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Trump proposal to exclude Muslims is consitutional


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2015 Dec 8, 6:25pm   15,726 views  41 comments

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Indeed, contrary to the conventional understanding, President Trump could implement the scheme on his own, without Congress’s approval. The Immigration and Nationality Act gives the president the authority to suspend the entry of “any class of aliens” on his finding that their entry would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion/trumps-anti-muslim-plan-is-awful-and-constitutional.html

Of course it would be unfair to the majority of Muslims, who are in fact reasonable and good human beings in spite of the example of Mohammed and in spite of the Koran. But let's wait for a few more massacres of random civilians and see what happens. Just about the only thing you can really count on is that serious and truthful Muslims will continue to massacre random unarmed civilians. Then only question is when they will do it again, not if.

I think it would be way more productive if the Donald would call Saudia Arabia out on their bullshit funding of uber-violent madrassas around the world.

#islam #constitution

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1   zzyzzx   2015 Dec 9, 3:34pm  

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261062/carter-banned-iranians-coming-us-during-hostage-daniel-greenfield

Carter Banned Iranians from Coming to US During Hostage Crisis

Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist. He's just like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter.

During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran. Among these, Iranians were banned from entering the United States.

2   Heraclitusstudent   2015 Dec 9, 3:37pm  

I've yet to hear 1 media outlet screaming like that about the mockery made of the 4th amendment.

3   epitaph   2015 Dec 9, 4:43pm  

Wow, what a terrible person I'm sure he will be remembered among the worst people in history such as Hitler, Obama, Genghis Khan, Mother Teresa Jimmy Carter, and that guy who did the shamwow commercial.

4   Bigsby   2015 Dec 9, 4:55pm  

zzyzzx says

Carter Banned Iranians from Coming to US During Hostage Crisis

Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist. He's just like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter.

During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran. Among these, Iranians were banned from entering the United States.

Yes, because that is clearly the same as banning all Muslims from every single country outside of the US, something which would also, apparently, include your own US Muslim citizens living abroad. The fact that you are lapping up such glaring fascist demagoguery speaks volumes.

5   Y   2015 Dec 9, 9:26pm  

Back then it was Ok.....PC wasn't invented yet...

zzyzzx says

During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran. Among these, Iranians were banned from entering the United States.

6   indigenous   2015 Dec 10, 4:54am  

Now if the US would just realize their hypocrisy, after all we have a military presence in 140+ countries..

7   tatupu70   2015 Dec 10, 5:05am  

Banning someone based on their religion is a wee bit different then banning citizens of a foreign country.

The idea is pretty ridiculous anyway, because how do you determine one's religious beliefs??

8   anonymous   2015 Dec 10, 5:56am  

Not wanting to import jihadists = fascism

Forcing people to go broke handing over the fruits of their labour to PRIVATE "insurance" corporations = freedom

Welcome to bizarro world. The left has gone full blown retard

9   Y   2015 Dec 10, 6:00am  

The fact that we even have amendments indicates our Founding Fathers were Fucking up from the gitgo...

Heraclitusstudent says

I've yet to hear 1 media outlet screaming like that about the mockery made of the 4th amendment.

10   tatupu70   2015 Dec 10, 6:17am  

errc says

Not wanting to import jihadists = fascism

Forcing people to go broke handing over the fruits of their labour to PRIVATE "insurance" corporations = freedom

Welcome to bizarro world. The left has gone full blown retard

Except nobody wants to import jihadists.

Labeling every Muslim as a jihadist = fascism.

11   reggie   2015 Dec 10, 6:21am  

Obama is already acting like a Hitler by promoting only Muslims and excluding all other religions into the country. The damage is so deep now, it's going to take another Hitler to reverse the trend.

12   anonymous   2015 Dec 10, 6:24am  

How can you differentiate between a muslim and a jihadist?

13   tatupu70   2015 Dec 10, 6:46am  

errc says

How can you differentiate between a muslim and a jihadist?

How do you differentiate between criminals and law abiding citizens?

14   anonymous   2015 Dec 10, 6:49am  

Its fairly simple to identify tge politically disprivileged; unlucky enough to be the one who gets caught, and misfortunate enough to be persecuted

Pretty simple. That and public record

15   anonymous   2015 Dec 10, 6:53am  

Muslims and jihadists, its all but impossible to distinguish any supposed difference

They look identical
They share identical belief system

One has had the opportunity to serve their god, the other is just waiting for their time?

16   tatupu70   2015 Dec 10, 6:54am  

errc says

That and public record

Exactly. But you don't persecute them until after they have committed a crime. That's the point. Unless you are now considering being Muslim as a crime.

17   resistance   2015 Dec 10, 6:55am  

errc says

How can you differentiate between a muslim and a jihadist?

if a muslim takes islam very seriously, and tries to imitate mohammed in all his activities, the odds are high he has sympathy with the jihadists.

jihad is a holy obligation imposed on every believing muslim. and jihad means war in the common understanding among muslims, and in almost all islamic scholarship. look it up.

treating islam as if it were simply a matter of personal beliefs in private time, like most other religions, is simply lying about the central nature of the religion. islam explicitly instructs war.

18   anonymous   2015 Dec 10, 7:04am  

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

19   Shaman   2015 Dec 10, 7:14am  

tatupu70 says

Exactly. But you don't persecute them until after they have committed a crime. That's the point. Unless you are now considering being Muslim as a crime.

It's kind of like child molesters. Once they get out, you can put them on Meghan's Law and make them register, but you can't persecute them until they commit a crime (again). You know they probably want to go molest a kid, but you can't do anything until they actually go and shoot up a Christmas party . . . I mean touch little Billy.

I guess that's not exactly the same, but Muslims do share an identical "rules book" which clearly and unequivocally calls for violence, war, lies, and distrust of the "Kaffir." If they are a true Muslim, that's how they feel about YOU.

At this point I don't consider Islam a true religion, but a barbaric death cult.
Satanists are more charitable.

20   Shaman   2015 Dec 10, 7:17am  

errc says

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Except I don't think Our Dear Leader has ever read anything as mundane and practical as Sun Tzu. Chairman Mao was more his style.

21   reggie   2015 Dec 10, 7:22am  

Muslim, jihadist, and Islam all require genocide for everyone but themselves. It's naive to give any of those groups the cover of a Religion?

22   resistance   2015 Dec 10, 7:28am  

reggie says

It's naive to give any of those groups the cover of a Religion?

yes, that's the central problem now.

islam is clearly a religion but it is also a very violent political movement, and always was.

it uses the cover of religion against do-gooders who mean well, but its goal is explicitly to remove secular government and replace it with sharia. whether or not muslims want sharia is only a matter of how devout they are.

23   zzyzzx   2015 Dec 10, 8:01am  

tatupu70 says

Exactly. But you don't persecute them until after they have committed a crime. That's the point. Unless you are now considering being Muslim as a crime.

24   anonymous   2015 Dec 10, 8:02am  

^ ROFL. nice job, mate.

25   B.A.C.A.H.   2015 Dec 10, 8:52am  

Yawn.
When it comes to what is right (or good) and what is wrong (or bad/evil), it really doesn't matter what The Constitution says. It's not perfect.
Like, saying a slave is only three-fifths of a person. Or even sanctioning slavery. Or prohibition.

26   NDrLoR   2015 Dec 10, 8:58am  

Quigley says

but you can't persecute them

Don't you mean prosecute?

27   komputodo   2015 Dec 10, 9:49am  

P N Dr Lo R says

but you can't persecute them

Don't you mean prosecute?

It all depends on the STATUE of limitations

28   tatupu70   2015 Dec 10, 10:12am  

P N Dr Lo R says

Don't you mean prosecute?

Well, obviously you can't prosecute someone until they are accused of a crime. But treating one differently based on their religion is persecuting them.

29   Shaman   2015 Dec 10, 11:51am  

I meant persecute, exactly the way tatupu described it. We need to treat Muslims differently because of their barbaric genocidal religion/cult, the same as we treat wild jackals differently than chihuahuas. There's room to be humane, but not for trust.

30   Heraclitusstudent   2015 Dec 10, 12:13pm  


treating islam as if it were simply a matter of personal beliefs in private time, like most other religions, is simply lying about the central nature of the religion. islam explicitly instructs war.

You may be right, but still, attacking all Muslims is the wrong way to go about it.
The last thing you want to do is create 2 groups based on religion, with 1.6 billions Muslims in 1 group - against you.
In that sense what Trump said is stupid. I think he said it for republicans but didn't realize how that plays in a wider context.

The right way to go about it, is to calmly point at the most violent rules (stoning, amputations, killings), talk to moderate Muslims, and ask them "is this really what you stand for?" and pull them away from it. Ask them to clearly and repetitively state that they don't believe in this. This is not being done now. And Trump wasted an opportunity to do something like that.

31   B.A.C.A.H.   2015 Dec 10, 12:23pm  

Oh jeez. I don't agree with Trump on everything. In some ways his rise in politics is similar to Hitler's (Goebbels and The Big Lie).

That said, no non-Americans have a right to enter our country.

Excluding non-Americans is not denying them a right that they never had, anyway.

And excluding is not attacking. It's only excluding.

32   Heraclitusstudent   2015 Dec 10, 12:37pm  

I don't understand your post.
There is a lot of non-americans that come in the US perfectly legally: tourists, temporary workers, immigrant workers, etc...
There is also a lot of Muslims Americans that are not "non-Americans".
And sure I can replace the word "attacking" with "excluding" in my post and it stands. I'm talking of the group dynamic.

33   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Dec 10, 12:44pm  

B.A.C.A.H. says

That said, no non-Americans have a right to enter our country.

Excluding non-Americans is not denying them a right that they never had, anyway.

And excluding is not attacking. It's only excluding.

What's lost in the Immigration discussion is that immigrants are to benefit the United States, meaning it's current citizens.

Too many regressive lefties and their neoliberal pals act like immigration is a right. "The Free Movement of People Across Borders" is pure bullshit.

If immigration were the secret to prosperity, the Eastern Provinces of India would be the new Switzerland.

One thing we certainly do not need is more unskilled people. We have millions of native unskilled immigrants with high levels of unemployment.

Real Asylum Seekers are those who are educated reformers threatened with imprisonment or death for attempt to bring democracy, women's rights, free speech, and freedom of religion. Those would be a few thousand globally per year at best.

Most immigrants are coming for economic, not political reasons. They retain their allegiance to their culture and religion. And no, Irish and Italians and Ashkenazi Jews are very compatible with the West; our 1500 year rivals, even more than that if you extend that to the Persian Empire, are not.

34   B.A.C.A.H.   2015 Dec 10, 12:44pm  

Attacking's hyperbole, "everyone's a victim".

Yes, lotsa non-Americans enter our country. But none of them have a "right" to. Excluding them for any reason, fair or unfair, arbitrary or whatever, isn't denying them a right, because they never had a right to enter in the first place.

35   MMR   2015 Dec 10, 10:39pm  

thunderlips11 says

Real Asylum Seekers are those who are educated reformers threatened with imprisonment or death for attempt to bring democracy, women's rights, free speech, and freedom of religion. Those would be a few thousand globally per year at best.

People who can contribute to the economy, in other words. So brilliant and yet so simple

thunderlips11 says

Too many regressive lefties and their neoliberal pals act like immigration is a right. "The Free Movement of People Across Borders" is pure bullshit

Yes, some of the asshats on this site complain of h1-B visa holders immigrating legally and actually contributing to the economy. Those guys sure as hell didn't vote for Romney last time.

36   ja   2015 Dec 11, 7:30am  


Of course it would be unfair to the majority of Muslims, who are in fact reasonable and good human beings in spite of the example of Mohammed and in spite of the Koran. But let's wait for a few more massacres of random civilians and see what happens. Just about the only thing you can really count on is that serious and truthful Muslims will continue to massacre random unarmed civilians. Then only question is when they will do it again, not if.

I have an idea. Let's keep only those muslims that drink alcohol. There are plenty that don't take religion that seriously.
Now, what test would you suggest to get rid of fundamental Christians that may go shooting into an abortion clinic?

37   Shaman   2015 Dec 11, 7:41am  

I think we can stand the four instances of abortion clinic shootings in recorded history. It's the thousands of Muslim attacks that are the issue here.

38   mell   2015 Dec 11, 7:51am  

Quigley says

I think we can stand the four instances of abortion clinic shootings in recorded history. It's the thousands of Muslim attacks that are the issue here.

Also you can easily put armed guards into the clinics for protection because you know the target. With Paris-style attacks you have no idea what the target will be. Paris-style attacks are completely different - because in their nature indifferent - style of attacks. So the anti-abortion-shooter argument - while often brought up - doesn't hold.

39   zzyzzx   2015 Dec 11, 7:59am  

In Britain, more Muslims join ISIS than join the British army.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428146/more-than-few-islamic-extremists

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