If you're referring to the Japanese internment, there is some suggestion that it did work, because there were apparently subversive contacts in the Japanese community and there were Japanese attacks on the West Coast that were not publicized at the time.
It's true that the vast majority of Japanese had nothing to do with Imperial Japan and were unfairly imprisoned; but that still doesn't negate the fact that some bad people were also imprisoned, and this may have prevented worse things from happening to our forces or even our civilian population.
Also, if Muslims realized that there was a serious cost to pay, some of them might rethink their jihadi rhetoric. Right now, they can say and even do whatever they want, in the name of their religion, but we still do not take it seriously. The reality is that if they say that they want to take over our country, act like it by trying to kill Americans and destroy our economy and institutions, and in addition have a 1400 year track record of this behavior, we should take it seriously.
I have no doubt it might be somewhat effective...
But in todays ninnified, TV pop-culture, lets do what feels good society, around the entire world...
If we did this, let say after the next big attack, I think that action would spur a tremendous “outside the islamic circle” backlash that we might not be able to fend off...
But like I’m thinking...Its better to burn out, than fade away...
It really is a sad state of affairs when it haas become passe’ to defend and or protect yourselves and your country from foriegn threats...You’re expected to take it, be sorry for being attacked, try to find a way to help those who attacked you, because you deserved it to begin with, and when you are attacked again, acept that you failed in the first attempt, and try harder before they hit you again...
Its a vicious cycle, one that I believe is the backbone of the democrat party and the liberal/socialists within their ranks...
Personally, I’d like to avid giving them any more power than they have right now...
But I digress...Nope incarcerating the muslim population, deproting them, etc etc...Although not offensive to some, would not work anyway...
The experiment in WWII proved that...