Donald Trump is a racist, sexist, Islamophobe

OK, I said that just to make you read this.

The aim of this piece is to prove the opposite.

First, Donald Trump is a New York businessman who thinks practically, and thinks big. Trump doesn’t care whether a contestant at one of his beauty pageants is white, black, brown, or yellow. What is important to Trump is that she be beautiful. Trump doesn’t care if an electrician he hires to work on one his buildings is a man or a woman, but that they do the job he is paying them for. Trump discriminates on the basis of merit. He fully applies the principle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and does so automatically, without making a show of it. That is the New Yorker in him.

When a water pipe bursts in your house, what is the first thing you do? Turn off the water, and then call a plumber; call the plumber and wait for him to arrive; or do nothing?

Trump’s answer is to turn off the water first. Don’t let the problem get any worse before you try to fix the real, underlying issue. Why is it so hard for people to understand that stopping the problem from getting worse is the rationale behind his ban on more Muslim immigration?

The Islamic world has a problem with radicalization. Even the Muslim world admits it. A sizable plurality, if not a majority, of Muslims in the western world believe in sharia law. While they may not engage in violence themselves, Muslims in the western world do not have the concepts in their religion or otherwise in their thought processes to oppose jihad. So, why would America import the potential for more trouble when it doesn’t have to?

For the life of me, I do not understand why, after 9/11, the U.S. increased Muslim immigration. What were they thinking?

It is not Islamophobic to oppose Muslim immigration to America. One is not anti-neighbour to build a fence between your property and that of your neighbour. One is not anti-neighbour by requiring your neighbour to sleep in his own house at night, however much you might like his company during the day. So, why is Trump labelled Islamophobic when he wants to stop the growing terrorism problem in America by halting Muslim immigration, at least temporarily? He shouldn’t be labelled Islamophobic by calling for the permanent ban of Muslim immigration, especially considering the 1,400-year conflict between the Muslim and the western worlds.

Muslims divide the world into dar al Islam and dar al harb, the world of Islam and the world of war. For its first 1,400 years, Muslims were forbidden to sojourn in the land of the infidel, but, for the past 30 years, this unchanging religion is sending millions of its adherents to sojourn in the land of the infidel, dar al harb. The only way to reconcile this practice is that the dar al harb will be turned into dar al Islam by immigration. Hence, if one is concerned about the loss of western culture in the western world, then opposing Muslim immigration should be a policy favourable to your concern.

Trump is not Islamophobic by calling for a ban on Muslim immigration to America, or for “extreme vetting” as that is now formulated. Trump pays the Muslim world its due credit by taking it seriously. Progressives do not. Progressives treat Muslims like harmless children. One culture is as good as another.

Now let’s turn to Trump’s being racist and sexist. On the campaign trail, Trump has been an equalopportunity insulter. If, by discriminatory, one means that one group is disfavoured and another favoured, then Trump is neither a racist nor a sexist. He has insulted those who unfairly (in his mind) attacked him or were unfair to him -indiscriminately. He has absorbed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s principle, which calls for judgment on the basis of character and merit, not on race (or sex). Hence, Trump is neither racist nor sexist, but a meritist, which has been a western ideal since the days of John Stuart Mill. There is nothing in King’s principle that requires one to be nice and cuddly.

And, if you think that Islamophobia is racist, then you obviously wasted your years at school because Islam is a religion, not a race.

Donald Trump is not a sexist, racist, Islamophobe. He is a New York businessman with a practical turn of mind. He judges on merit, and particularly on what a person’s merit can do to advance what Donald Trump has as his goal. Trump is not an ideologue, which is why he drives ideological conservatives crazy.

You support Trump not because of his ideology, but because he is practical and wants to tackle in a practical way the problems that concern you — illegal immigration, the drug epidemic, a failing economy, American greatness, law and order, Supreme Court justices. Matters that concern those pulling the wagon, but perhaps not those riding in the wagon.