The Syrian Refugee crisis has created dramatic divisions amongst Americans and amongst millions of Europeans across the EU. On the one side, we have people who don’t want anymore Muslims let into their countries; and on the other side, you have people who feel that these refugees are in need and deserve help. On both sides we are witnessing the inevitable results of fear. Fear is one of the most debilitating and toxic psychological states and has consequently clouded both sides of this debate, and has prevented any hope for a thoughtful or rational dialogue.
The most common cause of hatred is fear, mixed with a dash of powerlessness. Hatred of people groups is almost always fear driven. Muslim children throughout the world are taught to fear the Jews, the Zionists, the little Satan. Surrounded by her enemies, Israel still stands, attributed to Israel’s manipulation of global powers, and due to her protection by the Great Satan, America. The hatred of Israelis is palpable throughout Arabia, Africa, Persia, and the Near East. All because of lies ingrained in the minds of children. There is no reasoning with them.
Hatred of Muslims is also derived from fear. The Islamist reign of terror has stretched across the globe in its’ attempt to spread Islamic Orthodoxy and to establish Islamic Caliphates. Many Muslim immigrants have fled the tyrannical rule of Sharia Law and the civil wars between Sunni and Shi’ite throughout the Muslim World. Westerners witness the chaos, the beheadings, the crucifixions, the burnings, the drownings, and 7 year old children parading the severed heads of their victims down city streets, and they are afraid. Many citizens of the Western World do not trust their governments to deal with this violence. In The United States, we’re equally depressed by our government’s role in the creation of most of these terrorist threats. We armed AQ, we armed ISIS, we armed Saddam Hussein. With no government to trust in dealing with these threats, fear plus powerlessness becomes a blanket of hatred – irrational and applied absolutely toward all Muslims.
Frightened by fear, others in the Western World have swung wide upon that pendulum’s swing, arguing that there are no reasons for fear in the first place, arguing that anyone in need should be helped, regardless of the cultural dissonance and persuasion of those seeking refuge. Terrified of those they see as bigots, they abandon all reason and merely come to the rescue and aid of those they feel are being treated harshly.
In the end, everyone comes out looking like fools. We’ve got half the people across social media trying as hard as they can to demonstrate just how little they know about the Bible, trying to use it to justify one position or the other. We’ve got people who are against an open borders Hispanic migration, demanding we bring in 100,000 Middle Eastern refugees. This is what happens when governments do nothing. Everyone becomes powerless. Everyone freaks out. They all get mixed up in hate or cowardly abandon reason in order to resist the hate they see around them in favor of appeasement.
I would offer advice, but you cannot reason with fear. You cannot reason with those captured by hate and you cannot reason with those desperately clinging to appeasement. What I will say, is this: The world is being forced to deal with a global revival of Islamic Orthodoxy and it has proved itself ill-equipped to do so. Those who have embraced the Marxist-attitude that need is a claim upon the obligation of others are half the problem. Those embracing hatred of all Muslims are the other half of the problem. Check yourself. Hatred is a result of fear. Do not be afraid. Be rational, objective, and deliberate. Demand a better government, one that leaves us less susceptible to terror here at home and one which no longer finances it abroad.
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Today, ISIS claims it set off a bomb that killed 7 in Egypt. In Tunisia, another 12 were killed when a bus carrying presidential guards blew up. The mainstream media is not pushing these as ISIS continues the global offensive in quick succession. I guess covering the actually story was creating too much of a “backlash” for their liberal hearts/agendas
Two points.
One, distrust of gov’t isn’t fear driven, it’s reality driven. Gov’t have proven itself untrustworthy.
Two. Fear isn’t the problem here as much as the continued erosion of the constitution and the intent of too many muslims in America to replace the constitution peacefully or violently with Sharia law.
https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2015/06/23/nationwide-poll-of-us-muslims-shows-thousands-support-shariah-jihad/
I think your equivalence meter is broken if you are equating that antisemitic mouth-frothing of Arabs when confronted with the existence of Jews with an entirely rational wish to exclude groups that include terrorists from coming to the US.
I think we’re past the point of “cooler heads” prevailing, and are now at the “pick a side” stage. With all of the social upheaval experienced in the U.S. during the last 8 years, which continues to grow with this ridiculous Black Live Matter group, asking people to “put fear aside” is like trying to stop a wildfire with a squirt-gun.
Ridiculous Black Lives Matter group? Are you saying it is ridiculous because your believe only white lives matter? Perhaps you are saying that prejudice in America does not exist? Maybe you are saying there is a centralized movement in the US to destroy the white way of life? What exactly is it about a group of people protesting actions of the gov’t and society that disturbs you?
They’re thugs, that is what disturbs me. They are racialist thugs too. The fact is that blacks kill far more whites than visa versa. The other fact is that BLM is totally silent about blacks killing other blacks. BLM only cares about black lives when a white man pulls the trigger, just as the white lynch mobs of old only got riled up when a black person allegedly killed a white person. The very same people in BLM would condemn me as a racist for saying what I just said – when they think they can say whatever they want to, wherever and whenever they want to, even if it means commandeering the podium of presidential candidates. Sorry, but alleged victimization does not give anyone special privileges nor does it entitle them to trump my rights as a citizen.
Please do tell what rights you have lost?
If I want to tell them that the BLM movement is built on a lie, I will be shut down with physical violence. Thus, I have lost a right to speak.
you still have the right to speak. The only change is that in recent times you must start taking responsibility for your actions and your words. Unlike the 1980s and 1990s, you are being held accountable. This is what scares you, First Rock, and the other bigots around the country
Well, the BLM movement is built upon the lie that only blacks have been victimized – utter baloney when one considers the actuality that the indentured servitude of whites was far worse than black slavery.
By the way, I am not being held accountable for anything. I am being deliberately suppressed because I tell the truth. As far as I can see, the BLM movement is nothing but violent anarchy cloaked in righteousness.
Sorry. The 1st amendment protects my right to free speech, not your right to be free from offense. And I am not in the least bit afraid of some petulant college kids, and their commie handlers. Let them leave the campus and enter the real world. They are in for a BIG surprise when the larger society advises they take their demands, go forth and self-fornicate. Something predicated on a lie, cannot stand for long.
The right to self-expression on a college campus, for starters. The right to study for mid-terms without being assaulted by racist thugs masquerading as civil rights leaders. The right to expect police officers to be proactively protecting the community. Chew on that.
I am saying the movement is ridiculous because it is predicated on a lie, but I am enjoying watching progressives eat each other alive.
predicated on a lie? That Black Lives Matter or that their is racism still rampant in the US?
Their entire argument is predicated on a lie. The only racism being thrown about is by the useful idiots who make up the black lives matter movement. Their MO is anti-1st amendment and thus, anti-American, and you who defend it, are anti-American too. But it is nice to see commie-progressives self-destructing.
The lie, specifically, was that Michael Brown had his hands up, and was shot and killed because of the color of his skin, rather than for the criminal decisions he made, which reflected the (poor) character of his heart.
BLM seems to think that some form of slavery is still alive. Well, if that is so, what would they think about indentured servitude in which far more whites died than blacks.
I have no idea what the point of all this is besides the “don’t embrace hatred” which other then being an over used progressive cliche reminds me of one of those hashtag# media events starring Michele Obama holding up her meaningless signs. Everybody has an off day and you generally produce interesting commentary so I’m caulking this one up to that situation. But before you write on the western world’s fear issues in the future do you mind starting by explaining this statistic? Why have the richest nations in the Middle East – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the U.A.E. and Kuwait, which have also heavily invested in the Syrian conflict via the funding and arming of a constellation of rebel and Islamist factions fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to date taken in the following total of Syrian refugees – ZERO. If their own coreligionists appear unwilling to incorporate these refuges into their national fabric I would suggest it might call for the prudent individual to pause and carefully access the circumstances and options available. It has been my experience fear can be both harmful and beneficial depending on the nature of the event but I admit I’m more inclined to view the Old Testament of the Bible where fear is translated from ten Hebrew nouns and eight verbs and whose meaning can be quite complex then the New Testament Greek with it’s simplifications.
Hmmm. Demand a better government, you say? Normally that would sound like a plan, but the problem is that the banksters who own the government are importing record numbers of third world immigrants who soon end up as voters easily manipulated by the media propaganda machine. As Anne Coulter has pointed out. Not being able to convince a majority of voters for long, the Left has chosen to replace voters with new voters. Those who have little concept of limited government and separation of powers.
You’re blind if you don’t think Anne Coulter followers are easily manipulated by her media propaganda.
It’s always the other guy’s followers that are more easily manipulated.
It is obsurd to claim that immigrants are being brought here to serve a roll as indentured voters.
No, it’s called Civilization Jihad and is in the Koran under ‘Settlement.’ And they aren’t so much as indentured as subsidized.
I am so much more afraid of the white, radical, right that posts here than any refugee. They want to make a new life for themselves. The radical poster here want to make a whole world with only “their kind” in it.
I see. Well, then nothing can be done for you. Good luck with that. You do see the new lives in Brussels, Paris, Europe, Mali, etc. right? Never mind, better stick with that ‘white radical right’ fear. Boo!
the terrorists coming to our country will not be refugees. They will simply come here on tourist visas or come in illegally. There is little stopping them. Refugees have such a long process to overcome. Why would a terrorist with access to money and support put themselves through that much work?