Month: August 2018

Are all cultures and belief systems equal?

Liberals often act as if the answer is yes, and take stances on multiculturalism and border enforcement that are shaped by this assumption.

Conservatives, in contrast, tend to believe that some cultures are incompatible with American and western values — and a disturbing case in Europe definitely reinforces that view.

A Muslim immigrant to Germany has been charged with committing more than a dozen sexual assaults and at least one rape over a period of three years.

Shockingly, he confessed to the crimes — which included groping women and fondling himself on busy subways — but gave a disturbing reason for his offenses.

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During a court appearance, the suspect named Ali E. declared that he had no idea that sexually attacking women was illegal, because he could get away with it in his home country of Egypt.

“Nobody told me that this is wrong,” the 29-year-old man insisted, according to an English translation from the German newspaper BZ Berlin.

“In Egypt, things like that happen a lot, they do not punish them. I do not know any laws,” continued the accused criminal, despite the fact that he has been living in Europe for 15 years.

That excuse didn’t seem to impress the judge, who asked incredulously if Ali truly believed he could behave in that lewd manner. When claiming that it was allowed in Egypt didn’t work, the suspect listed a number of equally weak reasons for his crimes.

The Muslim immigrant went on to blame “drugs, Satan and the interpreter,” according to the translated BZ Berlin article.

Yes, it turns out that even after a decade and a half in Germany, the Egyptian immigrant didn’t bother to learn his second country’s language, either.

As the news blog Jihad Watch pointed out, the man may have actually been honest when he insisted that he didn’t think sexually assaulting women was bad, as distasteful as that sounds.

“He is likely telling the truth,” said Robert Spencer, an expert on radical Islam who has authored several books.

“In Egypt, if a woman ventures out with her hair uncovered, she is risking being sexually assaulted. So he brought these attitudes to Germany. What else did anyone expect?” he asked.

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That’s a very good question, and one that gets to the core of the left’s flawed views on multiculturalism and mass immigration.

Bumper-sticker slogans like “diversity is our strength” and “coexist” only work if the people involved actually share the same basic values. When outsiders have radically different beliefs about acceptable behavior, however, chaos ensues.

Sharia-based Islam is one of those radical beliefs. One look at the consequences of out-of-control immigration from predominantly Islamic countries to places like Germany, Sweden and even the United Kingdom make that immensely clear.

Although leftist professors in elitist colleges might disagree, the reality is that there are dramatically different cultural standards between most Middle Eastern countries and the west. Some of them are fundamentally incompatible with our values … and when immigrants like Ali are imported en masse, it is often women and girls who are most hurt.

This certainly doesn’t mean that Muslims cannot live successfully in the west; millions of law-abiding Muslim Americans do so every day in the United States. What it does mean, however, is that the culture and environment from which immigrants come must be a serious consideration.

Europe is not Egypt, and neither is America. Until officials on both continents realize that unvetted immigration has real-world consequences, more people will be needlessly put at risk … and that, perhaps, is the real crime.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has been in shambles for years. Stories of American men and women who risk their lives in service to our country only to receive horrendous treatment from their government are heartbreaking and unacceptable.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to restore the broken VA health system. “Our veterans have fulfilled their duty to this nation, and now we must fulfill our duty to them,” he said earlier this year.

In an effort to fulfill that promise, Trump swore in Robert Wilkie as the new Veterans Affairs secretary on Monday.

Wilkie was chosen to replace Secretary David Schulkin who was fired earlier this year after numerous ethics charges brought against him.

If Wilkie’s swearing-in ceremony — and the Bible he brought with him — is any indication, he’s the perfect replacement.

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During the ceremony, Trump explained that Wilkie himself is the son of a veteran who was injured in the Vietnam war.

“Robert Wilkie is the proud son of an Army veteran, an artillery officer raised on the base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. That’s a great place. On his daily walk to high school with the woman who is now his wife, he passed by the Fayetteville VA hospital, which bore the inscription: ‘The Price of Freedom is Visible Here.’ It made a big impact. It was a price Robert saw firsthand through his own father, who was gravely injured in combat during the Vietnam War,” Trump said.

“Robert went on to serve as an officer in both the Air Force and the Navy, then as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, and as Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. Robert also serves with distinction as Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs,” the president continued.

 

Wilkie brought his own worn Bible to use for the ceremony, and it explained its long and incredible history.

“The Bible that I will take my oath on reminds me of the 100th anniversary of the end of the war to end all wars,” Wilkie said. “It was a Bible taken into battle by my wife’s grandfather who had probably never ventured beyond three or four counties in North and South Carolina. But by the time he was 18, he was marching up the Champs-Élysées into the cauldron of the Meuse-Argonne.”

He continued, “On another part of that battlefield was a young captain of field artillery — my great-grandfather — who left a small-town law practice in Cleveland, Mississippi, to join up with the All American Division, which, by the way, had a reluctant soldier, a scratch farmer from Pall Mall, Tennessee by way of Buncombe County, North Carolina, who would not only earn the Medal of Honor but go on to the be the greatest hero of that war. Private Onslow Bullard, Captain A.D. Somerville, and Sergeant Alvin York — ordinary Americans called upon to do extraordinary things. It is their … descendants whom we are honored to serve.  Millions of ordinary Americans who have answered a special call for us.

“Mr. President, I am humbled by your confidence. I am humbled by the prospect of serving those who have borne the battle, those American men and women who have sacrificed so much,” he said finally.

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Wilkie has promised to bring “world-class customer service” to the VA, and if he brings the respect he expressed for our nation’s veterans during his swearing-in ceremony to his work as secretary, it’s a safe bet he’ll do just that.

Watch the ceremony below:

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