Posted on 03/28/2016 7:52:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I am, as you are, devastated by the news of Daesh (ISIS) terror attacks in Ankara and then Brussels. Devastated by the Taliban terror attack in Lahore. Devastated for the loss of life, for the loss of peace. But also devastated for the inevitable opportunistic xenophobia that follows an attack like the one in Brussels.
Stealing a move from Trump’s playbook, Ted Cruz made an alarming statement in the wake of the attacks in Brussels. He issued a press release saying, “we need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.” To which I’d like to respond: I assure you that the only radicalization I am at risk of is radical anti-Republicanism. On a practical level, it’s easy to dismiss Cruz’s statement as absurd. American Muslims are rarely concentrated in specific neighborhoods, and patrolling these neighborhoods couldn’t possibly have an actual effect on rates of radicalization.
But rhetorically, Cruz has moved us one step closer to a fractured democracy. While his words are certainly scary for Muslims, they pose a serious threat to all Americans. The Republicans’ inflammatory rhetoric this election cycle has done something remarkable to this country in a very short period of time: It has turned this country into a tinderbox.
We are, at the moment, a country in which violence erupts at presidential campaign rallies with regularity. We are a country in which frontrunners for the presidency demonize entire groups of citizens based on national origin, religious affiliation, and race....
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Islam is not in the Public Interest.
It’s all Cruz’s fault now?
Obama has so pitted one American after another his entire career but it’s all Cruz’s fault.
this is a war, right?
and while not all muslims are terrorists (i don’t think), all terrorists for awhile have been muslims.
nothing about islam screams freedom and democracy
If you are going to blow smoke then do it right ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On0XsFGd4wA&list=PLOGlUTs2CNW0v6jMTtOyBXVKJ5gQ62xA8
Send them back, send them all back!
“But rhetorically, Cruz has moved us one step closer to a fractured democracy...”
Bwahahahahahaha...the socialist playbook. Charge the innocent with your own crime.
cruise is such a wimp he couldn’t turn gasoline and a match into a fire.
Waiting for that reformation of Islam, it has only been 1400 years. Not likely to happen.
Well said.
“We are, at the moment, a country in which violence erupts at presidential campaign rallies with regularity.”
Here you have one of the Left’s most mendacious talking points. Violence doesn’t erupt at Clinton or Sanders rallies because even their most ardent opponents don’t want to deprive these candidates of their right to speak. (I say let Clinton and Sanders talk all they want, the more people hear how insane their ideas are the better.)
Violence erupts at Trump rallies regularly because the fascistic Left is determined to silence him. The implication is that this is all Trump’s fault.
No HufPo, that would be Obama.
As opposed to that Trump huckster who mistakes running around with a blow-torch for leadership.
So you agree with Bratton?
We need to secure Muslim neighborhoods BEFORE they are radicalized? All Muslims are ALREADY radicalized! Nice try, Ted.
I don’t care what a lying muslim’s opinion is.
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