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Yo, take a gander at the photo? Then tell me Ted Cruz is wrong?
American Muslims defy Sen. Ted Cruz's call for surveillance
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Mar. 23, 2016 11:59 PM EDT
Can we say Non-Assimilation by the Muslims? I think Ted Cruz is spot-on!!!
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A few miles from Disneyland is a place most tourists never see. The signs along the thoroughfare suddenly switch to Arabic script advertising hookah shops, Middle Eastern sweets and halal meat.
At a run-down strip mall in the neighborhood known as Little Arabia, flags from a half-dozen Muslim countries flap in a stiff breeze. Flying above them is a giant American flag.
After Sen. Ted Cruz called for increased surveillance of Muslims in the U.S., many people in this community and others like it either challenged the Republican presidential candidate or dismissed his comments as mostly meaningless rhetoric.
Majd Takriti, 43, stopped to discuss Cruz's remarks as he picked his mother up from a butcher shop. He said he took Cruz and rival Donald Trump with a grain of salt.
"A lot of what they say is to attract attention," Takriti said.
A block down the street, Jordanian native and 44-year U.S. resident Wathiq Bilbeisi slurped on lentil soup during his break at a Jordanian restaurant. He seemed mystified by the concern among some non-Muslim Americans about the candidates' comments.
"The politicians, they want to say whatever the constituents want to hear. I don't think they mean what they say, and in the end, they'll have to come to terms with themselves," he said.
Bilbeisi wasn't worried about the GOP seeking major changes to U.S. law.
"When they go to Congress to get laws to watch the Muslims, nobody's going to do anything about it," he said. "It's against American values." Sounds like something Obama said awhile back!!!
American Muslims defy Sen. Ted Cruz's call for surveillance
"GTP"
American Muslims defy Sen. Ted Cruz's call for surveillance
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Mar. 23, 2016 11:59 PM EDT
Can we say Non-Assimilation by the Muslims? I think Ted Cruz is spot-on!!!
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A few miles from Disneyland is a place most tourists never see. The signs along the thoroughfare suddenly switch to Arabic script advertising hookah shops, Middle Eastern sweets and halal meat.
At a run-down strip mall in the neighborhood known as Little Arabia, flags from a half-dozen Muslim countries flap in a stiff breeze. Flying above them is a giant American flag.
After Sen. Ted Cruz called for increased surveillance of Muslims in the U.S., many people in this community and others like it either challenged the Republican presidential candidate or dismissed his comments as mostly meaningless rhetoric.
Majd Takriti, 43, stopped to discuss Cruz's remarks as he picked his mother up from a butcher shop. He said he took Cruz and rival Donald Trump with a grain of salt.
"A lot of what they say is to attract attention," Takriti said.
A block down the street, Jordanian native and 44-year U.S. resident Wathiq Bilbeisi slurped on lentil soup during his break at a Jordanian restaurant. He seemed mystified by the concern among some non-Muslim Americans about the candidates' comments.
"The politicians, they want to say whatever the constituents want to hear. I don't think they mean what they say, and in the end, they'll have to come to terms with themselves," he said.
Bilbeisi wasn't worried about the GOP seeking major changes to U.S. law.
"When they go to Congress to get laws to watch the Muslims, nobody's going to do anything about it," he said. "It's against American values." Sounds like something Obama said awhile back!!!
American Muslims defy Sen. Ted Cruz's call for surveillance
"GTP"
