Vice President, Mike Pence declared that “life is winning” during his speech at the March For Life demonstration held on Friday. The march is pro-life and anti-abortion. The irony of his line comes on the same day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries. Countries such as Syria, where families are desperately looking to escape slaughter.
The list of countries includes Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan.
It also comes on the same day as National Holocaust Remembrance Day. A time when those still facing the horrors of Hitler’s calculated extermination Jews based on their religion in Europe during the second World War. A genocide that took an estimated 6 million lives.
Trump claims by halting the entry of members of Muslim countries it will hold off Islamic terrorists from entering the U.S. preventing harm to be done to America.
“We don’t want them here,” Trump said of Islamist terrorists during a signing ceremony at the Pentagon. “We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country, and love deeply our people.”
The President continues his rhetoric of preventing another 9/11 by implementing such drastic measures. But as we live in a World of “alternative facts”, the perpetrators of 9/11 were not from any of the previously mentioned countries but were from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon. None of which are on the banned list.
It’s also worth mentioning that countries that are predominantly Muslim that the Trump Organization had dealings with are not part of the list either.
Even more disturbing, prior to signing the order, Trump did a radio interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network and pointed the finger at the previous administrations saying Christians in Syria “horribly treated”. “If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible.” Trump said, “I thought it was very, very unfair.”
The statements and actions made by the President, are putting many lives around the world in jeopardy. U.S. soldiers are currently fighting side by side with the Iraqi army trying to recapture the city of Mosul, how is this a positive message to them?
It really begs to question, how does turning away children, women, and men based on religious beliefs from areas of the world stricken with carnage, fleeing their homes to avoid death constitute the Vice President’s statement of life is winning?