Following the brutal murders committed by an Islamic terrorist couple in San Bernardino, California, there were a number of polls testing the opinion of American citizens regarding potential Islamic immigration. President Barack Obama was inviting thousands of Syrian refugees to settle in the U.S., purportedly Syrian families who were fleeing a civil war in their country.
Prior to the San Bernardino killings, Muslim Jihadi killed 130 Parisians in multiple locations, showing that they could strike anywhere with brutal and broad based strategies. Following these two incidents, ISIS, the Islamic terror organization, declared that they were using the American refugee program to sneak murderous jihadi into the U.S. under the guise of families fleeing the violence in Syria.
Obama used the refugee program to bring in tens of thousands of families, in spite of the objection of the residents in several states that were used as dumping grounds of these families. Obama was completely disinterested in the objections of the citizens who were being forced to host these families, particularly after the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.
The attacks put new emphasis on the inability to effectively vet the incoming individuals, particularly after some of the officials in the immigration department confirmed that they could not accurately check to see if the incoming migrants were Muslim terrorists. Obama then went on a shaming tour to insult and denigrate American citizens who were worried about their own safety, and he demanded that they accept without reservation the coming crowds of unvetted Islamic immigrants.
Several of the GOP presidential candidates weighed in on the debate, most prominently Donald Trump, who stated that Muslim immigrants should be prohibited from immigrating to the U.S. until the immigration service had been upgraded and could ensure that immigrants coming in were not a danger to American citizens. With that, a firestorm erupted, with Democrats and Obama calling Trump and anyone who agreed with him a bigot and a religious persecutor. However, many citizens agreed with Trump and indicated that the job of the president and his immigration department is first and foremost to keep Americans safe.
In polls conducted by both the NBC News/Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post/ABC News, a majority of U.S. citizens opposed Trump’s proposal, although a Washington Post/ABC News survey showed that a majority of GOP voters supported the idea.
There is a very clear division of how the problem should be dealt with when questioning Democrat or Republican audiences, a situation which will undoubtedly change after the next Islamic terror attack on America soil takes place, as it inevitably must. However, it is interesting to contrast the relatively magnanimous spirit of Americans towards Muslims in the wake of violent attacks with polls of various Middle Eastern or majority Islamic nations on their attitudes towards America.
Opinion of Islamic nations towards U.S., next page:
Yes they want to kill all of us.
We don’t care leave.
In Nigeria I’m waking up @ 5 in the morning just to pray my subhi prayer before morning exactly like I did after dawn and in the quran I read it says ” When you meeting with the unbelievers say to them SALAM (PEACE)” and not to bomb them; now that’s how a Muslim should practice not these illiterates jihadist killing innocent civilians thinking its GOD way when he never taught of noothing as such. You need to know a little about ISLAM before you start running your mouth and those jihadist really need a special intervention and they need the true teachings of Islam coz they lack the basics
Yes, they do. We are not well-liked.
Yes
America should stop being a policy maker or a king maker in every enclaves of the world, stop exaggerating fight against terrorism when it was you who initiated everything in the first step.
Stop claiming super powers when it takes you a decade to defeat a pseudojihadist organisation
Appears so.
send them all home and let them take care of them selves
Yes . Muslims and Christians have been killing one another for thousands of years . Muslims have always said they would rule the world . They would NOT let us come in their country and invade. Demand things . Get free stuff . Take our jobs . Dearborn Michigan is now 50% Muslims and control the local government. New York just appointed a female Muslim for a judge . Wake up . Get it ?????
Your country would NOT let us move in and demand free stuff . Take your jobs . Bomb your buildings . Go on rampages and kill people . Cut a women’s head like the Muslims did in Oklahoma.