While Boston was under lockdown, Bryan Fischer was stoking the flames of Islamophobia. On Friday's edition of Focal Point, Fischer claimed our immigration policy should be radically revised. If he had his way, anyone coming to the United States would be asked one question--"Do you believe that the Quran is the holy book of God?" If they answer yes, they get the boot. People for the American Way got a clip:
Fischer doubled down later that day in a post on the American Family Association blog, Instant Analysis. He claimed that national security concerns demand that we ban Muslims from entering this country.
Speaking just for myself, it seems that sensible immigration policy would be to suspend Muslim immigration altogether on the basis of national security. Or as Andy McCarthy has recommended, at a minimum suspending immigration from Muslim majority nations (like Chechnya, for example).
Is this to accuse all Muslims? Of course not. We can be grateful to God every day that most Muslims in America have no intention of obeying the holy Qur'an's command to “slay the idolaters wherever you find them.” The problem is we don’t know who those Muslims are.
This in the end is not about people, it is about ideology. It’s not about race, because the jihadists were both white, as genuinely “Caucasian” as it is possible to be. It is about Islam and its repeated directives to use violence in the name of Allah against infidel Christians and Jews.
So let's get this straight. You're not accusing all Muslims of being jihadists, but you still don't want them coming into this country? Yeah, right.
The scarier thought is that the logical end of what Fischer is proposing is making Muslims already in this country wear a Muslim version of a yellow star (a yellow star and crescent?). So making Jews wear a badge is blatantly discriminatory, but making Muslims wear one is a legitimate national security measure. The mind reels.