tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post3273290649201363039..comments2023-10-31T03:18:26.963-07:00Comments on Great Guys Weblog: Immigration clarificationBrethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-52328368547853394932015-11-22T10:28:25.249-08:002015-11-22T10:28:25.249-08:00As an extension of Barry's comment: (Tunku Var...As an extension of Barry's comment: (<a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/reverse-swing-what-paris-tells-us/" rel="nofollow">Tunku Varadarajan</a>, h/t Instapundit)<br /><br /><i>The West — Europe, in particular —is in a terrifying bind, for it has living in its midst substantial populations of Muslims, the majority of whom are poorly integrated into Western society. And by integration I don’t simply mean a case of Abdul or Cherif or Aicha getting up every morning to go to work with other citizens of Belgium or France or Denmark, but an embracing of the civic and social and constitutional values of these countries — what might, by useful shorthand, be called the Western “way of life”. <br /><br />To the extent that we have the full facts, we know that every single perpetrator of the carnage in Paris was home-grown. That is a chilling fact (and phrase), conjuring visions of a venom that eats away at the body-politic, with echoes of a cancer in the human body. The fault, I fear, is that of Europe’s elites. For decades, they ignored — and even actively worked against — integration, scorning it as unfashionable, old-fangled, and, worst of all, racist. Is OurWay, they asked, with impressively self-destructive hubris, really better than Their Way? <br /><br />That question now has an answer. It’s an answer the West must live and, increasingly, die with.</i><br /><br /><br />Those elites, at least their groupthink is of the most fashionable kind dontcha know.Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14980738175201874292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-29096858623937205322015-11-22T01:43:09.065-08:002015-11-22T01:43:09.065-08:00Yes, that sounds about right.
Given that the prog...Yes, that sounds about right.<br /><br />Given that the progressive mantra---aka the cutting edge of morality---calls for Western nations to commit national suicide.<br /><br />For all the right reasons, of course.Barry Meislinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04795125774426217113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-3960167907116547492015-11-20T03:46:00.708-08:002015-11-20T03:46:00.708-08:00Howard,
I have a much simpler principle to offer....Howard,<br /><br />I have a much simpler principle to offer.<br /><br />Did the United States interfered with Syria?<br /><br />If the answer is yes, I think it has the moral duty of accepting refugees.<br /><br />Otherwise, we have this ludicrous situation where you are free to enter and bomb anything you like there, but none of them has a right to flee from that hell to your own country. <br /><br />Now how fair that sounds to you?<br /><br />Oh, I know - the world isn't fair - but the US sure likes to invoke those higher moral principles to kick some doors when it is in your interest.<br />Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.com