Trump-ing the Vote: The Donald and the Ban on Muslim Immigration

By I.M. Ulysses

I understand how nutty it is to consider a reality-show ‘star’ like Donald J. Trump being a president of anything more complex than a school debating society. I also get that he is stirring the pot and how liberal-types are all up in arms about this "demagogue" becoming a world leader.
A month ago, I felt the same way when Canada’s own underwear model and poster-boy for self-indulgent-but-vapid-rich-kids Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister (I’m still waiting to find out how he will grow the economy ‘from the heart outwards’). But if my brain can survive that shock (ok, it took a bit of heavy drinking, and lots of ‘it’s ok, we’ll be all right’ reassurances from my wife I’ll admit) I'm sure American democracy can survive Donald Trump.

What it cannot survive, though, is the collective ignorance of people who jump all over those who agree with Trump's plan to limit or ban Muslims immigration.

The rhetoric from Liberals and their allies reminds me a robot that has become stuck in a subroutine, repeating the same mantras over and over again. It all begins with ‘racism’ and ends with ‘racism’ but the fact is Trump’s plan to halt Muslim immigration is NOT RACIST.

LISTEN CAREFULLY – ISLAM IS NOT A RACE it is a RELIGION and an IDEOLOGY! OK? Black people are a ‘race.’ Chinese people are a ‘race.’ Even white people are called a ‘race.’ BUT ISLAM IS NOT THAT! Infact, for all its faults (and I could enumerate them here if you want), it is very inclusive of ALL so-called ‘races’ much like Christianity.

I understand, though, where they're coming from. Most are sincere but  ignorant types with intellectual pretensions, who have been pandered too for far too long. It’s to the point they cannot even see their own foolishness and hypocrisy, isn’t it? But don’t worry, I’ll guide you to the land of sensibility.

It begins with the understanding that what Trump wants to do is far less radical than what white, Liberal, and Democratic US President Jimmy Carter did in 1979. You remember the peanut farmer from Georgia? The first US President from a former Confederate state since before the American Civil War? The one who rehabilitated Confederate President Jefferson Davis by posthumously giving him back his citizenship almost 90 years after his death?

Well Carter, in light of the Iranian Hostage Crises BANNED and ordered the REMOVAL of ALL Iranians from the USA. Where was the hue and cry of racism then? I don’t remember it, do you? That really was racism because it didn’t matter what you believed, it only mattered where you were from and what your origin was.

Trump, for all his faults, is not going that far. He is simply saying the USA should vette Muslims OF ALL RACES from EVERYWHERE, presumably including Canada. In light of the fact that Muslims are responsible for all known acts of terrorism in the last 25 years, that’s not such a hard or bigoted platform. This includes 9/11, the Boston and California bombings, the two Paris attacks, the London subway attacks and the attacks in Spain and elsewhere; attacks all performed BY MUSLIMS! 

Look, I’m sorry if people disagree. But in a world where any Muslim (it seems) can be ‘radicalized,’ even within North America or Europe, is it not understandable that some precautions should be taken to ensure that those coming form abroad, from countries where Islam is the dominant force and where there are already known acts of terrorism happening, to be more careful? Or have we already forgotten (as it seems people have) that one of the Paris bombers ARRIVED IN FRANCE AS A REFUGEE FROM SYRIA?

Though I'm not a Trump supporter I do understand the man's popularity. It is, in fact, a direct response to the ignorance and claptrap coming from the bleeding-heart Liberal crowd; the kind that cannot see past their own  hypocrisy and foolishness. 

They, ALONE, are responsible for Trump's rise from half-witted and cheesy reality-show star to potential world leader. Americans are simply expressing that.
They are tired of being patronized by high-minded liberals with idealistic pretensions  but no real policies. Like Canadians, they want to feel secure and that their government cares about their welfare, not scoring political points to appease politically-correct  buffoons who seem to think they always know better but whose ideas have only contributed to the acts of terror that we see all over the world.

Its now time to listen to them. If nothing else, Trump is certainly doing that!