From what reputable historical source did you learn this?

As for current events, my best friend is a muslim physician, who is not practicing. He’s been living here since age 13 (>20 yrs). Are you suggesting we inter him and his family? If so, thaqn you are a nut.

I suggest, if you it is something that if you want to know the whole truth about, you look at it deeper. Just a few of the interesting facts that you will find:

More Japanese-Americans did or tried to join the Japanese Imperial forces than served in the US in the much vaunted Japanese brigades that volunteered from that group.

On of the worst abusers at Bataan was an American citizen raised in California.

Only 5 % of the Japanese-Americans eligible to serve the US volunteered, far far lower than Italian immigrants, Germans, American Indians, and any other group. The part of the story celebrating their patriotism has another side.

More Italians and German were forcebly interned than Japanese. Most of the Japanese who went to the camps were not interned but rather were excluded from living on the California coast. They could live elsewhere in the country and the majority found places to live and left the camps before the exclusion order was lifted.

Most importantly, the reason for the exclusion order suggests that it was perhaps not a mistake but a critical and timely war measure. During the first month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, nearly every vessel that left the West coast bound for Hawaii had an attempted Japanese submarine attack fairly close to the coast. The remarkable success rate of the Japanese subs in interdicting the traffic engaged in a desperate defensive buildup of Hawaii presented a near certainty that the Japanese had a network of agents watching and reporting vessel movements. The decision was made that there was not time to discover and dismantle that network, and the expedient of dislocation was chosen.

At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Americans were being dispossesed of their homes on days or weeks notice all over the nation for emergency constuction of bases, factories, harbors, bombing ranges, etc. My own ancestors had their home taken on 9 days notice and turned into an artillery range. The Japanese were being treated no differently than many others except for the reason–and they were given a place to stay and their goods warehoused while my people were put out on the road with what they could carry.

We have done what we needed to do to survive in the past, and, if we have the guts, can do so again without betraying out heritage, however much we may betray it’s mythology.

I agree that the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was a huge mistake.
Whether the internment of non-citizen residents of the US was a mistake is debatable.

No, but once the racism against perfectly secular Muslims (yes, there are many) proceeds in this manner, all races and religions, especially one percieved to be the root cause of the Muslim terror attacks by much of the world(Israel’s “war” against Palestinians), then Jews can be indicted next.

We shouldn’t put a blanket ban on Muslim doctors. We should just screen carefully. It’s generally accepted in history that Japanese interment during WWII was a mistake (I think).

I seriously doubt that Jews are going to start killing “infidels” and ramming airplanes into tall buildings.