But while such a ban is unlikely to be implemented in a country founded by immigrants, the cheers that followed his announcement at a SC rally are telling. We are at war with Islam, even if our Muslim president is not. “Any of them”, supporter Charlie Marzka, 75, told CNN.
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The term “unhinged” more appropriately applies to Trump’s critics.
My essential question assumed the obvious: radical Muslims wanted to kill us and were doing so by the thousands ever since 1979 when the Islamic Republic of Iran declared war on the United States in 1979.
It is all right to have “no-go-zones” or Muslim enclaves in European countries, which are already suffering from Muslim terrorism and desperately trying to prevent more massacres there. “He can not (bar all Muslims from entering the U.S.) with any presidential order, because it’s against the Constitution”. “Juan” took to social media to make a compelling call of compassion for both those he knows as Muslim and of Middle Eastern descent, and for those who would be so foolish as to hate someone those reasons. The Republican front-runner presents a clearer, more present danger to US interests than the supposedly threatening Muslims he seeks to exclude.
Trump may yet implode and disappear from the political stage – but don’t count on it. As he grows more outrageous and extreme, his crowds get bigger and his poll numbers soar.
Watch video online Go to this editorial online at www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/opinion to see a video of Trump’s comments and the reaction to it from the American Muslim community. And a greater proportion of them have college degrees than the general US population. He says the nation needs to increase surveillance but also create relationships “with mosques in the Muslim-American community across the country”. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, praised Arab American military service men and women who lost their lives to the war on terror and other conflicts.
Celebrating this shared culture – as opposed to the counternarrative that “we”, implying “our Judeo-Christian nation”, will eviscerate “them” – is the best way of responding to the violence of extremists, vigilantes and bigots.
Scholars estimate about a quarter to a third of the Africans brought to the United States as slaves were Muslims. On the contrary, US citizens view Jews, Catholics, evangelical Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and Mormons more warmly.
They’re as religious as Christians… In Europe, perception on Muslims is generally positive in France, United Kingdom and Germany. About half say they attend the weekly Friday prayers.
She also applauded Muslim scholars for rejecting “deviant” interpretations of the Quran.
Ordinary Americans can read the Koran for themselves and many have.
Demonizing Muslims not only puts American Muslims in danger, it threatens our collective security by helping ISIS make the case that the United States and the West are at war with Islam.
Ryan and some other Republicans have proposed a temporary pause in allowing some Muslim refugees coming into the US, but they are balking at a complete ban.
After every terrorist attack at home and overseas, the refrain rises, “Where is the Muslim condemnation?”
“I think it does speak to the lack of connection between the administration and Washington and folks inside the Beltway and mainstream America”, said Sen.
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Americans’ knowledge of Islam is minimal, a new report shows, with 30 percent saying they do not know very much about the Muslim religion and its practices and another 25 percent saying they know nothing at all.
