Ted Cruz wrote, “We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized”. She reasserted her view that the USA should embrace, rather than alienate, Muslim communities, saying “we want them to report it; we want them to be part of protecting the United States”.
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Trump, who has called for a ban on Muslims entering the USA, said it was “a disgrace” that one of the suspects behind last November’s attacks in Paris had been found after a long manhunt by police in an area of Brussels where he lived.
U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump was “just plain wrong” to say that British Muslims are not reporting suspicious activity by extremists to the authorities, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.
“I have such back up like you’ve never seen before in terms of air power, air strikes etc”. You go into the neighborhoods where gang violence is a problem and you work proactively to get the gang members off the street.
Trump’s statement was promptly condemned by a senior British counter-terrorism police officer and also the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).
But Mr Trump insisted he was not anti-Muslim. “And you know, if you report the bad ones all of a sudden you’re not going to have the problems”.
“We have to toughen our surveillance, our interception of communication”, she said.
“It is standard law enforcement – it is good law enforcement to focus on where threats are emanating from, and anywhere where there is a locust of radicalization, where there is an expending presence of radical Islamic terrorism”, Cruz told reporters on Tuesday evening in Manhattan.
“If we demonise one section of the community that is the worst thing we can do, we are absolutely playing into the terrorists’ hands of making people feel hate”.
Mahir Osman, with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Metro Detroit, said while Muslim Americans are grieving for the victims in Brussels, they will at the same time be stereotyped and even called terrorists themselves.
“When we see the sight of these kinds of attacks, our hearts bleed”, he said.
He told Good Morning Britain: “We know we are getting more referrals into our Prevent programmes which are aimed to dissuade people from radicalisation”.
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“For the sake of our party and country, we must overcome the divisiveness and vulgarity Donald Trump has brought into the political arena or we will certainly lose our chance to defeat the Democratic nominee, most likely Hillary Clinton, this fall”, he wrote.
