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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