An Open Letter to Mr. Khizr Khan

[Arctic55]

Dear Mr. Khan,

I, like millions of Americans saw your speech at the DNC on Thursday night.

I wish to offer my sympathy for the death of your son, Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in action in Iraq.

As a former US Army officer, and a veteran of the Gulf War, I can certainly understand the pain and anguish that you and your wife endure every day.

Your son died saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. As Jesus told his disciples, according to the Gospel of John, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

 

Captain Khan is a hero. I am sure the soldiers he served with regard him as one. I know you and your wife do. Rest assured that millions of veterans regard your son as a hero as well.

To paraphrase from the Book of Ecclesiasticus, your son’s name liveth for evermore.

Your son made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, a country that was new to you and your family and one which you openly embraced and certainly love.

When you and your family arrived to America from Pakistan, you assimilated into our country. You adopted American ways, learned our history and apparently you even acquired a pocket Constitution along the way. Good for you sir.

But, there are many Muslims in America who not only have no desire to assimilate, but wish to live under Sharia Law.

That is unacceptable to Americans. There is only one law of the land. That is the U.S. Constitution.

As you well know, Mr. Khan, we live in violent times, dangerous times. Muslim madmen from ISIS and other radical Jihadi groups are on a murder and terror spree across the globe.

Your religion of peace, Islam, is anything but that in 2016. That is a fact that is confirmed every time a Muslim shoots, bombs, beheads and tortures innocent men, women and children. This does not mean that every Muslim is a terrorist, but most terrorists, sir, are indeed Muslims.

A Muslim terrorist attack has become the sign of the times.

Regardless of what the feckless, naïve, leftist ideologue Barack Obama and his dimwitted colleagues John Kerry, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel state, the United States and the West are at war with Radical Islam. It is the job of the president of the United States to protect his nation from all enemies; foreign and domestic. Unfortunately, Mr. Obama romanticizes Islam and refuses to accept reality, which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people across the world.

Groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda have one goal, the complete destruction of the Judeo-Christian culture, our religions and our way of life.

Many Americans have families that have been here for decades, even centuries. Many families like mine have relatives who fought in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm. Some families have relatives who fought in the American Revolution.

We don’t plan on letting our country be devoured by Muslim maniacs. We are Americans sir, and not unarmed, socialist European zombies. We will do what is necessary to protect the United States. While many Democrats and liberals see the world through rose colored glasses, conservatives understand that there is good and evil in this world. Evil must be destroyed before it destroys us.

Strong measures, wartime measures, must be taken to protect this country from those that wish to annihilate us and our way of life.

Mr. Trump’s plan to temporarily halt immigration from Muslim countries that are known to either support terrorism or harbor terrorist groups is not only pragmatic, but indeed it is constitutional. It is the constitutional duty of the president of the United States to protect this nation.

There is simply no way to vet hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees from war zones like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Europe is being destroyed because reckless leaders like Angela Merkel have opened the continent’s doors to a flood of over one million undocumented Muslims arriving with nothing more than a bad attitude and a haversack of Jihad.

Do you think Americans are stupid? While the left lives in a dream world, the right does not. Mr. Trump understands the threat to his nation and the threat, sir, is not from Swedish Lutherans named Anna and Lars. The threat, sir, is from radical Islam.

How in God’s name are U.S. immigration authorities supposed to know the true intentions of a 22-year-old Syrian man? It is impossible. You know it is impossible.

How in God’s name are U.S. immigration authorities supposed to know the true intentions of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and thousands of other sundry Muslims who wish to arrive on our shores?

It is impossible. You know it is impossible.

Whether you, your wife, the Muslim world and millions of Democrats are offended by Mr. Trump’s realistic view of the world is irrelevant.

Whether you, your wife and son would have been prohibited from emigrating from Pakistan to America under Mr. Trump’s wartime plan is irrelevant. The security of this great land supersedes your desires and the desires of others who wish to come here now. The United States of America has no obligation to open its doors in order to placate foreigners and liberals in our government.

To adopt any other course but Mr. Trump’s would be a cause for further endangering the lives of Americans every day. That, sir, is unacceptable.

You attacked Mr. Trump in front of a worldwide audience, yet you can’t understand the fact that he defends himself against attacks from you, Hillary Clinton and the left. What else is one to do sir?

We must live in a world of reality, not a world of denial, delusion and fantasy the Democrats inhabit every waking day of their lives.

Radical Islam is the enemy of everyone on this planet who believes in freedom and justice. Until it is destroyed, this nation must protect itself from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Sincerely,

Ray Starmann

Ray Starmann is the founder of US Defense Watch. He is a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer and veteran of the Gulf War, where he served with the 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3rd Armored Division “Spearhead!” Mr. Starmann was a contributing writer for several years at SFTT.org, founded by the late Colonel David Hackworth.

 

Original Source: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/08/01/open-letter-to-mr-khizr-khan.html

Note: Probably posted in the wrong place, feel free to move it.

 

[spoiler=Interesting Comments]

"Interesting that the most prominent point of this entire story has not yet been spoken: Captain Humayun Khan was killed by MUSLIMS." - jrzydcar

 

"Too many people are calling Cpt Kahn a hero - not everyone that dies for our country is a 'hero'. They deserve our respect -

Kahn was killed by a car bomb and had ordered subordinates at the post away from the car - sounds like the Cpt should have instructed the guard post to open fire on the car before it got to close.

And I say that as a 3rd generation veteran." - miresident

 

 

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

Thanks, but already posted this a few hours back on the Election Thread

[Arctic55]

Thanks, but already posted this a few hours back on the Election Thread

dammit, u beat me to it.  XD

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

dammit, u beat me to it.  XD

 

It's just MSM spinning sheet mate...we're gonna have a couple of months of the MSM give one sided BS till Trump cleans the hole out

[vla1ne]

not sure if it fits into debates without a starting narrative(a point you want to make from this, i know, it makes it's own point, but adding one of your own will allow you to acoid the criticism of simply posting something with no input or impetus for discussion). i tend to stay away from the election thread though, so i can at least say i'd probably never have seen it otherwise.

 

as for the letter itself. it's not wrong. sharia law and constitutional law are pretty much incompatible.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

To be fair, this was originally posted in the General section, but one of my colleagues decided to move it here. Like you, I tend to avoid the election thread because things have devolved into a mess, so haven't really seen it either (or really, this section in general). 

 

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But yeah, they aren't wrong about radicals wanting to live under Sharia law, which clashes with the values America stands on. While I technically agree with Trump that we need to do something about them, lest we get another terrorist attack in this country (and yeah, the cause of a majority of the terror attacks here and abroad in recent weeks are radicalized Muslims with their own interpretations of the Qur'an), is a full-on ban going to accomplish that outside of racial profiling?

 

Yeah, we cannot tell what immigrants are going to do when they arrive; do they truly wish to become American and settle peacefully, or are they coming in here to launch attacks on the populace, but the same can be said about people who are already here; outside of watch lists, how can we tell that someone's not becoming radicalized and plotting an attack right now?

 

I won't say why Mr. Khan's wife didn't speak up during the DNC (other than not wishing to involve her deceased son in a political firestorm), but we know Trump raised a point about it today (or earlier on). I don't disagree with Trump's point that things need to be done to stop terrorism in this country, but given said comments, it also appears he's ignorant about Islam as a whole and just speculating on why only Mr. Khan spoke. (I'll leave it at that, since I'm no expert in the religion myself.)

 

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Not saying that I support Trump's plan, but something needs to be done about terrorists otherwise.