Published by El Nuevo Herald on June 20, 2016
After the criminal terrorist attack in the city of Orlando by an lunatic extremist on the morning of June 12, 2016, the candidate Donald Trump said that both, President Obama and the candidate Hillary Clinton, should resign because they did not use in their speeches the term " radical Islam ".
After the worst terrorist attack in US history, known as 9/11, President Bush neither used such a term and no one dared to ask for his resignation to such a dramatic situation.
Apparently, Donald Trump did not mind the suffering of the families of 50 dead and many wounded, and decided to make dirty politics instead of uniting American sentiment to this tragedy. That's what a president should do rather just the opposite, that is, seek to divide the population, something that apparently is usual in Trump.
Indeed, Trump says that every year 100,000 people come to the United States from the Middle East. With this he pretends to terrorize the population, because if we estimate that only 1% of them are terrorists, then we have every year 1000 new criminals capable of committing mass attacks.
Omar Mateen, self-proclaimed fighter of the Islamic State, entered into a gay club that day, armed with an AR-15 rifle and a pistol, killed 49 people and wounded 53. Hence it follows, once again, that tight control in arms sales it is essential because the same type of rifle, incredibly, was previously used in five multiple killings.
Sometimes it happens that one man can unleash a world war, as happened on June 28, 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, 19 years old, murdered in Sarajevo the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This caused the Empire, along with Germany, declared war on Serbia and its allies in what was later renamed as the First World War.
Currently Trump proposes to ban entry of Muslims to the United States as the great solution to domestic terrorism. Of course, this has its problems:
▪ Christians and Jews could suffer the consequences; that is, retaliation could limit or restrict entry or transit through the Muslim world.
▪ In those extremist Muslim civilizations, Christians and Jews would be persecuted and decimated more than they are today.
▪ This treatment may be rejected by the US allies Muslim countries that could become hostile.We are talking about 1,620 million Muslims.
In this century where we live in, with so much technology and nuclear weapons, conventional war could be the end of humanity as we know it.
Everything previously written, and even the accurate predictions of Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus), who predicted that the Third World War would originate in the Middle East, leads to the following conclusion: the proposal by Trump is not only meaningless, but it is also irresponsibly dangerous.
Benjamin F. DeYurre
Economist and journalist.
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