The Wall Street Journal quotes the Donald as saying he'll deport Syrian refugees if he's elected. Since 2011, the USA has taken in about 1600 Syrians, and the Prez proposes to admit another 10,000 next year. They will be joined, the State Department said last week, by another 90,000 refugees from around the world, making a total of 100,000 more in 2016 than this year.
Mr. Trump did not explain his flip-flop on the issue. About a month ago, he compared the "refugee crisis" embroiling Europe to the mass migrations caused by World War II, and said America had an obligation to accept refugees on a "humanitarian basis".
The WSJ quotes Mr. Trump as having said, "It’s living in hell in Syria, there is no question about it. Something has to be done." (Harumph, harumph! Can I get a "harumph" from you guys?) A month ago, that was the politically correct thing to say. Everyone was pissing and moaning about the plight of these poor "refugees", weighted down by wads of cash and jewellery, trekking through eastern Europe to get to Germany to take advantage of that country's willkomenkultur. See "'Culture of welcome' for refugees turns sour for Krauts" (WWW 28/9/15)
What the Donald said, way back then, was the politically correct thing to say. Very few pundits, and even fewer politicians, were prepared to voice doubts that the hundreds of thousands of migrants landing on the shores of Greece and Italy were genuine refugees. Outside of Viktor Orban and a handful of other east European leaders, no-one asked why, since almost 100% of the "refugees" are Muslims, they couldn't be accommodated and welcomed in Saudi Arabia, or the United Arab Emirates or Egypt or other Islamic kingdoms and republics.
The politically INcorrect fact is that the Muslims states don't want to play host to their co-religionists. "Let the Christians feed and clothe them!" But there's more to it than a simple lack of charity. As Walt has said before, the influx of Muslims is part and parcel of the Islamization of Europe and, eventually, North America.
Whether by accident or by design, we are being overrun, and that's a fact. But it's a rare politician who has the courage to say so in public or in the social media.
One rare politician is Joe Daniel, the Conservative candidate for election to the Canadian Parliament in the Toronto riding of Don Valley North. According to the Toronto Red Star, Mr. Daniel "stirred controversy" recently by saying that a Muslim agenda was behind the stream of refugees into Europe. Here's what he said.
This past Tuesday, he waded back into the issue at an all-candidates’ debate in north Toronto. An audience member asked Mr. Daniel about recent comments in which he warned that an "agenda" was behind the refugee crisis to move Muslims into Europe "to change these countries in a major way." In response, Mr. Daniel took aim at Middle Eastern countries for not doing more to aid the displaced civilians fleeing the civil war in Syria. Here's the video.
Walt guesses that Donald Trump's reasons for being less than sympathetic to the Syrian "refugees" may be more or less the same as those of Mr. Daniel. If only the Donald could be so articulate!
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