Tuesday 31 January 2017

Trumps ban on Muslims entering America

Subject: Trumps ban on Muslims entering America.

Nadhim Zahawi was keen to proclaim the United States as formally the "cradle of of freedom and open to immigration" as he vented his wrath at the vengeance inflicted by Donald Trump on countries and religious cultures which not only harbour but support Muslim extremists.  Providing open tutelage in its Madrassas and nearer to home in the local Mosque of a religious vendetta towards the west for its historical heavy handed treatment in the Middle East and parts of the Sub Continent. Of course Zahawi's main immediate complaint was that he himself was effected and that he can't visit the United States where his sons are attending university.
This assimilation of a 'cradle', a place where the young and impressionable are protected, could also be turned around to see a flip side where fanatics are nurtured within a religious context and little, other than verbal condemnation and often, not even that, is lacking with any vehemence from the moderates who effectively see themselves as the sons and daughters of the people who were part of those cultures on Trumps banning list.
How deep a culture resides in a person is evidenced in all of us living in a foreign land. We know the ties are still there, we celebrate the traditions and have empathy with people who visit us from "home". Is it any wonder a Syrian or a Pakistani retains the same allegiance as we do, equally his or her religious commitment is part of psych and if there is, buried deep in his/her thinking, a sense of Muslim entitlement or they are persuaded to hold a resentment for both historical and or recent slights, then their arrival here is problematical. Trump is saying it's not worth the trouble, the US can do as well without these people and so ban them.
If you were to wind the clock back, ten to fifteen years there was no threat. No suicide bombers, no Sharia Courts no outward display from another religious force with such a martial background.
Can we afford to have such equanimity in a world which has become such a cauldron of dissent, especially religious dissent where history tells us, there is no rational argument only the hatred of an unrequited faith.

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