I should have been specific. I am also for deporting all non American citizens from ANY Mid Eastern country. I know that may seem harsh to you but this is exactly what we need to do. And soon. (by Joe Hadenuf)
That kind of logic is exactly the same logic used by the ban-the-gun advocates. All gun crimes are committed by gun owners so assume all gun owners are guilty. The terrorist acts were committed by Muslims so assume all Muslims are guilty. One statement seems just as assinine as the other to me. (by Non-Sequitur)This is a preposterous irrelevancy.
As the entire country has been repeatedly lectured, most Muslims are amazingly peaceful, deeply religious, wouldn't hurt a fly. Indeed, endless invocations of the pacific nature of most Muslims is the only free speech it is safe to engage in these days. This is a preposterous irrelevancy. Fine, we get it. The New York Times can rest assured that every last American has now heard the news that not all Muslims are terrorists. That's not the point. Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims -- at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours. How are we to distinguish the peaceful Muslims from the fanatical, homicidal Muslims about to murder thousands of our fellow citizens? Are the good Muslims the ones who live quiet lives, pray a lot and obey the law? So did the architects of Bloody Tuesday's mass murder. Are the peaceful Muslims the ones who loudly proclaim their hatred of Osama Bin Laden? Mohammed Atta did that, too.
There are one million Muslims in the USA on temporary visas. They are the swamp. The terrorists (relatively few in number) are gators hiding in the swamp. We can either spend all eternity hunting gators, or we can do the sensible thing and drain the damn swamp.