Normal Muslims DO speak out against radical Muslims. All the time.
How many Muslims have shot up schools in the last five years? (spoiler alert; it's zero).
How many first generation immigrants from the countries affected by this executive order have actually committed acts of terrorism on US soil? Are swastikas on the underground and attacks on places of worship to entice people to "assimilate into Western norms" by preventing them from practising their religion, which is a Western norm protected by your Western constitution.
There are bigger issues in America and the world than asylum seekers. Should probably not get rid of background checks for firearms seeing as the amount of people killed by firearms in the US is five figures every year.
Yes, we should stand up to terrorism. A lot of Muslims stand up to terrorism. Yes we should stand up to hate speech. A lot of conservatives stand up to hate speech. But there are those on both sides who do not. This distinction is important, but we should not punish all Muslims (see; travel ban) or all conservatives (see; deplorables) for the crimes of the few.
Liberals are not standing up for terrorists, at all. The left isn't advocating an open door policy, they just want people who are entitled to enter the United States to enter the United States. Children fleeing war should be allowed to enter a safe country without the risk of being sent back to a warzone.
I read the liberal press all the time. If a racist says a mean word to a Muslim, the news would report it. If a Muslim did anything marginally tolerant and positive, the liberal press would crow over it. The NYT has been praising Syrian immigrants for two years now, devoting more front page praise to Syrians, than showing any care or concern towards the economic problems of depressed zones in the US (now Trump voterland).
Most liberals simply don’t understand facts any more than the most rabid conservative ideologues do. Syria is/ was a polygot nation. It has been like that since the Roman empire. You have some highly educated cosmopolitans, and a lot of tribal, ultraconservative people who don’t accept that the earth rotates around the sun. It is very easy to find examples of Syrian researchers and PhD holders. But there are also a whole lot of Syrians who hate the West, or who won’t shake hands with women, or who won’t drink from Red Cross-given bottles because of the cruciform symbol. Only extreme vetting can sieve out the religious crazies from the smart globalists.
Trump should have appeased the liberals by offering 10000 Syrian visas to the most highly educated and reasonable sounding people. Then he should have just paid for neighbouring countries to house the religious millions in refugee camps. Trump is a businessman and he needs to use business skills in DC to trade political favors.
Looks like you have not heard of the Beslan or Pesharwar massacres. Not attacks by deranged individual shooters. A bunch of Muslims got organized and and systematically massacred large numbers of school children. Looks like it is much easier for deranged individual Muslims to find other deranged individual Muslims, than it is for deranged other people to join forces. I don’t think these deranged individuals got together in churches, temples, synagogues, nightclubs or intellectual salons. They probably met at their local mosque.
How many first generation immigrants (or migrants) became terrorists? I don’t know, there’s Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik, Nidal Hasan, the Tsarnaev brothers, Omar Mateen, Jamal Zougam and 5 other people who escaped, Hasib Hussain, Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, 9 people involved in the Paris attacks some of whom were second generation, 5 people in the Brussels Airport attack some of whom were first generation, Amedy Coulibaly, the Kouachi brothers, Mohammed Merah... and I’m only naming those who are responsible for many deaths each, and within the past few years.
No one who is not a citizen is entitled to enter the United States. That’s the basic of international law. Everything else comes from visas, green cards, treaties between countries – all of which can and should be renegotiated when conditions change. Trump’s problem is that he is too arrogant and poorly advised. He should have gotten legal advisors to draft his order in a manner compliant with law.
I don’t think age matters anymore. Young children can be easily indoctrinated. With modern technology, 12 year olds can do a lot more damage now than they could in the Bronze age. Nigeria has been seeing a wave of attacks from 8 year olds. They’re arresting lots of kids in Australia now because they got brainwashed by other Muslims into preparing terrorist acts. No society has a responsibility to take the children of a failed society. Would George Soros have welcomed and sheltered 1000 Hitlerjugend members?
The only way to take in refugee kids, is if someone vouches for them and assumes full legal liability. Madonna is worth over $600m. If she assumed liability for 5 Afghan kids and they all turned into radicals, Madonna could pay up $500m to the victims and still be a very rich woman. Likewise Zuckerberg can take responsibility for 7000 refugees and house them on his 700 hectare estate. He has the resources to pay for damage caused by fake refugees. At most only 1% will be blowing people up, and Zuckerberg’s billions can pay for damage done by 70 people.