Singapore proves that immigrants can conform to basic values in their new country

 One of the infuriating aspects of the leftist approach to immigration, both legal and illegal, from Third World countries with values antithetical to the West, is that these new immigrants cannot be expected to conform to the customs and laws of their new homes.

However, a few hours spent in Singapore’s Little India convinced me—as if I needed convincing—that this is complete garbage. Given sufficiently strong disincentives, new immigrants will conform perfectly well to the laws of their new countries.

Where this leftist attitude toward excusing serious crimes by immigrants shows up most is in the case of those immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, accused of rape. This is because we have been accustomed to the revolving door of criminal justice for crimes other than rape and murder, and that’s true whether the offender is here legally or illegally. However, we still take rape relatively seriously, a legacy of a time when the West felt it was compelled to protect women, and of the feminist MeToo movement.

Thus, in Maryland, it appears that judges are doing their best to protect child rapists to prevent their being deported:

A FOX45 News investigation found that Baltimore County Circuit Court judges disproportionally hand down lenient sentences in criminal child sex cases involving illegal immigrants.

Public records show that Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger’s office filed 99 child sex crime cases between January 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024. Nearly 10% of the child sex cases in Baltimore County, involving nine defendants over a 17-month period, involved illegal immigrants from Central American countries.

And in Minnesota, there was the case of Abdimahat Bille Mohamed:

Abdimahat Bille Mohamed, who legally entered the US during the Obama administration, is charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman over several days in a hotel room in September.

Mohamed, 28, was only free because of sweet deals he’s received from state courts in two previous rape cases, including one involving a child.

“Sweet deals” is not an exaggeration. If you go to the article at the New York Post from which I quoted, you will be shocked at Mohamed’s light-footed journey through Minnesota’s criminal justice system.

The situation in the United Kingdom, of course, is much worse. Do I need to expand on the history of the Rotherham rape cases? These travesties of justice continue to be a huge problem in England with Muslim immigrants, whether legal or illegal, who know that the likelihood of being seriously punished is minimal.

For example, Qais Al-Aswad, a newly arrived illegal Syrian immigrant housed in an immigrant detention center, went on a one-man crime wave of sexual assault. He received an extremely light sentence, which many ascribed to the fact that the judge commented on Al-Aswad’s unfamiliarity with the fact that you do not sexually assault women in Britain.

The message is clear: they are not like us, nor should we expect them to be. We must constantly turn the other cheek as they violate our laws, customs, and mores.

Singapore, however, does not have this attitude toward immigrants. When you come to Singapore, you are expected to follow Singaporean law. You are also expected to arrive legally, which means you will have had time to familiarize yourself with the big no-nos in Singapore.

I thought of this when I visited Singapore’s Little India neighborhood the other day. The main streets differ markedly from those in Singapore. That’s because Singapore, which has almost no natural resources, is a business hub, and this business attitude trickles down to the fact that it is the most amazing mall country I have ever seen.

In the more affluent parts of Singapore, there are blocks and blocks and blocks of interconnected shopping malls filled with hundreds of shiny, often very high-end, stores. The malls are safe, the bathrooms are clean and well-maintained, the food courts are magnificent, and the ease with which you can spend money is almost frightening. And of course, it’s all air-conditioned and out of the rain.

Little India is also replete with stores. However, it doesn’t feel like Singapore. Instead, my companion, who has also visited India, said that it really does replicate the feel of India, with myriad open-air booths lining the street. It’s an immigrant neighborhood, and the ground-level streets are a poor man’s shopping mall. This wasn’t entirely unfamiliar to me, of course, because I have traveled in parts of the Middle East. Little India is typical of poorer commercial communities.

What distinguished little India from the Middle Eastern neighborhoods in which I’ve traveled, and, according to my companion, from India itself, is that it’s so clean. It wasn’t just the absence of road dust. It was the absence of garbage, spitting, food rotting in the streets and behind restaurants, and any other offensive detritus you can imagine in a busy and poorly maintained area. (See my photo, above, of an alley behind some restaurants.)

The cleanliness and order are at odds with the culture that the Indian immigrants left behind in India. Perhaps I’m reading too much into things, for I am, after all, a recently arrived tourist, but it seems to me that the Indian immigrants were able to change their behavior patterns because they were expected to do so. As everyone knows, the laws in Singapore's Little India for littering and otherwise despoiling one’s environment are extremely specific and severe. Consequences work.

I suspect the same is true for the more serious crimes. India has long been known for having a “rape culture.” Singapore, by contrast, does not have a rape culture. Not only are the consequences for rape severe, but I am willing to bet that the judges do not accept cross-cultural excuses.

That may explain why, in a country of slightly over 6 million people, Singapore had only 401 reported cases of rape last year. Of course, there will always be underreporting, but even that is unlikely to change the total figure.

Singapore demonstrates what we all know: immigrants are fully capable of complying with the laws of their new countries if they understand that those laws will be enforced and that enforcement will cause them pain. As long as the West refuses to enforce its laws and to make clear that we expect all people to conform to customs and mores when in the public sphere, we can expect our continued degradation into a third-world status.

Singapore proves that immigrants can conform to basic values in their new country - American Thinker

Two defectors say Trump was right all along about Venezuela being a narcostate ...

 One of the worst "narratives" about Venezuela's dictatorship revolves around whether the socialist hellhole is a narcostate, justifying President Trump's emerging military buildup in the Caribbean, including Naval strikes on speedboats transferring state-produced cocaine to the U.S. If the Venezuelan state is, it's a narcostate.

The Democrat-deep state-news media complex has been spreading the piece-by-piece narrative that they aren't. 

Here's 60 Minutes and a Chavista shill ironically called 'propaganda monitor,' still denying there's any such thing as Cartel de los Soles.

Two defectors say Trump was right all along about Venezuela being a narcostate ... - American Thinker

More Bad Illegal Alien Truck Drivers Who Don’t Speak English

An illegal alien from Kyrgyzstan almost killed drivers when he was passing through Oklahoma after tires he was hauling came loose on an interstate. One of the tires damaged an Oklahoma Highway Patrol unit.

Below is video released by ICE of this illegal interacting with the OHP officer, and he can barely speak any English. It took three attempts for the officer to determine where this illegal even lived.

This illegal alien with a New York CDL doesn’t speak English and could have killed Oklahoma drivers with flying tires if it weren’t for our OK Highway Patrol.

Kutmanali Bekbolot, a Kyrgyz citizen, lost tires all over the highway because he didn’t properly secure them.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is working on this problem, but he faces four years of states handing out CDLs, and they still are doing so. This driver should be deported and the company that gave him a CDL should be closed immediately.

More Bad Illegal Alien Truck Drivers Who Don't Speak English

Adult Catechesis Class 1: Introduction to the Catholic Faith

 

Walz’s welfare wonderland

 Minnesota’s Governor Tim Walz — Kamala Harris’s former aw-shucks VP sidekick — now faces a scandal so colossal it could swallow the state budget whole. Over 480 Department of Human Services (DHS) employees have blown the whistle, accusing Walz of masterminding a cover-up for a Somali immigrant-led fraud ring that siphoned more than $1 billion from social programs.

That’s billion with a B — stolen through COVID relief scams, fake autism diagnoses, and Medicaid kickbacks, with funds funneled overseas, including to Al-Shabaab terrorists. One standout grifter, 29-year-old Asha Farhan Hassan, allegedly pocketed $14 million alone from programs meant for vulnerable kids. Federal prosecutors have nailed 59 perps so far, but 80% of the loot remains unrecovered, leaving Minnesotans footing the bill for everything from phantom child-feeding initiatives to juror bribes.

Whistleblowers paint a chilling picture: They signaled red flags early — loophole-riddled programs in housing, behavioral health, and disability services designed without safeguards to “extract more funding.” Walz’s response? Crickets, followed by a crackdown. Staff endured email surveillance, reassignments, family threats, and repression to bury reports and avoid “demonizing entire communities.”

Walz’s welfare wonderland - American Thinker

Why the Left is doomed

 Have you experienced an incandescent light glowing brightly just before it burns out? Sometimes, just before breaking, the filament may briefly arc or surge, which appears as a flash of extra brightness. As fanciful as it sounds, so too might the progressive movement burn out in a blinding flash of light when we least expect it. The fall of the Soviet Union happened with little warning. Whether it does so or not largely depends on the actions of but a few of us. While it is not a sure thing, today's conditions are a perfect setup for the left's demise. 

*While capitalists and legions of individualists can point to thousands of years of successful nation-building, socialism and communism cannot point to any nation or culture that prospered.

Why the Left is doomed - American Thinker

Remembering Rayan Al-Najjar

 Yet another young Muslim girl – one of the few that we know of among the many such victims – has become the victim of an “honor” killing in the world of Islam.

This time it is 18-year-old Rayan al-Najjar in the Netherlands, murdered by her father Khaled and two brothers Mohammed and Mohaned, for “dating, refusing to wear a hijab and living a Western life.” For bringing this “shame” upon her family – and for wanting to be free – Rayan’s brothers kidnapped her, gagged and bound her, and threw her into a swamp to drown.

Rayan’s father has admitted the murder, but has escaped to Syria. The brothers are now on trial. When taken into custody, they told police that killing their sister was simply “part of their culture.”

Part of their “culture” it surely is – Islamic culture, that is. The Qur’an and Islamic law provide a foundation for honor killing and sanction it – and that is precisely why honor killings are so widespread across the Islamic world.

Robert Spencer is one of the world’s leading experts on Islam’s abuse of woman, and his new book, Holy Hell: Islam’s Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It, reveals how Islamic theology inspires, enforces and justifies honor killings – as well as the myriad other ways Islam tortures, maims and subjugates women. Everyone should read it.

Anyone who has the courage and integrity to face what Islam truly teaches, understands why 18-year-old Rayan al-Najjar had to die. It’s the same reason why Aqsa Parvez, Amina and Sarah Said, the Shafia sisters, Shaima Alawadi, Noor Almaleki, Shafilea Ahmed, and so many other Muslim women and girls, all of whom cannot unfortunately be listed here, had to be sacrificed on the altar of Islamic ideals.

When reflecting on the horror that Rayan al-Najjar had to endure at the hands of her Muslim family, and how this horror represents the fate and suffering of millions of Muslim women and girls across the Islamic world, one can’t help but wonder: Where are the howls of moral indignation coming from Western feminists on behalf of Rayan and Muslim women in general?

Where are the Women’s Studies Departments across U.S. campuses? Where are the panelists of ABC’s The View? When will Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin speak on this issue? When will they invite Robert Spencer and Anni Cyrus on their show to discuss and explain why Rayan al-Najjar is no longer with us?

This is, of course, nothing new. There has always been a Western feminist silence about the suffering of Muslim women under Islamic gender apartheid. I confront and document this issue in my new forthcoming book, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas.

This is a leftist phenomenon. The West’s leftist feminists always respond with an apathetic heartlessness and deafening silence to the suffering of Muslim women. Anyone who discerns what the Left really is understands why it is totally logical and expected for leftist feminists to behave in this shameful and inhuman manner.

Indeed, in the world of leftist feminism, it is politically correct and cutting-edge to wail and scream with seething rage about a woman’s right to an abortion, but to actually care for – and come to the defense of – a female victim of an honor killing, acid attack, gang rape, forced marriage or some other heinous crime under Islam is unthinkable.

This is because admitting the true nature of Islam, and the theology and institutions on which it is based, and denouncing it, violates the central code of the “progressive” leftist faith: anti-Westernism and cultural relativism. No culture can be said to be worse than any other – unless it is Western culture, which is always fair game for derision and condemnation. But to criticize any Third-World culture in general – and an adversary culture in particular – is to surrender the political cause and faith.

Western leftist feminists couldn’t care less about real actual breathing women; they care only about their own ideological beliefs and agendas – which are founded upon the goal of destroying their own host capitalist-democratic society.

For leftist feminists, the victims of Islamic gender apartheid can be easily forgotten and dismissed for the sake of their ultimate goal: to aid and abet the West’s totalitarian enemies and to wreak destruction upon their own free societies, which bestow the individual liberties and rights that they despise and abhor.

To actually care for Rayan al-Najjar, and to stand up for her, would necessitate leftist feminists admitting the true nature of Islam, and admitting that it is vicious and barbaric, and inferior to Western Judeo-Christian culture. Admitting such a thing would then lead to admitting that Western culture is better and superior and, therefore (and here comes the kicker) worth defending and protecting. This is simply anathema to the Left, whose entire purpose is, again, to destroy our Western society.

It is crucial to understand that deep down the Left loves the Islamic forced coverings on women. Leftist feminists long for the burqa/niqab — though this longing is subconscious on many levels in many of them and they, at certain stages, want it initially enforced only on other women rather than on themselves.

All of this is connected to why the Left has always had a love affair with unisex/desexualized dress. I have documented the Left’s romance with Maoist unisex clothing in United in Hate, which is linked to the Left’s current romance with forced veiling under Islam, as well as with the Covid mask.   

This is the key: forced covering satisfies in leftists their morbid pining for enforced sameness. It is crucial, in their world, to erase physical as well as emotional differences and attractions between people. In the utopian endgame, humans must all be replicas of each other and be completely devoted to the cause, the revolutionary state, and to its all-knowing administering of “equality” and “social justice.”

Thus, leftists adamantly support women’s sexual “self-determination,” for instance, if it enables their war against their own host democratic-capitalist societies — and if it can hurt the Judeo-Christian tradition. But if a totalitarian adversarial society is stifling women’s rights in this context, then leftists vehemently support that oppression, since they worship that particular tyranny in question, and gleefully welcome the threat it poses to their own host society.

Longing to submerge themselves into a totality where even their own choices will be negated, leftists are always drawn to a totalitarian entity within which they can lose themselves. And it is in this twisted paradigm that these lost individuals – who suffer from an immense feeling of alienation – finally feel connected to something. They finally belong.

The leftist enterprise has always been a death wish – a self-loathing suicidal odyssey to shed oneself of one’s own unwanted self and in that process to blur oneself into a collective totalitarian whole. And it is in this despotic hell that they find their purpose, meaning and sense of belonging.

This is ultimately why the Italian cheerleader for Hamas, Vittorio Arrigoni, ended up being murdered at the hands of the Islamic terrorists that he venerated throughout his life. As I have revealed, Vittorio Arrigoni went to Gaza hoping to die. It is the typical narrative of the fellow travelers and political pilgrims that sociologist Paul Hollander has documented.

And so this is why leftist feminists will never shed a tear or utter one word of concern or protest when witnessing 18-year-old Rayan al-Najjar drowning while gagged, with her hands bound behind her back and her ankles taped together, in a swamp.

So don’t ever hold your breath waiting for Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin to discuss why Ryan had to die – and to discuss it honestly with scholars of Islam such as Robert Spencer and Anni Cyrus about all the reasons why.

There is too much hatred, self-hatred and darkness in the heart of the Left for that to ever become a realistic scenario.

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