What Trump is preaching is hate. You can replace "moooslim" with ******, chink, gook...and you have the exact same ******** that has brought suffering on people since we learned to speak.
One man's hate is another man's realpolitik I suppose.
Donald trump is the greatest ISIL enlistment officer anyone could have dreamed up.
I think the guy who appeared in snazzy videos and cut off the heads of kafirs to the beat of an uplifting Arabic prayer has been far more persuasive.
At a time when we need to make our Muslim-american neighbors feel like americans and not like outcasts ...
What's so special about this particular time? When somebody from a particular ethnic community perpetrates a horrible crime, then we have a duty to assuage whatever guilt that community might feel? Or even indulge them to prove that we bear no ill will to them? It's an interesting idea, but I think it lacks both a moral justification and a practical one. We owe it to them to protect their rights and their safety. More than that I think is unnecessary, and may even be counterproductive. A little shame may actually be salutary. Perhaps family members or other members of the community might be a little quicker to cooperate with police before this kind of **** goes down again.
... he has done every hateful, bigoted, narrow minded, asinine thing possible to prevent peace.
I can think of a few he hasn't gotten around to yet.
If I found out tomorrow Muslim Americans were being required to "register" in a database (wearing the gold star for the 21st century) and excluded from this country the very first thing I would do is find the nearest mosque and start wearing a burqua. What Donald Trump is brain washing you people to believe is the exact opposite of what our country was built on. What happens to one american should happen to all Americans, and I personally will not stand and watch while my neighbors are treated like vermin.
Such a hero you are. You have already saved us from hordes of evil strawmen and stand ready to protect us from more.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free". When my great grandparents walked past the statue of liberty and saw this inscription, they were hated as the "destroyers of america". I will not stand by and watch other Americans be treated like that, and it sickens me so many people are so ignorant and gullible they will allow racism to rule them.
This reminds me of a line from Austin Powers' Goldmember, which I'll paraphrase: "There are only two things I can't stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's ideologies; and Republicans."
ISIL has killed more Muslims than any other group of people. Muslims are at the biggest risk, not us. We are so used to pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist, when what we need to do is provide a welcoming place for those who have to escape. If you live in a place where your choices were ISIL or death, you'd choose ISIL too. But instead of providing an alternative...come here, work, be free to be Muslim...we exclude, segregate, and hate on people.
If you know an effective way to distinguish the ISIS sympathizers from those who are willing to adopt our values and assimilate, then you should call up the Department of Homeland Security and teach it to them. Because I have a feeling they've been playing Russian roulette.
We are not at war with islam. You do realize that most of Africa is Muslim?
I'm not sure why this would be relevant, even if it were true (which it is not).
We aren't at war with a religion. We are at war with a tolitarian regime with uses false ideology for control and a semblance of legitimacy. Maybe if we weren't blaring the trumpets of war and hate, that false ideology wouldn't be so convincing.
Why a false ideology? What makes it false, and why would it matter? Do you mean that it's different from what the vast majority of Muslims believe? Likely so, but that dangerous ideology still draws almost all of its adherents from the
Ummah. And almost all of its sympathizers (a far greater number). You're not going to find many ISIS inspired lone wolfs among the Southern Baptist population. Or the Catholics. Or the Mormons, the Mennonites and the Jews. Or Hindus probably. Or Buddhists. I doubt even atheists would be tempted by the prospect of creating a new caliphate. I could speculate as to why Muslims are more attracted to ISIS's ideology than others, but it doesn't really matter. The statistics speak for themselves.
The United States destabilized the middle east. We killed the fathers, we ruined the economy. And now we say, these people are all evil, instead of understand that we **** in their backyard and left them to clean it up. They see us as evil and colonialist for a very good reason...because we are.
You must have learned your history from Obama. Regardless, if you think we are evil and colonialist, then you must have very high standards indeed. Standards that virtually no other nation or ethnic group has ever met. Certainly not anything that has ever existed in the Muslim world.