Trump’s Proposed Muslim Immigration Moratorium Is the Wrong Response to Political Correctness

If you’re like me, you are sick and tired of all the political correctness that surrounds the conversations about terrorism, ISIS, and — well — just about everything.  But Donald Trump’s most recent pledge to enact a moratorium on all Muslim entry to the United States, has — as David French writes over on National Review — “gone well beyond being the anti-Obama and has reacted straight into foolishness.”

Here’s why, according to the Iraq war veteran and Constitutional attorney:

Off the top of their heads, even the most hawkish national security conservatives can identify multiple categories of Muslims who should have access to the United States, beginning — of course — with our own citizens. There are many others. What about the interpreters who’ve laid down their lives to serve our warriors downrange and now find themselves under imminent threat from jihadists? What about members of allied militaries who are training to be the Muslim “boots on the ground” that we need to help take the fight to the enemy? Do we treat the Kurds — who are sheltering so many of Iraq’s Christians while also providing the most effective fighting force against ISIS — the same as we treat suspected terrorists? It makes no sense. 

He then quotes Ben Shapiro, who said, “We need to work with Muslims both foreign and domestic. It’s one thing to label Islamic terrorism and radical Islam a problem. It’s another to label all individual Muslims a problem. That’s what this policy does. It’s factually wrong and ethically incomprehensible. Donald Trump has just transformed into the strawman President Obama abused on Sunday night.”

There’s also just something mean about it all, right?  French says he doesn’t think “Trump despises Muslims as much as he loves leading the news cycle. This is a political stunt and should be treated as such.”

In the meantime, America waits for a principled leader to stand up with actual advice on how to protect ourselves against terror.

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