āBiden,ā Trump said
at a rally in Tampa on Thursday, āwants to terminate our travel bans
and surge refugees from the most dangerous places in the world. He will
open the floodgate to radical Islamic terrorism ā and you saw three days
ago what happened the beheading in France, and today it happened
again.ā Trump was referring to the beheading of French teacher Samuel
Paty for showing a Muhammad cartoon, and the beheading Thursday of a
woman in a Lyons church in yet another jihad attack.
āUnder the Biden plan,ā Trump warned, āthe horrifying attacks in
France will come to our cities and our townsā¦.These Radical Islamic
terrorist attacks must stop immediately. No country, France or
otherwise, can long put up with it!ā
Trump had a point. After the latest attack in France, Biden said Friday:
āA Biden-Harris administration will work with our allies and partners
to prevent extremist violence in all forms.ā The fact that he did not
name jihad violence specifically was portentous. On October 15,
Biden released a video message to Muslim Advocates, the association of
Muslim lawyers that bears the primary responsibility for demanding, back
in 2010, that the Obama administration remove all mention of Islam and
jihad from counterterror training and refer to an undefined āextremismā
rather than to jihad terrorism. Obama, of course, immediately complied,
despite the fact that this would hamstring the ability of law
enforcement and intelligence agencies to understand, and defeat,
jihadists.
Biden also declared: āAs president, Iāll work with you to rip the
poison of hate from our society, honor your contributions and seek your
ideas. My administration will look like America, Muslim Americans
serving at every level.ā
This was not reassuring, but ominous in light another Biden engagement with Muslims last summer. Biden stated
last July: āOne of the things I think is important, I wish we taught
more in our schools about the Islamic faith.ā He clearly mean apologetic
information, not accurate discussion of Islamic jihad activity. Even
worse, Bidenās call for this came as he addressed the āMillion Muslim
Votes Summit,ā a call hosted by Emgage Action, which says it is the
largest Muslim PAC in the United States. According to the Washington Free Beacon,
it is also āa George Soros-backed Muslim groupā that serves as an
āofficial cohost of Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) conferences.
ISNA was previously revealed to be part of the Muslim Brotherhood
networkāthough it claims it is no longer associated with the group.ā
Would Emgage or groups like it be tasked with choosing the Muslims who would staff Bidenās administration? Almost certainly.
Biden made a promise that Trump referred to on Thursday: āIf I have
the honor of being president, I will end the Muslim ban on day one, day
one.ā There is no āMuslim ban,ā but Islamic supremacists and their
Leftist allies insist on calling the Trump administrationās travel bans
on nationals from 13 countries a āMuslim ban,ā even though five of those
countries, Burma, Eritrea, Tanzania, North Korea, and Venezuela, are
not Muslim countries, and there are 49 other Muslim countries upon which
there is no ban at all.
The ban exists because these countries cannot or will not provide
accurate information about prospective immigrants. The list of countries
was devised during the Obama administration, while Biden was vice
president. But that didnāt stop Biden from casting it in racial terms, declaring:
āMuslim communities were the first to feel Donald Trumpās assault on
black and brown communities in this country with his vile Muslim ban.ā
Itās a peculiar āassault on black and brown communitiesā that leaves
untouched scores of countries inhabited by āblack and brown
communities,ā but the Left is working on the gut level of rage and
hatred, not rational consideration. This kind of language from Biden is
also extraordinarily irresponsible, stoking racial resentment at a time
when racial tensions are high.
Internationally, Palestinian leaders have repeatedly expressed
their preference for Biden, hoping that if he is elected, the
Trump-brokered peace deals between Israel and several Muslim Arab states
will be repudiated, and their jihad against Israel will gain a renewed
impetus.
Biden appears to accept the post-9/11 contention of Leftists and
Islamic supremacists alike: that opposition to jihad violence and Sharia
oppression of women is āhate.ā As a result, a Biden/Harris
administration would almost certainly leave America more vulnerable to
jihad attacks, and do nothing to halt the expanding influence of Sharia
in the workplace and the educational system.
As Palestinian leaders have shown, Biden presidency would be welcomed by jihadis worldwide.