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Ignore Cruz And Trump — Scapegoating Muslims Is An Un-American Response To The Brussels Attacks
LA Times ^ | March 21, 2016

Posted on 03/22/2016 5:57:45 PM PDT by Steelfish

Ignore Cruz And Trump — Scapegoating Muslims Is An Un-American Response To The Brussels Attacks

It has been clear at least since the massacre in Paris last November that jihadist terrorists are embedded in Europe, difficult to detect and determined to engage in spectacular acts of violence. So while Tuesday's carnage in Brussels was horrific, it also was achingly familiar. This time more than 30 people were killed and hundreds injured in separate attacks at the Brussels airport and at a downtown subway close to the headquarters of the European Union. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks.

While condemnations come easy, a strategy for preventing such outrages is elusive. It does seem that Belgian intelligence and law enforcement have been overmatched. It was only last Friday that authorities captured Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in the Paris attacks who was living in Brussels and reportedly planning further attacks. Obviously European governments need to cooperate more on identifying and uprooting terrorists in their countries.

Nominating Donald Trump will end the Republican Party as we know it. So will not nominating him

This attack also demonstrates the importance of the multinational military effort to, in President Obama's words, "degrade and ultimately destroy" Islamic State in Syria and Iraq — a campaign in which Obama has overcome his aversion to military action in the Middle East. That attempts to defeat Islamic State will inspire retaliation is no reason to abandon the effort, but it underlines the importance of adequate intelligence and information-sharing not just in Europe, but between European governments and the U.S.

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To: Presbyterian Reporter

“In the normal course of daily life in Western Europe or the USA it is very easy to bring bombs to a church, meetings, stores, and events. Unless we install bomb detectors at every street corner, the only way to put a stop to the Radical Islamic Jihadists is to keep them out of the country.”

Correct, except that no level of security will fix this problem. The only solution is to dry up the source of terrorists.


61 posted on 03/22/2016 7:35:23 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Steelfish

Who in the name of Sweet Jesus do you think committed the attacks, the Irish cast of River Dance?
You freekin’ ejit.


62 posted on 03/22/2016 7:49:47 PM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: LeoWindhorse

“visit them at their homes”

With hot tar, feathers, torches, and pitchforks.

L


63 posted on 03/22/2016 7:51:11 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: MarvinStinson
The LA Times rag thinks

I don't see a whole lot of thinking going on at the LA Slimes ...

64 posted on 03/22/2016 7:51:50 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: Steelfish
Can't you imagine the leftist LA Times editors huddling together, trying to figure out how to somehow blame Donald Trump for the Brussels Islamic terrorist attack? This article was the result. Disgusting.

Sorry, LAT -- the attack was performed by observant adherents to a particular religion, who were just following the text of their holy book.

Now, which religion was that? Speak up!

Also, please tell us, if Donald Trump's immigration policy had been enacted by Europe in 2000, how many Europeans would now be healthy instead of dead, maimed, or raped? How many Europeans would have been able to walk their streets without constant fear?

65 posted on 03/22/2016 7:55:39 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Parmy
Who is doing these dastardly deeds?

Why it must be the filthy Christians and Jews doing all these heinous acts and planting evidence against the poor peace loving muslims.................oh wait, we don't live in Bizarro world!

66 posted on 03/22/2016 7:56:12 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Exactly right. You put words to my thoughts. Thanks.


67 posted on 03/22/2016 8:00:44 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
Scapegoating Muslims Is An Un-American

Not blaming Muslims is an un-brain action.

68 posted on 03/22/2016 8:39:53 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Steelfish

Best response encountered is: “Not all Muslims are terrorists but 100 percent of jihadis are Muslim.”


69 posted on 03/22/2016 8:50:50 PM PDT by DuhYup (The Bill of Rights is a package deal!)
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To: Steelfish

Another BOHICA moment, i.e., another opportunity for feckless Eurocrats to wring their hands over the dangers of Islamophobia.
http://www.steynonline.com/7493/tomorrow-civilizational-cringe-today
So “British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow’s Train Bombing” is now joined by “Belgian Cabinet Minister Says Tomorrow’s Train Bombing Is All Our Fault”.

So “we” have to work on it. That means you, the Flemish frequent flyer, poking your head up from the rubble at the airport concourse. And you, the Walloon strap-hanger blinking into the dust and chaos and wondering where the lower part of your left leg went. You are going to “have to work on” it, harder and harder and harder.

Just how are they going to work on it? In Brussels, the terrorists blew up the area outside the secure zone. Which was entirely predictable.


70 posted on 03/22/2016 9:01:53 PM PDT by Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek (No good deed will go unpunished by those who benefit from the evil it challenges.)
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To: Steelfish

Poor scapegoated babies.


71 posted on 03/22/2016 9:30:48 PM PDT by chit*chat
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To: Steelfish

0bama’s west coast Volkische Beobachter..


72 posted on 03/22/2016 10:04:32 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Steelfish

Who attacked?

1. Rampaging Quakers?
2. Deranged Mennonites on crack cocaine?
3. Drunk Amish with lust and murder in their hearts?
4. Baptists?
5. Methodists?
6. Hindus?
7. Buddhists?
8. A Catholic conspiracy led by Jesuits?
9. Insane Scotsmen? They are insane, but I like them.
10. Church of England led by Queen Elizabeth?
11. The Tea Party?
12. A Jewish cabal?
13. The Boy Scouts?
14. The Girl Scouts? I hate their damn cookies but buy them.
15. Perhaps it was the Hari Krishnas?
16. The Ghost of Mother Teresa?

Did I miss any religion, cult or extremists group of wanton killers? Help me with this one as I am in a quandary.

I have seemed to run out of suspects but as in the film CASABLANCA, “round up the usual suspects.”


73 posted on 03/22/2016 11:14:17 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN, CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: Steelfish

I’d like to end the Republican Party as it works today!


74 posted on 03/23/2016 2:07:11 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

They aren’t moozlum “radicals”...they are “good” moozlums. Read the koran.


75 posted on 03/23/2016 3:04:16 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or eradication Camp?)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Bttt


76 posted on 03/23/2016 4:33:31 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Steelfish

Liberals are like battered wives who won’t leave their husbands.
He’s good, he’s nice, don’t talk about the violence or he’ll hurt me.
He hurt me, I must have done something to provoke it, I’m sorry.
Don’t confront him on the violence or he’ll kill me.


77 posted on 03/23/2016 6:19:44 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: hal ogen

I’d like to disagree, sir! But, I, uh, can’t.


78 posted on 03/23/2016 6:30:07 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Steelfish

“LA Times is Fifth Columnist. Worst piece of rag!”

One can never say that enough. Traitors!


79 posted on 03/23/2016 6:32:33 AM PDT by ohioman
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