News Item: : President Trump's State Visit to The UK - Some Thoughts
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Monday 30 January 2017 - 18:44:26

A UK Ban on Trump?

The BBC's main headline today tells of a petition bearing 1.3 million names demanding a stop to be put on President Trump's state visit to the UK. In something of a knee-jerk reaction, thousands are joining anti-Trump protest marches in cities from London to Glasgow.

According to the BBC, ''Mr. Trump's executive order on immigration has caused anger worldwide''. Or as the socialistic Jeremy Corbyn has bleated, ''Donald Trump should not be welcomed to Britain while he abuses our shared values with his shameful Muslim ban and attacks on refugees' and women's rights''.

As if that were not enough to be going along with, I've got to say that, to see the US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer crying such ''convincing'' tears on TV about Trump's executive order, is enough to make a grown man, erm, weep...

Even after years of media brainwashing, especially given the plethora of horrific Islamist terror attacks on soft targets, you would think that the average person would be able to appreciate the thrust of an executive order that began with the words, ''In order to protect Americans, the United States must ensure that those admitted to this country do not bear hostile attitudes toward it and its founding principles''.

Cutting Through the MSM Narrative

Although the mainstream media and the countless minions of the ''Twitterati'' are putting out and furthering the overall narrative of a ''Muslim ban'', it is worth critiquing this for a somewhat more nuanced picture.

For example, Paul Joseph Watson has responded with a video at Prison Planet to demonstrate that Mr. Trump has not actually initiated a ''Muslim ban'' at all. Rather, he has established a temporary ban on immigration from a list of terror-linked countries; which warning list was first created by the Obama administration anyway.

In any case, Trump's executive order allows for the ban to be waived in the case of individuals who pass certain case-by-case criteria.

And so, countries with the largest Muslim populations, such as Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nigeria, remain totally unaffected by the temporary immigration ban.

But you won't hear any of this on the mainstream media, much less in the tumult of blogs and tweets decrying Trump's new policy.

Unfortunately, Mr. Watson's intemperate use of foul language means that we cannot wholeheartedly recommend his video for viewing.

Nevertheless, Mr. Watson does raise important questions when he compares the present liberal distress over Trump's immigration order to the complete lack of protest during the 8 years in which the Obama administration was dropping tens of thousands of bombs on Muslim countries.

Again, Mr. Watson wonders, where was the protest when Obama's leadership armed the jihadists who were responsible for creating the civil war in Syria, which led to the subsequent refugee crisis, in the first place?

Mr. Watson is also right to point out the hypocrisy wherein those who remained silent over these and other issues of Obama's foreign policy are now defaming Mr. Trump as somehow being a ''dangerous and racist Islamophobe''.

''Shared Values'' Mr. Corbyn?

Speaking as an Englishman, it intrigues me that, in contrast to the media-generated hype over Trump and Islamic immigration, there was so little fuss made last week in light of an important story that was raised by the courageous Andrea Williams of the UK's Christian Concern.

On 24th January, Christian Concern ran a headline that has caught the attention of too few people in this country. It ran: Christians at risk of years in prison for preaching Christ.

It seems that Lord Malcolm Pearson had raised a question in the House of Lords regarding the new Policing and Crime Bill's proposal to raise the penalty for a ''racially or religiously aggravated offence'' from 7 years to 14 years.

Lord Pearson had asked: ''Could such an offence be caused by a Christian preaching the supreme divinity of Christ and therefore denying the supremacy of Muhammed? Would various assembled Muslims be free to regard that as a religiously aggravated offence under this section?''

Not a few observers were startled when the Government, represented by Baroness Williams (herself having been educated at La Sagesse Catholic High School), replied: ''It is a matter for the court and the Criminal Prosecution Service (CPS) to determine the points that he makes.''

This is the kind of thing that would lead one to hope for a response from the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales that was as rapid as it was reasoned and robust. Alas, as far as we can see, none has been forthcoming.

At least Christian Concern's Andrea Williams, as has been the case with so many other important issues impacting on Christians in the UK, was informed and ready with a clear statement.

Amongst other things, she said: ''It is extremely concerning that the Government is not prepared to defend free speech to the extent that Christians may risk a prison sentence for saying that Jesus is Lord of all... This is a further step down the road to a totalitarian society, where people dare not say what they think for fear of being arrested and imprisoned... The fact that Jesus is Lord over all is the hope of our nation. It is at the very heart of Christianity, which has provided the moral and spiritual foundations of our society for centuries. People should be free to declare Christ's Lordship in every area of public life.''

It is intriguing to note that there is so much ''liberal'' panic over Trump's supposedly anti-Islamic immigration policy, whilst there is no associated uproar regarding the supression of free speech among the ever-dwindling number of British Christians.

We have noted above that Mr. Jeremy Corbyn expresses distress over Trump's perceived attack on ''shared values''. However, where is the similar uproar when it comes to the news broken recently by the Daily Mail regarding a Sharia court in Lancashire which handed down a sentence that, though suggesting an alternative, nevertheless approved of an ''honour killing''? Where are Mr. Corbyn's ''shared values'' now?

Of this, it seems, the ''liberals'' demanding that Trump be banned from a state visit to the UK have little to say.

An Attack on Women's Rights?

Another aspect of Mr. Jeremy Corbyn's anti-Trump rhetoric featured his lament about a supposed attack on ''women's rights''.

This supposed attack was at the heart of the various expressions of the ''Women's March'' that took place in Washington D.C. and various other cities around the globe last week.

Judging by the pro-abortion/LGBT platform, the anti-male atmosphere, the crude names of the pink knitted hats, the impure costumes of some participants, and the inclusion of a speaker who had done time for kidnapping, raping and murdering a man, this was no place for a lady...

Perhaps AKA Catholic's Louie Verrecchio summed things up best when he stated: ''The so-called Women's March was truly nothing other than an open act of rebellion against the authour of the Divine Law; a demon-infested parade of lost souls figuratively pointing an accusing finger heavenward while howling ''We'll show you who's boss!''

If you are looking for something a little more civilized, reasoned and, frankly, more feminine than that ''offered'' by the Women's Marches, we highly recommend the person, works and writings of Culture of Life Africa's Obianuju Ekeocha. In contrast to the backward thinking of 20th-Century radical feminism, here is a Catholic woman who is thoroughly 21st-Century.  

One of President Trump's first acts in office that has so angered radicals is the cut to funding for abortion in other nations. During the years of the Obama administration, organizations like IPPF and Marie Stopes International had received millions of dollars to destigmatize abortion and spread it all around the world. Thanks be to God, this has all ended with President Trump's reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy.

Various abortion agencies are now spreading the lying propaganda message that, for example in Nigeria alone, 3,000 women will now die every year due to the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy.

Obianuju Ekeocha has countered this message at the website of Culture of Life Africa. Indeed, she has demonstrated how Trump's new policy will actually be welcomed across various African nations.

Reasons for this welcome include:-

1. The funding of abortion organizations working in Africa is a form of extreme interventionism, given that 80% of African countries are against abortion in both their national laws and the public opinion of their populaces.

2. The giving of so much money to pro-abortion giants like Marie Stopes International fortifies them in their targeting of the poorest and most vulnerable communities. ''This could otherwise be seen as modern day eugenics to ensure that only the planned, the privileged and the perfect are born into the world.''

3. Humanitarian aid given to abortion organizations is humanitarian aid not used for real humanitarian initiatives like healthcare, education, nutrition and water.

4. These organizations already receive large funding from European countries, who do not scruple to fund abortion in Africa. They also receive plentiful monies from, ''the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, the Buffet foundation, Hewlett foundation and others who have shown their vested interest in population reduction programs especially in Africa.''

5. Most of these organizations are involved in ''advocacy'' to push for the legalization of abortion in new countries, where it presently remains illegal.

Looking Beyond the Mainstream Media Narrative

In this article we have presented some information and thoughts that provide another angle on the petition to ban Trump's state visit to the UK. 

This is not to say that we have a totally unnuanced understanding of Trump as some kind of great hope for the West. There are many complex forces at play in these times. Even when we celebrated the ''blessed defeat of Hillary'' last year, we also reflected on the fact that the final choice was between Hillary and Donald was itself emblematic of the ongoing collapse of Western civilization. In any case, we are always wary of anyone who makes the above handsign so comfortably and so frequently in their regular course of communication...

Still, actions do count and President Trump has already made several very positive actions in terms of Christian prayer, support for family and pro-life issues. The present furore also seems to demonstrate that he is willing to take unpopular actions in order to ensure the protection of American culture and citizens.

Mr. Trump's first week in office has certainly sent out a wave of optimism among Christians in particular and cultural conservatives in general.

Oh, and (whoo hooo!) he is not Hillary!!!

None of which makes him popular with the ''liberal'' elites or the minions that bleat forwards the media narrative they are provided from on high...

So, whilst we might have a nuanced view of Trump, if this article gets anyone to look beyond the unthinking narrative, including the associated calls for a ban on the state visit, which they are being fed by the mainstream media, then it will have been worth writing and posting it up.

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