“Since the Bush 41 administration, the State Department has also been running a ‘Diversity Visa\u2019 program, the very purpose of which is to promote immigration from countries whose citizens resist coming to the United States<\/a>.”<\/p>\n In other words, we have a program that\u2019s designed to get people who don\u2019t want to come here to come here. What is the purpose of this? This is a direct assault on our culture. When we have a Diversity Visa Program that seeks to get people from foreign countries who do not want to come here, which means they have no interest in assimilating, then what you end up with is cultural disintegration. It is a harebrained scheme, and it was concocted by Ted Kennedy.<\/p>\n Now, everybody\u2019s blaming Schumer, and he\u2019s got plenty of blame to bear in this. But the idea was Ted Kennedy\u2019s because of the Irish. The Irish were purportedly “underrepresented in our gorgeous mosaic of a country.” So now “fully one-third of the annual diversity visa lottery winners –” and that\u2019s exactly what it is, it\u2019s a lottery “– now come from Islamic countries, which means that the program has become a disproportionately important immigration vehicle for Muslims.”<\/p>\n Now, one of the areas of focus so far with people talking about the Trump travel ban and how Trump could say “See, I told you so, and all these judges have shut it down, but this is exactly the kind of extreme vetting that I\u2019ve been talking about.” Trump can say that if he wants. I mean, he\u2019s not much of a see, I told you so guy. (laughing) Joking.<\/p>\n But we\u2019re vetting for the wrong thing here, folks. If we\u2019re vetting for ISIS, if we\u2019re vetting for Islamic jihadists, if we\u2019re vetting for all of these things, that\u2019s the symptom of what\u2019s wrong. That\u2019s not getting to the problem. If we\u2019re gonna be serious — and so far, it doesn\u2019t appear that we are. None of this makes any sense. This program doesn\u2019t make any sense, immigration policy vis-a-vis radical Islam doesn\u2019t make any sense whatsoever.<\/p>\n So to talk about it in a rational way feels, frankly, a little stupid because the immigration policies that we have regarding militant Islam are themselves deficient. What we need to be vetting for is Sharia law supremacists. It is Sharia law supremacy that produces ISIS or that creates ISIS or Al-Qaeda or any of the other terror organizations that are linked to radical Islam. And that\u2019s what needs to be screened. That\u2019s what needs to be vetted. If you simply try to vet somebody that\u2019s got sympathies or ties to ISIS, I mean, it\u2019s effective in one way, but it doesn\u2019t get anywhere near the root of the problem.<\/p>\n But here\u2019s the bottom line. Thanks to programs like this, another million or so Muslims reside in the United States. It\u2019s impossible to say for sure what the precise number is because Homeland Security keeps track only of immigrant entries to the U.S., not whether these aliens leave or, once here, adhere to their stated purpose. Once they get in basically the monitoring stops. Now, these aliens are not American Muslims. This is the key. This is the thing that must be understood. They are legal and illegal immigrants whose loyalty is to some other country or, more realistically, to the notion of worldwide Islamic community.<\/p>\n But the idea that diversity is defined by religion, skin color, sexual orientation, sexual choice, all this sort of stuff, is a dead giveaway as to the thinking and the motivation behind the creation of such policies. But just the name of this program, the Diversity Visa Program, I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s almost like we have a death wish.<\/p>\n Now, the passage that I cite here in McCarthy\u2019s book, The Grand Jihad, was written about ten years ago. And it has become only clearer in those 10 years that the jihadists are only the tip of the spear. We\u2019re dealing with an ideological enemy whose aim — and they\u2019re quite up front of this. They do not deny this. It is us — it is we — who refuse to hear it. Their objective is to supplant Western culture. “Come on, Rush! We had a guy who went nuts and he drove a car through eight people. This is not mass terrorism.”<\/p>\n That\u2019s not the point. The point is: Where does the guy get his beliefs? Where does the guy get his ideas? Why\u2019s he mad? Why does he want to do this to one person, eight people, 20? Why? That\u2019s what we\u2019re up against, and they can happen at any time because the people are here, and we\u2019re not vetting for these kinds of people. We are purposely avoiding trying to find out whether or not the people we\u2019re allowing into the country have any kind of supremacist notion of Islam or Sharia law.<\/p>\n But this is a problem in and of itself because so many people in our own government — the State Department, the Pentagon, any number of places — do not believe what Sharia adherents say. They discount it. They think it\u2019s an insignificant minority of Muslims; it\u2019s nothing to get worried about. Our greater problem, they think, is showing that we intend no harm, that we understand, that we are tolerant and understanding and that we are not bigots and racists and yada yada yada. But the undeniable claim that they make is the overthrow of western culture.<\/p>\n By the way, they\u2019re not the only ones that are focused on that. There\u2019s an entire percentage of the American left which is devoted to overthrowing Western civilization and Western culture, and not just here, but in the social democracies of Western Europe. And if we\u2019re not going to take steps to identify these people and prevent them entry, then these kinds of things are gonna continue to happen, and they\u2019re gonna get worse, and the people that enter… This guy, I don\u2019t know how old he was, but he probably got here as a relatively young person.<\/p>\n And again, they are very open about it. There\u2019s nothing stealth about it! (chuckles) They\u2019re very clear. We have chosen for decades — at the highest levels of our government — to just not believe it or not take it seriously or what have you. These violent attacks like the one that happened in New York yesterday cannot happen, at least not with regularity, unless there is a support system for guys like this. This guy\u2019s not rogue. He may have acted alone, but he\u2019s got a support system. He\u2019s got someplace with like-minded people. You might call \u2019em ideological enclaves.<\/p>\n And they foster, they promote, they reward this kind of behavior, this kind of incitement, the recruitment and the training and the moral support. So we learn in the years leading up to yesterday\u2019s attack that this guy, this terrorist, ended up at the Omar Mosque in Paterson, New Jersey. “Sharia supremacism\u2019s inroads have made the community the object of counterterror investigations for over a dozen years.” We know about this mosque. That\u2019s where the guy ended up. That\u2019s where his support system was.<\/p>\n That is his ideological enclave. But we\u2019re debating visa and refugee policy, and instead we need to be vetting for Sharia supremacy. I know this is a minority view for a lot of people. It goes too far. It gets into an area where people are uncomfortable about it. But that is the problem. That is what we\u2019re up against. Put simply, we are allowing people into the country who want to tear it down. We\u2019re allowing people into the country who want to overthrow it.<\/p>\n “Multiple People Killed When Truck Drives Down New York City Bike Path — One person is in custody after driving down a bike path in lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon and killing multiple people in what police are calling an act of terrorism, according to the New York City Police Department. At least eight people were killed and 12 injured, according to police. Six were confirmed dead on the scene, and two were pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n “New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed the incident was an act of terror. ‘We know this action was intended to break our spirit, but we also know New Yorkers, New Yorkers are resilient and our spirit will never be moved by an act of violence and an act meant to intimidate us,\u2019 de Blasio said during a press conference.” And, by the way, the Halloween parade went on last night, and the local media New York is saying (summarized): Ah, this was really brave of these people. They were not shut down!<\/p>\n Their Halloween parade, they didn\u2019t let this shut \u2019em down. These are brave and courageous people, the Halloween parade people. So we showed \u2019em. We showed \u2019em. They couldn\u2019t stop the New York City Halloween parade in the Village. “Police confirmed…” Listen to this next paragraph: “Police confirmed a truck drove in a bike lane off the West Side Highway at around 3:05 p.m., hitting multiple people. The truck collided with a school bus at Chambers St. and injured two adults and two children on board.”<\/p>\n Now, if you just happened to be scanning the news and you don\u2019t know anything that happened, you still don\u2019t know what happened after you read this story. Diversity Visa Program. You know what this strangely reminded me of when I first heard it? I didn\u2019t know about this \u2019til I got home yesterday after work. Remember that ad that\u2019s running in the Virginia governor\u2019s race<\/a>, where a bunch of Latino and Muslim children are running for their lives while a big, black, menacing pickup truck flying a Confederate flag tries to run them down?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BookMcCarthyJihad.jpg\")
<\/a>But I talked about Andy McCarthy yesterday<\/a>, my good buddy, he had a book called The Grand Jihad<\/a> some time ago. And I want to read to you a passage from it, \u2019cause I was reminded of it today when I was consuming all this.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ISISGOPHeadinSandIslam-122115.jpg\")
So thanks to the Diversity Visa Program — and remember, since Bush 41 — I mean, we\u2019re going all the way back here to 1990, folks. Why did we start guilt-tripping about this in 1990? That\u2019s what all of this sounds like to me, just a gigantic American guilt trip among denizens of the swamp. I mean, I can understand people at the State Department having a guilt trip. The State Department\u2019s compromised of people who think the United States is the problem in the world.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/310-Ted-Kennedy.jpg\")
Remember, now, the purpose of the program is to reach out to people in foreign countries who don\u2019t want to come here and try to entice them to come here. For what reason? And of course when you see the word “diversity” in front of anything, you know the left is behind it, whether it\u2019s Schumer, whether it\u2019s Kennedy — by the way, it\u2019s both.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-110117-Diversity-Visa.jpg\")
They are arriving as young people, and they come, and they get radicalized or whatever. The chain migration aspects then kick in, and before we know it we\u2019re dealing with many more people than we\u2019ve actually allowed in — and if we\u2019re not vetting to find and learn and discover their ideology, then we\u2019re missing them. Even if we do identify them as ISIS sympathizers or Al-Qaeda sympathizers, that\u2019s just a symptom. That\u2019s just the visible characteristics of what it is that\u2019s actually motivating and animating these people.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ISISHappy-ISIS-2C.jpg\")
We are allowing people into the country who want to supplant our way of life with theirs. We\u2019re letting them in. Can I read to you how this was described in the Washington Examiner? “Multiple People Killed When Truck Drives Down New York City Bike Path<\/a>.” Really? Is that what happened? Reminds me of the old days where the SUV was blamed for killing people or driving off the top of a parking garage. The SUV had its own personality. It could drive itself around — and whatever damage that happened, the SUV did it.<\/p>\n