Saturday, November 21, 2015

#IAmMulin

This is in response to Rob Eastman, Jewish Journal Editorial



“The campaign to keep Syrian refugees out of the United States represents a complete lack of faith – not just in Syrian refugees, and not just in the department of Homeland Security, but in America itself.”

This kind of leftist bull… is often heard in the Jewish community. 


  • 8 people, in Paris, managed to kill over 130. 
  • One deranged psychologist in Texas killed over 30 people. 
  • In Israel one individual has been able to kill 4 with a knife! 
  • 2 Refugees from Southern Russia killed 3 and injured 264. 

Among the 10K refugees, will the media be able to find such men and make them capable of these acts? What are the lives of American’s worth to those who compare this to preventing Jews from finding refuge on these shores?
If the Jewish Community wants to help and give asylum support the following type of actions by our country:
  1. Accept women of all ages
  2. Accept males under 14 and above 60
  3. Place all refugees in locations outside of the US so that none can claim birthright citizenship.
  4. Provide weapons and support the males to fight and take back their homes.
  5. Reunite the families at their point of origin when the war has been successfully concluded. And make sure it concludes successfully.
  6. If you have limited space, provide it to those that need it most, the Christians of the region, the minorities who are being wiped out by both Shiites and Sunnis.

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Response to: The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Politicization of Fear by  Rabbi Fred Gutman
On one side, we hear, quite rightly, that America is a compassionate land built by those who came to our shore seeking freedom. (Of course, one cannot include African Americans in this picture, because they were not brought to our shores seeking freedom. Nevertheless, they have obviously been a major force in building our country.)
Those who advocate continuing to take in thousands of Syrian refugees tell us we need to fight through our fears because they are either unfounded or extreme.
On the other side of political spectrum, politicians play to our most base fears by appealing to the dark recesses of xenophobia that exist within the psyche of every human being. Those politicians – and the people who share their views – say the U.S. should close its borders immediately and stop all Syrian refugees from entering the country. Some governors have even tried to block the settlement of Syrian refugees in their respective states (despite the fact that they do not have the legal authority to do so).
You may think this is a fair representation of the facts, what about the following?
On one side, we here, that America’s compassion should outweigh its prudence, that we need to fight through our fears and permit this dangerous migration into our country.
On the other side, politicians warn us of the real dangers that even a small cadre of murderers like those who infiltrated the US in 2001 and those who infiltrated, partly as refugees into France. 9 individuals killed almost 3000 Americans, 6 or 7 individuals killed over 130 Parisians.
It is sometimes good to listen to those you disagree with, and not jump to conclusions about their motives.

Another point you make:
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What we need from politicians now is not certainty but assurance, not rectitude but sympathetic concern. We need politicians who are willing to say, “I understand your fear, but…” - 
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That is not what I want from a politician. I want him to tell me the unbiased pros and cons of a situation, not as you or as I, in response, have done, Just the fact. Treat me like an adult and tell me what Your decision was. Then I can support or oppose it.


On the last point, of course, I agree with you. I was a born in a Japanese concentration camp, so I am pretty much for providing safety for refugees.  I outlined the steps in my blog a number of times, but will do so again here:
If the Jewish Community wants to help and give asylum support the following type of actions by our country:


  1. Accept women of all ages
  2. Accept males under 14 and above 60
  3. Place all refugees in locations outside of the US so that none can claim birthright citizenship.
  4. Provide weapons and support the males to fight and take back their homes.
  5. Reunite the families at their point of origin when the war has been successfully concluded. And make sure it concludes successfully.
  6. If you have limited space, provide it to those that need it most, the Christians of the region, the minorities who are being wiped out by both Shiites and Sunnis.
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Response to “The refugee debate hides the real threat from the Islamic State”  by Ruth Marcus

“To channel Clinton on Benghazi, at this point what difference does it make?
It makes a huge difference as to who to believe! Do you believe a pair of liars who concocted a story for purely political leaders, or a bloviator who shoots from the hip? I’ll take the bloviator since I know where he lives. The liars can change without me recognizing the change behind their lying masks.
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“If the Islamic State wants to strike in the United States, terrorists posing as refugees would be an enormously inefficient path. There are far easier methods: either home-grown operatives or those who arrive through so-called visa waiver countries with far less intensive checking than the process for refugees.
Interesting therefore that they did infiltrate using refugees in the Paris mass murder, and that we had the same in the Boston case with the Tsaernev brothers. Also, I haven’t heard anyone say that we should continue our laxness with the Visa program.
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“Donald Trump has said it may be necessary to close mosques and create a national database of Muslims. Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush called for sorting refugees by religion. Chris Christie would exclude even 5-year-old orphans. Ben Carson referred to “rabid dogs” and tried to raise money off the issue.”
Neither Ted Cruz nor Jeb Bush called for “sorting”. They stated the obvious fact that if you are a minority (Christian, Kurd) you are attacked by both Sunni’s and Shiites, and as a Christian community you have all but disappeared. This is facts, and recognition of them, not “religionism”
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“What’s the bigger risk: that terrorists posing as refugees will slip through in a year or two, or that young Muslims here will listen to this bigotry and become radicalized? The answer seems obvious.”
Not to me, the 9/11 attack was not carried out because we were nasty and bigoted against Muslims, nor was the 1992(?) attack.  Please stop making unwarranted assumptions based on ignoring facts.
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Response to “The refugee debate hides the real threat from the Islamic State”  by Ruth Marcus

“To channel Clinton on Benghazi, at this point what difference does it make?

It makes a huge difference as to who to believe! Do you believe a pair of liars who concocted a story for purely political leaders, or a bloviator who shoots from the hip? I’ll take the bloviator since I know where he lives. The liars can change without me recognizing the change behind their lying masks.

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“If the Islamic State wants to strike in the United States, terrorists posing as refugees would be an enormously inefficient path. There are far easier methods: either home-grown operatives or those who arrive through so-called visa waiver countries with far less intensive checking than the process for refugees.

Interesting therefore that they did infiltrate using refugees in the Paris mass murder, and that we had the same in the Boston case with the Tsaernev brothers. Also, I haven’t heard anyone say that we should continue our laxness with the Visa program.
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“Donald Trump has said it may be necessary to close mosques and create a national database of Muslims. Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush called for sorting refugees by religion. Chris Christie would exclude even 5-year-old orphans. Ben Carson referred to “rabid dogs” and tried to raise money off the issue.”

Neither Ted Cruz nor Jeb Bush called for “sorting”. They stated the obvious fact that if you are a minority (Christian, Kurd) you are attacked by both Sunni’s and Shiites, and as a Christian community you have all but disappeared. This is facts, and recognition of them, not “religionism.” 

As to Trump, he is a bloviator expressing his anger, after which he comes up with pretty sensible positions. Follow him, give him the benefit of the doubt, and he'll be less threatening to you.
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“What’s the bigger risk: that terrorists posing as refugees will slip through in a year or two, or that young Muslims here will listen to this bigotry and become radicalized? The answer seems obvious.”
Not to me, the 9/11 attack was not carried out because we were nasty and bigoted against Muslims, nor was the 1992(?) attack.  Please stop making unwarranted assumptions based on ignoring facts.
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Lastly, why not spend our energy trying to find a solution satisfactory to all our population. Here is my proposal
1.     Accept women of all ages
2.     Accept males under 14 and above 60
3.     Place all refugees in locations outside of the US so that none can claim birthright citizenship.
4.     Provide weapons and support the males to fight and take back their homes.
5.     Reunite the families at their point of origin when the war has been successfully concluded. And make sure it concludes successfully.
6.     If you have limited space, provide it to those that need it most, the Christians of the region, the minorities who are being wiped out by both Shiites and Sunnis.

This answers the security problems of Republicans, the religious worries of our religious population, and the worries about immigration of those worried about it. It takes it out of politics, and hopefully makes it possible.
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AP  Fact Check: When truth is a casualty of terrorist fears -- CALVIN WOODWARD -- Response
This fact check is a leftist propaganda arm. Let’s go through their latest fact check:
  • "Our president wants to take in 250,000 from Syria." Trump also states that most of the people leaving Syria are men, with very few children, an observation he made at one point by seeing the crowds on TV.
    1. Clearly the 250K is bloviating but it probably comes from the fact that there are over 3M refugees from Syria (CNN ) and our taking 10K doesn’t compute at all!
    2. According to UNHCR the demographics for those leaving Syria for Europe are:
      1. 22% Children,
      2. 16% Women,
      3. 62% Men
        So the claim by the “fact finders” that “sexes are split about equally, and only 2 percent are single men of combat age.” Is not “fact checkable” but a bunch of nonsense. Unless they are claiming that UNHCR is a republican establishment.

  • BUSH: "In the law, it requires a religious test. ... It is a requirement, as you go through the screening process, that religion is an element to it."
THE FACTS: No religious test is required for people seeking asylum or refugee status.

AP is using a lawyers trick on this. Religion can be used as a discriminator (hence is a test) but only if “if someone cites it as a reason to seek refuge, but it is not a test in law.” In the next paragraph.  Give us a break and stop talking lawyerlike.  Bush is right in stating that such a test should be made, and using slightly incorrect language doesn’t change that.
  • Trump on requiring Muslims to register. Not exactly what he claimed, it could be interpreted that way, but it could also be interpreted as meaning that list of potential terrorists might include a good proportion of Muslim Clerics, Muslim VIPs etc., as probably is already the case. But even if he did. We did this in WWII and for many of us, the situation feels like a real war.







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