{"id":6787,"date":"2015-12-11T16:43:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/11\/david-horowitz-on-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2015-12-11T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:43:06","slug":"david-horowitz-on-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/11\/david-horowitz-on-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"David Horowitz on Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump\u2019s great contribution is saying the unsayable; putting things on the table that would otherwise be buried; calling a spade a spade in a time when political correctness has made us unable to discuss things that have to do with our basic national survival.  This is the crux of the issue.  Every time he creates a controversy like this he also tells this country that its emperors, Republican and Democrat, have no clothes. That they prefer propriety over defending the country.  That they are dedicated only to keeping the lid on a cauldron of threat and challenge they have allowed to boil over.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is why Trump is so popular.  This is why people overlook his gratuitous insults, exaggerations, egomania, and all the rest.  Clearly, a moratorium on Muslim immigration is just common sense given the Islamic threat and the incompetence of our leaders in dealing with it.  But no mainstream Republican  has the courage to call for it.  They are, let us say, 'pc-whipped.'  One of those whom the cognitive aberration known as political correctness has infected is former Vice President Cheney.  Here<\/a> is Diana West on Cheney:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cheney says that Trump's proposed ban "goes against everything we believe in," and cites "religious freedom" specifically, which, he notes, is a "very important part of our history."<\/span><\/p>\n

It should be (but isn't) self-evident by now: Continued Islamic immigration will ensure that "religious freedom" is exactly that  – "part of our history." In the past. Something we read about<\/a> in books. It is a clear-cut matter, even if seems to have escaped the vice president's ken (despite his waging two wars in the Islamic world): There is no religious freedom in Islam. Nada. Zilch. Rien. Geert Wilders isn't kidding when he says, the more Islam in society, the less freedom there is in society.<\/span><\/p>\n

This central feature of Islamic law, this central feature of Islam — namely, the absence of religious freedom —  turns the vice president's appeal for Muslim immigration on the grounds of our history of "religious freedom" into so much emotionalism, so much puffery. In other words, it may puff up the old self-esteem — what a kindly, generous, beneficent personage am I — but when the inner smile dies our republic and Constitutional liberties are still imperiled by Islamic immigration waves that carry with them a transformative sharia demographic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To put it very simply: you cannot grant religious freedom to a religion one of whose central aims is to stamp out all freedom of religion.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Here: Donald Trump\u2019s great contribution is saying the unsayable; putting things on the table that would otherwise be buried; calling a spade a spade in a time when political correctness has made us unable to discuss things that have to do with our basic national survival.  This is the crux of the issue.  Every time … Continue reading “David Horowitz on Donald Trump”<\/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":[26,119,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-islamism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787","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=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}