Post by Daniel on Mar 24, 2016 9:29:00 GMT -5
Obama: Patrolling Muslim neighborhoods 'makes no sense'
By Ben Ariel
3/24/2016
President Barack Obama on Wednesday joined those condemning Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz for calling for police to "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods" in the wake of the Belgian terror attacks.
Speaking in Argentina and quoted by NBC News, Obama said that strategy "makes no sense."
"We have an extraordinarily successful, patriotic, integrated Muslim community," said the president. "They do not feel ghettoized, they do not feel isolated."
"Any approach that would target them for discrimination is not only wrong and un-American, but counter-productive," added Obama.
"As far as the notion of having surveillance of neighborhoods where Muslims are present, I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped for America, the land of the free," he said. "The notion that we would start down that slippery slope makes absolutely no sense. It's contrary to who we are."
In a statement issued following the Brussels terrorist attacks, Cruz wrote "Our European allies are now seeing what comes of a toxic mix of migrants who have been infiltrated by terrorists and isolated, radical Muslim neighborhoods.”
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By Ben Ariel
3/24/2016
President Barack Obama on Wednesday joined those condemning Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz for calling for police to "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods" in the wake of the Belgian terror attacks.
Speaking in Argentina and quoted by NBC News, Obama said that strategy "makes no sense."
"We have an extraordinarily successful, patriotic, integrated Muslim community," said the president. "They do not feel ghettoized, they do not feel isolated."
"Any approach that would target them for discrimination is not only wrong and un-American, but counter-productive," added Obama.
"As far as the notion of having surveillance of neighborhoods where Muslims are present, I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped for America, the land of the free," he said. "The notion that we would start down that slippery slope makes absolutely no sense. It's contrary to who we are."
In a statement issued following the Brussels terrorist attacks, Cruz wrote "Our European allies are now seeing what comes of a toxic mix of migrants who have been infiltrated by terrorists and isolated, radical Muslim neighborhoods.”
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209835
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