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Unvetted Muslim refugees not welcome in America

In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 photo, Syrian refugee children play at a temporary refugee camp in Irbil, northern Iraq. Some 240,000 refugees who fled the fighting in Syria now live in Iraq. Their children are neither citizens of Syria, their families’ country of origin, or of Iraq, the country where they now live.
In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 photo, Syrian refugee children play at a temporary refugee camp in Irbil, northern Iraq. Some 240,000 refugees who fled the fighting in Syria now live in Iraq. Their children are neither citizens of Syria, their families’ country of origin, or of Iraq, the country where they now live. Seivan M.Salim AP

In support of the administration's decision to take in an "initial" 10,000 unvetted Muslim refugees (no records exist), the left has pulled out all stops in criticizing anyone who has well-founded reservations. Real Americans should be fed up with the antics of the left and their Alinsky-style smear attacks on anyone and anything that exists outside of their fascist philosophy.

Many thousands of surviving relatives, sons and daughters, wives and husbands and friends of the murdered and maimed are more qualified to render a moral opinion since "they" will always carry the heartfelt loss of their loved ones murdered on American soil as well as abroad.

We remember the Feb. 26, 1993, Twin Towers bombing: six killed, 1,040 injured. We remember the Sept. 11, 2001 Twin Towers airliner attacks, the Pentagon bombing and the plane that was brought down by the best that America has to offer before it could crash into the Capitol in D.C. The total loss of life caused by 19 fanatical Muslims was 3,000.

We remember the Boston bombing by Muslim fanatics that killed three and left 260 maimed. We remember the shooting at Fort Hood perpetrated by a fanatical Muslim who killed 13 and left 38 wounded or maimed. After a fight, Purple Hearts were awarded but astonishingly no benefits were awarded to the victims (which is inexcusable outrageous and unAmerican)!

Unimaginably, there are incidents of young Muslim immigrants growing up in America who have killed Americans on our own soil.

Who is going to support the refugees and when will their husbands be joining them! One wonders why Muslims would want to immigrate to the lands of Satan, or seek refuge and protection among infidels. Perhaps it is because infidels don't kill them, only their Muslim brothers do.

Wake up, America, terrorism "is" here!"

Patrick Neylan

Bradenton

This story was originally published December 3, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Unvetted Muslim refugees not welcome in America ."

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