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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The Western World Must Understand The Threat Of ISIS And Other Muslim Refugees



  • A dangerous message is being sent to the Muslim world by the West:
  •  There is nothing that moderate Muslims or anyone else should fear 
  • from radical Islamic terrorism! Look at us Western governments! We 
  • are bringing in refugees who cannot be vetted even if they are ISIS
  •  infiltrators. In fact, we in the West are so goodhearted that we are
  •  encouraging many organizations to operate legally in the West under
  •  the banner of the Muslim Brotherhood -- even organizations that are 
  • sympathetic to the terrorist group Hamas and that are pledging to 
  • overthrow us!
  • The West, by taking all the Syrian refugees, is emptying Syria of any 
  • kind of resistance to the Caliphate (ISIS). The West's compassion, 
  • by taking in the refugees escaping ISIS, will end up leaving only the 
  • radicals to rule unopposed in Syria and Iraq. This, in US foreign policy
  • , is not compassion; it is gross negligence and reckless endangerment.
  • "Tough love" is badly needed when dealing with the Muslim world. We 
  • must say: No, we cannot accept your jihadist aspirations. We cannot
  •  accept you forcing your way of life on the world; your way of life is 
  • unacceptable to us. Before you send your refugees, you must end
  •  your "us against them" jihadist culture. The civilized world no 
  • longer finds your aspirations for an Islamic Caliphate tolerable.
The first reaction of the U.S. after 9/11 should have been to stop visas from all
 majority-Muslim countries, except for those of utmost importance. But our
politicians' hands were tied -- not by fear of a backlash from Islamic countries,
which probably expected a U.S. boycott, but by fear of a backlash from the
Western media and Western progressives.
The decision to keep Muslims, refugees and others pouring into the US after
 9/11 was wrong and has not done Islam and Muslim reformers a favor. Here
 is why:
The chaos and bloodshed in the Muslim world, even in the most moderate of
Muslim nations, such as Turkey, is between Muslims who want to enforce
 Islamic sharia law, totally and upon everyone by a theocratic government,
and those who want less sharia by installing military rule. The West does
not understand that the only form of government that can stand up to a totalitarian
 Islamic theocracy is a military one and no other. Who could imagine that a
military junta could be considered the only savior from Islamic tyrannies that
require everyone to live totally, 100%, under the laws of sharia?
When former U.S. President Barack Obama honored the Muslim Brotherhood
with his first major speech as president, who were his guests of honor in the first
 rows? Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. The less-radical Islamist military form
 of governments in the Middle East were left out and thus weakened. Then
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who had a murky relationship with the Muslim
 Brotherhood, got the message. He did not attend. With Obama's move, the balance
 of power between the two combative forces over control of government immediately
 favored the Muslim Brotherhood. It officially, for the first time since its founding in
1928, took control of the Egyptian government after the 2011 chaos of the "Arab
 Spring." A year later, 22 million Egyptians had to undergo a bloody counter-
revolution to bring back the type of government Egyptians have always favored
over an Islamic theocracy.


When former U.S. President Barack Obama gave his first major Presidential speech in Cairo, in 2009, his guests of honor in the first rows were leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. The less-radical Islamist military form of governments in the Middle East were left out and thus weakened. (Image source: White House)

Now, another, dangerous, message is being sent to the ordinary citizens of the
 Muslim world by the liberal West: There is nothing that moderate Muslims or
anyone else should fear from the possible infiltration of radical Islam! Look at us,
 Western governments! We are bringing in refugees who cannot be vetted even
 if they are ISIS infiltrators. Although the Muslim Brotherhood is illegal and
considered a terrorist organization in several Muslim countries, we in the West
 do not mind them at all. In fact, we in the West are so kind-hearted and welcoming
that we are encouraging many organizations to operate legally in the West under
 the banner of the Muslim Brotherhood -- even organizations that are sympathetic
 to the terrorist group Hamas and that are pledging to overthrow us! See how we are
 courageous, self-confident and free of "Islamophobia"!
By embracing the Muslim Brotherhood as not dangerous to free societies and by
bringing in refugees from terror-infested areas of the Middle East, we are sending
 a message to moderate Muslims in the Middle East: Citizens in the West are not
even bothering to protect their free system from being conquered by sharia-lovers,
 so perhaps the dreams of the Caliphate are not that bad after all.
The West, by taking all the Syrian refugees, is not just sending the above "unintended"
message; it is also emptying Syria of any kind of resistance to the Caliphate (ISIS).
 The West's compassion, by taking in the refugees escaping ISIS, will end up leaving
 only the radicals to rule unopposed in Syria and Iraq.
A US foreign policy that recommends absorbing unvetted Muslim refugees has been
advocated as compassion, but in fact it is gross negligence and reckless endangerment
 to U.S. citizens, Western freedoms and democracy.
There are unintended consequences to rescuing all Muslim refugees:
  • We are telling Muslim reformists, wrongly, especially in the Middle East, that
  •  there is nothing to fear from ISIS infiltration.
  • By not declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization we are yet again
  •  legitimizing and empowering it.
  • By not showing the proper angry response to Islamic terrorism, the West is not 
  • perceived as gracious, but as weak.
By taking in Islam and its refugees without proper vetting, the West is not doing
either Islam or Muslims any favor: for the reformists, it is shutting out any hope
of reform.
Tough love is badly needed when dealing with the Muslim world. We must say:
 No, we cannot accept your jihadist aspirations. We cannot accept you forcing
 your way of life on the world; your way of life is unacceptable to us. Before you
 send your refugees, you must end your "us against them" jihadist culture. The
 civilized world no longer finds your aspirations for an Islamic Caliphate tolerable.
If the West has the courage to do that, perhaps one day history will attribute the
 reformation of Muslim world partly to strength and conviction of Western resolve
against tyranny and human suffering.
Nonie Darwish, born and raised in Egypt, is the author of the new best-selling book, "Wholly Different; Why I chose Biblical Values over Islamic Values".

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