Presidential Race 2016 Candidate Profile – Bobby Jindal by Ryan Mauro

by Ryan Mauro

Views the conflict as ideological and defines the enemy as "all forms of radical Islam" and sharia law.

The presidential race for 2016 is gearing up and candidates are preparing themselves for the upcoming campaign. As each candidate announces their intention to run, Clarion Project will provide a summary of each candidate’s positions on issues relating to Islamic extremism in order to help our readers make the most informed possible choice on Bobby Jindalvoting day. Should there be any significant changes, we intend to update our readers on the positions of any given candidate.

As Clarion is a bipartisan organization, we will not be endorsing any party or any candidate. All information provided is intended as informative only and should not be taken as evidence of Clarion’s preference for any given candidate.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on June 24, 2015. The following is the Clarion Project's compilation of Governor Jindal's positions on Islamist extremism. It will be updated as the campaign develops.
Relevant Experience

• Two-term Louisiana Congressman (2005-2008)
• Two-term Louisiana Governor (2008-Current)

View of Islamism

• Views the conflict as ideological and defines the enemy as "all forms of radical Islam" and sharia law.
• The West must promote assimilation and stop non-violent Islamists who use democratic freedoms to advance radical Islam and the implementation of sharia law.
• "In the West, non-assimilationist Muslims establish enclaves and carry out as much of sharia law as they can without regard for the laws of the democratic countries which provide them a new home. It is startling to think that any country will allow, even unofficially, for a so-called 'no-go zone.'"
• "Sharia law is not just a cultural difference, it is oppression and it is wrong. It subjugates women, treats them as property and is antithetical to value all human life equally. It is the very definition of oppression."
• U.S. should ban the immigration of Islamist radicals like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic State (ISIS). “So in other words we shouldn’t tolerate those who want to come and try to impose some variant of, some version of sharia law."
• "We've said you can't come here in years past if you were here to promote communism. If you're coming here to undermine America's foreign policy; if you're supporting a group that's an enemy of the United States."
• Jindal clarified he would ban leaders of the Brotherhood but not necessarily members of Brotherhood affiliates.

Domestic Islamists

• The  Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and designated terrorist entity by the United Arab Emirates, condemned Jindal's January 2015 speech about the dangers of sharia law and non-violent Islamists in the West.
• CAIR said, "Governor Jindal's anti-Muslim diatribes are a desperate attempt to pander to society's margins as he hopes to regain the GOP spotlight and crawl away from being nearly dead last in the U.S. presidential polls."
• CAIR spokesman Corey Saylor said the U.S. government should only look at "criminal activity, not thought," and that Jindal was "pick[ing] on minorities."

Iran

• Opposes the nuclear deal and would not honor it as President.

Egypt & the Muslim Brotherhood

• U.S. should ban the immigration of Islamist radicals like members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic State (ISIS). Jindal clarified he would ban leaders of the Brotherhood but not necessarily members of Brotherhood affiliates.

ISIS, Iraq and Syria

• U.S. should have supported moderate elements of the Syrian rebels and helped them fight terrorists and overthrow the Bashar Assad dictatorship.
• Supported the bill to arm and train vetted Syrian rebels.
• U.S. should work with Turkey to establish a buffer zone in Syria.
• Our long-term strategy should include removing Assad from power.
• Won't say whether the U.S. invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein was a mistake in hindsight.

Ryan Mauro is ClarionProject.org’s national security analyst, a fellow with Clarion Project and an adjunct professor of homeland security. Mauro is frequently interviewed on top-tier television and radio. Read more, contact or arrange a speaking engagement.

Source: http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/presidential-race-2016-candidate-profile-%E2%80%93-bobby-jindal-r

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