I think one of the first policies that should be attended to is that no one who runs for political office in the United States should hold dual citizenship with any foreign country and that citizens who run for State or Federal office should be born in the United States . I know that there are a lot of foreign born people citizens who would make good American leaders and that some would say we are throwing the "baby out with the bath water" if that is implemented but in the long run I believe that is the safest way to protect our country at this point.
Excellent article. If the US does not proactively start dealing straight on with the cultural Islam train wreck coming our way...we can kiss our country goodbye. I have zero concern with the inevitable name calling and labeling...always from the Left...that comes with accurately identifying the intentional destruction of social and cultural deterioration of Western Society.
Sharia is rapidly mastitizing in our own land under the guise of religious freedom...a fundamental building block of this country's founding. It is every bit as much as a social, political and cultural movement designed to overhaul its "host" society's very core. They are encouraged in no small part by the naïveté and the anti-Americanism prevalent with the American Left. They make subversives like George Soros and his ilk look they are playing small ball.
Readers not familiar with the depth and breadth are encouraged do a little homework. In not just Minnesota or Michigan (and the attendant massive corruption), it is also in states like Texas where 40-50 new mosques are being built in just the last two years and perhaps over 300 within the last five years. While a mosque is not a cause for concern unto itself...but too many are and have been associated with radical Islam...September 11, 2001.
Islam uses America's sacred laws protecting religious rights in this country to achieve their articulated intention is in fact one of the largest threats to religious freedom this nation has witnessed. Ironically, Islamists are threat to Muslims who support living in harmony with God on a personal level, not as a tool for societal and political upheaval. Pay attention.
America isn't a Christian nation, nothing prevents Muslims from using the separation of Church and state to their advantage by promoting their own faith as the state cannot do thanks to its own cherished neutrality against any religion. Perhaps the issue is with the first amendment and America not having ever been a confessional state, but a secular pluralistic republic.
Was there a reference to America being a "Christian nation" or preventing anyone using separation of church and state to promote their own faith? My point is using separation of church and state to promote a social, cultural and political agenda is occurring with the promotion and establishment of Sharia domestically. It's not a theory it's a statement of fact.
Regarding "Christian nation"... clearly America was founded in large part on Christian theology and roughly 2/3 of Americans identify as being Christians. That doesn't define America as a Christian nation, however it does indicate that those identifying with religion are overwhelmingly Christian. However, that is not relevant to my point.
What are your thoughts about Islam and Sharia law as it contemporaneously relates to America?
America was not founded on Christian teachings, rather enlightenment liberalism, the philosophical works and theories of the Greco-Roman world, the natural law.
I don't like Islam, it's a faith I deem as false as a Catholic. As for Sharia law, whether or not it is being implemented is irrelevant as I do not want Islam to spread as it is a false faith, my opposition to Sharia law is rooted in my faith, not any love for American principles.
"and state to promote a social, cultural and political agenda is occurring with the promotion and establishment of Sharia domestically". I am an Integralist, I reject the notion that faith is a private feeling or practice relegated to the home, I believe Christ is King over all the nations and that Catholic teaching must permeate law and institutions, it must be social, political, and cultural in addition to personal and so naturally I oppose religious neutrality.
Theology is perhaps the wrong word to use, but the underline principles of the founders were overwhelmingly Christian since they were almost entirely Christian. Parse it a manner in which you are most comfortable, the underlying fact is that our founding documents consistently referred to "God"...and their perspective on God was through a Christian lens.
We will agree to disagree on Sharia: "whether or not it is being implemented is irrelevant". I find it completely relevant and antithetical to the principles of our nation's founding...as per my perspective.
As a former practicing Catholic I appreciate your devotion to Catholicism and respect your personal and subjective feelings. However your statement "Catholic teaching must permeate law and institutions, it must be social, political, and cultural..." does not seem a far cry from the postering of Islam/Sharia.
Catholicism doesn't call for the murder of others, ever. In fact any keen observer of history will see that the first centuries of Christianity spread by the word, whereas Islam spread by the sword.
It's disingenuous to compare the sharia law you so loathe with the Supremacy of Catholicism in state, culture, and society at large. What similarity is there other than the complete dominance of one faith tradition over any other? Please tell me what's so terrifying about the Catholic Church being the One Trye Faith and governing all nations according to the gospel, I'm curious.
The mega-corrupt, wasteful, massive, unchecked flow of public funds to unaccountable NGOs/NPOs for asylum/immigration fraud was abruptly ended this weekend by this extraordinary administration. Thank you Team Trump. 🇺🇸.
Thank you Mr. McCalmont, for having the courage in telling it as it is. Who should be held responsible for the immigration madness that threatens the very stability of our country? White liberals!
The massive fraud in Minnesota involving Somali refugees scamming the system could have only been possible by the complete failure and incompetence of Governor, Tim Walz. The Governor, has yet to give a cogent answer as to how this massive fraud has occurred on his watch. The result of possibly billions being plundered from Minnesota coffers now threatens the healthcare for all Minnesotans. When asked to explain the massive fraud occurring in his state, Walz goes to the standard, white liberal response blaming “white supremacy” for his state’s financial problems.
Even the State flag of Minnesota has been changed for being “racist,” favoring a new flag resembling the Somali flag.
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis could be suspect in fraudulent immigration proceedings having claimed to be wed to their own family members.
Meanwhile, Afghani refugees who are now radicalized may have entered our country under the Biden administration, now murdering members of our armed forces.
The actions of those liberal politicians that allowed this to happen in our country are treasonous in the worst possible terms.
How can this cabal of evil and criminality continue to be supported by our tax dollars?
How do you vet someone from a country that has no records to vet them against? Any hope of applying any sort of a system was destroyed by the Biden group. In the E.U., as in the U.S., once the unvetted are in the country, or state, there are no barriers to their moving around. President Clinton introduced Somalians to Minnesota by importing 10,000, that has now grown to 70,000.
Good Article…The Obama administration was secretly funding the Muslim Brotherhood and Isis via the cash payments to Iran, and promoting key MBs people & programs within the USA. The Biden crew continued with the Muslim Infiltration of America…it is Team Trump that's reversing the course….
“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers…”
"UNDER GOD..." who has been dis-invited to our society for too many years but whose blessing still abounds for this prodigal nation."
That's how it's been since the founding. The United States of America did not recognize Christ formally, nor has any religion been acknowledged as the official faith of the state. And that's a bad thing for an Ultramontanist like myself who desires a confessional state. But if you love America, do you now condemn it's own founding principles?
I know I will regret asking you this, but why in the world do you live in a country that you find so distasteful? I have never heard a good word in any of your posts that indicate anything other than loathing for America and its lack, in your eyes, of the ideal religion. One of the things that I find wonderful about America is that we all have the right to believe in what we conceive to be the best way to live our lives morally or religiously as long as it stays within the boundaries of the laws of the land. And your ideal, as you have laid out, is that we should be ruled by the laws of the Catholic church, which is your right to think, but certainly goes against what the Constitution of the United States would allow.
I was born here. I would be no better off in any other nation.
I pay my taxes, that should be sufficient enough to justify my stay, it's not like people here like to pay theirs despite their patriotism.
I condemn this sentiment; "we all have the right to believe in what we conceive to be the best way to live our lives morally or religiously-" - it's anathema. The pluralism of indifference is not righteousness, and freedom of conscience when it leads to error is a tolerated evil, not a good. I don't care what the Constitution permits because it isn't my God. Why do you people talk bad about your leftist rivals all the time? I don't yap about them incessantly?
I am not obligated to love a nation, patriotism cannot be demanded of someone no matter how materially well off it may be. As for good words, I have none for America because it's not an idol of mine, I have no regards for American civic religion, and I'm not interested in siding with you politically, your goals aren't my own.
Theo, you seem to have a lot of passion for what you say you believe in which can be a wonderful thing but what you lack, and maybe with maturity that will come into play, is compassion.
Thank you David, for saying what needed to be said. Too many people making decisions dislike the U.S., dislike our laws except when they can be exploited, dislike our Constitution, dislike our Judeo-Christian culture, and dislike Western Civilization. Berney
Please stop using "Judeo Christian" as it is not a historical label that would be recognized by Christians historically. Jewish people have a distinct faith after the Second Temple period that has had near non existent influences on any society as Jews have been minority groups in other nations. Christianity is not informed by Judaism, the Catholic Church is the fulfillment of Judaism and has inherited that system of worship transformed in Christ.
The French don't seem to get what's happening to their country----nor the Germans, Austrians, Belgians, Brits, Italians, Danish (though a bit as they've taken note of the Swedes policy reversals re. immigration). Any wonder I feel I have to escape to CH for 3 months.? 🤔🙏
The French made alliances against the Church and Hapsburg Spain with the Ottomans during the height of the latter's dominance against Christian nations. Perhaps France is reaping what it sows, no?
I am curious if the Author, Mr. McCalmont, has been to the Lake Street area.
From the accounts I am reading, it sounds like the wonderful cultural neighborhoods in nearby Los Angeles. Areas like the Karmel Mall are major social and community gathering points. The restaurants and coffee shops sound delicious.
The Somali community contributes significantly to the political and civic life of Minneapolis and Minnesota. A growing number of Somali-Americans serving on city councils, in the state legislature, and in Congress.
This reminds me of the giant South East Asian population near where I grew up in Orange County, CA. I bicycled through Garden Grove on the day before the election and there were three different Nguyens running for office. It made me smile.
Before making a decision about the folly of this American tradition of admitting persecuted populations, I think it's important to go see for yourself what the streets feel like. OF COURSE the US needs to be careful about vetting immigrants. But your piece does not point out the positive things about this population.
All anybody needs to know about the militant, revolutionary Muslim warrior woman (who, B.T.W., represents the most Jewish portion of Minneapolis) is she gamed our asylum system by claiming marriage to her brother. Under an America First protocol in place, she's not likely to have been given the nod to enter. Unlike many of the Roman Catholic Vietnamese who made themselves vulnerable by siding with first the French and then later the U.S., the Somalis have never made an effort to assimilate into our culture and society. East Africa has been a cauldron of angry anti-colonialism and communist politics for ages. Obama's father and Mamdani's parents are prominent examples. These people arrived here with enormous chips on their shoulders with payback in mind. The Roman Catholic Vietnamese were grateful the U.S. government helped them escape the hellhole of a communist Vietnam, and they were only too appreciative to arrive in Orange County (CA) and establish roots in a new land where they can only too happily learn and adopt our ways. What we must at all times keep in mind is that we, the American people, make the rules about immigration, who gets in and why. Non-citizens residing thousands of miles away have no "rights" when it comes to entering our nation. They are guests who must abide by our rules. In other words, the same rules we apply as to who can come onto our property and enter our homes. We are not obliged to let creeps and criminals into our homes for hospitable. Neither is the United States of America.
It took a 'Trump' to be practical about not only who gets in, but how fast we can kick out the trash that idiot Biden invited to come in and screw up our beautiful America!
Check out both Breitbart News & "The New York Times" today. Breitbart focuses on a letter signed by 400 employees of Minnesota's Department of Human Services. It claims that Minnesota's despicable anti-American governor Tim Walz was warned early on of massive scandal and corruption within the Somali sub-colony ensconced in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Walz's response was to retaliate against the whistleblowers. The "Times" article begins with this startling opening line (for the "Times") - "The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness". The writer goes on to state that all Somalis "were raised in a culture of stealing". People such of these should not be anymore welcome in the U.S. - than incompetent revolutionary dolts like Tim Walz should be elected governor of even a Blue state.
Years ago when I used to spend a lot of time in Ireland that country decided to "give back" in thanks for the way the "Irish Diaspora" was welcomed across the world during the Famine Times. Unfortunately, the two countries they decided to open immigration to were Bosnia and Nigeria. People who had no interest in assimilating flooded in, and were placed ahead of native born for social housing and benefits. A friend of mine had a night job as a guard at a facility in Dublin where migrant children found roaming around the streets at night were taken to be housed, fed, and placed in the "system" and educated. They had to hire him because they needed a man on staff at night after female workers were repeatedly attacked by the "kids" who he said would try to kill one another over a pair of sneakers. He explained to me that they were merely evidencing survival behavior, learned in the mean streets of their birth, and were quite feral. The adults were no better. I will never forget attending mass and seeing lines of beggars outside the church, women with babies in their laps, who would open the blanket to show the twisted broken limbs of their mutilated children who were made into more effective beggars by their own parents. Now in the past month numerous "migrant hotels" in Northern Ireland have been set on fire by mobs who have had enough of prioritizing aliens. The evidence is clear that mass migration has radically changed Europe for the worse, and thank God our own Government is wising up and taking steps to correct what is happening here.
Pat Fish rants about migrants and not the revolution. Europe was corrupted by Europeans, first the by the protestants in Anglo German nations, by the Gallician tendencies of France - who sacrificed Catholic unity for French foreign policy, and by the secular, liberal, and constitutional revolutions of the 17th century onward.
" . . mass migration has radically changed Europe for the worse, and thank God our own Government is wising up and taking steps to correct what is happening here." re: 'Taking out the trash!'
You're welcome to leave for Stockholm anytime. It doesn't change the fact that unvetted Muslim immigration has changed the very core of Swedish society. I spent 8 days this past July in Chicago; I didn't hear a shot fired or witness anyone lit on fire on the Blue Line. My anecdotal experience doesn't mean Chicago isn't a dangerous city. It only means the tourist areas are made secure. The areas where average folks live and work are indeed highly unstable. That's a fact. And that goes for the major urban areas of Sweden, too. Northern Europe and the Anglosphere are in a self-induced sad decline - and there are those in our country which would like to see the same results, so much is their self-loathing and hatred for Western values.
I'm not contesting your assertion that immigration has led to increased negative issues in Sweden. Just get your statements straight. It would provide a much more convincing essay. And a follow-up containing "that's a fact" from you is... well, questionable.
Hopefully, the current administration will revamp the immigration process in its entirety, rather than making changes piecemeal through social media posts.
I think one of the first policies that should be attended to is that no one who runs for political office in the United States should hold dual citizenship with any foreign country and that citizens who run for State or Federal office should be born in the United States . I know that there are a lot of foreign born people citizens who would make good American leaders and that some would say we are throwing the "baby out with the bath water" if that is implemented but in the long run I believe that is the safest way to protect our country at this point.
Excellent article. If the US does not proactively start dealing straight on with the cultural Islam train wreck coming our way...we can kiss our country goodbye. I have zero concern with the inevitable name calling and labeling...always from the Left...that comes with accurately identifying the intentional destruction of social and cultural deterioration of Western Society.
Sharia is rapidly mastitizing in our own land under the guise of religious freedom...a fundamental building block of this country's founding. It is every bit as much as a social, political and cultural movement designed to overhaul its "host" society's very core. They are encouraged in no small part by the naïveté and the anti-Americanism prevalent with the American Left. They make subversives like George Soros and his ilk look they are playing small ball.
Readers not familiar with the depth and breadth are encouraged do a little homework. In not just Minnesota or Michigan (and the attendant massive corruption), it is also in states like Texas where 40-50 new mosques are being built in just the last two years and perhaps over 300 within the last five years. While a mosque is not a cause for concern unto itself...but too many are and have been associated with radical Islam...September 11, 2001.
Islam uses America's sacred laws protecting religious rights in this country to achieve their articulated intention is in fact one of the largest threats to religious freedom this nation has witnessed. Ironically, Islamists are threat to Muslims who support living in harmony with God on a personal level, not as a tool for societal and political upheaval. Pay attention.
America isn't a Christian nation, nothing prevents Muslims from using the separation of Church and state to their advantage by promoting their own faith as the state cannot do thanks to its own cherished neutrality against any religion. Perhaps the issue is with the first amendment and America not having ever been a confessional state, but a secular pluralistic republic.
Was there a reference to America being a "Christian nation" or preventing anyone using separation of church and state to promote their own faith? My point is using separation of church and state to promote a social, cultural and political agenda is occurring with the promotion and establishment of Sharia domestically. It's not a theory it's a statement of fact.
Regarding "Christian nation"... clearly America was founded in large part on Christian theology and roughly 2/3 of Americans identify as being Christians. That doesn't define America as a Christian nation, however it does indicate that those identifying with religion are overwhelmingly Christian. However, that is not relevant to my point.
What are your thoughts about Islam and Sharia law as it contemporaneously relates to America?
America was not founded on Christian teachings, rather enlightenment liberalism, the philosophical works and theories of the Greco-Roman world, the natural law.
I don't like Islam, it's a faith I deem as false as a Catholic. As for Sharia law, whether or not it is being implemented is irrelevant as I do not want Islam to spread as it is a false faith, my opposition to Sharia law is rooted in my faith, not any love for American principles.
"and state to promote a social, cultural and political agenda is occurring with the promotion and establishment of Sharia domestically". I am an Integralist, I reject the notion that faith is a private feeling or practice relegated to the home, I believe Christ is King over all the nations and that Catholic teaching must permeate law and institutions, it must be social, political, and cultural in addition to personal and so naturally I oppose religious neutrality.
Theology is perhaps the wrong word to use, but the underline principles of the founders were overwhelmingly Christian since they were almost entirely Christian. Parse it a manner in which you are most comfortable, the underlying fact is that our founding documents consistently referred to "God"...and their perspective on God was through a Christian lens.
We will agree to disagree on Sharia: "whether or not it is being implemented is irrelevant". I find it completely relevant and antithetical to the principles of our nation's founding...as per my perspective.
As a former practicing Catholic I appreciate your devotion to Catholicism and respect your personal and subjective feelings. However your statement "Catholic teaching must permeate law and institutions, it must be social, political, and cultural..." does not seem a far cry from the postering of Islam/Sharia.
Catholicism doesn't call for the murder of others, ever. In fact any keen observer of history will see that the first centuries of Christianity spread by the word, whereas Islam spread by the sword.
It's disingenuous to compare the sharia law you so loathe with the Supremacy of Catholicism in state, culture, and society at large. What similarity is there other than the complete dominance of one faith tradition over any other? Please tell me what's so terrifying about the Catholic Church being the One Trye Faith and governing all nations according to the gospel, I'm curious.
I believe you answered your own question.
Excellent POV.
The mega-corrupt, wasteful, massive, unchecked flow of public funds to unaccountable NGOs/NPOs for asylum/immigration fraud was abruptly ended this weekend by this extraordinary administration. Thank you Team Trump. 🇺🇸.
Yes, thank you team Trump! Can you imagine where we'd be if dopey Biden or Kamala was in charge? B r r r - justhe thought sends shivers down my spine!
Thank you Mr. McCalmont, for having the courage in telling it as it is. Who should be held responsible for the immigration madness that threatens the very stability of our country? White liberals!
The massive fraud in Minnesota involving Somali refugees scamming the system could have only been possible by the complete failure and incompetence of Governor, Tim Walz. The Governor, has yet to give a cogent answer as to how this massive fraud has occurred on his watch. The result of possibly billions being plundered from Minnesota coffers now threatens the healthcare for all Minnesotans. When asked to explain the massive fraud occurring in his state, Walz goes to the standard, white liberal response blaming “white supremacy” for his state’s financial problems.
Even the State flag of Minnesota has been changed for being “racist,” favoring a new flag resembling the Somali flag.
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis could be suspect in fraudulent immigration proceedings having claimed to be wed to their own family members.
Meanwhile, Afghani refugees who are now radicalized may have entered our country under the Biden administration, now murdering members of our armed forces.
The actions of those liberal politicians that allowed this to happen in our country are treasonous in the worst possible terms.
How can this cabal of evil and criminality continue to be supported by our tax dollars?
https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/us-news/minn-social-service-workers-slam-gov-tim-walz-as-100-responsible-for-1b-state-fraud/
100s of thousands of Somalis? Dude, you need to learn some math.
Stand corrected, certainly thousands of cases. Feel better now? Try to comprehend when the phrase “could be” is used in a sentence.
https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-announces-results-of-operation-twin-shield-a-large-scale-immigration-fraud-investigation
Enjoyed reading this article and thank David for taking the time to author it.
I am a compassionate conservative with a big heart for those who want a better life for their families
The US is supposed to be that place.
Seems like we have lost our way especially for those coming to us from abroad
These folks want us to change to resemble their origins customs and demographics, instead of the opposite where they assimilate to ours.
I hope we can stop the bleed and reset our priorities for a great future
How do you vet someone from a country that has no records to vet them against? Any hope of applying any sort of a system was destroyed by the Biden group. In the E.U., as in the U.S., once the unvetted are in the country, or state, there are no barriers to their moving around. President Clinton introduced Somalians to Minnesota by importing 10,000, that has now grown to 70,000.
Good Article…The Obama administration was secretly funding the Muslim Brotherhood and Isis via the cash payments to Iran, and promoting key MBs people & programs within the USA. The Biden crew continued with the Muslim Infiltration of America…it is Team Trump that's reversing the course….
https://x.com/fnowisthetime/status/1995541247898124344?s=61
https://x.com/fnowisthetime/status/1995543456966738300?s=61
https://x.com/amymek/status/1973296453255831945?s=61
“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers…”
https://www.investigativeproject.org/document/20-an-explanatory-memorandum-on-the-general
"ONE NATION...." that seems like a distant dream since pluralism & accommodation replaced assimilation.
"UNDER GOD..." who has been dis-invited to our society for too many years but whose blessing still abounds for this prodigal nation.
"INDIVISIBLE"...for three generations we have divided ourselves into tribes of culture, race, and appetites of one sort or another.
"WITH LIBERTY & JUSTICE FOR ALL"...our best selves have suffered, bled and died for these words, this ambition, this dream.
May we find and follow leaders who can help America find herself, as embodied in The Pledge.
"UNDER GOD..." who has been dis-invited to our society for too many years but whose blessing still abounds for this prodigal nation."
That's how it's been since the founding. The United States of America did not recognize Christ formally, nor has any religion been acknowledged as the official faith of the state. And that's a bad thing for an Ultramontanist like myself who desires a confessional state. But if you love America, do you now condemn it's own founding principles?
I know I will regret asking you this, but why in the world do you live in a country that you find so distasteful? I have never heard a good word in any of your posts that indicate anything other than loathing for America and its lack, in your eyes, of the ideal religion. One of the things that I find wonderful about America is that we all have the right to believe in what we conceive to be the best way to live our lives morally or religiously as long as it stays within the boundaries of the laws of the land. And your ideal, as you have laid out, is that we should be ruled by the laws of the Catholic church, which is your right to think, but certainly goes against what the Constitution of the United States would allow.
I was born here. I would be no better off in any other nation.
I pay my taxes, that should be sufficient enough to justify my stay, it's not like people here like to pay theirs despite their patriotism.
I condemn this sentiment; "we all have the right to believe in what we conceive to be the best way to live our lives morally or religiously-" - it's anathema. The pluralism of indifference is not righteousness, and freedom of conscience when it leads to error is a tolerated evil, not a good. I don't care what the Constitution permits because it isn't my God. Why do you people talk bad about your leftist rivals all the time? I don't yap about them incessantly?
I am not obligated to love a nation, patriotism cannot be demanded of someone no matter how materially well off it may be. As for good words, I have none for America because it's not an idol of mine, I have no regards for American civic religion, and I'm not interested in siding with you politically, your goals aren't my own.
Theo, you seem to have a lot of passion for what you say you believe in which can be a wonderful thing but what you lack, and maybe with maturity that will come into play, is compassion.
Well said David!!!
Thank you David, for saying what needed to be said. Too many people making decisions dislike the U.S., dislike our laws except when they can be exploited, dislike our Constitution, dislike our Judeo-Christian culture, and dislike Western Civilization. Berney
Please stop using "Judeo Christian" as it is not a historical label that would be recognized by Christians historically. Jewish people have a distinct faith after the Second Temple period that has had near non existent influences on any society as Jews have been minority groups in other nations. Christianity is not informed by Judaism, the Catholic Church is the fulfillment of Judaism and has inherited that system of worship transformed in Christ.
Well said.
The French don't seem to get what's happening to their country----nor the Germans, Austrians, Belgians, Brits, Italians, Danish (though a bit as they've taken note of the Swedes policy reversals re. immigration). Any wonder I feel I have to escape to CH for 3 months.? 🤔🙏
The French made alliances against the Church and Hapsburg Spain with the Ottomans during the height of the latter's dominance against Christian nations. Perhaps France is reaping what it sows, no?
Yup!
I am curious if the Author, Mr. McCalmont, has been to the Lake Street area.
From the accounts I am reading, it sounds like the wonderful cultural neighborhoods in nearby Los Angeles. Areas like the Karmel Mall are major social and community gathering points. The restaurants and coffee shops sound delicious.
The Somali community contributes significantly to the political and civic life of Minneapolis and Minnesota. A growing number of Somali-Americans serving on city councils, in the state legislature, and in Congress.
This reminds me of the giant South East Asian population near where I grew up in Orange County, CA. I bicycled through Garden Grove on the day before the election and there were three different Nguyens running for office. It made me smile.
Before making a decision about the folly of this American tradition of admitting persecuted populations, I think it's important to go see for yourself what the streets feel like. OF COURSE the US needs to be careful about vetting immigrants. But your piece does not point out the positive things about this population.
All anybody needs to know about the militant, revolutionary Muslim warrior woman (who, B.T.W., represents the most Jewish portion of Minneapolis) is she gamed our asylum system by claiming marriage to her brother. Under an America First protocol in place, she's not likely to have been given the nod to enter. Unlike many of the Roman Catholic Vietnamese who made themselves vulnerable by siding with first the French and then later the U.S., the Somalis have never made an effort to assimilate into our culture and society. East Africa has been a cauldron of angry anti-colonialism and communist politics for ages. Obama's father and Mamdani's parents are prominent examples. These people arrived here with enormous chips on their shoulders with payback in mind. The Roman Catholic Vietnamese were grateful the U.S. government helped them escape the hellhole of a communist Vietnam, and they were only too appreciative to arrive in Orange County (CA) and establish roots in a new land where they can only too happily learn and adopt our ways. What we must at all times keep in mind is that we, the American people, make the rules about immigration, who gets in and why. Non-citizens residing thousands of miles away have no "rights" when it comes to entering our nation. They are guests who must abide by our rules. In other words, the same rules we apply as to who can come onto our property and enter our homes. We are not obliged to let creeps and criminals into our homes for hospitable. Neither is the United States of America.
It took a 'Trump' to be practical about not only who gets in, but how fast we can kick out the trash that idiot Biden invited to come in and screw up our beautiful America!
Oh p u l e e e a s e ! This says it all, " . . . the folly of this American tradition of admitting persecuted populations. . ." folly = stupidity!
Check out both Breitbart News & "The New York Times" today. Breitbart focuses on a letter signed by 400 employees of Minnesota's Department of Human Services. It claims that Minnesota's despicable anti-American governor Tim Walz was warned early on of massive scandal and corruption within the Somali sub-colony ensconced in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Walz's response was to retaliate against the whistleblowers. The "Times" article begins with this startling opening line (for the "Times") - "The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness". The writer goes on to state that all Somalis "were raised in a culture of stealing". People such of these should not be anymore welcome in the U.S. - than incompetent revolutionary dolts like Tim Walz should be elected governor of even a Blue state.
Years ago when I used to spend a lot of time in Ireland that country decided to "give back" in thanks for the way the "Irish Diaspora" was welcomed across the world during the Famine Times. Unfortunately, the two countries they decided to open immigration to were Bosnia and Nigeria. People who had no interest in assimilating flooded in, and were placed ahead of native born for social housing and benefits. A friend of mine had a night job as a guard at a facility in Dublin where migrant children found roaming around the streets at night were taken to be housed, fed, and placed in the "system" and educated. They had to hire him because they needed a man on staff at night after female workers were repeatedly attacked by the "kids" who he said would try to kill one another over a pair of sneakers. He explained to me that they were merely evidencing survival behavior, learned in the mean streets of their birth, and were quite feral. The adults were no better. I will never forget attending mass and seeing lines of beggars outside the church, women with babies in their laps, who would open the blanket to show the twisted broken limbs of their mutilated children who were made into more effective beggars by their own parents. Now in the past month numerous "migrant hotels" in Northern Ireland have been set on fire by mobs who have had enough of prioritizing aliens. The evidence is clear that mass migration has radically changed Europe for the worse, and thank God our own Government is wising up and taking steps to correct what is happening here.
Pat Fish rants about migrants and not the revolution. Europe was corrupted by Europeans, first the by the protestants in Anglo German nations, by the Gallician tendencies of France - who sacrificed Catholic unity for French foreign policy, and by the secular, liberal, and constitutional revolutions of the 17th century onward.
" . . mass migration has radically changed Europe for the worse, and thank God our own Government is wising up and taking steps to correct what is happening here." re: 'Taking out the trash!'
Great Pat - I especially like this line " . . . learned in the mean streets of their birth, and were quite feral.. . "
Sweden is not one of the most violent countries in the world not officially at war. But yes Sweden has had increased violence lately.
The link the author put doesn't support that claim either. And yes, Sweden is safer than the US. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/safest-countries-in-the-world
You're welcome to leave for Stockholm anytime. It doesn't change the fact that unvetted Muslim immigration has changed the very core of Swedish society. I spent 8 days this past July in Chicago; I didn't hear a shot fired or witness anyone lit on fire on the Blue Line. My anecdotal experience doesn't mean Chicago isn't a dangerous city. It only means the tourist areas are made secure. The areas where average folks live and work are indeed highly unstable. That's a fact. And that goes for the major urban areas of Sweden, too. Northern Europe and the Anglosphere are in a self-induced sad decline - and there are those in our country which would like to see the same results, so much is their self-loathing and hatred for Western values.
I'm not contesting your assertion that immigration has led to increased negative issues in Sweden. Just get your statements straight. It would provide a much more convincing essay. And a follow-up containing "that's a fact" from you is... well, questionable.
Hopefully, the current administration will revamp the immigration process in its entirety, rather than making changes piecemeal through social media posts.
MacCalmont's facts _are_ straight as far as I'm concerned.
Earl, you always mix opinion and facts to your liking. No surprise there.