Last time I checked we are not shipping Muslims off to internment camps.
Via Daily Caller:
On Sunday’s episode of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” New York Republican Rep. Peter King and Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison sparred over whether or not it would be justified to surveil the Muslim community for potential acts of terrorism in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. […]
But Ellison, a Muslim, protested the idea, not just on civil libertarian grounds but by saying it would be an ineffective means to detect a threat. He also likened such tactics to Japanese internment during the second World War.
“Well, I’m an American, and I’m concerned about national safety, public safety, just like everyone is,” Ellison said. “But I think it’s ineffective law enforcement to go after a particular community. I think what we need to do is look at behavior and follow those leads where they would lead. So, like if Tamerlan Tsarnaev is evidencing dangerous behavior, by all means, go after him. But once you start saying we’re going to dragnet or surveil a community, what you do is you ignore dangerous threats that are not in that community and you go after people who don’t have anything to do with it.”
“And so let me just finish up with this one point,” he continued. “And so this ricin attack, for example, that’s an act of terrorism. That doesn’t come out of the Muslim community. We don’t have enough law enforcement resources to just go after one community and, remember, we went after a community in World War II, and the Japanese interment is a national stain on our country, and we are still apologizing for it.”