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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas Trump discussed what color triangles the registered Muslims will be forced to wear?
Will the determination of who is a Muslim be based on Mosque registries? Family lineage? Or we'll simply know them when we see them?
Does this apply to all Muslims? Just Middle Eastern Muslims? Middle Eastern and Indonesian?
Does Trump's plan contemplate placing them into camps? Alternatively, will redlining towns and simply forcing them to live in ghettos suffice?
I'm not trying to be a jerk about this -- I'm just trying to figure out whether Trump has thought through these details.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,567 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)eissa
(4,238 posts)Yellow for Chinese Muslims -- oh, the fun they could have with their xenophobia!
Rex
(65,616 posts)How can the media just grin and pretend this is healthy discourse for the nation? For a democracy?
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,801 posts)A real estate mogul, shameless self-promoter, and reality TV star with no political experience and a completely unfiltered mouth -- what could possibly go wrong.
Rex
(65,616 posts)We could take bets.
atreides1
(16,169 posts)+100000
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,801 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)and makes me so angry I'm having trouble sleeping at night.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,801 posts)◦Donald Trump suggested in an interview that harsh measures against American Muslims might be necessary. When asked in the interview if these measures might require registering Muslims in a database or giving them a form of special identification that noted their religion, Trump did not rule out such actions. Later, he told another reporter that he would absolutely implement a database for registering Muslims.
◦Senator Ted Cruz is advocating for a ban against any Syrian Muslims entering the U.S. Cruz proposed that the country admit only Christian refugees, saying There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror.
◦During a campaign event, Ben Carson compared Syrian refugees to rabid dogs. In talking about letting in immigrants from Syria, Carson said, If theres a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, youre probably not going to assume something good about that dog and youre probably going to put your children out of the way.
◦After Mayor David Bowers of Roanoke, Virginia, requested that agencies stop providing aid to Syrian refugees seeking relocation in his city, he cited the use of internment camps for Japanese-Americans as a justification for his decision.
◦Jeb Bush said that American aid for refugees fleeing Syria should be geared toward Christians as opposed to Muslims. Bush proposed that the U.S. should take in a limited number of Christian refugees, adding, We should focus our efforts as it relates to the refugees for the Christians that are being slaughtered.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)"Brave" white Americans always need someone to fear. In my lifetime it's been Commies, hippies, militant blacks, Mexicans, Arabs, Muslims in general. I'm sure I'm leaving out several other fearsome categories. I'm just sick to death of the stupidity.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,801 posts)... and the late 40s/early 50s anti communist hysteria.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)when I was a kid (I was born in 1946). They were going to nuke us for sure, and we had to do all the drills (as if hiding under your desk was going to help), and I remember one where we had to get home as fast as we could (again, as if it would do any good if a bomb were dropped). I used to have nightmares about the earth itself being blown to smithereens, like a big chunk of it blasted out into space. They did a really good job of terrorizing us poor little post-war kids.
Solly Mack
(90,892 posts)then place them in detention centers, where they were abused. And they were abused.
When T-Rump said what he said, that was the first thing that came to my mind.
Bush/Ashcroft/Chertoff and their Muslim men round up.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Probably to follow the Bush administration and round up isolate Muslim men. Then place them in detention reservation centers, where they were abused processed. And they were abused sequestered.
When T-Rump said what he said, that was the first thing that came to my mind.
Bush/Ashcroft/Chertoff and their Muslim men round up retreat.
Of course:
Solly Mack
(90,892 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Bucky
(54,244 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,801 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)So much easier in a simple-minded world, knee-jerk, uninformed world.