Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Trump Deflects Withering Fire on Plan Against Muslims
We have seen Donald Trump becoming more and more extreme. He recently stated that he planned on trying to ban Muslims from the United States. This plan has received a ton of criticism from political opponents to people around the world. The Super Pac supporting Jeb Bush has just unveiled its first ad directed towards Trump. Hillary Clinton tweeted for someone to inform Trump that "Hate is not an American value." Trump responded to this criticism by saying that he meant that he wanted to ban only foreign Muslims, not Muslim citizens. He used the example of President Roosevelt's authorization of the detention of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants during World War II to support his plan. Do you believe a ban on Muslims will help prevent any terrorism in the United States? Is Trump's plan comparable to Roosevelt's? Now that these candidates have started to stand up against Trump, do you think we will see others follow in their footsteps?
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In this era of international terrorism, I do think that stricter immigration laws should be introduced. However, "banning Muslims" is definitley not the way to go about this. There are bad people of all religions and races, and banning people from entering the country just because they are a certain religion goes directly against the first amendment. I do think that Trump's plan is similar to Roosevelt's, but that does not mean it is the right thing to do. I do think that more candidates as well as other politicians will begin to turn the heat up against Trump, especially as we come closer to the primaries.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that the leading presidential nominee from a major political party has suggested to ban an entire religion from entering the country is a national embarrassment. No one can support this ban and consider themselves in line with American values. All people entering this country from the Middle East undergo extensive screening, and until there is any evidence that terrorists are passing these screenings and entering the country we cannot impose harsher barriers. There is risk in everything we do. Tens of thousands of people die in car accidents every year. Do we ban cars? Do we impose stricter speed limits? What FDR and the United States government did to Japanese citizens in the 1940s was wrong, and we know that now. In 50, 100, 200 years, how will historians evaluate our handling of terrorism and human rights?
ReplyDeleteLike Seth said, this is a joke. This is America- we are supposed to lead by example. When FDR enforced the banning of certain nationalities during WWII, he did it out of caution for his country. Although years later, we now understand the wrong in excluding foreigners due to their ethnicity. The one difference I do note is that FDR wasn't as hateful as Trump Is, and I don't think FDR would've banned those people unless the axis threat was against us; Trump seems to plainly despise Muslims. WHY would we go back to the same ways? When angry and upset over terrorist attacks, an irrational conclusion could be to ban the group. But if someone is proposing a solution, and this person happens to be in the candidacy for our country's highest power, we should immediately realize this is an impending disaster and we have to get Trump out.
ReplyDeleteTrump is playing to the fears of those who are most uninformed in this country. He knows that those intolerant of the Muslim community see that group as a dangerous entity. Trump's ideas are dangerous, reckless, and completely disrespectful to so many citizens within our country. As Kelly said, looking back on FDR's decision, we know that the authorized detention of immigrants was a mistake. It is completely disgraceful that a man who wants to run our country has isolated an entire religious group. Trump does not hold any values other than sensationalism and bigotry and I think other candidates and news sources are starting to realize that.
ReplyDeleteTrump is playing to the fears of those who are most uninformed in this country. He knows that those intolerant of the Muslim community see that group as a dangerous entity. Trump's ideas are dangerous, reckless, and completely disrespectful to so many citizens within our country. As Kelly said, looking back on FDR's decision, we know that the authorized detention of immigrants was a mistake. It is completely disgraceful that a man who wants to run our country has isolated an entire religious group. Trump does not hold any values other than sensationalism and bigotry and I think other candidates and news sources are starting to realize that.
ReplyDeleteTrumps's ban is unethical and extreme. Whether or not Muslims exist in the U.S. is not the problem. If anything, banning Muslims would just rile up more tension creating an even worse situation. His reference to what Roosevelt did is ridiculous because most now know that Roosevelt's decision was not correct. America stands for freedom and human rights and banning a religion is essentially the opposite of that. To believe that he is running for president with actual support, only shows how uninformed the public of the U.S. is, and how much it needs to learn. I sincerely hope that other candidates stand up in an attempt to take Trump down.
ReplyDeleteA ban on Muslim immigrants, I think, would not prevent terrorism. I do think, however, that there should be background checks and other precautions. But it is absolutely ridiculous and completely against our values to reject an entire group of immigrants solely because of their religion. What happened to "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"? And for the record, citing Japanese internment camps does not help his case at all, as that was probably one of our biggest injustices as a government in our entire history.
ReplyDeleteI do think we will see other candidates start to step up and criticize Trump; I very much hope so, as it would be disgraceful to have such a bigoted man as the president of a country with our values of freedom and tolerance.