I Guess I'm Simply A "Deplorable"

So, I'm now a "deplorable."  I'm probably also a racist and  an Islamophobe.   And, except for one detail, I find I fit that profile.  I'm not a millennial.  I'm white.  But, I do have a college education -- three degrees, in fact,  from highly respected colleges.

So how did I fall to such a depth?  I became a Trump supporter.  What is it that troubles me about an influx of Muslim refugees?  The first thing that comes to mind is their blocking streets in New York City when they're called to prayer.  Our streets are public thoroughfares.  They're meant to facilitate traffic through the city.  They shouldn't be praying in the middle of the street.   Prayer is a religious act, and I have noting against religious acts per se as long as they don't interfere with the general public.  No other religious group in America would do such a thing.  Yes, we do have protests and, yes, we do have parades.  In addition, we have freedom of speech.  But, we also have separation of  church and state.  This has all been worked out and is understood by Americans, but it is something so many Muslims just don't get.

Muslims do things that may be fine in Islamic countries but that I as an American find objectionable.  The other day I went to Nickerson Beach in Nassau County, New York.  The public beach club has a pool in addition to the beach itself.  As I passed the pool, I noticed three ladies with their flowing black burka robes swimming in the pool.  Burkinis are one thing but swimming in the pool with yards and yards of black cloth is quite another.  Perhaps I should not bother to change into swimming trunks.   Perhaps I should just take off my shoes and jump into the pool with my jeans, shirt and socks.

But why wouldn't I do it?  Is there a law that forbids it?  No one asks such questions.  It's just not America's custom to behave in such a way in a public pool.  Muslims don't get it.  And, then when the wet, burka wearers leave the pool, they go to the women's restrooms and use the electric hand driers to dry their yards of fabric.  This of course denies the other women in the restroom the ability to use the driers for the purpose for which they were intended; namely, to dry their hands.

Most Muslims in America have the same hopes and ambitions as other Americans.  However, a small number, especially those who come as refugees from Islamic countries, wish to live in the manner of Mohammed.  They're called Salafists.  And, in America it's virtually impossible to live that way.  As a Salafist, you try to live by Islamic law, known as Sharia.  This law violates American law in numerous ways.  In my opinion (note: the opinion of a "deplorable" and an Islamophobe) I would deny entry to any Muslim, and especially Imams, who wish to live the way Mohammed lived.

Then too most refugees from Islamic countries carry with them anti -Semitic attitudes.  I don't think its legal to exclude a person who's anti-Semitic, but, as a Jew, it scares me.