NPR - Trump Backers Want Ideology Test For Extreme Vetting

[TomCADem]

The test might also include: Do you support a woman's right to choose? Do you believe in climate change? Who did you vote for? Do you think women should wear pants suits?

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/04/513289953/trump-backers-want-ideology-test-for-extreme-vetting

"It means a kind of ideological screening to keep out people who hate a free society even if they are not violent," says Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that supports tighter controls on immigration. Krikorian met with Trump during the campaign and backs the president's executive order as a "corrective" to the vetting system in place during the Obama years.

President Trump signed an executive order suspending the State Department's refugee assistance program for 120 days until "extreme" vetting can be put in place.

In an interview with NPR, Krikorian said he backs an ideological test that poses questions for refugees in the vetting process including, in his words, "Do you think it's okay to kill apostates? Do you think it's okay to throw gays off of buildings? Or if Islam's Prophet Muhammad is insulted, there should be a punishment?"

If a refugee says yes to any of these questions, says Krikorian, "Then we don't want you here."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What if they asked,

"Do you think it's OK for the leader of your country to lie to the people on a daily basis?" ?

[TomCADem]

2. Well, that gets you a job as a Trump surrogate on Cable TV.

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