LA County Sheriff Lee Baca testified saying:
“It is counterproductive to building trust when individuals or groups claim that Islam supports terrorism," he said. "This plays directly into the terrorist’s propaganda that the West’s ‘war on terror’ is actually a ‘war against Islam.’” The Hill
Watch for parallels as Joseph McCarthy, a republican of yesteryear, exploited fears of communism and went on a witch hunt of epic proportions:
Then there was the order by President Harry Truman, a democrat, to contain Japanese Americans to internment camps during WWII because people were afraid of Japanese people. Only the group of people that we scapegoat changes over history:
The biggest threat here is Peter King and people like him who are ruled by fear and need to define enemies:
