Response to Square dancing Syrian immigrants.

Your blog "Why I believe Syrian refugees should be welcome in Texas"
is really well structured and everything you state is relevant to the overall message you are trying to send. I completely agree that the reason why the U.S. is so successful is derived from the diversity of perspectives that comes from immigrants. Your post is also very reasonable in asking that all immigrants receive the same background and security checks because it is not dismissing the potential of terrorists trying to get through or disease epidemics arising from unchecked immigrants. I also really appreciate how you mentioned that it would be illegal for Greg Abbot to deny immigrants based on their religious affiliation or country of origin.

Religious Intolerance in Texas

The fear of Islam in Texas is incredibly unfounded. Greg Abbot’s barring of Syrian refugees as a security measure goes to show how xenophobic the Republican Party’s mission really is. If anything Americans have the Christians to fear. Christians are racist, communist, terrorist radicals who would stop at nothing to destroy any competition in the sphere of philosophy and spiritualism.

The burning of the mosque (Quba Islamic Institute) in Houston on Feb 12, 2015 should be a good reminder of Christian intolerance of Islamic communities in Texas. This was shortly followed by countless justifications from the Christian community. Many argued that the violence committed against Muslims in the U.S. is nothing by comparison to the violence committed by Islam on Christians and Jews in the Middle East. The U.S. is not the Middle East. What Islam does in other countries isn’t our business. Our business is protecting the religious freedom of our citizens which includes our Muslim population who need our support now more than ever.

The main issue is that Christian Republicans have bullied out rational thought. If the Christians in power had things their way, abortion would be illegal, Islam would be banned in the U.S., the imaginary Jews running the system would be run out, African Americans would all be in jail, and Mexicans would still be used for cheap labor but told they didn’t belong here. Not all Christians are bad but “god damn it” seems like Christian hypocrisy is going to run this country into another mass genocide and Dark Age.