According to a new Gallup poll, 39% of Americans believe that the government should force Muslims to carry a special form of I.D.
Almost four in ten, 39%, advocate that Muslims here should carry special I.D. That same number admit that they do hold some “prejudice” against Muslims. Forty-four percent say their religious views are too “extreme.”
In every case, Americans who actually know any Muslims are more sympathethic.
You know, sometimes, I don’t even know what country I am living in anymore. Special I.D.?! While we’re at it why don’t we make the Jews wear the Star of David too? You’ve got senators saying things like, “Every major Islamic leader, from heads of states to al-Qaida has openly identified the United States as their prime target and repeatedly promises the creation of a new global caliphate, where Islamic fascism will rule mankind.”
And the President saying, “This is the beginning of a long struggle against an ideology that is real and profound,” the president said. “It’s Islamo-fascism. It comes in different forms. They share the same tactics, which is to destroy people and things in order to create chaos in the hopes that their vision of the world becomes predominant in the Middle East.” Switch the world Islamo with Christian and they could say the same thing about us.
It isn’t even fascism.
Stanford University linguist Goeffrey Nunberg argues that fascism is not really the right word to describe this global terror network.
“There’s no historical or philosophical connection between al-Qaida and fascism,†says Nunberg, an expert on the language of politics. “They’re creepy people, but that doesn’t mean they’re fascist.â€
But it sounds scary in election season, so who cares if it’s accurate, right?
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