming more and more obvious that almost ALL those who are attacking and insulting DJ Trump are in a Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown from which the Democratic party is going to go down into the dustbin of history. The leaders of the Democratic party are actually scared out of their minds because they have woken up to the shocking reality that DJ Trump’s presidency when it will be successful in bringing back security and business to the inner cities, the Democratic party will lose forever the Black and Hispanic votes that they have been counting on for the last 60 years or more.
Democrats and ‘liberals’ are ONLY in name because they had sided with Obama’s eight years of Deception Divisiveness Intolerance Racism, Bigotry and anti Judeo-Christianity but invariably pro Arab-Islam stances while all the time blaming their VICTIMS the Republicans for harbouring these very fascist characteristics.
There is an AWAKENING in the USA against the DRACONIAN rules of Political Correctness imposed upon 300,000,000 Americans by the so called left/liberals who are ‘liberals and democratic’ only in their own warped mind but not in reality.
Trump’s victory is a TSUNAMI that has energized ALL the opposition political parties in Europe who will most probably overthrow many of the leftist leaders running Europe to self destruction at the moment.
These ‘Liberal/leftists’ and Democrats are on the WRONG side of history and reality and will continue to be ignored totally by the Trump administration because they are reacting reflexively, emotionally and not rationally.
DJ Trump is absolutely correct in not picking a totally unnecessary fight with Putin. Contrary to all his warmongering detractors, Russia and Russians are NOT the enemies of the USA and Americans. They are not the Communist Soviet Union. Russia and America (as well as ALL other non Muslim countries) have a single common mortal and eternal ENEMY called ISLAM.
DJ Trump is not a stooge of Putin as his detractors keep misinforming the American people. DJ Trump must first TALK to Putin, eyeball to eyeball and find out if the two of them can work together instead of dissipating their military, finances and resources fighting each other.
All those who are going against the will of “We the People” are proving themselves irrelevant by their aggression, destruction, intolerance and stupidity.
IQ al Ibn Q Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
MAGA & DTS!
mortimer says
Sherman claimed the temporary ban: “repudiates our values and violates our Constitution”. It doesn’t because the US constitution allows a President to restrict classes of aliens from entry. It doesn’t repudiate American values because 1) bans have happened in the past and 2) the President’s job is to keep Americans safe and 3) it is not an ‘American value’ that everyone has a right to enter the US.
NOW HEAR THIS! Only American CITIZENS have a RIGHT to enter the US. Aliens have a PRIVILEGE of entering… if they qualify.
Shmooviyet says
TY for using the word “alien”. Certain leftist raging dingbats go purple when they hear it. They wail that human beings are being compared to monstrous creatures from other worlds, as if the word had no meaning before sci-fi horror movies.
mortimer says
Nothing in the US constitution provides ALIENS with a RIGHT to enter the US.
Stan Lee says
Sherman is a Democrat politician, elected by California Democrats and Sherman’s political future depends upon votes/support from his left-wing, free-loader constituency. They think together, speak one common Democrat-Socialist language, and deserve each other. If CA could break away from the United States, I would not regret it, more than likely I’d celebrate.
Walter Sieruk says
What a dummy ! It’s not a Muslim band and a foreigner terrorists ban. For many Muslim countries are not on the list as Pakistan, Turkey , Egypt and even Saudi Arabia. The last of the four seems strange since most of the 9/11 terrorists came from that nation. Furthermore Indonesia has an extremely large number of Muslims in its population and Indonesia isn’t on the list. Iran is on the list .It should be. As for example it funds Shi’ite terror entities s as Hezbollah and Hamas and even oddly enough the Taliban In addition as the this claim of that this so called “Muslim ban” further inspiring more ISIS propaganda against America. The members of that heinous brutal and deadly terror will always speaking out against the USA no matter what this nation of the United States of America says or does.
Angemon says
No, groups like ISIS don’t want to “destroy civilization”, they want to replace civilization as we know it, which for them is barbaric and uncivilized (for example, why use toilet paper when you can use your hands like muhammad did), by their own version of civilization, which for us is barbaric and uncivilized (for example, we outlaw discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation, they consider women/womyn to be chattel and kill gays). Who are you to decry their version of civilization as “darkness”? Is it because they have darker skin, you racist, islamophobic bigot? Who’s to say your civilization is better than theirs? You’re not speaking out against cultural relativism, are you?
Shmooviyet says
Lol!
Yes- many think civilization is.. preferable!
Now show how loving and accepting of others’ beliefs you are: knock me to the ground and burn a car. ?
Champ says
Brad Sherman is a lying traitor …
Troybeam says
Each and every elected official. judge, law enforcement etc should be fired, voted out of office for not following orders from the President. When sworn in their oath of office clearly states to protect, defend and preserve the Constitution and from where I sit as one of the “WE THE PEOPLE” THEY HAVE ALL FAILED AT THEIR JOB.
Sam says
Rep. Brad Sherman likens Trump to ISIS, says both “bent on destroying civilization”
IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
James Foard says
Brilliant strategy Sherman. Make the enemy think your an idiot.
mortimer says
Rep. Brad Sherman’s remarks are intemperate and amount to slanderous libel. I think he should be forced to retract his wicked slander.
When someone like Rep. Brad Sherman goes WAY OVERBROARD with his remarks, he should be censured by his party and made to apologize.
There is no excuse for a Harvard lawyer and J.D. like Rep. Brad Sherman to exaggerate unfairly like that.
APOLOGIZE.
gravenimage says
Rep. Brad Sherman likens Trump to ISIS, says both “bent on destroying civilization”
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Yeah–because keeping out those who destroy our civilization is–somehow–the same as destroying our civilization.
Also, note: if these Muslims are so poised to become violent Jihadists that a temporary moratorium on their flooding into the West is apt to turn them, then might one not assume that they are too unstable to be here in the first place?
lynn says
Totally agree, a clear and succinct statement..,,Also a lot of muslim instability comes from the fact that although they have been told they are the best of people. A few months in a western country, begins to give them the seeds of doubt that maybe they have been systematically lied to..However, such is their upbringing that they can’t admit this so they cling to Islam as it is all they have in a society that is far more complex, freer and asks for more personal responsibility than they are capable of showing.. Islam keeps them in captivity.
Catherine says
This is crazy.
Florida Jim says
Democrats are all liars and bigots try to say something they disagree with and the hatred spews forth.
Go to Prager University and search for Why I Left The Left to see how vicious democrats are if listening to Maxine Waters and Hillary are not proof enough.
jeff says
I hate to say it but…another sick liberal jew.
Brad’s children, if any, are probably inter married by now. But does Brad really want to see the US inundated with muzzies? Jews are the first group on the muzzie hit list; and, the way things Brad would have it, it’s all a matter of time before synagogues are firebombed in the US. To be followed by churches.