Most agree that another 9/11 will happen--so why do most also oppose rounding up Muslims in the US?

Question

Don't give me a bunch of whining hooey about civil liberties--martial law will certainly be in effect if we let these animals hit us again.

Would you rather put Middle-Eastern Muslim-Amercians in the same sort of luxurious, lenient, mild, and protective internment encampments that we did for the Japanese- and German-Americans during World War II, or just wait until they launch their next attack to corral, deport, and/or kill them all?

We can't have it both ways. Civil rights are only as safe as the willingness of a society to crack down on those that abuse and use them to infiltrate and attack us.

Isn't it better to suspend the "rights" of the sleeper suspects as an entire group than to await the actions of a bunch of their members, and be forced to suffer another 9/11 and martial law for everyone?

Answerers only show their utter ignorance when they draw parallels between our sumptuous internment camps in World War II and Hitler's extermination camps...more evidence of our failed, marxist anti-American public school system...

Answer 1

Great idea. Also, your question raised eyebrows here at the central HS office. One of the agents believes your question contains "red flag" phrases and connotations chiefly characteristic of a terrorist. So we'll start with bringing you in for some "questioning" - we've summoned your local authorities to transport you to one of our locations. Please stay where you are.

Answer 2

I'd hardly call the camps the Japanese were put in luxurious. They were housed in barracks covered in tar paper, without plumbing or any kind of cooking facilities. A budget of 45 cents was spent on food daily per capita. Many had inadequate clothing for the temperatures of 0 degrees fahrenheit. Though significantly better than the concentration camps of the Germans in Europe at the time, or the even the British in the Boer War, they still just scraped the minimum standards of living. If they were so luxurious why did Reagan (not some 'communist liberal') apologise for them in 1988?

The HUGE majority of Japanese housed there complied with everything the US soldiers told them to do - hardly the actions of people trying to subvert the US government. To imprison otherwise law-abiding citizens nevertheless fostered resentment and hatred WHERE NONE EXISTED PREVIOUSLY.

You would find plenty of support to imprison those who can be convicted of conspiracy to harm US citizens. However, imprisioning an entire race of people simply because less than 0.01% of them want to destroy america are not actions justifiable by any means - let alone in the so-called land of the free. Should all Christians, or all members of the same chuch, as Timothy McVeigh be imprisoned because they share a race and a religion with a terrorist? What about white converts to Islam - are they just as dangerous? Or how about Middle-eastern Christians?

Answer 3

1) 9/11 DID happen. On 9/11/01.

2) Most PARANOIDS agree it will happen again. Reality-based people are not so sure. However, there are reasonable measures we could take (which the current administration refuses to take) that could minimize the opportunities to commit something like that again.

3) You would round up 15 million people because there MIGHT be a dozen of them who would commit atrocities? Not only wrong, not only unconstitutional, but anti-American and morally reprehensible. Not that any of those factors mean anything to you.

4) "Sumptuous"? Hardly. They were locked into compounds, with little room, pretty primitive conditions. And their freedoms where illegally and unjustly stolen from them. But then, obviously you have no respect for either law or justice.

5) You're also forgetting the theft of the property of all those citizens -- or is that what you're after. You want to steal all of the property of American Muslims, is that it?

The Guidelines for use of this site forbid me to say more, as they prohibit insulting other participants.

Please go to the nearest mental health care facility and turn yourself in to them for observation.

Answer 4

Another event will definitely happen if you were to intern all Muslims into camps like the Japanese during the Second World War.

As for why I oppose such a measure. Civil liberties.

By the way, martial law will not go into effect should another attack happen. Stop taking 24 too seriously.

Answer 5

Did you live in an internment camp during WWII with those Japanese? Do you even personally know a Muslim?
Thought not.

What will interning Muslims do to stop terrorists like Timothy McVeigh? Did 9/11 just automatically "stop" all other forms of terrorism? Profiling such a large portion of the civilian population as terrorist suspects purely on their religious faith and nothing more will only energize those radicalists even more. What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? What happened to Due Process? Is the Constitution just a "goddamned piece of paper" to you?

Answer 6

Your ignorance shines through very brightly. By a vast majority, Muslims are not the problem, Islamic fascism is. A very small minority condone and preach the hatred of these radicals. Your theory would create more problems than fix. We need the cooperation of the fundamental Muslims to turn in these radicals in order to eliminate the problem. The fear in the majority Muslims does not mean they agree with the terrorists. The fear for their collective lives and are peace loving like the rest of the majority of us.

Answer 7

Why didn't people round up all the white people after Oklahoma bombing.

Look at the statistic. You have much better chance getting killed by your crazy neighbor who like guns then getting killed in terror attack. You're just paranoid.

This is like asking for extremination of dogs after your neighbor's dog bit your kids face.

Would you be happy if they ban guns, personal hand guns after just a single gun crime?

Answer 8

Because it isn't just Muslims that could do something. Actions like that could be done by someone of any race. You can't punish a specific race for the past actions of a few members of that same race just because you're afraid it'll happen again. That'd be like black people saying that they should lock up all the white people because we might make them slaves again. It's stupidity at it's finest.

Answer 9

The vast majority of Muslims are law-abiding citizens who take no more pleasure in the 9/11 atrocities than you do.

Answer 10

Given the twisted description of the WWII internment camps you have provided, I have decided that this particular question does not even deserve a proper answer. Luxurious? Please...(rolling eyes)