Trump's Ban on Muslims, or Islam's Garbage Problem

Well surprise, surprise.  Trump is at it again.  This time he wants to ban Muslims from entering the United States.  Anyone with half a brain should realize immediately there are two obstacles which will prevent this from happening anytime soon.  The first is the Constitutional issue.  Banning Muslims would violate the US Constitution.  The second problem is one of implementation.  How do you ban Muslims?  Passports do not state a person’s religion.  And even if they did, could we trust them?  How would we know someone is a Muslim.  You would have to enforce the ban based on countries, and not based on religion.  The problem with that is, of course, that many countries with a predominantly Muslim population also has a significant minority who are not Muslims.  Coptic Christianity in Egypt, for example, accounts for around 25% of the total population.  So the only realistic way to enforce Trump’s ban would be to ban entry from a number of countries.

Having said all this, Trumps political grand-standing resonates with the American people and it is high time the media, as well as those presently in power realize this.  Why does Trump’s call for a Muslim ban resonate?  It does so because anyone with half a brain realizes there is a problem and the American people want that problem fixed. 

Meanwhile you have John Kerry saying “ISIS is not Islam.”  That sort of statement is the height of stupidity though in fairness to Kerry, he has to say things like this because he is a diplomat.  ISIS is part of Islam and everyone knows it.  People also know that most of the present conflicts involve Muslims in some fashion.  So what exactly is going on with Islam?

The answer is really a simple one.  A religion consists of a group of people.  A large religion consists of many groups of people who hold some beliefs in common.  Take Christianity for example.  Protestants do not believe in the supremacy of the Pope while Roman Catholics do.  Orthodox Christians differ from Roman Catholics on the issue of the Filioque, something most people have never heard of.  But Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox believers, are Christians though they technically belong to different groups.  You can think of a religion as a corporation with denominations representing departments within a corporation.  Sometimes one department fights another department and that is usually not good for a company or for a religion.  My point here is that any religion is at its core, a group of people.  In fact, the word religion means a binding together of people. 

Whenever a group of people engage in anything, it is inevitable that garbage within an organization will accumulate.  The organization has two options.  They can either take out the trash themselves, or wait for someone else to do it for them.  The first option is definitely preferable because once you move to the second option, the people taking out the trash might just take you out along with it.

Take FIFA for example.  It is obvious to everyone that FIFA accumulated a great deal of garbage in the form of corrupt executives.  Instead of taking out the trash themselves, the Justice Department is now doing it for them and more and more governments around the world are joining in taking FIFA to the tip (that’s what Australians say when you take garbage to the land fill).  I’ll bet there are a number of people in FIFA who wished they had taken out the trash themselves.

The Roman Catholic Church has serious garbage in the form of paedophile priests.  Here in Australia, the Church is currently taking a hammering because of what we Americans would call a Congressional Investigation.  The Church knew about the trash piling up, but decided not to take the trash out themselves.  So now, people are doing it for them and the Church is paying for this in declining attendance and revenue.

When trash accumulates, it eventually becomes intolerable.  When I was a senior in high school, there was a garbage workers strike.  School continued for about two weeks, but with piles of garbage spilling out on to the grass and school environs in general, the state government eventually had to close all schools down until someone could take out the garbage.

So just as the Roman Catholic Church has garbage, Islam also has a serious trash problem.  When Kerry and others make silly statements like “ISIS is not Islam” they deny the truth.  ISIS is Islam or, rather, ISIS is Islam’s garbage.  ISIS is not America’s garbage.  It is not Christianity’s garbage.  It is not Buddhism’s garbage.  It is Islam’s garbage.  Muslims have two choices.  They can either take out the trash themselves, or wait until we take it out for them.  Because make no mistake, eventually, WE WILL TAKE OUT THE TRASH and when we do, we might just take a lot of other things to the land fill along with ISIS. 

Islam’s garbage problem is much worse than we think because there are a lot of Muslim’s out there who are kind of OK with what ISIS is doing.  That couple who killed all those people in San Bernardino, a place I know well because I lived there for a while, were not radicalized in Syria.  They were radicalized in Saudi Arabia.  And in many ways, Saudi Arabia is ISIS with an embassy. 

We can talk about how at one point Islam were the enlightened ones and we westerners were the barbarians and that is certainly true.  Modern mathematics, astronomy, optics, and geography came to us through Islam.  That’s just a fact.  We can also thank Muslims for being tolerant enough to accept zero from India so they could eventually pass the number zero on to us.  Where would we be without all these things?  We can also reflect on the hospital and other charitable works Muslims do.  Charity is after all, one of the pillars of Islam.  Bin Laden funded and built hospitals in Yemen.  So yes, we can say all those politically correct things about Islam and also acknowledge many of those politically correct things are true.  Just as there are hospitals and orphanages sponsored by Christian organizations, there are hospitals and orphanages sponsored by Muslim ones. 

But none of these things matter much.  The simple truth is that Islam has accumulated too much garbage and it’s time to take out the trash.  Muslims and politicians can talk about how good most Muslims are all day long, but the garbage is piling up and eventually, we’ll have to close down the schools.  Anyone with half a brain can see the garbage is piling up.  Time is running out for Muslims.  If they do not want to suffer reprisals, they need to take out the garbage themselves.  Otherwise, we will.

There’s a joke about different parts of the body fighting over who is the most important.  The brain and heart make good cases.  But in the end, the anus wins because it decides to go on strike and eventually, the rest of the body can’t take it anymore. 

Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the country may not be practical, but Trump is one of the few powerful people with the balls to publically acknowledge Islam’s garbage problem.  Earth to the Republican Party.  It’s about time you did too.  Trump resonates because he is trying to address a real problem and a real issue.  He has correctly identified the problem and isn’t afraid to articulate it.  He doesn’t allow political correctness to get in the way of expressing what anyone with half a brain realizes.  I may not agree with Trump’s solution – and I admit I don’t know if he has any details of how he would implement it – but I do not believe he is crazy.  Rather, I believe he understands there is a problem.  He acknowledges the problem, and he is trying to solve the problem.  Maybe that is why he is so successful at business.  Good executives do those three things: they understand that garbage exists., they acknowledge that garbage exists, and they take out the trash. 

Wake up politicians.  It’s time to take out Islam’s garbage.  It’s not a question of whether Islam needs to change, or whether we should take steps against Islam.  Rather, it’s a much simpler question.  Who will take out the garbage because someone will eventually.  It’s the way of nature.  It is time for Islam to realize that shit happens and you just have to flush the toilet.  It’s that simple.