My latest in PJ Media:
Well, whaddeya know, the Washington Post really does want to make America great again, and it has just the plan to do it: bring in tens of thousands of Afghan refugees. In an unsigned editorial entitled “Afghan refugees will know indifference, bigotry — and also kindness — in America. They will also make it better,” the WaPo Editorial Board claimed that racist, redneck, Trumpist yahoos are going to make life difficult for the sage, victimized Afghans who have just arrived here (after being prioritized over Americans), but ultimately they will transform this country into a better place, presumably something like the beloved homeland they left behind.
The Post claimed that “the bigotry oozes forth from” – you guessed it! – “former president Donald Trump, who set the exodus in motion by signing a deal with the Taliban last year to seal the U.S. departure and now, along with others in his party’s nativist ranks, warns of terrorists infiltrating American communities, masquerading as refugees. In fact, the number of refugees, Muslims or otherwise, who have carried out terrorist attacks in this country is minuscule.”
How many is “minuscule”? How many are acceptable? At what point does it become foolish to bring in people among whom there is an unknowable number of jihadis, or is there no such point? The Post doesn’t seem to care about those questions, and meanwhile accuses those who are concerned about the influx of tens of thousands of largely unvetted or inadequately vetted refugees from a Sharia state of fearmongering: “But Mr. Trump and his Republican acolytes at Fox News, in Congress and elsewhere sense political gain in conjuring fear, so conjure they do.”
Nevertheless, the WaPo is confident that everything will be all right in the end, apparently by magic, since nothing in the multicultural relativism they push on the country relentlessly will allow for the outcome they appear to be so certain of here: The Afghans, says the Post, “will become as thoroughly American as their native-born peers, and their energy, ambition and pluck will be an enduring gift to their new country.”
Well, that’s terrific. I was worried there for a minute. But I’m afraid I do have a few lingering concerns. I can offer them anecdotally: Adnan Fazeli, a Muslim refugee brought to Maine in 2009 by Catholic Charities, died waging jihad for the Islamic State. And on June 5, 2014, a teenage Somali named Abdul Razak Ali Artan arrived in Dallas, along with his mother and six siblings. In November 2016, Artan injured nine people in car and knife jihad attacks at Ohio State University.
There is more. Read the rest here.
Kenneth J Johnson says
Really, Here in Cota Rica we are to accept 5000 ” refugees.” 90 days, This is my estimatel, and we will begin to see problems. Ken
mortimer says
Pardon my skepticism, WaPo, please. Do you really think that people who chose to live in the middle ages have anything to teach us in the West?
Will they teach you at WaPo about human rights? Women’s rights? Racial equality? (The Afghans are extremely tribal.) Will the Talibans (who believe in a flat earth and sun setting in a muddy spring) teach you at WaPo about science? Has any discovery meriting a Nobel Prize ever happened in Afghanistan?
What exactly does this determinedly backward country offer that the world needs?
gravenimage says
+1
Infidel says
Why not set up an exchange program under our J-visas? For every Afghan we take in, we send a Democrat to Afghanistan! They can experience the greatness of Taliban rule, while we regulate the Afghan refugees we take in w/o taking any crap from the Dems
Crusades Were Right says
Was there REALLY a great need for interpreters of the various Afghan languages in the USA?
Well, I guess there is NOW. lol
Jack Spratt says
I agree the number of interpreters is ridiculous and was obviously an excuse used to get out by economic migrants on $1 per day. We will pay in the West for allowing medieval people to live with us.
robert rawson says
one of the afghans already went on a killing spree. think alex jones said it was dallas, but the news isn’t covering it.
gravenimage says
I can’t find anything from Alex Jones. Citations?
Dogman58 says
Police said Imran Ali Rasheed ordered a Lyft in his home city of Garland Sunday then fatally shot the driver, Isabella Lewis.
Michael Copeland says
“…the number of refugees… who have carried out terrorist attacks in this country is minuscule.”
Well, maybe.
Salman Abedi’s number is as minuscule as possible – one. He bombed Manchester Arena.
The number of his victims, including children, is not at all minuscule – 32 killed, 1017 injured.
Giacomo Latta says
Is he still not Salman Abedi MBE yet?