Asian Muslim Links

NOTE:  I wrote this a few months ago when the House hearings on US Muslim extremism started. Not sure why I got side tracked-- probably just forgot to hit "Post."

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Being Asian American - I've been bothered insensed HORRIFIED by the instances of anti-Muslim prejudice in America.  Whether it is the screaming protesters in Yorba Linda or the current hearings on Muslim radicals in America.  But my unease goes far beyond that.  The words and epithets being thrown out are eerily similar to what occurred in WWII, leading up to the internment of Japanese AMERICANS.

The fear-mongering starts with questioning the loyalty of a group of people to the US and then defining patriotism so that no-one of that group can meet that definition.

Back in the 1940s, newspaper columns said that the Japanese were not able to become fully assimilated because of their race and nationality, no matter how long they have been in the United States.  Widely accepted-- this view meant that Japanese-Americans who had been in the US for generation were now seen as foreigners.

Doesn't that remind you of recent statements by Congressmen and political leaders, particularly on the right, saying that all Muslims in the US are particularly suspect to terrorist activities.  Are we about to repeat history and begin the internment of Muslim-Americans?