Subject: On Being White
Editor's
note: The
following column originally appeared on the website US
Defense Watch. It is reprinted with permission.
Dear Mr. Khan,
I, like millions of Americans saw your speech
at the DNC on Thursday night.
I wish to offer my sympathy for the death of
your son, Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in action in Iraq.
As a former US Army officer, and a veteran of
the Gulf War, I can certainly understand the pain and anguish that you and your
wife endure every day.
Your son died saving the lives of his fellow
soldiers. As Jesus told his disciples, according to the Gospel of John, Greater love hath no man than this, that
a man lay down his life for his friends.
Captain Khan is a hero. I am sure the soldiers
he served with regard him as one. I know you and your wife do. Rest assured
that millions of veterans regard your son as a hero as well.
To paraphrase from the Book of Ecclesiasticus,
your son’s name liveth for evermore.
Your son made the ultimate sacrifice for his
country, a country that was new to you and your family and one which you openly
embraced and certainly love.
When you and your family arrived to America
from Pakistan, you assimilated into our country. You adopted American ways,
learned our history and apparently you even acquired a pocket Constitution
along the way. Good for you sir.
But, there are many Muslims in America who not
only have no desire to assimilate, but wish to live under Sharia Law.
That is unacceptable to Americans. There is
only one law of the land. That is the U.S. Constitution.
As you well know, Mr. Khan, we live in violent
times, dangerous times. Muslim madmen from ISIS and other radical Jihadi groups
are on a murder and terror spree across the globe.
Your religion of peace, Islam, is anything but
that in 2016. That is a fact that is confirmed every time a Muslim shoots,
bombs, beheads and tortures innocent men, women and children. This does not
mean that every Muslim is a terrorist, but most terrorists, sir, are indeed
Muslims.
A Muslim terrorist attack has become the sign
of the times.
Regardless of what the feckless, naïve, leftist
ideologue Barack Obama and his dimwitted colleagues John Kerry, Francois
Hollande and Angela Merkel state, the United States and the West are at war
with Radical Islam. It is the job of the president of the United States to
protect his nation from all enemies; foreign and domestic. Unfortunately, Mr.
Obama romanticizes Islam and refuses to accept reality, which has resulted in
the deaths of thousands of innocent people across the world.
Groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda have one goal,
the complete destruction of the Judeo-Christian culture, our religions and our
way of life.
Many Americans have families that have been
here for decades, even centuries. Many families like mine have relatives who
fought in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm. Some
families have relatives who fought in the American Revolution.
We don’t plan on letting our country be
devoured by Muslim maniacs. We are Americans sir, and not unarmed, socialist
European zombies. We will do what is necessary to protect the United States.
While many Democrats and liberals see the world through rose colored glasses,
conservatives understand that there is good and evil in this world. Evil must
be destroyed before it destroys us.
Strong measures, wartime measures, must be
taken to protect this country from those that wish to annihilate us and our way
of life.
Mr. Trump’s plan to temporarily halt
immigration from Muslim countries that are known to either support terrorism or
harbor terrorist groups is not only pragmatic, but indeed it is
constitutional. It is the constitutional duty of the president of the United
States to protect this nation.
There is simply no way to vet hundreds of
thousands of Muslim refugees from war zones like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Europe is being destroyed because reckless
leaders like Angela Merkel have opened the continent’s doors to a flood of over
one million undocumented Muslims arriving with nothing more than a bad attitude
and a haversack of Jihad.
Do you think Americans are stupid? While the
left lives in a dream world, the right does not. Mr. Trump understands the
threat to his nation and the threat, sir, is not from Swedish Lutherans named
Anna and Lars. The threat, sir, is from radical Islam.
How in God’s name are U.S. immigration
authorities supposed to know the true intentions of a 22-year-old Syrian man?
It is impossible. You know it is impossible.
How in God’s name are U.S. immigration
authorities supposed to know the true intentions of hundreds of thousands of
Syrian refugees and thousands of other sundry Muslims who wish to arrive on our
shores?
It is impossible. You know it is impossible.
Whether you, your wife, the Muslim world and
millions of Democrats are offended by Mr. Trump’s realistic view of the world
is irrelevant.
Whether you, your wife and son would have been
prohibited from emigrating from Pakistan to America under Mr. Trump’s wartime
plan is irrelevant. The security of this great land supersedes your desires and
the desires of others who wish to come here now. The United States of America
has no obligation to open its doors in order to placate foreigners and liberals
in our government.
To adopt any other course but Mr. Trump’s would
be a cause for further endangering the lives of Americans every day. That, sir,
is unacceptable.
You attacked Mr. Trump in front of a worldwide
audience, yet you can’t understand the fact that he defends himself against
attacks from you, Hillary Clinton and the left. What else is one to do sir?
We must live in a world of reality, not a world
of denial, delusion and fantasy the Democrats inhabit every waking day of their
lives.
Radical Islam is the enemy of everyone on this
planet who believes in freedom and justice. Until it is destroyed, this nation
must protect itself from enemies both foreign and domestic.
Sincerely,
Ray
Starmann
Ray
Starmann is the founder of US Defense Watch.
He is a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer and veteran of the Gulf War,
where he served with the 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3rd Armored Division
“Spearhead!” Mr. Starmann was a contributing writer for several years at SFTT.org, founded
by the late Colonel David Hackworth.
The Staff: We thank you writing this and hope all Americans read this and think.
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