Obama warns: Discrimination towards Muslims helps ISIS

The theory goes that since President Obama won’t acknowledge the role of a twisted interpretation of Islam in attacks like those that occurred recently in Paris and San Bernardino, people have no other choice but to embrace Trump’s plan to ban all Muslims from entering the country (temporarily!). “What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for and, more importantly, is not what this country stands for”. And I’d prefer that they be thoughtful, as they discuss what could be some messy and unpleasant policies to protect the homeland.

“I really believe and expect Senator Cruz to be the nominee in 2016”, Plaats said.

Yes, there have been incidents here and there when Americans have acted violently or rudely to people they have perceived to be Muslim. “I’ve never met her. I don’t know her. She was like, ‘We want to show up to your mosque and show you our support.'” That’s what Sandhu says America is about. He called for better intervention within the Muslim community as well as outreach efforts to the non-Muslim population.

Trump’s campaign did not reply to repeated requests for comment but Ahmed said they are reviewing her request. “We’re getting a lot of reports from individuals who say they are fearful of traveling”.

The president will hunker down with his National Security Council and then make a statement, said his spokesman Josh Earnest.

But the new CBS News poll finds a majority of Americans come down on the side of what Trump called political correctness.

It’s a statement being echoed more and more by Muslim Americans and their allies, who are speaking out against the bigotry and mistreatment. Since ISIS represents a global ideological threat, we must also confront the anti-Western jihadist ideology to promote Islamist supremacism, known as shariah, which Jasser believes is being promoted by groups like CAIR. When we fast for a month, they don’t understand what it is. Do not associate them with any religion. If the West is truly determined to defeat terrorism, it will require a comprehensive and thoughtful approach, much time, unprecedented worldwide cooperation and compromise on many levels. So that’s what Muslims do.

Fort Gratiot resident Elia Hussain, a business liaison for a private home health care service, also is Muslim. For instance, there’s little likelihood that one of his supporters in South Carolina-where Trump announced his Muslim-ban proposal to applause-would be in regular, sustained contact with any Muslim-Americans. Among the 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide are untold millions of followers of the Prophet who pray for the coming of a day when sharia is universal and the infidels, i.e., everyone else, are either converted or subjugated. It is foolish to suggest that a Muslim from Syria should pique no more investigatory interest than an atheist from Austria. That kind of divisiveness, that betrayal of our values plays into the hands of groups like ISIL. Muslim Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co-workers, our sports heroes – and, yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country.

This week, I walked into my freshmen class at the high school where I teach, and found my students immersed in a profound conversation that ended with, “Donald Trump does not represent American values and terrorism has no religion”.

Both presidents showed a lack of confidence in the ability of ordinary Americans to carry in their heads two ideas seemingly in tension.

“In Colorado, there was a shooting in an abortion clinic”, said Husain. This is a real problem that Muslims must confront, without excuse. You can bet that King George was told that not all Americans are revolutionaries, just those radicals Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Adams. It’s our responsibility to reject proposals that Muslim Americans should somehow be treated differently.