I am so embarassed to live in the same country as people who think this way
Key quote:
The survey showed that 27 percent of respondents supported requiring all Muslim-Americans to register where they lived with the federal government. Twenty-two percent favored racial profiling to identify potential terrorist threats. And 29 percent thought undercover agents should infiltrate Muslim civic and volunteer organizations to keep tabs on their activities and fund-raising.
Anyone else hear strains of Germany in this?
Posted by Jen at December 18, 2004 7:49 AMOr strains of America. Remember this is the country that put Japanese-Americans in interment camps during WWII. .
Posted by: susan at December 18, 2004 12:56 PMIn WWII, Germans denied rights to, imprisoned and killed people (Jews, homosexuals, Gypsys) who had nothing to do with the war that was being fought (the war the Germans started).
In WWII, the US government took away rights and property from and imprisoned people who came from (or were decendants of people from) the country which had attacked us. It was xenophobic, paranoid and wrong, but more understandable than what the Germans did.
I agree with Susan that the inclination to restrict rights of Muslims, given the attacks on the US by Muslims, is similar to the Japanese experience rather than what the Germans did. Again, wrong, but not as evil.
i'm so sad. our country relies on fear. why are we so afraid of everthing/everyone?
Posted by: kat at December 20, 2004 6:57 AM