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Tuesday, February 02, 2016

Will Banning Muslim Migration Ruin the Anti-ISIS Coalition?




But there are two things wrong with this argument.

























  1. Anonymous2/2/16

    Graham and Bushes debate comment premises set off alarm bells in my head. What's concerning is that Cruz doesn't strike down those and other fallacious ideas. Sometimes I think for all their tough talk even Cruz and Trump really don't understand the situation.

  2. Anonymous3/2/16

    It's shocking this needs to be said!

    This article isn't clever philosophical jiu jitsu turning assumptions upside down. It's a simple compilation of a few basic facts ...

  3. Anonymous3/2/16


    Your columns are brilliant and often make me see things that I haven't seen before. This column is different because this concept is so obvious to thinking people. Any politician that makes the claim that the problem with "proposals to end Muslim migration to the United States is that this policy would somehow interfere with the coalition to fight ISIS" should be disqualified from holding public office. You really have to be an ignoramus or a person of very low intelligence to believe this.

    - Halevi

  4. I didn't even need to read the article:

    What Anti-Isis coalition?

  5. It is outrageous that we need to speak such truths to our politicians and elites in the West. The socialists and other hard left ideologies despise Western Christian capitalist society so much that they will deal with the devil and push this agenda, along with many others, to weaken and attempt to destroy our society. Why do we keep electing politicians that actively advance and support our destruction? I hope we are beginning to wake up to the truth. All the Saudi and Quatari money and influence must also be fully exposed and ended. Thank you Mr. Greenfield.

    1. Conflating socialism with this issue just shows how little you grasp the problem. It has nothing to do with it

  6. Daniel, This is good as spiritual pick-me-up. Thanks

  7. This sound rebuttal to the doves who think they can love Muslims into modernity will fall on the overgrown deaf ears of our Leftist president who is too busy feeling to step back and think.

  8. The eye-opening book for me was Anonymous Conservative's The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics. It literally makes no sense to a normal person why someone would so blatantly Neville Chamberlain up the situation with pointless appeasement, cowardly retreats from even a hint of confrontation (not the same as avoidance of unnecessary confrontation), and treasonous backstabbing of your own in-group in order to pointlessly attempt conciliation with the out-group. Once you discover that these are all hallmarks of r-selected rabbit psychology, much more of liberalism makes sense.

    And I use liberalism loosely; Lindsey Graham and ¡Jeb! Bush are hardly bulwarks of conservative values here.

  9. Y. Ben-David3/2/16

    Actually, I was under the impression that the Saudis have essentially pulled out of the war against ISIS. They stopped carrying out boming raids against them months ago. I read an article that said many (or most?) Sunnis view ISIS as the "bulwark against the Shi'ite Iranians" (just like the Appeasers in the 1930's said that Hitler was the bulward against Bolsevisim) and really don't care what they are doing in Iraq and Syria. They certainly aren't bothered by the terrorism they carry out against non-Muslim minorities or the terrorist attacks in the West. So what is the meaning of this artificial "coalition" against them in any event. The Jordanians also pulled out of the fight after their pilot was killed. The Turks also seemed to be quietly pleased by the ISIS attacks against the Kurds in Turkey. The whole war seems to be to be phony.

  10. DenisO3/2/16

    Jeb Bush must have an adviser who believes a bellicose posture will get him elected, and that just shows how out-of-touch he is. There is no appetite for sending more of our young and treasure to die in the Middle East. I can't believe he could be that idiotic. Lindsey 'Amnesty' Graham is a known chicken hawk, and former Army lawyer who never got within a light year of combat. He always talks tough, and is anxious to send us into another war, or extend old ones, to alleviate some psychological need. Jeb and he are losers, like Obama, who would love to be seen as a "leader", somehow, as the curtain drops on his "act" in American history.
    ISIS is a religious tool designed to create martyrs who will die for those who want to overthrow the dictators the West set-up to protect their oil supply. Religion is a much more efficient way to motivate a revolution of the Proletariat, --the other way to gain power and wealth.
    Saudi Arabia and the other Royals have paid "protection" to Al Qaeda and all the religious terrorists, to leave them alone, but they can read the tea leaves, and know it is only a matter of time. The U.S. has the Oil, now, and can supply their Western allies, so they know they are out on a limb against the Revolutionaries. ISIS wants the holy cities to keep their religious image, so that excuse will be the reason the Royals will be deposed.

  11. Excellent prognosis, Daniel. I especially loved "pretending that Islam is just Christianity misspelled." As for Obama's "mysticism," he has totalitarian serum running through his veins, so it should be of no surprise that he'd name Saudi Arabia as our "number one" ally in the anti-ISIS, but wholly dysfunctional coalition.

  12. Succinct. Straightforward. Easily understood and explained to others. In other words, brilliant! Thank you.

  13. Common 'tater4/2/16

    I am sorry I am late to the forum, but I had to curtail my two cents worth rather abruptly about 24 hours ago.

    Essentially, I agree with much of what you have said, and you have said it in a forceful manner. However, I do disagree with you on the following points:

    1. There is no coalition. The US and Western Europe are stupid enough to fight the oil sheikhs war for them. We are but hirelings sent to do their work for them. They are too incompetent anyway. The Russians are bombing everyone but ISIS for their own political and military gain.

    2. While our citizens and our nation have little, if any common values or shared visions of government with the KSA and fellow oil sheiks, our political leaders have a lot in common. Things like avarice, narcissism, power hungry, incompetence, immoral, unethical, etc.

    In reality, Syria's neighbors do not want the Syrian rebels and refugees. They certainly do not want the Christians and Yazidis. They do not want armed men from different clans, tribes, and political loyalties flooding their countries, even if they are Muslim.

    The only ones over there that share any kind of values or common interests with the US are the Israelis, possibly Jordan. The rest should be left to fend for themselves in their Islamic paradises.

  14. Unless we get out from under Liberals and their political cartels, America is screwed. On the news, they showed a town in Michigan where Muslims already dominate in population and have run Christians out. Michigan will have to be taken back by force eventually. Right now, it's a write off. Jeb Bush is another stand-in for the Bush oil cartel. Everyone knows this, and the people are rejecting it this time around. The Clintons are just criminals with their charity, obviously taking bribes for favors when she is elected. There is no way she will ever be prosecuted. Obama is not a Christian. He hates us just as much as he hates Israel. Pretty soon, unless the Liberals go, it will be a race crime to say anything bad about Muslims. I guess it already is, since the Justice Department tried so hard to make the San Bernadino shooters white and failed, but sent Lynch so no one would say anything bad about Muslims. The whole thing is about to collapse, and I think at some point we will be hit with a huge EMP that will make the country collapse and it will never recover.

  15. Invest more to promote a fight between Sunni and Shiite fanatics so they leave everyone else alone.

  16. Anonymous4/2/16

    One other thing. If we aren't admitting Muslims, reasonably rational military-age non-ISIS males will have a higher propensity to fight ISIS rather than immigrating here.

  17. Excellent piece! "Islam is just Christianity misspelled." Now that's funny!

  18. Anonymous4/2/16

    "Islam is just Christianity misspelled" reminds me of the all-too-common defense of islam by the stupid, ignorant or mendacious: Christianity is just as bad.

  19. If Christianity is just as bad as Islam, then why don't you go to one of those nice Muslim Hospitals that treat all faiths or get money from some of those nice Muslim charities who support all denominations? Gee, bet you can't find one.

  20. Anonymous6/2/16

    Sharia Law should be legally typified as apology of terrorism and punished with life imprisonment. The likes of Trump and Cruz should be demanded a clear positioning…