Ron Williams has this dense and informative piece at Homeland Security Today talking about the radicalization of Islamic pockets in the United State and the interaction of race.
Despite all this, the reality is this: Law enforcement will never (nor should it ever be an option) to allow sensitivity concerns to trump domestic security priorities or influence its operation and the racial/ethnic minority consciousness will never accept a government structure or its actions it perceives as targeting them disproportionately; thus, tensions will inevitably and slowly build uninterrupted, coming to characterize the new American domestic security order. . . .
In sum, combating American Islamic radicalization is an extremely challenging, long-lasting and culture-changing effort based around racial/ethnic relationships for which the human capacity for its denial is astounding. Indeed, national security policymakers will offer up, and the American public consciousness will accept as effective, one-dimensional counter-radicalization measures which will, ironically, exacerbate the radicalization of its own native born Muslim-American population.
Obvious answer: end immigration of Muslims to the US.
Shoulda thought about that before attacking Iraq and Afghanistan. Muslims will now be coming to the US in record numbers, just as Vietnamese came after that war.
I’ve worked with a number of those whose families fled Vietnam. All good people. Hard working, strong families, dedicated to education and becoming part of America. Those coming here from failed and violent Muslim states are quite different. (Those fleeing Iran with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism were mostly secular, educated, and shared Western values.)
Not just immigration. End all Muslim travel to the US. Those who attacked us in 2001 were ‘students’.
I will address the first paragraph.
“Despite all this, the reality is this: Law enforcement will never (nor should it ever be an option) to allow sensitivity concerns to trump domestic security priorities OR influence its operation and the racial/ethnic minority consciousness will never accept a government structure or its actions IT PERCEIVES as targeting them disproportionately;”(MY CAPS)
This is the problem. The “Islamic pockets” will willfully perceive themselves as victims of everything they do not like no matter their own responsibility in the matter . Clearly they will follow the path set by other minorities in this country and pursue the victim/oppressor mindset for the advantage of power (and Islam).
MJ