Viet-Justice

Tom DeLay, former Republican Majority Leader, has really outdone himself this time. He seems to believe there is a direct correlation between abortion and illegal immigration.

“I contend [abortion] affects you in immigration,” DeLay told the Washington-area gathering. “If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years, we wouldn’t need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today. Think about it.”

Let’s think about it. Rounding up the last 12 month’s worth of data there are 7M people unemployed (4.5%). A quick Google search puts the number of unlawful, undocumented border crossers at 12-15M. Those are the hard numbers. Does abortion relate to illegal immigration? I don’t think so. Assuming that the lazy 4.5% of the population would relocate to where the jobs are, we would have 5-8M unfilled jobs in this country. If you fill those 8M jobs with 40M people, I would dare say that you would have a much higher unemployment rate. To be mathematically fair, there wouldn’t be 32M unemployed people, but I doubt we would have the low unemployment and the high wages we have today. Sorry Mr. DeLay, but I don’t understand your math here.

The solution to those 5-8M unfilled jobs is legal immigration. No, I’m not talking about Mexico. I’m talking about China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, and Europe. Business week has the perfect solution to the immigration problem. First stop limiting the green cards. It should be like it was in the 1920’s. If you want to come here to work then you’re welcome. Next we set the criteria to let in the smartest and the wealthiest individuals. We need more scientific minds at work in this country. Wealthy individuals start new businesses and can hire more Americans than someone who is poor starting a business. According to the Business Week article, many people waiting for green cards are leaving in frustration because it takes too damn long to get through the system. In today’s world your opportunity to start a company and make money is limited to 3-5 years. This is due to the fact that technology moves so fast that your idea will be obsolete in a short time and because there is no manufacturing cost to technology it is probable someone else will come up with the same idea and beat you to market. If we were to import a good mix of 5M scientists and entrepreneurs that would make the economy really take off since we would be on the road to world economic domination. Then people might not mind paying extra for produce since there would be more money in their pockets.

This fatwa describes why music is unislamic. There are some entertaining moral arguments that just don’t make sense.

Music and temporary entertainments sink the human in physical pleasures and prevent him/her from true spiritual gains. In conclusion, music has a great role to play in preventing a human from realising the purpose of creation.

And for what purpose is that? In a world of freedom and self-determination the individual has his or her own purpose in life. Both Christians and Muslims need to understand that man will do as he chooses. If God didn’t want it that way then he should not have created us in his image. He should have done better.

Another harm of music is that it instills the ideologies of the Non-Muslims in the heart and mind. The messages of today’s music follow a general theme of love, fornication, drugs and freedom.

Apparently music provides confusion to Muslims and Non-Muslims suffer from many ills brought on by music. Love is a theme that must be Unislamic. I guess that must be true if you make your wives wear bags over their heads and you buy little girls into “arranged marriages”. Fornication must be evil as well since it partially goes along with love, though love is not a prerequisite. I would assume that having children must be an evil act according to the fatwa, since you technically need to fornicate to have them. Drugs (including alcohol, and nicotine) disturb the social order and cause people to do what they normally would, and forget that any peer or moral authority is watching over them. We certainly do not want to forget why God put us here, now do we? Finally freedom is a theme in music that is Unislamic. The freedom to make your own decisions does not involve submitting to God. In its most simple terms God is a slave driver who wants to stamp out all freedom. Kinda makes Satan look like a much better choice for a diety to follow.