How is terrorism liberals' fault?
Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 2:15 am
They never explain, nor explain how their proposed measures would do a thing to solve the problem. Extreme vetting of refugees? Every country already does that, and given that refugees have yet to go bombing people, I don't see how they're the problem. Banning immigrants? Right, because terrorists will go to years of trouble and paperwork of having a marketable skill, securing a job, finding a home, and then finally, when they get in, blow themselves up. They could save the time and effort by just hopping on a plane.
I'm in a country where 14% of the population are Muslim, and we've managed to have normal lives and a super low crime rate without regularly getting blown up or forcing women to all wear burqas. Only 0.9% of the US population is Muslim (5% in the UK), and yet people seem convinced that raising that by just a tiny fraction would result in doom and women getting raped and gays getting beaten up and murdered (because obviously no white Christian man would ever do such a thing, or, say, go to a school and gun down children before killing themselves, which is somehow qualitatively different than suicide bombing and based on their logic I don't understand how that isn't reason to call for the deportation of all white men).
And I hate that this debate pops up like clockwork every single time, when the focus should instead be on grieving the lives that were lost and caring for the bereaved, and I realise that this thread isn't helping, but things suck and I'm angry and needed to vent.
I'm in a country where 14% of the population are Muslim, and we've managed to have normal lives and a super low crime rate without regularly getting blown up or forcing women to all wear burqas. Only 0.9% of the US population is Muslim (5% in the UK), and yet people seem convinced that raising that by just a tiny fraction would result in doom and women getting raped and gays getting beaten up and murdered (because obviously no white Christian man would ever do such a thing, or, say, go to a school and gun down children before killing themselves, which is somehow qualitatively different than suicide bombing and based on their logic I don't understand how that isn't reason to call for the deportation of all white men).
And I hate that this debate pops up like clockwork every single time, when the focus should instead be on grieving the lives that were lost and caring for the bereaved, and I realise that this thread isn't helping, but things suck and I'm angry and needed to vent.