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Patrol Washington to find terrorists not Muslim neighborhoods: Analyst

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks to workers at Dane Manufacturing during a campaign stop on March 24, 2016 in Dane, Wisconsin. (AFP)

The anti-Islam hate campaign promoted by Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the run up to the 2016 presidential election is related to an older program in the US history, not terrorism, whose roots should be hunted in the US political system rather than Muslim neighborhoods, as suggested by the Republican candidate, says a Chicago-based author.

Cruz, whose proposal has received criticism from Muslim leaders, human rights activists, and a number of US politicians, defended the idea during an interview with CNN in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In the first substantive proposal by a presidential candidate since the Brussels bombings last week, Cruz called for reinstating a controversial surveillance program that targeted Muslim neighborhoods in New York for years following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

According to Stephen Lendman, Muslims have always been “vilified” throughout the US history and Cruz’s proposal is not new.

“Ted Cruz, like many others in America is raging Muslim hater. And it's long-standing; it really goes back before 9/11; You could go back in US history a long time and find Muslims vilified,” said the Chicago activist.

The reason for that is that the American “power structure need enemies” no matter communists or Muslims, he said.

“In the post-Soviet era, Americans needed something to make up for loss of communism,” Lendman said.

The Republican senator’s comments, made in the wake of terrorist attacks in Brussels, are not truly aimed at tackling terrorism, he added.

“There is plenty of evidence indicating that people in Washington are gun-toting terrorists. I think that’s the neighborhood we need to be monitoring and patrolling all the time.”

Anti-Muslim rhetoric surged among Republican hopefuls of the November election following terrorist attacks in Paris, California, and Brussels.


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