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Post by Joanna on Mar 4, 2017 22:10:13 GMT -5
One of Rowling's several mansions. Hypocrite J.K. Rowling Supports Muslim Refugees, Takes in None! While not quite a Hogwarts bestseller, it’s a significant achievement nonetheless. A petition calling for ultra-liberal Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling to take in Muslim refugees in her 18 spare bedrooms has more than 50,000 signatures.
Rowling has, in recent weeks, become an increasingly hardline liberal voice on Twitter, calling Trump supporters “lonely virgins” and despairing of the President’s Executive Orders. This extends to frequent declarations of support for Muslim Refugees. All this was noted by a petitioner calling himself Marcus Aurelius who set up a Change.org petition for “J.K. Rowling to take in Muslim refugees in her 18 spare bedrooms.” Rowling is the world’s richest writer with a fortune estimated at just under $1 billion. She owns a lavish mansion in Edinburgh replete with an equestrian center and two residential homes for staff. The petition declared:
“J.K. Rowling has often announced her solidarity with Middle-Eastern refugees on Twitter. She is a well-known advocate of open borders and often stated, that Europe has the duty to give every single one of these refugees from all over the middle east – rarely war zones – asylum and welfare….
“We demand that J.K. Rowling grants no less than 18 refugees shelter in her mansions for at least 8 years. She rejects safe immigration, which is why we also demand, that there will be no additional vetting process for these refugees. Her virtue-signaling stems from ignorance, and the 100% effective cure of it will be this drastic change of perspective. “To make this group of refugees representative of the situation in Europe, we also demand that the group consists of 14 men and 4 women, since over 75% of the millions of refugees are male.”
Does anyone believe Rowling – or any other celebrity criticizing others for opposing bringing in thousands of Muslim refugees – will open her home to any of these people? Don’t hold your breath!Source: Tom Teodorczuk, HeatStreet, March 1, 2017.
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Post by jason on Mar 4, 2017 23:36:45 GMT -5
I'm proud to say that I've never read any of her ridiculous books or seen any of those silly movies. There's something wrong with adults who read kiddie books.
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Post by pat on Mar 6, 2017 2:45:56 GMT -5
There are a lot of celebrities like George Clooney, Kim Kardashian, Bruce Springsteen, Julia Louis-Drefus and many others who support bringing in Muslim refugees, but I haven't heard of any who have offered to open any of their mansions to them. I hate hypocrites.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Mar 8, 2017 20:10:45 GMT -5
In my opinion, supporting them to be allowed asylum in your country is very different than allowing them into your own home. I wouldn't allow any stranger, regardless of race color or creed, into my home. If I had money, I would instead contribute and support temporary housing for them if need be.
You have to have wisdom with compassion. Having compassion doesn't mean being stupid or throwing all caution to the wind. There are ways to be compassionate without putting yourself in harms way. It is simply not smart to allow anyone you don't know into your home.
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Post by madeline on Mar 9, 2017 2:13:40 GMT -5
In my opinion, supporting them to be allowed asylum in your country is very different than allowing them into your own home. I wouldn't allow any stranger, regardless of race color or creed, into my home. If I had money, I would instead contribute and support temporary housing for them if need be. You have to have wisdom with compassion. Having compassion doesn't mean being stupid or throwing all caution to the wind. There are ways to be compassionate without putting yourself in harms way. It is simply not smart to allow anyone you don't know into your home. Do you want Muslims, people who have vowed to kills us, taking over the United States? Charity should begin at home and if you want to contribute, there are plenty of people born here in the US who need help, such as some of the children in Appalachia who don't even have enough to eat.
When we went to England on our group trip, we heard white people in pubs complaining about being on waiting lists for housing, while Muslims were getting 5-bedroom flats free of charge as soon as they arrived in the country because they had such huge families. Just the other day, I read in the news about a white British woman and her children living in a tent in a cemetery because she couldn't get housing. How can a country where people are living in cemeteries take in refugees?
You're missing the point about J.K. Rowling. She has several large houses and enough money that she could allow them to live in the houses where she isn't in residence at the time, so she wouldn't be putting herself in harm's way. People shouldn't expect their government to do anything that they aren't willing to do themselves.
Thank God we have now have President Trump in the White House and he's trying to put a stop to this insanity in our country.
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Post by jane on Mar 9, 2017 4:08:48 GMT -5
I despise these damned celebrities who support every liberal cause that comes along while doing nothing themselves. There are homeless veterans all over the United States. People who want to help someone should help those men and women who served their country rather than a bunch of Muslim intruders. They hate everyone who isn't Muslim, they breed like roaches, and their intention is to turn the U.S. into a Muslim state. President Trump will prevent that as long as he's in office and, hopefully, by the time the Democrats take over again, I'll be dead.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Mar 9, 2017 12:46:19 GMT -5
I agree that we need to help the homeless and needy in this country, and I do support programs to that end. I think with the amount of wealth in this country, if we all worked together, we could have it so every person has at least basic health care, shelter and food. I'm not saying those should be luxury accommodations, but at least the basics for survival. We do not have to pick and choose, we can accept refugees AND help our homeless.
I personally do not have a problem with allowing muslim refugees into the country. In my home..no, but I do not not believe in turning our backs on fellow humans running for their lives. Closing our doors to refugees is not going to keep us any safer. Terrorists are already here, and they come in all races and religions.
I am however for strict vetting and background checks for refuges. If they are a criminal, then no entry. I am not saying we should just open the flood gates.
As for JK Rowling and other celebs, perhaps if there was no other way but to put people up in their homes, they would do so. Rowling and other philanthropic celebrities do their part. They may not always contribute to the causes that we personally wish they would, but they contribute to society. Rowling for instance donates alot to the field of medical research.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Mar 9, 2017 12:48:52 GMT -5
I do wonder if it is feasible to have refugees come here. I often think it would be far less expensive to contribute monetarily to keep them in European countries. I am for looking into all other options before we bring them here.
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Post by jason on Mar 9, 2017 18:59:36 GMT -5
I do wonder if it is feasible to have refugees come here. I often think it would be far less expensive to contribute monetarily to keep them in European countries. I am for looking into all other options before we bring them here. Wipe the stardust out of your eyes, April. These parasites aren't from European countries, they're from the Middle East and Africa. Do you approve of men beating their wives, treating them like personal property, raping them just because they aren't covered from head-to-toe, and honor killings? If you want to help Muslims, either here or in their own countries, you do. Did you know that right now, there are honor killings in the UK and in one case, a Muslim killed a white British girl he was dating? Muslims are our sworn enemies.
www.thedebrief.co.uk/news/politics/uk-honour-killings-20160964920
Honor killings also occur in the US and the more Muslims enter our country, the more there will be. Here's an article from back in 2015 (that's before Trump became president) that estimates there are already an estimated 27 honor killings in the US each year.
www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/10/honor-killing-in-us-justice-department-mulls-guidelines-as-grim-toll-rises.html
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Post by aprillynn93 on Mar 10, 2017 12:43:08 GMT -5
"These parasites aren't from European countries, they're from the Middle East and Africa."
I know they are from the Middles East, but the Middle East is alot closer to Europe than we are. It seems it should be alot more cost effective to keep them there.
"Do you approve of men beating their wives, treating them like personal property, raping them just because they aren't covered from head-to-toe, and honor killings?"
Absolutely not. If any refugees commit spousal abuse, rape or murder, then they should be prosecuted the same as a US citizen. There are few US states that do not see marital rape as a crime. That should be changed. But it is the same for US citizens. Muslims aren't getting away with it in those states just because they are muslim.
I think the fear of muslim refugees is irrational. The numbers of heinous crimes committed by refugees just do not warrant the fear. It's only the extremists that are the problem.
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Post by jane on Mar 10, 2017 17:47:29 GMT -5
"These parasites aren't from European countries, they're from the Middle East and Africa." I know they are from the Middles East, but the Middle East is alot closer to Europe than we are. It seems it should be alot more cost effective to keep them there. "Do you approve of men beating their wives, treating them like personal property, raping them just because they aren't covered from head-to-toe, and honor killings?" Absolutely not. If any refugees commit spousal abuse, rape or murder, then they should be prosecuted the same as a US citizen. There are few US states that do not see marital rape as a crime. That should be changed. But it is the same for US citizens. Muslims aren't getting away with it in those states just because they are muslim. I think the fear of muslim refugees is irrational. The numbers of heinous crimes committed by refugees just do not warrant the fear. It's only the extremists that are the problem. Have you ever spent any time in a Muslim country? I worked in the archaeology field and spent weeks at a time in different countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. I loved what I was doing, but there was nothing I dreaded more than the times we were in Muslim countries. Muslims aren't like us. They have no respect for anyone who isn't Muslim. People of other nationalities and religions can go to another country and assimilate. Muslims don't want to assimilate. They go to another country and try to turn that county into the one they left. I have a friend from Michigan and when she went up there to visit her family, they drove through some Muslim neighborhoods and she said that her grandson, who had served in the Army in Afghanistan, said that driving through those neighborhoods was like driving through Kabal. The fear of Muslims isn't irrational and those who think so are very naïve.
You probably weren't even born in 1956 when Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union said "We will bury you," though some now say that he was misquoted. But I remember it and Americans were terrified. They built bomb shelters, had nuclear attack drills and there were military facilities all over the country monitoring every move of the Soviet Union. It was called the cold war. The U.S. may have overeacted because Russia is a civilized country, but because we prepared for the worst, nothing ever happened. The Muslims have made a lot worse threats than what Khrushchev said and they have launched attacks on our country including the 9-11 attacks, which killed 3,000 people. But instead of preparing for the worst, we have opened the U.S. to Muslim refugees to make it easier for them. We have turned ourselves into sitting ducks. If someone doesn't put a stop to this insanity, there will be attacks against the United States worse than anything that we can imagine and like I said before, I hope that I'm not here to see it.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Mar 10, 2017 20:53:49 GMT -5
I certainly can imagine it must be awful in some areas of the Middle East, especially for American military and tourists. I definitely would not visit there. Regardless, I still have compassion for Muslim refugees. The refugees are not the people to fear. It's the Islamic extremists that are the problem.
I have friends that are Muslim. They are good people. Yes, I know that some are not, but again, I do not believe that the numbers warrant the fear. I do agree we should be cautious with who we allow into the country.
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Post by catherine on Mar 10, 2017 20:55:15 GMT -5
Jane, Maddie and Jason: For God's sake, why are you wasting your time trying to reason with a liberal progressive? If they had the ability to reason, they wouldn't be liberal progressives. Have you forgotten that she voted for Hillary?
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Post by aprillynn93 on Mar 12, 2017 18:19:29 GMT -5
I honestly appreciate everyone sharing their opinions with me, whether I agree with them entirely or not.
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Post by steve on Mar 12, 2017 21:27:10 GMT -5
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