Denying Muslims Visas

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 1/4/2008 | Unsigned editorial

[dcwusmc]

Immigration: Ron Paul may be a fringe presidential candidate, but Muslim student visas is no fringe topic. It threatens homeland security, and the Republican gadfly deserves credit for raising the issue.

In a controversial ad that's sending his libertarian fans into orbit, Paul proposes tough new immigration policies, including denying visas to Muslim students from terrorist states.

Paul, a congressman from south Texas, also proposes ending "birthright citizenship," which allows the children of Middle Eastern and other illegal immigrants to stay in America. Such anchor babies now include the offspring of jailed or deported terrorists.

[Kozak]

No I’m pointing out the poster doesn’t know the definition of the word “proscribed”.

[highlander_UW]

No I’m pointing out the poster doesn’t know the definition of the word “proscribed”.

I am the poster and I do know the definition. And my follow up post was to point out that it's unlikely a jihadi would see a difference between proscribed and allowed if it came down to promoting Islam.

[Kozak]

Except lying isn’t proscribed. Under Taqiyah muslims are encouraged to lie if necessary to gain advantage over an enemy.

[tiki]

But then the universities would scream. Not that I care but you know they would.

I just went to a university graduation and it was amazing how many foreign names there were. I think a lot of Indians and a lot of names that sounded Thai along with many, many Muslim sounding names.

[CatholicEagle]

This would seem to point to Paul’s fidelity to a strong national defense that starts at home rather than protecting the U.S. with ill-considered band-aids as an afterthought, which seems to be our present policy.

Libertarians aren’t pleased but I never felt like Paul was really a libertarian anyway. I think an ideologically pure libertarian would dismantle the military entirely awaiting only a declaration only of war only from Congress to even mobilize. That’s NOT Paul OR his voting record.

His oft-stated goal of reducing the role of government has always, as far as I can tell, referred ONLY to the federal government. True libertarianism, as I understand it, would strip away power at all levels of government. The 10th amendment, however, restores power to the level closest to we-the-people, which is what Paul seems to be about.

Under a Paul presidency, oily, drug-saturated maggots can still be sent out to the back forty for stun gun practice by your local magistrate, a pleasant notion I don’t think the radical civil liberty types have considered in supporting Paul. Are these pro-marijuana types mainly useful idiots for those of us who think of ourselves as conservative? Maybe.

I don’t like it when they and the David Duke miscreants are on the same side of anything with me—sharing the air we breathe, for example; but I feel that way about Sean Hannity and Ted Kennedy, too.

So Paul has alloyed into his bloc some bona fides that suggest he is serious about protecting America at the very fount of freedom? I say merge him with Duncan Hunter and watch the fur fly.

We might not win but it will be the most fun you can have with the MSM and RINO’s and genuine reform of the GOP can be the happy outcome.

[zeugma]

OK... reasoned discussion ONLY, please.

You must have some serious mojo or something, as this is the first post I've seen in months that mention Ron Paul that didn't have people screaming in and frothing at the mouth with their bumper sticker slogans.

[383rr]

Good post, Dcw.

[VOA]

bump

[eastforker]

Say what you want about illegal immigrants, but, any terrorist that enters this country to do harm to us will have entered legally.

[Paridel]

I think its a great idea to try to export our culture via foreign students.

Unfortunately, American Universities do not do that. Schools in the US are cesspools of anti-American sentiment. Their view of America as the "Great Satan" is actually reinforced. Plus now their are educated and have more access to our systems and technology to do greater harm (e.g., the UK terrorist doctors).

Until we can figure out how to turn around our universities, I don't think we should import these students.

-paridel

[Captainpaintball]

Deny mooselimbs VISAS? Are you CRAZY? how are the powers that be supposed to remind us that the none of the next terrorist attackers were illegal immigrants? And that they all came here LEGALLY? Like the last 19. If you think getting rid of illegal immigration is tough, just try and stop the legal kind.

[highlander_UW]

Except lying isn’t proscribed. Under Taqiyah muslims are encouraged to lie if necessary to gain advantage over an enemy.

I understand what you're saying, but I get the impression you fail to grasp what I'm saying, but in any event, we are just going around in circles...which is pointless.