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.
....see if Mr King would go into a NO GO neighborhood in Belgium?. Go ahead Daily News please send him to do an on site story
Personally I think Ted Cruz’s idea is idiotic because I’m actually a conservative and I find the idea of militarized police marching the streets to “patrol and secure” things to be abhorrent.
I’d prefer Trump’s idea on stopping them from coming here in the first place. Hopefully he can get elected and put his plan into place before we import ourselves a bunch of mini-Mogadishu’s like Europe has.
Why is this racist POS even given a forum?
Shame on the MSM for its desperation in finding suitable & sane writers and opinionmakers
racist blm supporter
If you condemn murder you condemn Mohammad.
If you condemn thievery you condemn Mohammad.
If you condemn rape you condemn Mohammad.
If you condemn pedophilia you condemn Mohammad.
If you condemn terrorism you condemn Mohammad.
If you condemn Mohammad you condemn Islam.
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You can't turn a dog into a tree and Islam can't reform.
There should be a great cleansing soon. We have allowed the wicked rule too long.
..American Muslims had nothing to do with the attack in Brussels.
American Muslims had nothing to do with the attack in Paris...
American Muslims had everything to do with Boston, Fort Hood, San Bernardino, the Ohio recruiting office killings, Garland Texas, and the California college stabbings. How many attacks did I omit?
Shaun, you are a fool. And a dangerous one too.
Will the return of Syrian Mooslims, as Trump suggests, be done without police presence?
Shaun King is a white man who is paid money to “identify” as black—do you need to know anymore?
Shaun King. He’s a dildo, isn’t he?
Not a Cruz supporter, but I see nothing wrong with American Police policing American cities.
Put a sock in it Shaun King.
People like yourself and other limp-wristed, politically correct, lead from behind folks have no idea how to deal with the evil now being unleashed on western societies through Islamic terror. You in fact refuse to even call it what it is.
But it can be dealt with...both in Europe and elsewhere.
These Islamic terrorists are not capable of overwhelming Europe’s or really any of the West’s forces. But they are capable of out maneuvering a feckless, mired down, politically correct effort.
We have the forces, the equipment, the technology and the firepower to do what must be done...but currently some of our leaders and people like yourself are simply unable or unwilling to do so.
The people of Europe at some point are going to have to stand and DEMAND that they do. What you are seeing this year in the United States is the rising up of people demanding that we do so here.
When that happens...and when the people really mean it...then we will elected those who are serious.
They will put in place a no-holds barred effort to go into Muslim enclaves and rip the terrorist cells out by the root...destroying anything that hides, abets and supports them...and doing it with extreme prejudice.
That’s what it will take. until we do...a LOT more innocent people are going to continue to die.
If you cannot countenance what it takes to stop that...too bad. You will need to simply get the hell out of the way so the people who know what it takes, and how to do it, can get the job done.
People like yourself only prolong the inevitable and make it much worse.
Warfare is hideous. In order to win, it is not clean, it is not “nice,” it is not politically correct. But when faced with such evil, like our forefathers long before, and our fathers and grandfathers in World War I and II, we have to practice it, and practice it well in order for our nation, our culture, our families, and our freedom to survive.
Islam is demonic and no demonic religions should be legal. Does your religion refer to other human beings as subhuman? If so, then, your religion is demonic.
Most of the recent terrorist attacks in Europe habe been “homegrown”. We just want to nip it in the bud before it happens on our own soil.
That is why “American muslims” should be viewed as an invasive, occupying , enemy force and be dealth with accordingly. They are only parasites coming to feed and then kill the host.
...nothing to worry about. This is enrichening our culture.
Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too late.
Really? It's WAY more than that.
I’ve seen that. Churchill was extraordinarily astute.
Just yesterday, I stood with thousands of others along a 40 mile procession route for a 27 year old local cop killed by a white trash druggie.
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