Muslim not Terrorist
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Tankeløsheden er ubærlig. Amnesty International fortæller os at vi må "bekæmpe det muslimske forbud" fordi Trumps snæversyn ødelægger liv. Anthony Dimaggio fra CounterPunch siger at Trump burde for en rigsret fordi hans islamofobi er en trussel mod grundloven. Dette er ikke specielt at udpege disse to da tankeløsheden er overalt hos de hvis livssyn er defineret af identitetspolitik.

Man kunne måske tænke at Amnesty International burde kæmpe imod Bush/Cheney/Obamas systemskifte-krige som har produceret flygtningene ved at dræbe og fortrænge millioner af muslimer. For eksempel, den vedvarende krig som Obama påførte Yemen resulterer i døden af et yemisk barn hvert 10. minut, ifølge UNICEF. Hvor er Amnesty International?


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Clearly America's wars on Muslims wreck far more lives than Trump's ban on immigrants. Why the focus on an immigration ban and not on wars that produce refugees? Is it because Obama is responsible for war and Trump for the ban? Is the liberal/progressive/left projecting Obama's monstrous crimes onto Trump? Is it that we must hate Trump and not Obama?

Immigration is not a right protected by the US Constitution. Where was Dimaggio when in the name of "the war on terror" the Bush/Obama regime destroyed the civil liberties guaranteed by the US Constitution? If Dimaggio is an American citizen, he should try immigrating to the UK, Germany, or France and see how far he gets.
The easiest and surest way for the Trump administration to stop the refugee problem, not only for the US but also for Europe and the West in general, is to stop the wars against Muslim countries that his predecessors started. The enormous sums of money squandered on gratuitous wars could instead be given to the countries that the US and NATO have destroyed. The simplest way to end the refugee problem is to stop producing refugees. This should be the focus of Trump, Amnesty, and Dimaggio.

Is everyone too busy hating to do anything sensible?

It is very disturbing that the liberal/progressive/left prefers to oppose Trump than to oppose war. Indeed, they want a war on Trump. How does this differ from the Bush/Obama war on Muslims?

The liberal/progressive/left is demonstrating a mindless hatred of the American people and the President that the people chose. This mindless hatred can achieve nothing but the discrediting of an alternative voice and the opening of the future to the least attractive elements of the right-wing.

The liberal/progressive/left will end up discrediting all critics, thereby empowering those to whom the liberal/progressive/left are most opposed.