THW Temporarily Ban Muslim Immigration

Response to refutations: You have said that the majority of Islamic terrorist attacks are American citizens. This is true, I will completely concede that. However what you failed to mention is that 72% of American muslims are immigrants or second generation immigrants.(1) Thus although a large portion of the Islamic terrorists are American citizens, they still came here as a result of recent immigration, hence the problem still stands. You have also stated that less than 9% of terrorism would be stopped if a muslim ban were put in place. This sounds like a large number of lives saved to me. In addition you have appeared to challenge that Islamic principles are in conflict with Western values. You then mention Christianity when it comes to homophobia. Can you please name a country with majority Christian where homosexuality is currently punishable with the death penalty? Then name a few Islamic countries where it is punishable with death. I shall name a few to get you started, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Sudan. (2) Islamic countries have a considerably worse view on homosexuality than any Christian country. So please hold your tongue when pretending Christianity is even half as bad as Islam when it comes to homophobia. Refutations:You have stated that banning Muslims is wrong because it is discrimination. I take it you are unfamiliar with the US's immigration policy during the second world war following pearl harbour. Following pearl harbour, the US implemented a very strict immigration policy that required checks and severe living, mobility, and item ownership limitations to prevent the threat of sabotage and spy infiltration. What is so different now? Yes a complete ban is one step further, but all Italian, German, and Japanese citizens faced this 'discrimination'. Argubaly it was justifiable at the time, but were all of the immigrants spies? 600,000 Italian immigrants and 200,000 German ones? (3) Of course not. But measures had to be put in place against entire nationalities in defence of US citizens. Arguably being restricted solely because of where you were born is far less justified than a belief in a religion that conisisently churns out homophobia, sexism, and a hatred for free speech. The US was at war then, and it is at war now.As for why muslims join ISIS, your source states that 'at least 250 American... have left their home countries (US) to join radical jihadist groups'. This is an extremely small number of people, and considering most American Muslims are very happy with their lives due to excellent assimilation, this is not happening because muslims feel let down by the US. Moderate muslims do not join radical groups full stop. It is instead muslims that have been raised being taught vicious lies in mosques often funded by Saudi Arabia. Your argument of feeling let down may apply in European muslim ghettos, but certainly not the US. (4) Bearing in mind that my first source also claims that many muslims are converted in prisons, with 80% of those finding faith in prisons converting to Islam, it isn't necessarily Islamic oppression that is breeding extremism, but rather simply an ineffective prison system. Main Point: By placing a temporary ban on muslims entering the US, we can reduce the number of Islamic attacks. Many of the attacks come from home grown extremism, which can be focussed on more carefully when we have less pressure from those coming from abroad. If we realise that Islam is to blam for extremism, we can thus focus on mosques and preachers which spread hatred of the west and intolerance, rather than blame ourselves for the actions of radicalised crazies. https://en.wikipedia.org... http://www.bbc.co.uk... http://www.gilderlehrman.org... https://www.bostonglobe.com...