{"id":5473,"date":"2017-05-31T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/31\/immigration-policy-comes-first\/"},"modified":"2017-05-31T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:48:17","slug":"immigration-policy-comes-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/31\/immigration-policy-comes-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Policy Comes First"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been discussing Islamist terrorism with a couple of Brits who are open to the sorts of things I say. One of them I know is a conservative; the other I think is.  What struck me is that both make a curious lefty move.  The move is well-described by Heather Mac Donald:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Defenders of the open-borders status quo inevitably claim that if a terrorist is a second-generation immigrant, like Abedi [the Manchester suicide bomber], immigration policy has nothing to do with his attack. (Abedi\u2019s parents emigrated to Britain from Libya; his immediate family in Manchester lived in the world\u2019s largest Libyan enclave outside Africa itself.) Media Matters ridiculed a comment about the Manchester bombing by Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt with the following headline: FOX NEWS HOST SUGGESTS \u2018OPEN BORDERS\u2019 ARE TO BLAME FOR MANCHESTER ATTACK CARRIED OUT BY BRITISH NATIVE<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My correspondents are not open-borders advocates, but they seem to want to decouple questions about immigration policy from questions about 'homegrown' terrorists.  That strikes me as foolish. I answer them in the words of Heather Mac:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pace<\/em> Media Matters, a second-generation Muslim immigrant with a zeal for suicide bombing is as much of an immigration issue as a first-generation immigrant with a terrorist bent. The fact that second-generation immigrants are not assimilating into Western culture makes immigration policy more, not less, of a pressing matter. It is absurd to suggest that Abedi picked up his terrorist leanings from reading William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth, rather than from the ideology of radical Islam that has been imported into Britain by mass immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course! Isn't that blindingly obvious?<\/span><\/p>\n

And another thing. <\/span><\/p>\n

'Homegrown terrorist' is an obfuscatory leftist phrase.  That is why I enclosed it in sneer quotes above.   Why obfuscatory?  Because it elides an important distinction between those terrorists who are truly homegrown such as Timothy McVe<\/a>igh and those who, while born in the USA, such as Omar Mateen<\/a>, derive their 'inspiration' from foreign sources.  Mateen's terrorism comes from his understanding of what Islam requires, namely, the liquidation of homosexuals. There is nothing homegrown about Islam.  This in stark contrast to the American sources of McVeigh's terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is perfectly obvious why liberals and leftists use 'homegrown terrorist' in application to the likes of Mateen: they want to deflect attention from the real problem, which is radical Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n

Language matters!<\/span><\/p>\n

Heather Mac's article is here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I have been discussing Islamist terrorism with a couple of Brits who are open to the sorts of things I say. One of them I know is a conservative; the other I think is.  What struck me is that both make a curious lefty move.  The move is well-described by Heather Mac Donald: Defenders of … Continue reading “Immigration Policy Comes First”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,119,6,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-islamism","category-language-matters","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}