That's the thing. They want to have the same rights they used to have back from their respective Arab country when they arrive to other countries. But foreigners can't have the same rights they used to when said foreigners come over to an Arab country. Kind of hypocritical, to say the least. But that's how democracy works.
You can't have half of the cake, yet demand to have the rest of it. Muslims need to learn how to assimilate in the society they live in if they want non-Muslims to change their views toward their religion.
No, they won't. Our concepts of freedom and democracy will reign over their intolerance. That would mean the total collapse of Islam as we know it. Or at least they'd make major revisions and try to assimilate the concepts, like what Catholicism did in the middle ages. Or most of them will just kill us off in order to preserve their religious ideals.
At any rate, a few hundred thousand refugees over the next 3 or 4 years is not going to make much of a difference in the demographic make up of the United States.
And while I always find it fascinating when right winger who allegedly believe in America's excellency use the "well certain Muslim countries are intolerant so why shouldn't we be", in general I think there is still are large parts of America that believe in the spirit of freedom, the sense of good in America that it prides itself on, that do not want to stand by as innocent people suffer.
Nah, there's always been the two groups in American politics, war-mongering profiteers and high-minded moralists.
Obama does want background checks, he just doesn't want background checks that are designed to keep people out without real advantages in security. Basically he doesn't want congress to play a political game, trying to stop taking refugees by making the hurdles so high that no one can come in.
Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
You always say the same thing the old "give us your tired, your poor and hungry."America didn't even write those words, the French did.
I never used that quote, but you are wrong. These are words written by an American poet and added to the Statue of Liberty by Americans.
Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
So wait, we supposed to live by those, but change everything else for everyone else? You really think America can hold out forever against radical Islam?
Again, I never used them. I think the US should do its part in the international community, a much smaller part than what Europe is doing, for example, a smaller part than what neighbouring Muslim countries do.
Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Republicans were not the only war mongers, that's my point. And you conveintly left that out.
Yes, there are war-mongerers among Democrats as well. And not all Republicans are war-mongerers. Voting to go to war doesn't necessarily mean you are a war-mongerer either, there's justified wars, and there's also making decisions on limited information that turn out to be wrong ultimately.