issuevoter wrote on May 3
rd, 2017 at 1:22pm:
This subject needs a little more focus. It is entirely reasonable to suspect that in Europe most recent acts of mass-murder, and many individual cases, emanate from the safe-houses of Islamic Immigration.
Depends what you mean by the safe-houses of Islamic immigration, Issue. Many of the post-Sept 11 acts of mass murder were committed by people who weren't residents. Some were committed by people on student visas, some on work visas. A number were born in Europe. A number had joint citizenship with other countries.
We can safely say these terror attacks were committed by those who call themselves Muslims. It's a bit harder to say that stopping Muslim immigration would solve the problem.
Think, there are already radicalized Muslims living in Europe. Some are recent converts, having nothing to do with immigration. The September 11 attacks were carried out by people on student visas (studying to become pilots). The Glasgow Airport attack was conducted by doctors on work visas.
I'm not sure if any have been tourists, but would be easy to commit a terror attack on a tourist visa. This means you would have to assess everybody's religion prior to entering a country, or at the point of a visa on arrival. This would require some form of Muslim screening process for people who would not confess to being Muslim if their aim was to enter a country and blow it up. It also means you would have to prevent people
converting to radical Islam.
A box on a visa form is not going to fulfill this role. Banning mosques or Muslim prayer halls or bookshops is not going to work either. The Islamicist terrorist message is predominantly spread online.
So how is stopping the immigration of people who admit to being Muslims going to achieve the aim of preventing terrorism?
I'm curious.