I'm the chair of the editorial board of Pacific Citizen, the national newspaper of the JACL. Below is my column in the New Year's issue of the PC. I wanted to post it here and also add even more current concerns given President Trump's rocky first three weeks, his eyebrow-raising relationships with world leaders (including Japan's Shinzo Abe, which merits...
The slope just got a little slippery. Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL who’s the spokesman for the Great America PAC supporting Donald Trump, was recently interviewed on Fox News’ “Kelly File.” The president-elect’s transition team is discussing plans for a registry for Muslim immigrants, he said, and there were historical precedents for such a registry including the imprisonment of...
NOTE: UPDATE BELOW, ON DEC. 16 Lowe's this week backed out as an advertiser on the TLC network's superior reality TV show, "All-American Muslim," which follows the lives of five Muslim American families in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit that's home to the largest Mulsim population in the U.S. I visited Dearborn when I attended the 2011 convention in Detroit of...
Here's a post worth reading and thinking about by Eric Muller at Faculty Lounge, "Representative King's Investigation and the Ghost of Hearings Past" that notes that NY Rep. Peter King's hearings on the radicalization of Muslims echoes the experience of history during World War II. Muller points out the race-based hysteria at the start of World War II, when false...