Republicans are “scared of widows and 3-year-old orphans.” – Barack Obama
Amidst the mass influx of Middle Easterners, supposedly Syrians, into Europe, the multiple ISIS attacks in Paris on November 13th left 130 dead and hundreds wounded. With least one of the attackers with ties to Syria, and many people are becoming concerned about an increasing number of “Syrians” being relocated to the United States. Those seeking answers about the vetting process and who gets admitted are being met by mockery from President Obama and his acolytes.
Suddenly, and I’m sure totally by coincidence, stories are popping up across the media attempting to play on emotions and showing these refugees in a sympathetic light.
USA Today provides us with the following headline: ‘Syrian refugees in Florida find themselves fearful all over again’
From Louisville’s Courier-Journal:
‘Syria refugees land in Kentucky amid backlash‘ by Glenn McCoy
In my local South Bend Tribune: ‘Iraqi faced long process to settle in Mishawaka’
Incidentally, the South Bend Tribune reporter was unable to find a Syrian family to write about.
This headline appeared in the Washington Post: ‘Syrian refugee family finds home in Connecticut after Indiana slams the door’
What all of these stories have in common is that they involved families with young children and thus play on emotions. It almost seems that someone is following Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals to wit number 13.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” “Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”
Meanwhile, I wake up on Friday morning and hear breaking news concerning the Radisson Blu in Bamako, Mali. Islamic militants stormed the hotel in Mali’s capital, taking 170 hostages. Attackers shouted “allahu akbar” and overran the resort and only released hostages that were ale to recite verses in the Koran. At least 27 people were killed when 10 Al Qaeda gunmen stormed the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali’s capital and took 170 hostages — but the grenade-toting assailants spared the Muslims inside. Two groups claimed responsibility for the attack —Al Murabitoon and Ansar al-Din—both with ties to Al Qaeda.
Also on Friday was the stabbing murder of an American Ezra Schwartz, 18, in the West Bank. Schwartz was a student at Yeshivat Ashreinu and a participant in Masa Israel Journey, a study abroad program. Palestinians also murdered four others that day — two additional in the West Bank and two in a separate incident in Tel Aviv. The victims were all Jews. USA Today, however, goes with the headline, ‘American teen, 4 others killed in West Bank, Tel Aviv violence.’
So no, Mr. President, it’s not “widows and 3-year-old orphans” that we are afraid of. It’s radical Islamists determined to establish a world-wide caliphate that we are afraid of.
I would be remiss if I didn’t state my personal outrage at a statement made by Connecticut Governor, Dannel Malloy. From the Washington Post story, above, Malloy had this to say:
“This is the same guy (Indiana Governor, Mike Pence) who signed a homophobic bill in the spring, surrounded by homophobes.” “I’m not surprised by anything the governor does.”
Governor Malloy has no right making this unsubstantiated and wrong accusation that my Governor, myself and my fellow Hoosiers are “homophobes,” simply because we supported the Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed by my home state’s Legislative body. I must also point out the irony that Connecticut has its own RFRA in effect.
Meanwhile, if you would like to help relocate the displaced and persecuted Christians in the Middle East be relocated out of the area please check out Mercury One’s Nazarene Fund.
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