Newt Gingrich just said the US should deport all
Muslims who believe in Sharia Updated by Libby Nelson on July 14,
2016, 11:47 p.m. ET @libbyanelson
After the
driver of a truck in Nice,
France, drove into a
crowd of people watching fireworks, killing at least 80, Newt Gingrich told Fox News’s
Sean Hannity that the time
had come to start testing Americans of "Muslim background" for their
loyalty to the United States.
"We should
frankly test every person here who is of a Muslim background, and if they
believe in Sharia, they should be deported," Gingrich said.
He went on to
say that even looking at websites that promote terrorism should be a felony and
punished with jail time:
Sharia is
incompatible with Western civilization. Modern Muslims who have given up
Sharia, glad to have them as citizens. Perfectly happy to have them next door.
But we need to be fairly relentless about defining who our enemies are. Anybody
who goes on a website favoring ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or other terrorist groups,
that should be a felony, and they should go to jail.
Beyond the fact
that the identity (and religion) of the attacker in Nice has yet to be
released, Newt’s statement is blatantly incompatible with the First Amendment —
"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof" — by calling for deporting Muslims,
including presumably American citizens of "Muslim background," based
solely on their religious beliefs.
It’s also
highly unlikely that the Constitution’s protection of civil liberties would
allow for making it a felony to "go on a website" that favors
al-Qaeda.
But Gingrich
seems to be desperately trying to regain ground with Donald Trump amid reports
that Indiana Gov. Mike
Pence is likely to
be Trump's running mate. So he’s now going even further than Trump, whose
proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States was already seen as
extreme and unconstitutional, by saying it’s time to kick out Muslims who are
already here.
Comments
The US
should get ready to outlaw Sharia and reverse the Refugee Resettlement Program
and deport refugees back to camps in Muslim countries. We have 2 million Muslims in the US and need
to reduce this back to under 1 million.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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