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.
One of his experiences in high school was what he considered a hate crime assault.
King stated a "dozen rednecks" had beaten him and the injuries caused him to miss a portion of two years of high school due to multiple spinal surgeries.
The detective who investigated the case in 1995 described King's injuries as "minor". The associated police report noted that the incident revolved around a fight involving a student who defended his girlfriend after being allegedly threatened by King. The report did not indicate the incident was racially motivated. There is no mention of a "hate crime" either with local police or with the FBI.
The police report from the incident describes King's injuries as minor with only one other student identified as being involved.
Keith Broughton, the investigating detective, said he interviewed six witnesses put forth by the school's principal, including a teacher who broke up the fight. All of them described it as a one-on-one altercation.
wikipedia
When did Cruz do that?
Trump didn’t say to “ban all Muslims”. He said to stop Muslim immigration temporarily until our government can figure out what the hell is going on before we have more San Bernardinos.
I was listening to a black minister on the radio one day. This guy knew what he was talking about. A caller started talking about the “white devil.” The minister said, “Let me tell you something brother. You don’t have to worry about the white devil. You got to worry about the black devil.”
In August 2015, Breitbart News Network writer Milo Yiannopoulos questioned King's biracial identity based on information from King's birth certificate which lists Naomi Fleming and Jeffrey Wayne King as Shaun King's parents, both of whom are white.
King said that the man listed on his birth certificate is not his biological father, and that his mother has told him his biological father is a light-skinned black man.
King and his supporters expressed concern that such questions were an attempt to distract from the Black Lives Matter movement.
That’s good.
There aren’t Muslim neighborhoods for starters,and they self-segregate anyway.So many of them seem to spend their time,either in their cars or at a mall.....it is not like that many live in a fixed address.
The Cops already know who those are.I mean the only places with Muslim majorities or substantial minorities are out in Illinois,or Michigan,so they might want to step up enforcement in these States.
They are already cut off from the mainstream and pushing these kinds of laws,wouldn’t change the status quo.Not to mention it is illegal.
Mind you,there better be some major arrests coming up for specific “community” because some these people most certainly represent a threat.
Thank you.
I think that’s the white nitwit who thinks he’s black, the male version of Rachel whatever the heck her name is
Folks would have been all for it if Trump had proposed this .
We need to shut down the borders (Trump) and make sure we do not have ‘no go’ areas like NY or Detroit(Cruz).
Maybe Ted is eyeing Camp Manzanar.
It’s located in a picturesque setting in the Owen’s Valley, California.
http://manzanar.com/information.php
When did he say anything about putting them into camps?
MOSQUES In the USA 2015
QTY
California 525
New York 507
TEXAS 302
Illinois 200
Florida 186
Michigan 139
New Jersey 104
Pennsylvania 98
Georgia 95
Ohio 88
Connecticut 88
Virginia 88
Maryland 60
North Carolina 52
Massachusetts 48
Minnesota 47
Missouri 44
Washington 41
Tennessee 40
Indiana 32
Kentucky 30
Louisiana 30
Arizona 29
Alabama 28
Kansas 26
Wisconsin 26
South Carolina 22
Colorado 20
Iowa 19
Mississippi 17
Oklahoma 16
Utah 15
Arkansas 13
Oregon 12
Washington DC 12
Delaware 11
Nevada 10
New Mexico 9
Main 8
Rhode Island 8
Idaho 6
Nebraska 6
West Virginia 6
New Hampshire 5
Montana 3
North Dakota 3
South Dakota 3
Wyoming 3
Hawaii 3
Alaska 2
Vermont 1
TOTAL 3186
No Muslim neighborhoods? Hardly. 3186 is an explosion from only a few years ago. Muslims do NOT believe in our Constitution. We are not compatible.
I’m not going to quibble over that between the candidates. As I said. I’m not a Cruz supporter but I think the Article is a bit too animated. They’re [The eponymous] going down with either Trump or Cruz. I just think Trump can win and Cruz can not.
I don’t know if he did. Are you opposed to reopening the camps?
How about sending them back to their homelands?
He’s a whigger. And I don’t mean the political party from the early 19th century.
It’s been happening on our own soil.
Which is the long way of saying the same thing.
Repatriation. Now that’s the perfect answer.
Really, they would be much happier their.
Proposition USA Survival: For every dollar contributed to all campaigns, 30% will enable the Repatriation Act until they are all happily returned to their blessed homelands.
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