Following is a summary of this Crisis Magazine Article by William Kilpatrick:
Much of the debate about bringing Syrian refugees into the U.S. focuses on if they can be properly vetted or not, however analysts also have many other concerns, including the fact that many moderate Muslims are tolerant of Islamic terrorism due to being acclimated to thinking of it as a part of life that can’t be avoided.
A 2007 opinion poll of Syrians showed that 75 percent supported financial aid for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda “Iraqi fighters,” and a more recent poll of 1,365 Syrians showed that one in five considered ISIS to be a positive influence in their country.
A 2014 opinion poll showed that 27 percent of the French population in the 18 to 24 year old demographic supported ISIS, and assuming it was a random sample and assuming that the majority of pro-ISIS respondents were Muslim, that would mean that the vast majority of French Muslims support ISIS.
The fact that potential terrorists have supportive environments in their host countries is also often overlooked. Europe is filled with many such areas in parts of Paris, Brussels, Berlin, and elsewhere, and there is evidence of such areas existing in the United States as well.
The most significant question to ask about the refugee resettlement program is, “Will it contribute to a strengthening of our society, or will it lead instead to the strengthening and expansion of terror-supportive networks?”
Most of the refugees are steeped in the same worldview that created the Islamic State. Many take for granted that Islam is the supreme religion, Muhammad was the perfect man, and that Jews and Christians are unclean. They may be adverse to committing violence but many may find it understandable if other Muslims resort to violence in order to avenge real or perceived threats to Islam.
It is reasonable to expect that many Sunni Muslim refugees bring with them sets of beliefs which are conductive to terrorism. Many recent high profile Islamic terrorists in the West underwent a “sudden conversion syndrome,” where initially they were Westernized kids with “pot smoking, heavy drinking, and fast driving” mentalities, with their extremism then abruptly cropping up due to being exposed to the belief that they can wipe out their sins by an act of martyrdom.
As unfair as it may seem, it is important to take culture into account. Islamic cultures produce a disproportionate number of terrorist, and Western cultures produce a disproportionate amount of people who are incapable of imagining that other cultures may be radically different from their own and automatically project their own values and attitudes onto all they see.
From the article:
“But, as should now be clear to anyone willing to look, Islamic culture is not simply a colorful variation of our own. In those places where traditional Islam is the governing principle—whether in the Islamic State, or in parts of Pakistan, Indonesia, or Nigeria—the same disdain for non-Muslims and their religions can be found.”
“This attitude is common not just among terrorists, but also among ordinary Muslims. By all accounts, the fifteen Muslim migrants who threw twelve Christians overboard during a Mediterranean crossing were not terrorists, they were simply Muslims who took offense when some of the Christians began to pray.”
Some the Muslims who attacked Christians in European refugee camps has ISIS ties and others did not, leading to the politically incorrect conclusion that they needed to be housed separately.
Another example of Islamic contempt for other cultures occurred at a Turkish soccer match where the Muslim fans loudly booed and chanted during a moment of silence for the victims of the Paris nightclub massacre.
Christians are regularly reminded that the Holy family were once refugees in Egypt, but the culture of Christianity is entirely different from the one brought into the world by Muhammad six centuries later. The more appropriate analogy to consider is that Muhammad and his followers were once also refugees. He and his group of about 100 men, women, and children had overstayed their welcome in Mecca and had to flee to avoid persecution, then being welcomed into Medina to the doom of those who lived there.
From the article: “Fortunately for Muhammad, the more ‘enlightened’ citizens of Medina extended an invitation to the Muslims to come and live in their city. It is not recorded whether or not they held up large ‘welcome refugees’ banners as is now the custom at European train stations, but they soon enough experienced the kind of regrets that Europeans are now having. Muhammad gradually acquired wealth and converts, and within a half-dozen years he was the master of Medina. Those Medinans who were not exiled or slaughtered were thoroughly subjugated. Muhammad then used Medina as the launching pad for his conquest of all Arabia. Within a century of his death, his followers had conquered nearly half of the civilized world.”
A similar process of cultural conquest by migration in now underway in Europe. Citizens in the United States should take heed before embarking on any such ill-considered experiments.
