Following the tragic murders of 13 soldiers and an unborn baby at Fort Hood, Texas by an American-born muslim terrorist it was predictable that liberals would downplay the killer’s islamic faith and accuse everyone else of over reacting.  One example occurred on liberal talk radio (Air America) on the “Montel Across America” show hosted by Montel Williams on November 9, 2009.

We pulled something like this back in World War II when we decided to round up all Japanese Americans and put them in internment camps…The [anti-Muslim] rhetoric… could get out of hand. What do you think?

The rhetoric could get out of hand?  Where? The Obama administration and the news media downplayed Major Hasan’s muslim faith and his shouting Allahu Akbar before firing at unarmed people.  Even the FBI jumped in before they even arrived on the scene to state they didn’t think it was a terrorist act.  So where is this out-of-control rhetoric leading to new internment camps being aired?  After what seems like endless hours of news coverage I haven’t seen any anti-muslim backlash that even suggests new internment camps are in our future.  But if we assume that somehow Montel Williams is right and there is rhetoric that’s getting out of hand somewhere…then he might have a point because there are some interesting similarities between 1942 when the Japanese were placed in internment camps and today.

1. The U.S. was attacked by a specific group of people and thousands of Americans died;
2. The President of the United States (who ordered internment) was a liberal Democrat who attended Harvard;
3. There was a severe economic crisis the Democrat President tried to fix by massive over spending;
4. The House of Representatives had a Democrat majority;
5. The Senate had a Democrat majority.

So, it appears that some of the ingredients needed to revisit the injustice of internment camps do exist.  Maybe Montel IS right.