McCarthy on the lesson of the Afghan riots and Obama’s apology

In October 2006, Andrew McCarthy and Herbert London wrote in the Washington Times that because Muslims are mostly radical and have dehumanizing attitudes toward non-Muslims, we should change many things in our policy toward Muslims, including: “Immigration from and aid to Muslim countries should be drastically reduced. Upward adjustments should be contingent on measurable reforms that promote liberty while reducing the role of religion in politics. (Provision should be made for asylum for reformers.)”

Today, McCarthy goes a little further on the immigration issue. At the end of an article about the Afghan riots and killings set off by the inadvertent burning of some Korans by U.S. officers who found that the books were being used for sending terrorist messages, McCarthy writes:

If, according to the president, we need to apologize to Muslims because we must accept that they have such an innate, extraordinary ardor for their religion that barbaric reactions to trivial slights are inevitable, then they should not be invited to enter a civilized country. At the very least, our immigration laws should exclude entry from Muslim-majority countries unless and until those countries expressly repeal repressive sharia laws (e.g., the death penalty for apostates) and adopt American standards of non-discrimination against, tolerance of, and protection for religious minorities.

If you really want to promote freedom in Islamic countries, an immigration policy based on civil-rights reciprocity would be a lot more effective, and a lot less expensive, than dispatching tens of thousands of troops to build sharia “democracies.” It would also protect Americans from people whose countries and cultures have not prepared them for the obligations of citizenship in a free society.

It is good to see a conservative calling a liberal’s bluff for once and bringing out the real meaning of his argument. According to Obama, Muslims’ penchant for responding to a trivial slight with riot and murder means that we must be extra diffident to them and apologize to them over our trivial slight that made them kill people, including two of our soldiers. McCarthy applies reason to Obama’s irrational surrender to Muslims and says in effect, “If, as Obama says, it is a built-in characteristic of Muslims that they murderously riot over nothing, and if it is our duty to adapt ourselves to this homicidal propensity of theirs whenever it manifests itself, then, for our own safety, we should stop admitting them into our country and we should stop trying to build democracy in theirs’.”

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Paul Nachman writes:

McCarthy writes:

At the very least, our immigration laws should exclude entry from Muslim-majority countries unless and until those countries expressly repeal repressive sharia laws (e.g., the death penalty for apostates) and adopt American standards of non-discrimination against, tolerance of, and protection for religious minorities.

He’s still still not all-in on the immigration part.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 25, 2012 08:58 AM | Send