An immigrant’s perspective! WHY MUSLIM AMERICANS SHOULD VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP?

After living in the United States and watching the American politics closely I have reached to following conclusions in favor of the Republican Party’s candidate, Donald John Trump. I believe that Muslim Americans should vote for Donald Trump in the Elections 2024 because of following reasons:

In present times Muslims are believed to be the most conservative and orthodox followers of a major religion of the world. They believe very strictly in the institution of marriage, have no concept of LGBTQ or same sex marriages among their ranks, consider abortions an extremely undesirable option, births out of wedlock are a big sin and the religion remains to be a pivot around which everything revolves.

The Republican agenda and core values are way closer to the ideals and beliefs of Muslims than those of the liberal Democrats. The followers of Democratic Party advocate for more freedom for individuals especially women, believes in personal liberties and choices instead of obeying religious commands and traditions – contrary to conservatives. Most of the conservatives are staunch and practicing Christians who abhor everything which is objectionable in Abrahamic religions, uniformly. Fundamentally, they believe that Family is a strong basic unit of a society which should be built on social and moral values, just like Islam.

 2.    Primarily, United States is a Judeo-Christian state. Hence, its almost impossible for any American administration not to support the state of Israel or allow any antisemitism within the boundaries of the country. That is not only the strong Jewish lobby and their persistent vigilance that protect the Jewish interests within and outside the United States but in fact Jews and their sympathizers sit at two jugular veins of America: Economy and Media. There should not be any doubt that they literally control the flow of money as well as the flow of information, globally.

In short, every president of the United States, whether Republican or Democrat, have minimal control on bridling the Israel and thus to antagonize the popular American voters. The big reality is that the Fake Media and the Deep State work in unison to create opinions in favor of the “threatened sovereignty of Israel”. Having said the above, another truth is that still some presidents prove themselves much weaker, yielding and budging to the pressure groups than others because of their own reasons. Barrack Hussain Obama and Joseph Biden have been such two presidents.

On the other side, we have seen that despite having some strong ties with the Jews of Israel, Donald J. Trump is not only outspoken but a bold and a fearless person. He shows courage to question the insane and unending allocation of funds from the public exchequer to foment further the madness unleashed in Israel and Ukraine.

 3.    Although Trump is not a politician, by profession, but he has a much better comprehension of world politics. Basically, being an antiwar guy in contradiction to his predecessor, Barrack Obama, he fully understands what wars mean and especially what a nuclear war can bring to the extremely vulnerable and polarized world of today. He is the person who can bring some sanity by employing his talent to talk and reconciliate with fully weaponized and equipped nations like Russia, China and North Korea. He believes in the power of negotiations and doesn’t think that talking to Vladmir Putin, Xi Jinping or even Kim Jong Un can be a matter of personal ego. He is an advocate of world peace, as proved from time to time.

 4.    Muslims must never forget that Donald J. Trump never started any war or attacked any nation during his four years tenure. Further, credit to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan should go to Donald Trump, who initiated the move, and not to Joe Biden who caused an abrupt and embarrassing withdrawal. Interestingly, the initial ban, Trump imposed on the entry of citizens from half a dozen Muslim countries into the United States, is presented as an evidence of Trump’s anti-Muslim mindset by the Democratic candidate. On the contrary, the ban on entry into the US, imposed in 2017 by Donald Trump, was in fact not religion specific, as spitefully painted by the Democrats, but was genuinely meant to target the terrorist and hateful activities perpetrated by anti-west folks who came to the United States. Unfortunately, many not all entrants belonging to those specific Muslim countries were found to be involved in hatred mongering. Thus, it was a matter of national security and not Islam bashing.  

 5.    Right from the beginning, one of the primary agenda items of Donald Trump has been to disallow and discourage illegal immigration. He has plans to deport all the illegal immigrants back to the regions they come from. Under the cover and justification of a continuing requirement for a blue-collar workforce, to keep moving the wheel of national economy, the politicians have kept their eyes closed and condoned this colossal violation of the law and the constitution. This was the same justification which was accepted by the Americans 400 years ago for legalizing the slavery. Big ranchers of the New World needed workforce to work in their fields, and this opened ways for allowing ships full of men, women and children from the Dark Continent. The western civilization is bearing the brunt for that immoral trade, to date. The illegal immigration, defended today under one justification or another, shall most likely become another big regret tomorrow.

The illegal immigrants always bring lawlessness, crime, chaos and anarchy on the streets of a country and this is what Donald Trump is warning about. How imprudent decisions and unwise legislations ultimately threaten the fabric of a civilization are evident from whatever has been happening on the streets and shopping centers of the western Europe!

 6.    Donald Trump is the very first President of the United States who wouldn’t let NATO countries to enjoy free lunches at the cost of the American public money. The 30 European nations – which are members of the defense pact – feel secure from any foreign aggression since the superpower is on their back. However, these European countries lag in paying their contributions to run the organization. For the first time in the history of NATO Trump raised questions on this breach of obligations by the member states.

 7.    The United States of America relies on its immense military power to settle global and international issues, at the end. Naturally, the top brass of American Army is not rogue like a Third World’s army but, howsoever, the military generals of America are not unaware of their indispensability in maintaining the hegemony and superiority of USA on land, in the seas and in the air. This consciousness gave birth to a parallel Deep State in coalition with the federal bureaucracy of America – as very frequently elaborated by the close aides of Trump like Vivek Ramaswamy.

Several retired army generals have already spoken against the statements given by Donald Trump concerning the allegedly wrong decisions of commanders in the field as well as by the central command. Usually, these generals and commanders are not very used to criticism from politicians, on their professional decision making, done in or outside Pentagon. Donald Trump is that “anti-status-quo-person” who is breaking the longstanding taboos and challenging the so-called sacredness of the institutions – serving as a real commander-in-chief not a ceremonial one.

 8.    Last but not least, it is true that Donald J. Trump has no soft corner for any foreign nation or leader since he is pure American, by all means. On the other side, Kamala Harris has deep roots in the Indian continent which may never be ignored. The bitter reality is that regardless of your social status you cannot change the overall influences and avoid the spheres of family, relatives and friends – dubbed in one phrase as your background. During the current ongoing crisis in the Middle East how in an unparalleled way India sided with the state of Israel amazed even the most secular diplomatic circles, around the world. The users of social media platforms on internet have been watching that around 1.5 billion Hindus, living in and outside India, leave no chance to show their inner feelings against 1.9 billion Muslims. This inherent malice may have its basis in intermittent invasions by Arabs, Central Asian Turks and Afghans into the Indian Subcontinent, right from early 8th century to 18th century. The resultant Muslim rule, stretched over around on thousand years, gradually developed into anti-Islam sentiments, among Hindus, which have been extensively promoted and grossly exploited, in recent times, by the current government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to strengthen the rule of his openly sectarian political party, Bharti Junta Party.

Here, we must acknowledge that Kamala Harris never expressed any hatred for Palestinians in particular and Muslims, in general – which is quite a different behavior from the one shown by another Indian originated presidential candidate, Nikki Halley, who didn’t even hesitate to sign and write compliments on the deadly missiles fired by Israel towards Gaza – just to please the Jewish lobbies in the United States. However, this is also true that if elected, Kamala Harris is most likely to continue the blind and full-fledged support for Israel against Arabs – following the footsteps of her nominator, President Joe Biden.

 All those who are eligible to vote in the American Elections 2024 need to realize that the forthcoming elections on 5th November are far from bringing any revolution in the United States. America cannot be changed in a day or two or even within a few years, being on the realistic side. This society is well entrenched, built on strong foundations and protected by democratic institutions, a supreme constitution and implementable laws – guarded 24/7.  Donald Trump may sound to be a revolutionary, in his tone, but frankly speaking he, himself, fully understands that the United States continues to be the greatest nation of the world not because it’s safety, prosperity and progress are guaranteed by any politician, any president or any one individual but by a system, run by civil and military bureaucracy under the plannings and guidelines formulated by the think tanks, intelligentsia and futuristic planners.

When we talk of bringing in a rebel, like Donald Trump, we in fact desire to reboot the system – certainly with all the risks and dangers involved. Some basic narratives are to be looked into, and monotony of the actions are to be broken. The priorities, on national and international levels, are to be reevaluated with one clear aim before our eyes: to explore the possibilities to make America a safe, secular, progressive and lawful civilization for all the legal Americans!

The writer has been visiting the United States, for longer periods of time, since September 2008. He resided for many years in three states namely Kansas, North Dakota and presently in Maryland. He can be reached at tarikjaffery@gmail.com.