Love and Haiti

Scenes from Haiti
Machete wielding gangs fighting in the streets, corrupt and dysfunctional government, looting, people starving to death, rampant disease and dysentery...  And that's on a good day before the quake hit!  The earthquake just magnified X10 that poor country's squalor. 

Large Role Seen for US in Haiti
We need to get in there, stabilize it, and get out.  We can't get control of corrupt, dysfunctional crime-ridden areas like Chicago, LA or Detroit; what makes us think we can do any better on foreign soil?

In the case of Haiti, we have a chance to pause and consider before jumping in with another long-term troop presence.  The UN has a mission there, with Brazil playing an admirable lead role, and armies of charities and aid organization are permanently stationed there.  Once things have stabilized, we need to pull the troops out.

Where's France?
They jacked the joint up in the first place, turning it into a Caribbean slave colony back in the 1700's.  Haitians speak French as well as the local Creole dialect, so France should be taking the lead here in rebuilding, providing aid on the ground and in accepting refugees. 

Undocumented Democrats
Heimatlandsicherheit Kommissar Janet Napoleonitano just granted de facto asylum to 80,000  Haitians who are here illegally, giving them visas and work permits for 18 months.  We know the "18 months" part is a joke.  These people are never going home again.  Would you if you were in their shoes? They are home now.

Here come the boat people
Only those here before the quake are eligible for the visas, and our government has warned people to not try to come here in boats.  Yeah right.  We've just triggered a new flotilla of misery heading for the shores of Florida.  They're undocumented, so how do you prove when they arrived? 

Prediction:  This will become a racial issue

You can't help people more than they want to help themselves, and you can't want it more than they themselves want it.  I encourage everyone to give money to charities helping Haitians.   It will alleviate suffering and feed people.  But don't expect their broken society to heal until Haitians themselves pull it together.  Nobody can do it for them.

US "Safety Valve" is Immoral
Immigrants pouring into the US robs poor countries of the young, the strong, and the smart ones who are full of initiative.  Liberals think this is humane?  What about those too poor, too feeble or too old to make the trip north?  

Our safety valve does Satan's work by providing comfort to selfish ruling oligarchies who are uninterested in building a just society within their borders.   For a more detailed discussion of this, see Killer Compassion.

More Minarets

Hirsi Ali is a victim of that potent combination:  Islamic misogyny and European cowardice

Dutch authorities were helpless to protect her when she dared criticize the religion of her abusers, and other European countries piddled down their legs and declared her persona non grata rather than defend classical Western liberalism.  This "Feminist Freedom Fighter" overcame it all and now lives in America.  Europe's loss is our gain.

Love the Religion, Hate the Political System 

She has written a brilliant piece on the Swiss minaret vote.  Her central thesis is that the vote is a rejection of political Islam, not the religion itself or its adherents.

Here are some clips:

What Europeans are finding out about Islam as they investigate is that it is more than just a religion. [...]  it prescribes a way of life. 

Islam is an idea about how society should be organized: the individual's relationship to the state; that the relationship between men and women; rules for the interaction between believers and unbelievers; how to enforce such rules; and why a government under Islam is better than a government founded on other ideas. 

The Minaret is a Symbol of Islamist Supremacy

These political ideas of Islam have their symbols: the minaret, the crescent; the head scarf, and the sword. 

The minaret is a symbol of Islamist supremacy, a token of domination that came to symbolize Islamic conquest. It was introduced decades after the founding of Islam.

In Europe, as in other places in the world where Muslims settle, the places of worship are simple at first. All that a Muslim needs to fulfill the obligation of prayer is a compass to indicate the direction of Mecca, water for ablution, a clean prayer mat, and a way of telling the time so as to pray five times a day in the allocated period. 

The construction of large mosques with extremely tall towers that cost millions of dollars to erect are considered only after the demography of Muslims becomes significant. The mosque evolves from a prayer house to a political center. 

Next comes getting the non-compliant women under control, killing the fags, harassing the Jews, and all the other community activities of intolerant religious chauvinism and bigotry.  

We don't have the same problems with Christianity or Judaism because these religions influenced the founding of Western Civilization and shaped its growth.  Islam stands apart with a different tradition.  Were it just a matter of people worshiping at a mosque, there would be no problem.  But the clash of civilizations begins when angry, arrogant  newcomers agitate to change our way of life.

Muslim Immigration: Invitation to Murder?

Why are we allowing Muslims to immigrate to our country?

Nobody else is asking the obvious question, so I will. With all the terror plots in the news, I think it's a relevant question.

This is not an anti-Muslim screed
One of my favorite bosses of all time is a Muslim. He was just one of tens of thousands to honorably serve his country in the US armed forces. If white Eastern European Christians (my background) were blowing stuff up and cutting off heads all over the world, I would call for an immigration moratorium on them as well.


All Muslims are not terrorists, but outside of Tim McVeigh and the Earth Liberation nuts, all recent terrorist activity on our soil has involved Muslims. Given that there is an 8 in 10 chance that an immigrant from the Muslim world hates our Yankee cowboy guts, why do we let even a single one immigrate?

I know there are good Muslims there who want to come here, but why take a chance? The State Department is obviously no good at separating the good from the dangerous. We hope we're getting Fouad Ajamis. Instead we end up with Najibulla Zazis, angry young men cruising Denver beauty parlors collecting peroxide to make bombs.

Selective Immigration is not Discrimination
Discrimination, as legally defined in US Code, has nothing to do with immigration policy. If we're not free to choose who to let in to our country, then we've lost our sovereignty. But once we let someone in, they are protected by the constitution, and plotting terrorists know that and use it to their advantage. Are we stupid?  Yes we are.

We Owe Them Nothing, especially not a US passport
Some say we owe the Iraqis and Afghanis because we invaded their countries. Bull! They owe us! For the blood and treasure we've spent trying to give them a shot at improving their little corner of hell on earth.

Besides, we already have enough home-grown idiots, why import more? Why bring hatred, petty grievances and religious chauvinism to our doorstep?

It may be too late for Europe (I pray it's not), but we still have a chance to save our unique Western civilization from the clutches of those who want to destroy it.

Telegraph - German Village in Pakistan
NYT - Zazi
Dallas News
Reuters
Reuters

Cracks in the European Facade

Bruce Bawer has written a thoughtful City Journal piece on politics in Europe. Unbridled immigration championed by the left is changing the face of the continent: overburdened social services, gangs of angry young men contemptuous of everything Western, rampant crime and domestic abuse, demands for Sharia law...

It's scary, leading some to look to the right at the ballot box. But there are scary things over there too, so voters are stuck.

...over the last three decades, social-democratic Europe’s political, cultural, academic, and media elites have presided over, and vigorously defended, a vast wave of immigration from the Muslim world—the largest such influx in human history.

According to the London Times, the number of Muslims in the U.K. climbed by half a million between 2004 and 2008 alone—a rate of growth ten times that of the rest of that country’s population.

Yet instead of encouraging these immigrants to integrate and become part of their new societies, Western Europe’s governments have allowed them to form self-segregating parallel societies run more or less according to sharia.

Many of the residents of these patriarchal enclaves subsist on government benefits, speak the language of their adopted country poorly or not at all, despise pluralistic democracy, look forward to Europe’s incorporation into the House of Islam, and support—at least in spirit—terrorism against the West.

Europe's strength has become its weakness: It's passive tolerance makes it ripe for social conquest by aggressive bearers of intolerant dogma.

City Journal
http://www.brucebawer.com/

Smelting Pot

America used to be a melting pot, where cultures from all over blended together, producing a vibrant, successful nation. No longer.

America is now a smelting pot, where mixed up cultures separate under extreme heat, producing sulfurous odors, slag and other useless byproducts.

David Paulin at American Thinker concludes that America no longer remakes its immigrants, the immigrants now remake America.

The elites tell us we should be ashamed of our white, Anglo-Saxon protestant culture, and defending is is tantamount to racism and cultural chauvinism.

Is a noisy, polyglot patchwork of mutually exclusive and antagonistic cultures really better than what our founding fathers established? We'll find out soon enough.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/somali_immigrants_remake_minne.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting

Stuff the Press Won't Tell You

I got this in an e-mail and it really teed me off:

You won't see this on the pages of NY Times, nor on the lead story of the major news networks.

The protestors at Montebello High School took the American flag off the school's flag pole and hung it upside down while putting up the Mexican flag over it.

Yes, it's true. See Snopes.com for all the details. It happened in 2006, and was probably done by immigration activists, not the students at the school.

Next time John McCain or Barack Obama talk about immigration, remember that this was done by those who want to be granted the right to live here permanently.

If these protesters think Mexico is so great, why are they here?

Fred Reed on Immigration (Funny)

Fred Reed, self-described expatriate curmudgeon, gives us his take on immigration. He neither bleeds his heart out for the poor immigrants nor does he rant against them. He points the finger squarely at you and me.

I believe in taking responsibility for one's actions on a personal level and on a collective national level. We Americans are to blame for illegal immigration. Fred breaks it down for us in his typical humorous way. I am Silverfiddle and I wholeheartedly agree with Fred's message. Enjoy!