Why cant we have muslim detention camps?

Question

we locked up the dirty japs after Pearl Harbor and there was not another attack on maerica by japs in 60+ years. This proves detention camps work. Why cant we lock up muslims after 9/11 to prevent further terror attacks/

Answer 1

We will, we will, just as soon as we lock up all the dumbass bigots.

Answer 2

We do have one, that I know of. It is in the Carribean, at Guantanamo, a part of Cuba that we retained control of after we helped the Cubans gain their independence from Spain in 1898.
It is sometimes referred to as Gitmo. We are holding human beings there without trial. They have merely been accused, either by their enemies in the mid-East countries, or by the Bush Administration. I will tell you right now that it is against all that this country stands for to detain people without due process and trial. It only shows that the U.S. has no evidence against those people held at Gitmo. If we did, we would try, convict, and punish them. What we are doing right now is just punishing them, without proviing their guilt.


Your question and your use of the word "Jap" upsets me. Getting back to America's war against Japan in the forties, the detention camps detained American-born citizens who had nothing to do with the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Those innocent people did not influence the Japanese government's foreign policy, and the fact that we have not been attacked by Japan after the war has nothing to do with the detention of innocent human beings. The United States was wrong in having done that, and we have now realized that we acted out of panic and racial prejudice. We must never punish people based on their race or religion, and if we do, we are in the same category as the Nazi, Hitler.

When you say "muslim" detention camps, "muslim" is a person of a religion. The 9/11 attack was tragic and killed many Americans, but we know only of 19 or so criminals who got on planes and committed these horrific acts. We don't even have prood that Al Qaida and Bin Laden were really involved, unless you want to take the proofless word of George W. Bush. Of course Bin Laden has accepted responsibility for it. Why not? It made him look good. It enabled George Bush to get us all to rally behind an enemy and say that we are "at war", and if a country is at war, it makes the opposition party and dissenters look disloyal to the war effort. That is how Bush convinced people to invade and occupy Iraq, a country that had no connection whatsoever to 9/11.

As you say, "muslim detention camps" should be set up. You would then be detaining innocent people based on their religion just as Japanese camps detained innocent people based on their race. Is this the American way?

Answer 3

I agree, we must lock up the muslims to prevent another 9/11 type of attack.

Answer 4

This is a very broad question. Atheism literally means 'without god' and since most human acts of devastation have been in the name of one god or another, this would suggest that they are less harmful than people with a religion. If you think about it in a more abstract way, atheism promotes free thinking and the choice to believe what you want without the hindrance of someone telling you what is correct without any evidence. In this way, many religions actually promote ignorance over knowledge. (The reasoning behind this lays with early society humans trying to form a manageable society that functions well together. Religion is a very effective way to do this, hence why there are so many similarities between them). So depending on what you mean by harm, in early human society atheism could have been more detrimental to the progression of the human race but in recent times (the last 150 years or so) religion is losing its place in modern society.

Answer 5

Er, um... What attacks?
It's been over 6 years since 9/11, and I'm not sure we've even HAD an attack on American soil since then. Those detention camps should be placed in Iraq where they could do some good! Oh, wait. That's what Club Gitmo is all about, isn't it?

So what was your problem?

Answer 6

If another 9/11 or worse happens inside the USA, you can bet your bottom dollar American/ Muslim relations will change dramatically...It should have happened after 9/11 but I'm afraid it may take another attack to really knock the PCers between the eyes.

Answer 7

It's not that you can't have detention camps.. But plz dont do some gay rapings on the detainees...
Think about you being locked up and being raped by muslim terrorists because you insisted on having the muslim detention camps.. will it feel better? guess not...

Answer 8

Despite the idiocy of 100% solutions. (Should we have detention camps for all Catholic Priests following every child abuse case?) and flying in the face of the basic human right to religious freedoms the questioner does make a case for having idiots institutionalized!

Answer 9

I can't see any way to justify that act of locking Japanese who did nothing in detention camps, though they were not ill treated (as far as I know), and though in general I think President FD Roosevelt was a grate person.

Answer 10

because times have changed. i agree, some should be locked up. but many japenese are good people. and same with muslims. theres a muslim girl at my school. she pretty nice. i dont know her that well tho.

Answer 11

detention camps are a violation of basic rights. not all muslims are bad, and the good should not have to suffer with the bad. we would be no better than hitler, torturing innocent souls. how would you like to ripped from your life and put into a detention camp? answer that question and then see how much sense this question of yours contained.