Comments by "Tim Trewyn" (@timtrewyn453) on "VisualPolitik EN"
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My professor of Western history at U of SC - Shaw AFB was from Egypt. He gave very good lectures, and we liked him. I figured he was a part of the diplomatic good will efforts between the US and Saudi Arabia at the time, together fending off the Soviet atheists. He let us know he was also a mullah, or Islamic teacher, and he spent part of a class session going over the basics of Islam, which was fine, because the West has been interacting with Islam for centuries. We felt quite free to ask questions, and he was forthcoming in answering them. Friendly guy. However, we students, who almost all were members of the USAF and had taken an oath to defend the US Constitution, got very quiet when the professor said that one of the basics of Islam is that there is no separation of Islam (or church) and the state. I saw that as a fundamental incompatibility between the US and Islam. Being something of missionary myself, I could easily imagine the duty of any earnest Muslim to be the transition of all governments in the world to Islamic Republics, culminating in a world caliphate. In their minds this is the will of Allah, God, and Islam could be explained to people until it could be essentially imposed on them.
I am not of the view that having a Muslim upbringing is an immediate disqualification for immigration to the United States. We are the beneficiaries of excellent physicians and other professionals who have had such an upbringing. They strike me as quite moderate in their views and prefer life in the US but do speak of looking forward to visiting family back in the home country. But I do have to wonder why sending nations are not more introspective about why some of their best people choose to leave. There is a thing known as the Protestant work ethic, that I think even atheists have to acknowledge has something to do with generating prosperous societies that attract people from all over the world. So, I think it best for the world, that these societies reasonably preserve their distinctions and their prosperity while holding out to anyone who will listen, the values that bring about that prosperity for application in what are now sending nations.
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