I said "I am a Christian" not that our nation is Christian though it was based on Judeo Christian values and a goodly number of the founding fathers were ministers/priests and pastors and I have read of the atrocities committed against them (the migrants that are the topic of this discussion) in their home countries. Neither did I claim "all Muslims are the same". Certain sects are more prone to radicalize than others though of course not "all". My problem is that they need to be vetted and we do not have the ability to do that as stated by some of the highest officials in our current administration in the weeks to months before the Paris tragedy.
Your comment by the way about turning people back at gunpoint is ludicrous, our southern boarder states are being forced to ignore laws by the feds and have their hands tied in most cases. Already having an immigration issue of significant dispute here in the states, illegal immigration via Mexico of South Americans, some of whom are human trafficking people of other nationalities for profit... and all of those are coming in. As well as Cubans... I think we here in the states have our hands full thank you.
You in Europe can choose to do as you wish. We've got our hands full as it is and have a federal government that is arbitrarily choosing which laws on the books it wants to enforce and which ones it doesn't (like illegal immigration and marijuana as two for instances). In the previous weeks many security officials in the current administration stated very clearly that they did not have the ability to vet those due to come in and be granted status. Our president is actually outnumbered in that regard by like 6 to one (himself).
Have you not read of the women and children thrown overboard on the "refugee" boats? Have you not read about what was occurring in the transition facilities? Have you not read about the level of violence and intolerance against Christians, Shias, Yazidis/Yezidi, Shabak, Turkmen and others? I have.
From a 2014 September US State Department Report, "Beyond the mass evictions and forced migrations perpetrated against Christians, Yezidis, Shia Muslims including Shabak and Turkmen, and others, we have seen reports of extrajudicial and mass killings, beheadings, abductions, forced conversions, torture, rape and sexual assault, using women and children as human shields, and people being burned or buried alive. Women and girls as young as 12 or 13 have been taken captive, to be sold as sex slaves or put into forced marriages with ISIL fighters."
Inept governance by an incompetent president created the current crisis and mass migration. This president had 3 years to address the rise of this group but he chose to ignore many who advised him and withdrew troops for political expediency (his reelection) which created this crisis. So why 98% Sunni and disproportionally adult male of military age? That is my question but apparently only the Obama administration knows for sure and they aren't inclined to discuss it. It is easier, as you have, to conflate the issue.
I am far more inclined to accept into this country true victims of persecution for resettlement than risk entrance of the most likely to incite violence, intolerance, and spread the hate. That would be allowing relocation of Christians, Yezidis, Shia Muslims including Shabak and Turkmen rather than allowing the fed over the next 3 years to bring to our shores an unvetted 240,000 or more higher risk Sunnis.
It is a national security issue plain and simple... and here in the states... considering how issues of illegal and legal immigration as well as over staying of visas and work permits has been handled... there is low to no confidence in the ability of the Feds to afford sufficient scrutiny of those it seeks to grant lawful status to.
I would love to see this go to court... as now there are more than half the states who are wanting to put a hold on this program... but to me, this is a matter for Congress, State governments and law enforcement entities.... The fed, as I've said before does NOT have enumerated powers over immigration in the constitution. I support a hold on the resettlement issue until the question of risk to National Security can be properly addressed.
Perhaps the UK is run more lawfully than our current US governance. If that's the case, it must be nice.
