Poll: Nearly half of all Americans support restricting rights of Muslim Am

[democracyindanger]

Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans, according to a nationwide poll.

The survey conducted by Cornell University also found that Republicans and people who described themselves as highly religious were more apt to support curtailing Muslims' civil liberties than Democrats or people who are less religious...


Sad.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/12/17/national1850EST0691.DTL

[w4rma]

1. Muslims of today = Scapegoated Hebrews of Nazi Germany. (nt)

[silverweb]

2. "...with Liberty and Justice for all."

Yeah. Right.

:(

[SoCalDem]

5. Camp Al Manzanar, anyone?

Our government just never learns, does it?:(

[silverweb]

6. Apparently not.

:shrug:

Where in SoCal are you, anyway, SoCal Dem? I'm in a liberal part of San Diego. :)

[SoCalDem]

12. Moreno Valley

:ugh:

[silverweb]

28. Oh, near Perris.

I'm not real familiar with the area, although I've been up that way a few times.

Very reTHUGlican?

[SoCalDem]

34. As red as it gets

:(

[Cha]

19. Where is the "liberal part of San Diego"?

I lived all over San Diego county for 15 years but that was before I started paying attention to politics.

I hear San Diego is so repug but I know of enclaves where I used to be that must have been liberal.

[silverweb]

27. Normal Heights.

A nice, working class neighborhood. We have used book stores galore and a 24-hour "punk" coffeehouse. Adams Ave is very cool. :)

[kineneb]

33. Or Tule Lake

I am so totally disgusted. We truly seem to treading down a dangerous path. Heil BushCo?? Oooh scary!
-from rural NorCal

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Time to amend that part of the pledge too.

"with Liberty and Justice for all who believe in Jesus".

Fuckers.

[silverweb]

10. Apparently.

The powers that be certainly don't seem to mean it.

Are you the same GoddessOfGuinness that I know from another site?? Brenda?? :)

[Jack_DeLeon]

3. Thats fucked up...

I'm against restricting the rights of any Americans.

That being said I would have no problems with we are a whole lot more picky about who we let in to the US from the middle-east.

[tandem5]

4. oh my god!! going down hill fast nt

[loathesomeshrub]

7. Yeah, the same "nearly half" who voted for a moron to lead this

country, TWICE!Doesn't surprise me at all.

[GOPBasher]

8. Why don't we just throw them in concentration camps?

And while we're at it, we can get the gays and all other non-Christians in there, too. Welcome to the United Nazis of Christian Theocracy, SIEG HEIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kineneb]

35. Maybe the Cubans Are right!

They put up signs with the word Fascist and a swastika in front of our embassy there. (see other heading under that subject)Only they had the balls to do that!

[Rose Siding]

11. *THIS* is when that Constitutional democracy thingy should kick in

That thing where minority rights are PROTECTED so that the ruthless majority doesn't overrun them?

[ChicagoBlue]

13. Those who don't learn history . . .

Etc., etc.

If history has shown us ONE thing, it is that the most dangerous thing in a society is to create second-tier citizens, which is just what this would do. Inevitably, it only leads to genocide or riots and rebellion. Here, I predict the second -- such measures would encourage more Muslims to become terrorists.

[tandem5]

14. we need to shame the other half with this... we need to ram it down their

throats. Make it so people all over say "it wasn't me that said that." We need to use this to forever link the republicans to dismantling the constitution.

[JohnnyRingo]

15. I'm not too surprised....I have a few republican friends

Now and then, in conversation I'll pose a topical question to see just how loyal they are to the current admin.

I asked one what he thought of the situation with Cuba...
His answer was "I think we should own it" (the island).

On Iran: I asked if the US or Europe owned the oil in Iran.
Missing the whole point of the question, he answered that: "We own that oil, not France".

Next time I see him I'm going to ask about Muslim civil rights.

This oughta be good.

[bullimiami]

16. I hate the AP twisted headline writing.

What if it said "THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS REJECT RESTRICTING CIVIL LIBERTIES FOR MUSLIM AMERICANS"

The news media has ill intent.

[BUSHOUT]

20. Like it or not, it is the most amazing part of the stats.

They could have also said "Minority of Americans support restricting..." and still been correct. But that fact that "nearly half" support it is the frightening thing.

AP is generally good I find. Freeptards hate them, so that's gotta stand for something. Usually the media they hate is all the unbiased media.

[Cha]

21. For many years...they are becoming

too blatant..everyone but the most obtuse are catching on!

[Norwood]

17. What the hell is happening to our country

Its slowly but surely heading towards a pre-WW2 scenario. Not many can see it and when/if the masses do its gonna be too late.

I love my country and it hurts to see this happening.

[kineneb]

36. I saw it coming in 2000

I read up on Shrub and what he did to Texas. Add religious nutcases and corporate greedheads and you get a verrry unpleasant mix.
I want my Constitution back.:cry:

[Deja Q]

18. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1081465&mesg_id=1081465

[NNN0LHI]

22. Why no surveys about restricting the rights of...

... white, catholic, republicans, after the Murrah Federal building was blown up?

Don

[highnooner]

23. Not good.

The first reply summed up my thoughts quite well.

[Laelth]

24. And another thread on the article here ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2839728

-Laelth

[complain jane]

25. I haven't read much in this thread yet but half the time when they ask

these questions, the questions are like "Do you support restricting Muslims' rights, or drowning puppies in a toilet?

[Ilsa]

26. It's always easy to support restricting someone else's rights.

What will they say when the govt. comes for them?

[Stinky The Clown]

29. The Hebrewfication of Islam

Who's next?

You?

Maybe you?

Or you?

Stay tuned ...........

[VegasWolf]

Evil plan to get them in one place and convert them to christianity. n/t

[VegasWolf]

30. Evil plan to get them in one place and convert them to christianity. n/t

[LostinRed]

31. Scary

This proves you can scare the shit out America and they'll give up their civil liberties.

[sakabatou]

32. What has this country become?

Neo-nazi Jesusland.

[NashVegas]

37. duplicate story

locking. discuss here -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1081465