{"id":11708,"date":"2015-11-21T04:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11708"},"modified":"2015-11-21T04:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T04:30:06","slug":"cruz-splits-with-trump-over-muslim-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11708","title":{"rendered":"Cruz splits with Trump over Muslim registry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Are you sitting down?<\/p>\n

Of course you are. So … I’m about to say something positive about Sen. Ted Cruz, who has actually expressed a difference of opinion with Donald Trump, a fellow Republican candidate for president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Trump’s offensive notion<\/a>\u00a0of establishing a registry for Muslims has come between the men.<\/p>\n

The only thing about Cruz’s criticism — such as it is — that bothers me is that he qualified it by calling himself a “big fan” of Trump. He differs with him on the idea of keeping such an eagle eye on Muslims because of their faith.<\/p>\n

Cruz said the “First Amendment protects religious liberty.”<\/p>\n

That, folks, is the central reason why Trump’s idea is a non-starter.<\/p>\n

Some critics have compared the idea of a religious registry — even for U.S. citizens — smacks of what Nazi Germany did to Jews living in that country prior to the outbreak of World War II. We all know where that effort led.<\/p>\n

Trump has been trying to take back what he apparently told a reporter about whether he’d like to establish a data base to monitor Muslims. He said he didn’t say that precisely. The record, though, suggests he did when pressed by a reporter.<\/p>\n

As the Texas Tribune reported: \u201cI don\u2019t know what Mr. Trump did or\u00a0didn\u2019t say,” Cruz told reporters after a town hall Friday afternoon in Harlan. “On the question of\u00a0should the federal government keep a registry of any religious group? The answer\u2019s of course not.”<\/p>\n

So, there you have it. Cruz and Trump actually disagree on something.<\/p>\n

From where I sit as I watch Cruz’s campaign for the presidency, that’s progress.<\/p>\n

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