Vincent J. Curtis
19 August 2016
Okay, I said that just to make you read this.
The aim of this posting is to prove the opposite.
What Trump is, is a New York businessman who thinks
practically, but is also able to think big.
Trump doesn’t care whether a contestant at one of his beauty pageants is
white, black, brown, or yellow. What is
important to Trump is that she be beautiful. Trump doesn’t care if an electrician he hires
to work on one his buildings is a man or a woman, but that they do the job he
is paying them for. Trump discriminates
on the basis of merit. He fully applies
the principle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and does so automatically, without
making a show of it. That's the New Yorker in him.
With this in mind, let’s tackle the question of
Islamophobia. When a water pipe bursts
in your house, what is the first thing you do?
Turn off the water, and then call a plumber, call the plumber and wait
for him to arrive, or do nothing?
Trump’s answer is to turn off the water first. Don’t let the problem get any worse before
you try to fix the real, underlying issue.
Why is it so hard for people to understand that stopping the problem
from getting worse is the rationale behind his ban on more Muslim immigration? (Hillary and the Dems want to do nothing!)
The Islamic world has a problem with radicalization. (If you studied the history of Islam as I
have, you would believe that that Islam has had a problem with extremism since
its inception.) Everybody knows it, and
even the Muslim world admits it. A
sizable plurality, if not a majority, of Muslims in the western world believe
in sharia law. While they may not engage
in violence themselves, Muslims in the western world do not have the concepts
in their religion or otherwise in their thought processes to oppose jihad. If one of their number decides to go supernova, pious Muslims are going to say nothing to the authorities and do nothing to stop it. So, with this in mind, why would we import
the potential for more trouble when we don’t have to?
For the life of me, I do not understand why, after 9/11, the
United States increased Muslim
immigration. What were they thinking?
It is not Islamophobic to oppose Muslim immigration to
America. One is not anti-neighbor to
build a fence between your property and that of your neighbor. One is not anti-neighbor by requiring your neighbor to sleep in his own house at night, however much you might like his
company during the day. So, why is Trump
labelled Islamophobic when he wants to stop the growing terrorism problem in
America by halting Muslim immigration, at least temporarily? He shouldn’t be labelled Islamophobic by
calling for the permanent ban of Muslim
immigration, especially by one who is aware of the 1,400 year conflict between
the Muslim and the Western world.
Muslims divide the world into dar al Islam and dar al harb,
the world of Islam and the world of war.
Historically, Muslims were forbidden to sojourn in the land of the
infidel, but now this unchanging religion is sending millions of its believers
to sojourn in the land of the infidel, dar
al harb. The only way to reconcile
this practice is that the dar al harb
will be turned into dar al Islam by
immigration. Hence, if one is concerned
about the loss of western culture in the western world, then opposing Muslim
immigration should be a policy favorable to your concern.
Trump is not Islamophobic by calling for a ban on Muslim
immigration to America, or for “extreme vetting” as that is now
formulated. Trump does the Muslim world
credit by taking it seriously, which progressives do not. (Progressives treat Muslims like harmless
children, as if that were not insulting – on several levels.)
Now let’s turn to Trump’s being racist and sexist. On the campaign trail, Trump has been an
equal-opportunity insulter. If by
discriminatory one means that one group is disfavored and another favored, then
Trump is neither a racist nor a sexist. He
has insulted those who unfairly (in his mind) attacked him or been unfair to
him - indiscriminately. He has absorbed
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s principle, which calls for judgement on the basis
of character and merit, not on race (or sex).
Hence, Trump is neither racist nor sexist, but a meritist, which has
been held to be a western ideal since the days of John Stuart Mill. There is nothing in Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr’s principle that requires one to be nice and cuddly.
And if you think that Islamophobia is racist, then you
obviously wasted your years at school because Islam is a religion, not a race.
Donald Trump is not a sexist, racist, Islamophobe. He is a New York businessman with a highly
practical turn of mind. He judges on
merit, and particularly on what a person’s merit can do to advance what Donald
Trump has as his goal. Trump is not an
ideologue, which is why he drives ideological conservatives crazy.
You vote for Trump not because of his ideology, but because
he is practical and wants to tackle in a practical way the problems that
concern you – illegal immigration, the wall, a failing economy, American power,
law and order. Matters that concern
those pulling the wagon, but perhaps not those riding in the wagon.
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