My theory on all this recent Xenophobia

[NuclearEnergy]

Perhaps this is a subconscious effort on Evangelical Christians to fight off another religion in which they feel that is a threat to their religion. Threat as in becoming larger than Christianity. After all, Islam is going to surpass Christianity in the coming years. This is also a theory that has been explored when it comes to race relations in America. Whites feel that they are losing the power, and want to do whatever they possibly can to remain in power. Now add White-Christians into this mix.

[John V]

Or perhaps it's a conscious effort to keep terrorists out of our country by people who don't want to see loved ones blown up, or run over, or stabbed, or shot.

[Chad32]

That's propaganda. we have more to fear from locally grown terrorists, than anything coming from the middle east. It is obvious that christianity and islam is in major conflict, and part of it is likely seeing islam spread so quickly.

[NuclearEnergy]

Or perhaps it's a conscious effort to keep terrorists out of our country by people who don't want to see loved ones blown up, or run over, or stabbed, or shot.

The key here is Xenophobia, not terrorism

[Mister Agenda]

Or perhaps it's a conscious effort to keep terrorists out of our country by people who don't want to see loved ones blown up, or run over, or stabbed, or shot.

The USA is the wrong country for those people. They can go to nearly any other first world country to be at less risk of those things.

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Perhaps this is a subconscious effort on Evangelical Christians to fight off another religion in which they feel that is a threat to their religion. Threat as in becoming larger than Christianity. After all, Islam is going to surpass Christianity in the coming years. This is also a theory that has been explored when it comes to race relations in America. Whites feel that they are losing the power, and want to do whatever they possibly can to remain in power. Now add White-Christians into this mix.

Islam may become a majority religion globally 'if this goes on ™', but not in the USA. If this is the root of their fear, it's an irrational one. Even extrapolating out a hundred years, it doesn't happen in the USA. And extrapolating further than a hundred years is very dicey. When it comes to social trends, sooner or later 'this stops going on'.

[The Grand Nudger]

IKR?  Kind of a rough and tumble place. Here, some bad stuff happens because we wait for a person to commit a crime before placing guilt or consequence upon them.  



I suppose we could ban all the people with explosives, cars, knives..or guns...to stop people being blown up, run over, stabbed, or shot...but we don't. In fact, it's just one group of people that some of us want to ban. Golly gee, what could explain that?

The happy upshot to our recent xenophobia and bigotry, is that it shows that even the xenophobic boigots are self aware and self concious enough to argue that they are not that thing. Looks like PC culture is working, to me. Those who seem to have no shame have found it, and trail off mumbling about terrorists.

[drfuzzy]

[Crunchy]

Or perhaps it's a conscious effort to keep terrorists out of our country by people who don't want to see loved ones blown up, or run over, or stabbed, or shot.

The key here is Xenophobia, not terrorism

In that case you should realize that the most xenophobic nations are Islamic. 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...e-you.html

When you see a crime against Muslims anywhere in the western world just multiply that by 1000 for the crimes against infidels carried out by Muslims in Islamic nations.
From this story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-jame...02644.html

Over the past year, I have written of the intolerance that Christians have shown to Muslims in the U.S. From Missouri to Murphreesboro, Christians have demonstrated both a lack of charity and a denial of the right to religious liberty by setting fire to old mosques and opposing new ones. But Christians in the U.S. are rank amateurs compared to the Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East.

In 1990, there were over 1.2 million Christians in Iraq but by the end of 2003, there were fewer than 500,000; in 2013, there are fewer than 200,000 Iraqi Christians.

 Islam is xenophobia personified.

[Aroura]

Some people in the west are in a hurry to mirror those theocratic xenophibic tendancies, though.

[Minimalist]

Or perhaps it's a conscious effort to keep terrorists out of our country by people who don't want to see loved ones blown up, or run over, or stabbed, or shot.

Nah.... just a douchebag nazi fucktard of a president who doesn't know his ass from his elbow.