Look, i'm all for taking out 100,000 bad guys at a time in order to make us safe. I'm no wimp. I'll ice ten of them myself then enjoy a cheeseburger with a hard-on.
My problem is howard's support of rounding up americans in camps because of their skin. maybe that works for him because he's a chunky white dude, not a brown person that'd be in camps. But support we decide to do that... Howard should think that through.
Wasn't there a pipe bomb delivered to an NAACP office recently? that's domestic terr'ism. The composite sketch was a chunky white dude, right? Should we put chunky white dudes in camps if this happens?
I'm all for rights of americans - you fuck with us, we blow you up. But the rights of our people are a serious thing.
It would never happen..never, ever, ever. There are over 6 million Muslims in America today, some liberal, some bat shit crazy radical, some poor as dirt, some with more money than god, some easily identifiable, some blended in better than John Smith.... It would be impossible to even figure out who to take and who not to take. Forget about the backlash that would come from the biggest oil supplier in the world (Saudi), and the economic impact that would be faced.
The biggest issue in my personal opinion regarding Islam is that unlike other faiths, many Muslims are having a hard time moving into the modern age and accepting a truly liberal way of life, more so than those who practice other religions.
Read any of the major scriptures in the Bible, Torah, Koran and you are bound to find some questionable material, violent material, extreme material, etc etc but (and this is my personal opinion) westerners who practice other faiths, have been able to live in a modern world while continuing to practice their faith, I don't see the same from Muslims (at least from many Muslims.. Not all), this could be due to education or lack thereof in that part of the world (and this is not meant as a general statement because I look at my family -parents, cousins, uncles, etc - and they do still practice Islam but live and properly assimilate into modern society, but I see them as the minority. My family is financially well off, very well educated with graduate level degrees, I consider this the true face of liberal Islam.... But I don't think It'd be fair to say that's an accurate representation of the general Muslim population worldwide. But neither is that of those who are considered radical and extreme and commit terrorist attacks! There are plenty of Grey areas in between those two degrees that represent liberal and extreme.
Fucking complex.