Tom Toles for November 19, 2015

Do what Austria did: put up signs saying “Germany, that way!”

“Give us your energetic, your well-fed, your rich, your dispersed few yearning to trickle down”

Only half of us.

It’s that overdeveloped amygdala..

And those who would deny refugees entry are probably proclaiming themselves the biggest Christians too.

Love it! Toles has to be the best political cartoonist ever.

A little boy will be a man in 10 years. At that time, do you want him to see America as the country that helped his family when they needed it desperately, or do you want him to remember that Americans hated him and his religion so much that they feared a small child? And, which action do you feel is more likely to turn that little boy into a terrorist?

Five Syrians arrested with fake passports trying to get into the U.S. Maybe Obama can get them in.

Honestly, I’m heartsick for all the hatred exhibited by my fellow Countrymen. Ours is not the same idyllic Country where I grew up in post-war America. People who claim to follow .. who claim to believe, possibly, the most loving Man ever to grace our planet have taken to hate in His name. What has become of us ?

There are two groups. One yearns for peace, progress, and respect for the words of Jesus, the other for war, hate, and suppression of other religions. In the first are real Christians and real Muslims; in the other are most Republicans and all of ISIS. Professed religion is not the difference, religious action is.

bho has rewritten plaque to say " give us your terrorist yearning to kill "

@ChevJames007

So I guess Hate is what makes America great!

I think that Dzhokhar was framed. He had to say he did it under much duress.We are so fearful and xenophobic, like don’t even want peaceful Mexicans here, that it’s surprising if the whole world hates us.Put that in perspective .

One of the most significant differences between the European and US immigrant communities has been that in the US, they tend to think of themselves as Americans first, then as Irish/Italians/Russians/Jews/Muslims/Indians/Chinese etc. For reasons both cultural and geographic, new citizens assimilate more readily into US society then they do in Europe. That plus our relative physical isolation from the rest of the world – you have to cross an ocean to get here from anywhere else – has tended to keep us relatively safe. It would be ironic if we were to give up one of the major factors protecting us from the kind of “home-grown” terrorism plaguing Europe, only to increase the number of terrorist acts committed here.Some of the most shameful episodes in our history have been anti-immigrant in nature. The internment and disenfranchisement of Japanese-Americans during WW II, the turning away of the St. Louis, filled with Jewish refugees from Nazi terror who were forced back to Germany to be killed, the open discrimination directed toward the Irish, the Italians, the Jews, Hispanics, the Chinese and pretty much every other variety of immigrant community that was not Anglo-Saxon in origin. Yet we refuse to learn the lessons of our own history. Consider, each of you, your own family history. There’s an excellent chance that your ancestors, when they first arrived, were mis-characterized as violent, lazy, dishonest, greedy, untrustworthy, disloyal, cowardly, mean, lecherous, or avaricious, and most likely some combination of those. Ask your eldest relatives, especially if they are 1st generation Americans, whether and what type of discrimination they encountered when they first arrived. Then consider whether or not you want to perpetuate that pattern or end it.

AgentSmith101The two have separate histories, but one result. Anti-Jewish hate goes back at least to medieval times, ritualized by the Roman Catholic church in the “Christ-killers” doctrine which has been repudiated only in my lifetime. During the WW-II occupation, there were as many hunting Jews to hand over as their were FFI fighting to get rid of the Nazis. Indeed, the only areas of French control was Corsica (sorta, they resent any outsiders) and the Protestant region of the Massif Central (see Louis Malle’s Au Revoir, les Enfants)..The Muslim immigration is much more recent, mainly after 1960, from newly independent colonies in North Africa. Since the French insisted these were always French, they could not restrict their moving from France to France, even though they had been fighting for independence at least since the Riff Wars of the 1920s.

It has sadly been many years now that the last line of our National Anthem was viable or true. There remain a few, but sadly outnumbered by chickenhaws, and cowards, afraid of their own shadows, let alone, any potential invader like two families from Syria seeking assylum with their four kids.