tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post3805877225515497479..comments2024-03-27T22:19:30.167-04:00Comments on THE BLOG: KHURRUM WAHID EDITORIAL IN MIAMI HERALD TODAYRumpolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08380575650255695462noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-11162311272320594722017-02-06T16:01:47.590-05:002017-02-06T16:01:47.590-05:00The list of 7 countries comes from Obama and the o...The list of 7 countries comes from Obama and the ones who have reason to fear radical Muslims the most are women and the LGBTQ community.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-68625392328255444652017-02-04T22:32:48.715-05:002017-02-04T22:32:48.715-05:00Muslim clerics condemn terrorism.
https://www.goo...Muslim clerics condemn terrorism.<br /><br />https://www.google.com/amp/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_566adfa1e4b009377b249dea<br /><br />Google is your friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-13035261738701535362017-02-04T11:47:36.532-05:002017-02-04T11:47:36.532-05:00Fear of the Other is a great distraction from the...Fear of the Other is a great distraction from the 30,000 or so US Gun deaths each year. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-15100537423802352302017-02-04T09:55:09.860-05:002017-02-04T09:55:09.860-05:00Khurrum is a great lawyer, and a great guy.
The r...Khurrum is a great lawyer, and a great guy.<br /><br />The risk of mass violence by a refugee in this country is statistically determinable, and has been determined to be miniscule. We are not the EU, and our refugee policies are very different. Already. The vetting we presently do for, e.g., Syrian refugees takes 18 months to 2 years. <br /><br />Nothing has been done by refugees admitted by the Obama administration to warrant more extreme vetting by Trump -- nothing. <br /><br />We happily, indeed proudly, live by policies (or their absence) that routinely subject us to much more significant risks of mass violence than that presented by admitting thoroughly-vetted muslims from troubled countries.<br /><br />For example, Trump just rolled back restrictions on access to guns by mentally ill persons. If your support of the muslim ban is motivated by fear of mass violence, then you should be protesting the rollback on access to guns by the mentally ill. Mentally ill people with access to guns account for vastly more mass violence than do thoroughly-vetted muslim refugees from war-torn countries. And no, the perpetrators of 9/11 weren't thoroughly vetted. And weren't from war-torn countries. And wouldn't have been affected by Trump's recent EO.<br /><br />Fear should be related to empirically-determinable risk. But because we are human beings, we have irrational fears, particularly fear of 'the other.' Trump is exploiting our irrational fears because a fearful populace is easier to control.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-60444397849854829032017-02-03T16:14:41.784-05:002017-02-03T16:14:41.784-05:00Never heard of this cat.Never heard of this cat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-38901443542889622812017-02-03T14:52:43.174-05:002017-02-03T14:52:43.174-05:00What is going in is terrible yet, calamities in t...What is going in is terrible yet, calamities in the country and the world are even worse requiring some type of response. What exactly that response is may be unattainable, undefinable and indecipherable. While we don't want to resort to ugly history, what is going on in this world is unprecedented. To get protection there is a necessity of giving up some rights and liberties. We used to be on the honor system but that can no longer work. It is so easy to condemn the [obviously malicious] oppressive approach yet to do nothing may be worse. Maybe we just have to make the USA a fortress and limit access. <br /><br />I do not know what the answer to what to do other than this radical Islamic culture will be a continuing threat, they do not want traditional territories or commodities, they want to disrupt and extinguish our way of life. Their way of life is disgusting and every time I see the public executions or honor killings, I have no empathy for their vile culture. Consequently and quite logically, they need to be eradicated. <br /><br />They made the move, we are just trying to respond and protect ourselves. Obama's "nice guy" approach did not work...everything became worse. Yea, what Trump has done seems wrong, but what do you do? Nothing? Why shouldn't we be selective, discerning, careful, apprehensive? Posting anonymously allows me to comfortably say, in a non PC manner, that perhaps the world situation has created this ...as opposed to mean politicians ?<br /><br /><br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-11271174300455166762017-02-03T13:54:18.966-05:002017-02-03T13:54:18.966-05:00Can anyone name one instance where a Muslim cleric...Can anyone name one instance where a Muslim cleric has condemned an act of terrorism?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-22322227552728512282017-02-03T13:22:45.442-05:002017-02-03T13:22:45.442-05:00We hear a lot about governance by "fear"...We hear a lot about governance by "fear". It is something we are old, with no sense of irony, that we should fear. We should be terrified of it. <br /><br />Similarly, we are told that any belief that homosexuality is different from heterosexuality (in any way whatsoever), is homophobia - a fear of it. Islamophobia is the lastest version of this rhetoric. Any conservative policy eventually gets a -phobia attached to it by the media.<br /><br />After all, who wants to side with the cowards? To be driven by fear, the implication goes, is to be irrational. Good, rational decision making should be made in the absence of fear. <br /><br />On the one hand, it's amusing to see the Left go all-in on this rhetoric, while at the same time engaging in the hysteria we see from them. Protesters have literally been weeping and shaking in the streets. And we are told, by contributors to this blog among others, that our president is actually Adolf Hitler. A gay Jewish British cultural commentator was recently burned out of UC Berkeley because he is a "Nazi". The Left would mock Trump's immigration policies as being driven by "fear", but are themselves struck to their core (or at least would have us believe they are) by the sheer TERROR of this re-incarnation of Nazi Germany we are living through. Enforcing immigration law will certainly lead to concentration camps!<br /><br />Beyond that very dumb irony, completely lost on the Left, there is still the fundamental question -- is it so terrible to acknowledge and use fear in rational decision making? Aren't there some things it is, indeed, WISE to be fearful of?<br /><br />If various polls indicate that double-digit percentages of Syrians seeking refuge in Europe have positive feelings towards ISIS, I would counsel that Europeans ought to be afraid. ISIS and their methods ought to terrify. Our lives and our societies are vulnerable. Each day we drop our children off in the mornings and hope to pick them up in the evenings. We stroll Ocean Drive with no thought that a passing truck will drive over our kids. We (most of us) do not carry guns everywhere, trusting that a visit to the Perez Art Museum won't involve having to shoot a machete wielding lunatic. The prospect of facing those things should inspire fear.<br /><br />And that fear should guide rational decision making. Maybe, after all, we don't want our Nativity scenes to be run over. Maybe we don't want our train stations to be exploded. Maybe our rock concerts are just fine without massacres. <br /><br />So as you beat your protest drums (both seeking to inspire fear of Trump/Hitler, and in mockery of the "fear" of Islamic terror), maybe take a minute or two to examine critically the idea of fear.<br /><br />After all, you don't want to be a coward.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com