The spokesman for the New York Police Department took Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to task on Twitter Tuesday after the Republican presidential candidate said police should “patrol and secure” Muslim neighborhoods.
J. Peter Donald slammed the presidential candidate, noting that nearly 1,000 police officers in New York are Muslim and called Cruz’s remarks “foolish.”
Hey, @tedcruz are our nearly 1k Muslim officers a “threat” too? It’s hard to imagine a more incendiary, foolish statement
— J. Peter Donald (@JPeterDonald) March 23, 2016
Donald was far from the only one to criticize Cruz’s statement that the US should patrol Muslim neighborhoods in the wake of the attacks in Brussels. Earlier in the day, the Anti-Defamation League released a statement condemning Cruz, calling his comment “misguided and counterproductive.”
If by “foolish” he means “the stupidest fucking thing I’ve heard since ‘Make America Great Again’”, then yeah.
Most Muslims in the US don’t live in “Muslim neighborhoods”. Cruz ought to know this, since Houston has quite a few Muslims scattered pretty much throughout the metro area. So does Calgary, which even has a Muslim mayor.
Hey what do you expect? Refusing to turn certain neighborhoods into another Warsaw Ghetto is yet another example of those horrible “New York values.”
Ted isn’t ready for the big time.
Strengthened by his Utah victory, Sen. Ted Cruz calls for summary executions of Muslim terrorist suspects.