I think that has been intimated if not directly said…
How did you end up in Texass anyhow, Abdulah, if that’s not too personal a
question?
And Carl is looking into possibilities for you in Washington State…I think
either of the coasts would be better or somewhere like Minneapolis, if you can
stand the cold, haha, where there are large Muslim populations, even if not
from your country…the largest Somali population is apparently in Minneapolis,
and they are quite politically active and well respected…I just heard one of
MN’s senators taking about how the community has stepped up to help other
refugees now…there must be an increasing Muslim population right in my
neighborhood, because there are now about 5 Middle Eastern and Hallal stores
within walking distance of my house as well as a store that sells traditional
clothing and other trinkets and things…I have gotten very friendly with the man
and his wife who run the place, and I once said to the man that I had to stop
buying so many of the beautiful headscarves, and he laughed and said, oh, my
wife and daughter have hundreds of them! ...
Alice
On Sep 17, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Perhaps this is an opportune time to tell Abdulah what I've been wanting to
tell him for quite some time.
Abdulah,
Perhaps Texas was not the best state in which to settle. Although we have
prejudice and discrimination throughout America, some states are less
accepting than others. Texas isn't known for its racial and religious
tolerance.
Miriam
________________________________
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alice Dampman
Humel
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 5:04 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a
Clock: The Fruits of Sustained Fear-
I actually posted a rebuttal to the claim that the behavior of the school
and the cops would have been the same had Ahmed not been a Muslim. I don't
care what they say, the one and ONLY reason he was subjected to this
treatment is that he is a Muslim and has one of them there furrin names.if
he'd been blond, christian and named Johnny, it never would have gone down
this way, and, BTW, he is still suspended from school....
And what kind of idiotic crustacean is this so-called teacher? She should be
fired for being so incompetent, paranoid and short-sighted and incapable of
seeing a bright, talented kid who was proudly bringing in his creation to
show her. Hey, the people at MIT got it.they said Ahmed is precisely the
kind of kid they are looking for to come to MIT, and they've invited him to
come, visit the campus and the famous science center, so you know what?
Something good might come out of this for Ahmed, and I hope it does. Let the
cretins there in East Buttfuck, Texas, who have no vision, no creativity,
eat his dust.not that the good that might result from this could ever excuse
what these people did, but.
And he's apparently going to take Barach up on his invitation to the White
House. Go, Ahmed!
Alice
On Sep 17, 2015, at 3:41 PM, abdulah aga <abdulahhasic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Miriam and other
When I talk about my case many of you was skeptic about me,
when I say that I discriminated and that blind organization office
of Fort worth do that to me.
Tis case is nothing new to me,
you have to know that Muslim to day is
in same situation like Jewish people in Germany from 1933 when
Hitler start to bee in politics in Germany.
That why I say it is not
surprising me.
-----Original Message----- From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 8:53 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making
a Clock: The Fruits of Sustained Fear-
Greenwald writes: "What happened in Irving, Texas yesterday to a
14-year-old
Muslim high school freshman is highly illustrative of the rotted
fruit of
the US's sustained climate of cultivated anti-Muslim fear and
demonization."
MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, poses for a photo
at his
home in Irving, Tex. On Sept. 15. Mohamed was arrested and
interrogated by
Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade clock to school.
(photo:
Vernon Bryant/Dallas Morning News)
Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock: The Fruits of
Sustained
Fear-Mongering and Anti-Muslim Animus
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
16 September 15
There are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed career "terrorism
experts" in the U.S. that profit greatly by deliberately
exaggerating the
threat of Terrorism and keeping Americans in a state of abject fear
of
"radical Islam." There are all sorts of polemicists who build their
public
platforms by demonizing Muslims and scoffing at concerns over
"Islamaphobia," with the most toxic ones insisting that such a thing
does
not even exist, even as the mere presence of mosques is opposed
across the
country, or even as they are physically attacked.
The U.S. government just formally renewed the "State of Emergency"
it
declared in the aftermath of 9/11 for the 14th time since that
attack
occurred, ensuring that the country remains in a state of permanent,
endless
war, subjected to powers that are still classified as
"extraordinary" even
though they have become entirely normalized. As a result of all of
this, a
minority group of close to 3 million people is routinely targeted
with
bigotry and legal persecution in the Home of the Free, while fear
and
hysteria reign supreme in the Land of the Brave.
What happened in Irving, Texas, yesterday to a 14-year-old Muslim
high
school freshman is far from the worst instance, but it is highly
illustrative of the rotted fruit of this sustained climate of
cultivated
fear and demonization. The Dallas Morning News reports that "Ahmed
Mohamed -
who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart - hoped to
impress his
teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High," but
"instead,
the school phoned police."
Despite insisting that he made the clock to impress his engineering
teacher,
consistent with his long-time interest in "inventing stuff," Ahmed
was
arrested by the police and led out of school with his hands cuffed
behind
him. When he was brought into the room to be questioned by the four
police
officers who had been dispatched to the school, one of them - who
had never
previously seen him - said: "Yup. That's who I thought it was." As a
result,
he "felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and his name - one of
the most
common in the Muslim religion."
On Twitter, Anil Dash published a photo, provided by the boy's
family, taken
as he was led out in cuffs. Note that he's wearing a NASA shirt:
There's absolutely no evidence that this was anything more than a
clock, nor
any indication of any kind that the talented and inventive freshman
built it
as anything other than a school project. But even now, "police say
they may
yet charge him with making a hoax bomb - though they acknowledge he
told
everyone who would listen that it's a clock." According to the BBC,
"police
spokesman James McLellan said that, throughout the interview, Ahmed
had
maintained that he built only a clock, but said the boy was unable
to give a
'broader explanation' as to what it would be used for."
The Dallas Morning News let Ahmed speak for himself by posting a
video of
him recounting what happened. Behold the Terrorist Mastermind:
The behavior here is nothing short of demented. And it's easy to
mock, which
in turn has the effect of belittling it and casting it as some sort
of
bizarre aberration. But it's not that. It's the opposite of
aberrational.
It's the natural, inevitable byproduct of the culture of fear and
demonization that has festered and been continuously inflamed for
many
years. The circumstances that led to this are systemic and cultural,
not
aberrational.
The mayor of Irving, Beth Van Duyne, became a beloved national hero
to
America's anti-Muslim fanatics when, last February, she seized on a
fraudulent online chain letter, which claimed that area imams had
created a
special court based on sharia law. In response, Mayor Van Duyne
posted a
Facebook rant in which she vowed to "fight with every fiber of my
being" the
nonexistent "sharia court." One anti-Muslim website gushed that
Irving "is
being called 'ground zero' in the battle to prevent Islamic law from
gaining
a foothold, no matter how small, in the U.S. legal system" and
hailed her as
"the mayor who stood up to the Muslim Brotherhood."
That led to support for a bill introduced in the Texas State
Legislature
banning the use of foreign law, which its sponsor made clear was
targeted at
least in part at these "sharia courts." The Irving City Council went
out of
its way to enact a resolution supporting the state bill. It was
enacted in
June. One of the City Council members who opposed the bill - William
"Bill"
Mahone, who "denounced the vote and urged Irving to 'embrace the
Muslims'" -
then lost his seat in the city election "by a wide margin." I've
spoken to
Muslim groups in Irving and there is a small but thriving community
there,
which in turn has produced intense anti-Muslim animus.
Just like Ahmed's arrest, Irving is representative of the U.S.
broadly, not
aberrational. The U.S. just a few years ago went into a shameful fit
of mass
hysteria over a proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero -
as
though Muslims generally were guilty of that attack - but since
then, in
obscurity, ordinary mosques have faced all sorts of opposition from
their
mere existence, or once they do exist, physical menacing and
violence. A
2014 Pew Poll found that Americans feel more negatively toward
Muslims than
any other religious group in the country.
There are all sorts of obvious, extreme harms that come from being a
nation
at permanent war. Your country ends up killing huge numbers of
innocent
people all over the world. Vast resources are drained away from
individuals
and programs of social good into the pockets of weapons
manufacturers. Core
freedoms are inexorably and inevitably eroded - seized - in its
name. The
groups being targeted are marginalized and demonized in order to
maximize
fear levels and tolerance for violence.
But perhaps the worst of all harms is how endless war degrades the
culture
and populace of the country that perpetrates it. You can't have a
government
that has spent decades waging various forms of war against
predominantly
Muslim countries - bombing seven of them in the last six years alone
- and
then act surprised when a Muslim 14-year-old triggers vindictive
fear and
persecution because he makes a clock for school. That's no more
surprising
than watching carrots sprout after you plant carrot seeds in fertile
ground
and then carefully water them. It's natural and inevitable, not
surprising
or at all difficult to understand.
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valid.
MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, poses for a photo
at his
home in Irving, Tex. On Sept. 15. Mohamed was arrested and
interrogated by
Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade clock to school.
(photo:
Vernon Bryant/Dallas Morning News)
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/arrest-14-year-old-student-making-clock-
fruits-15-years-fear-mongering-anti-muslim-animus/https://theintercept.com/2
015/09/16/arrest-14-year-old-student-making-clock-fruits-15-years-fear-monge
ring-anti-muslim-animus/
Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock: The Fruits of
Sustained
Fear-Mongering and Anti-Muslim Animus
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
16 September 15
here are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed career "terrorism
experts" in the U.S. that profit greatly by deliberately
exaggerating the
threat of Terrorism and keeping Americans in a state of abject fear
of
"radical Islam." There are all sorts of polemicists who build their
public
platforms by demonizing Muslims and scoffing at concerns over
"Islamaphobia," with the most toxic ones insisting that such a thing
does
not even exist, even as the mere presence of mosques is opposed
across the
country, or even as they are physically attacked.
The U.S. government just formally renewed the "State of Emergency"
it
declared in the aftermath of 9/11 for the 14th time since that
attack
occurred, ensuring that the country remains in a state of permanent,
endless
war, subjected to powers that are still classified as
"extraordinary" even
though they have become entirely normalized. As a result of all of
this, a
minority group of close to 3 million people is routinely targeted
with
bigotry and legal persecution in the Home of the Free, while fear
and
hysteria reign supreme in the Land of the Brave.
What happened in Irving, Texas, yesterday to a 14-year-old Muslim
high
school freshman is far from the worst instance, but it is highly
illustrative of the rotted fruit of this sustained climate of
cultivated
fear and demonization. The Dallas Morning News reports that "Ahmed
Mohamed -
who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart - hoped to
impress his
teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High," but
"instead,
the school phoned police."
Despite insisting that he made the clock to impress his engineering
teacher,
consistent with his long-time interest in "inventing stuff," Ahmed
was
arrested by the police and led out of school with his hands cuffed
behind
him. When he was brought into the room to be questioned by the four
police
officers who had been dispatched to the school, one of them - who
had never
previously seen him - said: "Yup. That's who I thought it was." As a
result,
he "felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and his name - one of
the most
common in the Muslim religion."
On Twitter, Anil Dash published a photo, provided by the boy's
family, taken
as he was led out in cuffs. Note that he's wearing a NASA shirt:
There's absolutely no evidence that this was anything more than a
clock, nor
any indication of any kind that the talented and inventive freshman
built it
as anything other than a school project. But even now, "police say
they may
yet charge him with making a hoax bomb - though they acknowledge he
told
everyone who would listen that it's a clock." According to the BBC,
"police
spokesman James McLellan said that, throughout the interview, Ahmed
had
maintained that he built only a clock, but said the boy was unable
to give a
'broader explanation' as to what it would be used for."
The Dallas Morning News let Ahmed speak for himself by posting a
video of
him recounting what happened. Behold the Terrorist Mastermind:
The behavior here is nothing short of demented. And it's easy to
mock, which
in turn has the effect of belittling it and casting it as some sort
of
bizarre aberration. But it's not that. It's the opposite of
aberrational.
It's the natural, inevitable byproduct of the culture of fear and
demonization that has festered and been continuously inflamed for
many
years. The circumstances that led to this are systemic and cultural,
not
aberrational.
The mayor of Irving, Beth Van Duyne, became a beloved national hero
to
America's anti-Muslim fanatics when, last February, she seized on a
fraudulent online chain letter, which claimed that area imams had
created a
special court based on sharia law. In response, Mayor Van Duyne
posted a
Facebook rant in which she vowed to "fight with every fiber of my
being" the
nonexistent "sharia court." One anti-Muslim website gushed that
Irving "is
being called 'ground zero' in the battle to prevent Islamic law from
gaining
a foothold, no matter how small, in the U.S. legal system" and
hailed her as
"the mayor who stood up to the Muslim Brotherhood."
That led to support for a bill introduced in the Texas State
Legislature
banning the use of foreign law, which its sponsor made clear was
targeted at
least in part at these "sharia courts." The Irving City Council went
out of
its way to enact a resolution supporting the state bill. It was
enacted in
June. One of the City Council members who opposed the bill - William
"Bill"
Mahone, who "denounced the vote and urged Irving to 'embrace the
Muslims'" -
then lost his seat in the city election "by a wide margin." I've
spoken to
Muslim groups in Irving and there is a small but thriving community
there,
which in turn has produced intense anti-Muslim animus.
Just like Ahmed's arrest, Irving is representative of the U.S.
broadly, not
aberrational. The U.S. just a few years ago went into a shameful fit
of mass
hysteria over a proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero -
as
though Muslims generally were guilty of that attack - but since
then, in
obscurity, ordinary mosques have faced all sorts of opposition from
their
mere existence, or once they do exist, physical menacing and
violence. A
2014 Pew Poll found that Americans feel more negatively toward
Muslims than
any other religious group in the country.
There are all sorts of obvious, extreme harms that come from being a
nation
at permanent war. Your country ends up killing huge numbers of
innocent
people all over the world. Vast resources are drained away from
individuals
and programs of social good into the pockets of weapons
manufacturers. Core
freedoms are inexorably and inevitably eroded - seized - in its
name. The
groups being targeted are marginalized and demonized in order to
maximize
fear levels and tolerance for violence.
But perhaps the worst of all harms is how endless war degrades the
culture
and populace of the country that perpetrates it. You can't have a
government
that has spent decades waging various forms of war against
predominantly
Muslim countries - bombing seven of them in the last six years alone
- and
then act surprised when a Muslim 14-year-old triggers vindictive
fear and
persecution because he makes a clock for school. That's no more
surprising
than watching carrots sprout after you plant carrot seeds in fertile
ground
and then carefully water them. It's natural and inevitable, not
surprising
or at all difficult to understand.
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