John Kasich, Ted Cruz hold opposing views on monitoring Muslims

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published 23 March 2016

John Kasich does not agree with Ted Cruz's idea to monitor Muslim neighborhoods, saying on Tuesday that doing so would alienate people and cause a divide.

Following the terror attacks in Brussels Tuesday morning, Cruz said that law enforcement must "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized," The New York Times reports. Kasich told reporters in Minneapolis "the last thing we need is more polarization," and singling out Muslims would create a huge rift. "We are not at war with Islam," he said. "We're at war with radical Islam. In our country, we don't want to create divisions where we say, 'Okay, well your religion, you're a Muslim, so therefore we're going to keep an eye on you."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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