Would you really throw open your doors to strangers without asking any questions about them?

Would you, seriously, open your doors and take somebody into your home without asking to know anything about them first? Given that you may have young kids, vulnerable older people, women, living there.

I think you'd want to know a bit more about the newcomers before you just let them in. I don't think you'd open your doors just on the basis that they were members of the same species as you.

But it's not even as simple as that is it? We're not talking about incomers about whom you know nothing are we? They have a track record which makes investigation even more vital.

You know that incomers, from the same place and having the same moral compass as supplied by their religious beliefs, who moved into your Western neighbour's house next door, have now made that place much worse than it was before.

Their previously happy home has now become a conflict zone, with areas of it no longer accessible to them. The incomers have taken over parts of the house and established their own laws and rules and are now unwilling to negotiate any kind of compromise or abide by any of the former house rules - rules which had, hitherto, meant for a stable, safe and prosperous environment in which everyone was very happy to live. And your neighbour is now advising the women in the household not to wear fashionable clothes or to go into areas of their former home on their own, because they're likely to be attacked, molested or raped by the people to whom your neighbour showed such generosity.

So, knowing this, I ask again, would you simply open your doors and welcome anyone in without wanting to ask some questions about their motivations and values and without making it clear that abiding by your 'house rules' was a fundamental requirement of your generosity?

I think if you would do that, you want your head examining.

What Donald Trump is advocating, is finding out the motivations and values of these potential incomers to find out how they might fit successfully (for you and them) into your home. Finding out (before it's too late and they have already settled in), whether they will play a positive part in the household and live by the rules that have made the 'house' so attractive in the first place, or whether their beliefs and values ought to preclude them from coming into your home because they would make it the same kind of hell-hole that exists next door and also exists in the lawless and terrible 'homes' from which they're fleeing. Where women in particular, are treated as third class human beings at best, where the victims of rape are prosecuted, where gay people are not just prosecuted but executed and there is a distinct lack of respect for anyone not sharing their religious beliefs (to say the very least).

I think Trump is right to want a pause in the influx so that we can ask these questions and establish the facts of the matter so that we can then take an informed decision on whether we should be welcoming these people into our homes or not.

is this what we want to happen in the UK? The US? It is happening in Germany & Sweden already

For what it's worth, I think we should be trying to help these people: We (in the guise of Blair, Bush and others) have contributed significantly to the creation of the hellish war zones from which they're fleeing. But we didn't effect the lifestyle change illustrated in the image above, they did that all by themselves. Because unscrupulous men made use of a set of archaic religious 'rules' written by an illiterate goatherd in the C7th when they thought the earth was flat, and whose medieval doctrine has always been oppressive of women and advocates an expansion of the religion through violence.

So we need to find a way in which we can welcome these oppressed people and which will allow them to be safe in, and contribute to, the West. We cannot do that without engaging and finding out what motivations and bullying doctrines need to be addressed before that can happen. Which means that just opening our doors without finding out what we're dealing with, just because we want to be seen as 'nice' people, is utter madness. It is also an approach which is leading directly to the loss of thousands of lives in the Mediterranean and the growing success of the totally evil people-traffickers. That's what our 'kindness' is actually doing.

It's time someone stood up for our Western values and our way of life and, given that the UK and European governments have so far proved to be doing anything but standing up for 'us', who better to take this much-needed stand than the President of the USA?

Those who are marching and protesting against his actions are effectively advocating that we open our doors without asking questions. But they wouldn't dream of opening their own doors if the situation arose. This makes them not just useful idiots, but dangerous idiots as well. It makes it imperative, for the very survival of our relatively free and fair lives in the West, that their stupid liberal views do not prevail.

Tell me I'm wrong.

Thanks for reading.