Eliminate Radicals: A Radical Analysis

A Radical’s Radical Plan to Eliminate Radicals When I was younger, I remember many days where I came home from school and asked my dad “Why do we have to learn history. It’s not like it's going to help me at all when I’m a grownup.” I could understand why we would need to learn subjects like English or math, and their applications in the “real world”, but I was always stumped on history. Puzzling me, he would respond every time by saying “those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.” At the time, my 8 year-old mind thought “Well duh. I’m obviously not going to fly a kite in a lighting storm like old Ben Franklin and get myself electrocuted.” What I didn’t understand was that history does repeat, although conceals itself. Because …show more content…
To begin, in the article “Donald Trump & FDR”, Joseph Berger discussed Trump’s proposal saying that it would be “hard to enforce, requiring officials to figure out a foreigners religious beliefs-- a murky area.” The fact of the matter is that beliefs are not black and white, and they cannot be determined easily or accurately. Beliefs are not like someone’s race, which you can probably determine just by looking at them; they are so much more complex. In addition, because their is not yet technology to read minds, we cannot get precise results. Simply asking someone about their beliefs would not suffice due to the fact that human beings have the ability to manipulate words to their own devices, and to lie. But, for argument's sake, let's say you could identify all Muslims. Banning them is not the solution because one cannot just assume that all Muslims are terrorists. The number of radical Muslims who commit acts of terrorism are a very small percent of the population. What we must understand is that in any group there are always extremists. For example, in America in the early twentieth century, a Protestant hate group arose known as the Ku Klux Klan. Basically, they committed acts of terrorism against anyone who wasn’t just like them. They are most known for their hatred toward African-Americans in years following the civil war. However, these extremists represent a very small portion of the Protestant religion, just like Jihadists represent a small portion of the Muslim population. The reality is that the majority of these people want the same things out of life as most of us do: a family, happiness, and a safe and comfortable home. In sum, a Muslim ban would be very hard to enforce, with little productive