I know why I don’t want Muslims in America. What I don’t get is why they’d want to be here. If I were a follower of Allah, wouldn’t I wish to live where the Koran and Sharia law were dominant, and not in a country where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, with their emphasis on Judeo-Christian values, were the foundation of our government?

I know that those who defend Islam insist that there is a gulf between radicals and moderates that’s wider than the Grand Canyon. I just don’t see it that way. I understand that most American Muslims would never think of slicing the throat of a non-believer, but where is the proof that they don’t cheer on those who do?

We know that even after 9/11, the FBI had to stop a great many American Muslims from sending donations to Hamas and Hezbollah under the pretense that they were making charitable contributions. We’ve certainly heard them whining about racial profiling and about having the activities inside their mosques monitored by the police. But when have we ever seen Muslims marching in protest to the butchery committed by their co-religionists?

We are told that all Muslims are not alike, but what group is? Christians aren’t. Some are Catholics, some are Methodists and Presbyterians. All Jews are not alike. Some are orthodox, some are conservative, some are reform and a great many just have Jewish names and like corned beef sandwiches. But none of these people are killing in the name of their religion. And when a Christian or a Jew does commit murder, you do not hear other Christians and Jews defending them.

And yet we have Obama, Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley and just about every other Democrat, insisting that we welcome in as many Muslims as we can get our hands on. They do so not because they love them or think they bring with them something special in the nature of art, music, fashion or cuisine, to America, but because they assume that Muslims, like the Hispanics who have snuck into our country, will vote overwhelmingly for left-wingers like themselves.

Leo Hohmann, in an article posted at WorldNetDaily, reports that Hamdi Ulukaya, owner of Chobani yogurt, not only has hundreds of his fellow Muslims working at his plant in Twin Falls, Idaho, but at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, urged his fellow CEOs to do everything in their power to assist Muslim refugees. As a result, Ikea, MasterCard, Linkedin, Western Union and UPS, have all agreed to hire more Muslims or at least provide them with free services.

If you’ve been buying Chobani, you just might want to consider giving one of the other brands of yogurt a try.

In related news, the 53 Muslims working at the Ariens snow blower factory in Wisconsin are suing to have unscheduled prayer breaks from the assembly line. These folks, let us remember, belong to the same religion as those taxi drivers who refused to carry passengers accompanied by dogs or bottles of liquor, as well as the truck drivers who refused to convey pork products.

The question is why anyone in his right mind would ever hire these schmucks.

Hillary Clinton still hasn’t gotten around to explaining how her politics differ from those of Bernie Sanders, an admitted Socialist. And yet the odds-makers are making her the favorite to win in November. What is wrong with us?

Socialism and its strong-arm partner, communism, oppose families as well as religion. The reason they hate families is because they prefer that the loyalty of the masses be solely to the state. They hate religion, which Karl Marx referred to as the opiate of the masses, because it asks that people concentrate on a higher and deeper meaning to life than the redistribution of wealth.

There is nothing in Marx’s own demented religion that offers anything to compare with the wisdom of the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments. What’s more, the Rule and the Commandments managed to get everything said in 84 words, whereas Marx took 304 pages in the “Communist Manifesto” and another 1,152 in “Das Kapital” to spell out his asinine beliefs.

When you realize that the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Chavez and Castro, have all used it as their bible, Satan might as well have his name on the copyright.

Tragically, one of Marx’s goals has already played out here in America. Today, when 72.3% of black babies, 53.3% of Hispanic babies and 29.1% of those born to non-Hispanic whites, are born to unwed mothers, we are well on our way to having an America where men are no longer fathers, but merely anonymous sperm donors.

As you may have heard, a number of blacks including Spike Lee, Jada Pickett Smith, Al Sharpton and Will Smith, are calling for a boycott of the Oscars and demanding that Chris Rock refuse to host the event, all because there weren’t any blacks nominated this year.

It’s now become commonplace for privileged blacks to gripe about such minor matters. However, you never hear anything when occasionally two of the four acting awards go to blacks, even though 50% far exceeds their proportion in the nation or in Hollywood. Apparently quotas only matter when they provide boneheads with evidence of victimhood.

What is peculiar is that you never hear Latinos griping about not receiving their fair share of Oscars even though they out-number blacks in America. In fact, over the years, 11 black actors and actresses have taken home the golden eunuch, whereas only seven Hispanics have won, although Anthony Quinn won twice as Best Supporting Actor.

Just don’t blame me when the members of La Raza and their representatives in Congress start holding demonstrations outside the Dolby Theatre. Sooner or later, they were bound to notice how much attention jerks like Sharpton, Smith and Lee, receive whining over this non-issue, even if I hadn’t mentioned it.

An elderly friend of mine lost both his wife of many years and his beloved dog within a very short period. He felt as if his life had lost all meaning.

But a few months ago, he let me know that although he still missed his wife, he was falling in love with another woman and felt he had found a reason to live.

It struck me that sometimes it’s true that when one door closes, another opens, but only if you remain open to life’s infinite possibilities and haven’t removed the welcome mat.