[muawiyah]

Time for a conversion. That's what disturbs him ~ he just found out Christianity is less of a threat to him than Godless, soul-less, atheistic humanism.

That's not what he planned on.

[BobL]

Certainly if people think that it's ok to register guns, then it must certainly be ok to register the people who tend to use them to kill other people in the name of their god.

[Publius]

Profiling, Internment, Dissent and a Declaration of War

[siunevada]

The survey -- conducted this fall by Cornell University

Okay, the source makes the results automatically suspect.

Let's see a professional organization reproduce those results.

[semaj]

The executive director of the Muslim American Society says the news is disturbing, but not surprising.

Not suprising at all, since that is exactly what happens in Muslim countries if you are not Muslim. Your "rights", if any, are very limited indeed.

[SteveMcKing]

Leave it to the libs to define what "restriction" and "liberty" actually mean, considering they can't grasp what "is" means.

[Drango]

If the civil liberties of Muslim Americans can be restricted, then the civil liberties of Catholics, Jews, Mormons and 7th day Adventists can be restricted. No thanks.

[Jackson Brown]

U-S government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans

Yeah, right! I'm so sure (NOT) that they posed the questions this way.
I notice they don't give the questions and what they are interpreting as the belief that the US government "should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans".

Typical AP BS!

[Snapple]

I would be against any special restrictions on a person because of his ethnicity or religion if he is an American citizen. I am sure it would be against the law.

I have Muslim friends and they are perfectly normal. They think Bin Laden is a nut case. Many American Muslims are middle-class professionals who have a good life here and would not risk all their have achieved for this murderer Bin Laden.

I think our government is capable of tracking beople based on their actions, not their religion.

I am religious and usually Republican but I think this is a terrible idea. I would be totally against it.

[mad puppy]

"The poll also found Republicans and people who described themselves as highly religious were more likely to support curtailing Muslims' civil liberties than Democrats or people who are less religious."

Only because we tell the truth. Those other freaks even lie on surveys for crying out loud.

[Melas]

Ah, and soon we'll have American maranaros.

[Owl558]

What are the rights being restricted here? FBI infiltration of anti-american groups that advocate the overthrow of the government was ruled constitutional long ago. As far as registration goes, we already do that on a number of levels.

Silly, you could tell the article was lying propaganda just from the title.

[phxaz]

should there be another 9-11 magnitude event in this country muslims will be shot where they stand.

[West Coast Conservative]

I wouldn't support that at all. Religious freedom is what makes America so great. Restricting someone's rights based on their religion is unconstitutional and un-American.

[coffee260]

This is bunk. This is the start of the racist Christian drum beat. We are now going to be labeled ismalophobic Christian wackos...

[Publius6961]

I would love to see the way the questions were phrased</i>. My sense, seeing input from all across the country, is that the figure is much closer to 80% ---- once you separate the "civil rights" of citizens and legal residents from that of illegal aliens.

[NRA2BFree]

The poll also found Republicans and people who described themselves as highly religious were more likely to support curtailing Muslims' civil liberties than Democrats or people who are less religious.

That's because Republicans are more intelligent than the RATS are.

I don't think we need to be restricting their liberties, I think we need to deport them, and NEVER allow any more to come to America!!! That may sound harsh, but so what. ALL of the terrorists have been Muslims!!! THEY need to renounce their cult of death (Islam) and THEN maybe, just maybe I would reconsider.

[wizardoz]

....and 29 percent thought agents should infiltrate Muslim civic and volunteer groups.

And this is curtailing their civil liberties how?

[Flux Capacitor]

----The executive director of the Muslim American Society says the news is disturbing, but not surprising.----

I'd honestly like to know whether the Muslim American Society has spoken up to condemn the beheadings and suicide bombings.

Too many Muslims haven't. We didn't hear a whole hell of a lot from Muslim religious leaders in America following the butchering of Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg. As a matter of fact, we didn't hear much from them following 9/11 itself. CAIR, probably the biggest and best-known Muslim "civil rights" organization, is little more than a terrorist front group. Overall, the silence from American Muslims has been deafening.

There are a great many Muslims who do not translate their faith into endorsements of violence. I do not believe they are the majority. Like the everyday Germans in the 1930s, they have failed to speak up or fight back against the radicals, and so the radicals have come to define Islam. And more and more people are coming to understand this. And so here we are, debating whether and by how much the civil liberties of ordinary Muslims should be curtailed -- and it isn't an unreasonable argument at all. And that's sad.

-Dan

[sitetest]

"Twenty-seven percent of the 715 respondents supported requiring all Muslim-Americans to register where they lived..."

This would be an odious practice.

However, it appears that 73% of folks don't think this is such a great idea.

That's heartening.