Posted on 03/22/2016 2:16:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In one simple sentence, Ted Cruz just advocated an American apartheid of Muslims in our country.
"We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized," the Texas senator said in a statement Tuesday, as news of the Brussels attack came out.
Sen. Ted Cruz's call to patrol Muslim American neighborhoods after the Brussels attacks is ridiculous and dangerous.
It is despicable.
It is xenophobic.
It is ridiculous.
It is dangerous.
To be clear, the attacks in Brussels earlier today were terrible. I say that without the slightest equivocation. ISIS has taken responsibility for the attacks. However, to make the illogical leap from ISIS inspiring or formulating an attack in Belgium to encouraging American law enforcement to "patrol and secure" Muslim neighborhoods in America is supremely ignorant.
It may have rolled off of Cruz's tongue very easily -- bigotry often works that way -- but what his statement implies, practically speaking, is an undue suspicion of imminent criminality and danger from millions and millions of Americans solely based on their faith.
American Muslims had nothing to do with the attack in Brussels.
American Muslims had nothing to do with the attack in Paris.
What we have here, though, are a billion people being held responsible for the actions of the tiniest minority of people who claim to represent the Muslim faith.
Dylann Roof, the white supremacist in Charleston who shot and killed nine African- Americans in a Bible study, was a baptized Christian. Does he represent the Christian faith?
Robert Lewis Dear, who shot and killed three people in the Colorado Planned Parenthood attack, was a "devout Christian" who "read the Bible from cover to cover." Should we begin patrolling Christian neighborhoods?
How about Eric Rudolph -- the Olympic Park bomber, who also set off bombs at health clinics -- killing two and injuring more than 120 people? He was very much a Christian fundamentalist. Shouldn't we make haste to secure our country from men like him?
Is Ted Cruz really interested in making our country safe or is he trying to win over an easily frightened electorate?
Why hasn't he mentioned all of the police officers killed by white men this year? If just one single officer had been killed by a Syrian refugee Ted Cruz would speak about it every other hour. White men? Not so much.
It's clearly easy for people like Ted Cruz to lump groups of people together when they don't actually belong to those groups, but what we're seeing here isn't just inconvenient, it's dangerous.
When a man who is one of the leading Republican candidates for President suggests before the nation that millions of Americans need an extra level of surveillance, he opens them up to harassment, ridicule, and even violent vigilantism. American Muslims do not deserve this.
Quite the contrary -- our Muslim sisters and brothers are among the most influential liberal and moderate Muslims in the world. Beyond the obvious fact that we are talking about American citizens here, we are talking about people who love this country, work hard for it, and have the ability to be a positive inspiration for their faith throughout the world.
What does Ted Cruz even mean when he suggests this extra level of surveillance? What does it mean to "patrol and secure" Muslim neighborhoods? From what? How? Where?
Again, this bigoted rhetoric may appeal to his conservative base, but when pushed to explain what such a thing looks like, it resembles South African apartheid. Are Muslim Americans going to have to go through checkpoints to get into their neighborhoods? Will they have curfews? Will their homes be bugged and monitored?
This is very much like what Donald Trump has suggested when he said he would "round up" over 400,000 undocumented immigrants every single month for 24 straight months until all 11 million undocumented immigrants are no longer in our country.
His supporters love how this sounds, but the logistics behind such an enterprise are Nazi-level ugliness.
I wish I could say, "But oh, that's Ted Cruz, the crazy Republican from Texas," but that's not really what we're saying. This man has won primaries in multiple states. He is now seen by the Republican establishment as the better alternative to Donald Trump.
It's no longer good enough to laugh this off. We are going off the deep end and some of America's most vulnerable citizens are already paying the price.
Don’t pay any attention to the Daily News.
You obviously misunderstand.
One, I'm not "sold" on anyone...but I detest hypocrisy and both Cruz and Trump are big with it.
Two, I have no use for this Shaun King POS and anything he has to write about anybody is suspect.
I have yet to make up my mind, but will say that Kasich is definitely "out" with me and Rubio was never under consideration.
So, that leaves Cruz V Trump.
Neither one of them will have my vote when they make a practice of calling for the same action that they excoriated the other for, simply to take advantage of the emotion of the moment.
And that is what Cruz is doing and it is not the right thing to do.
I can tell you of many things that Trump has/is doing in the same vein, but you still will not accept that there are many that still have not decided between the best of two poor candidates.
So...again, I'm not "sold" on anyone.
In fact, I left my wallet at home...I'll just have to write a check, I guess.
While I hold my nose.
And one more thing: that flipping idiot Glenn Beck is not doing Cruz any good, whatsoever.
I respect the hell out of Ted Cruz' Christian values...but I will not have the cross used to beat me over the head, particularly not by a goofy bastid such a Glenn Beck.
In fact, if any one thing turns me from Cruz, it will be that nit-witted American taliban.
But not to worry...I will vote for the nominee (unless it's Kasich), because a non-vote is a vote for a damned democrat...and that means Hillary.
FR has ISIS lovers?
Exactly.
My guess is that he is one of those people that you love to hate, and the rag keeps him on because he is outrageous--it helps sell newspapers.
No, he’s a rabid WHITE racist who claims to be a black man. . .
Thee TV and newspaper media is overflowing with these Affirmative Action hires.
then the good muslims better fix THEIR problem and fast or a whole lot of them are going to be paying for the actions of that tiny minority.
SEGREGATE MUSLIMS FROM ALL OTHERS IN OUR PRISON SYSTEMS. Our prisons are a breeding ground for the spread of ISLAM!!!
Cruz is grasping at straws.
“It may have rolled off of Cruz’s tongue very easily — bigotry often works that way...”
As does conscious arrogance, purposeful pretense of a synthetic moral superiority and pushing those views on others, as if “feeling” a certain way will modify reality.
Shaun King is an American writer, entrepreneur, preacher and civil rights activist.
He is noted for his use of social media to promote religious, charitable and social causes, including the Black Lives Matter movement.
He is the senior justice writer for the New York Daily News.
I know everyone is not serious about solving the problem when they talk about “banning Muslims.” Its just empty rhetoric - even for Trump.
A serious person would say “I intend to greatly increase the visa and travel requirements for anyone a native born citizen of, or carrying a passport from the attached 25 mid-east, North African and South Asian countries.”
A very effective “ban” can be had by simply adjusting visa requirements (to near zero), which includes ending the refugee resettlement and family reunification nonsense used by the Left.
Good grief!
So lets just continue importing tens of thousands of Muslims? Who are we going to “Empower”? The cops? The Muslims?
All this while the disciples of deceit in D.C. like Cruz wave through conga lines of Muslims as they continues to pour into the U.S.?
Really?
If we DON’T speak the truth, then we are bowing to sharia once again.
Not second Reagan, the first Trump.
Thanks!
A small taste of the daily crap that Trump has to deal with.
He mentioned Brussels and Paris but didn’t mention California. Convenient loss of memory.
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