Notes on Prayer Rugs
By Todd Bensman on January 21, 2019
Last week, another firefight broke out over migration from Islamic countries to the U.S. southern border. This one was over President Trump's rather casual Twitter observation that, sort of interestingly, a media report said prayer rugs were found on the Mexico-New Mexico border. He obviously saw this report as a small, handy reminder of his mantra that border security is also national security.
The president's opponents lost their minds. Many of them saw the thing about prayer rugs as "trace evidence" of an as-yet-unproven suspected phenomenon or presence, like when hunters find the tracks of prey they hadn't previously known inhabited the area.
This was a silly, needless discussion that proves only one thing: the extent to which the American people, the media, and elected leaders remain ignorant about migration from Islamic countries despite overwhelming, prevalent, documented evidence to the contrary that has been in the public realm for at least a dozen years.
But still, for reasons unknowable, it just won't permeate.
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