Speaking of changes in language and its usage I am reminded of
something. Furthermore, in trying to place the incident I am about to
mention it occurs to me that I have now been participating on this list
for quite a number of years now. How time flies. Anyway, some years ago
Miriam was talking about an experience she had in a hospital and I
forget what they were calling her, but she said that she would prefer
to be addressed by her name, Mrs. Vienni. I said that I wouldn't want to
be addressed that way. I don't consider Mr. Bailey to be my name and I
would prefer to be just called Roger. Then I went on to tell a story
about a past hospital stay when I kept hearing Mr. Bailey over and over
and finally said that Roger was fine with me. It caused the rest of my
hospital stay to be awkward as one nurse after another hesitantly and
incredulously asked me if I wanted to be addressed by my first name. It
left me wishing I had never said anything about it. It was not that big
a deal.
Well, some time after that list discussion I found myself in hospital
again. That was when I had a catheter infection in April 2013. That was
almost four years ago. It doesn't seem that long and that is why I am
saying how time flies. As I was being admitted a nurse or some woman in
the employ of the hospital was asking me questions while filling out a
form. Along came a question asked in a casual manner right along with
the other questions. "What would you like to be called?" I answered,
"Roger is fine. I think Mr. Bailey is just too formal." For the rest of
my stay I was on a first name basis with all the nurses and nursing
assistants and there was no awkwardness at all. Everyone did, though,
make a point of addressing all the doctors with the title doctor. Then I
did mention on this list my last visit to a urologist, I think, just
this past October. She was one Dr. Broughton, but she didn't call
herself Dr. Broughton. She introduced herself as Claudina and while I
was there she called my pharmacy and left a voice mail in which she
identified herself as Claudina. I remember wondering if the pharmacy
people thought that she was her assistant. I am so glad that these
medical people are loosening up the formality in their speech. It makes
me feel more comfortable in seeking medical treatment.
On 2/15/2017 12:56 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Of course, Roger, what I actually demonstrated was my age. To have
said, "fart" or, "Butt" when I was a boy, would place me in a corner
either having had my mouth washed out with a bar of soap, or with a
teaspoon of red pepper on my tongue. Fuck would probably have put me
in the hospital. And of course, my mother could make any word sound
like swearing. "Beer" was a beverage she hated. And when she said
it, well, you just knew it was a really really bad thing.
Over the years I came to believe that there are no "bad" words.
And I also decided that if a person gets their message across to me,
how they mangle the language is not important.
Language, like our other possessions, is nothing more than an attempt
to demonstrate our cleverness and superiority over others.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/14/17, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You are missing that the word fuck is becoming more and more acceptable
and doesn't have much shock value anymore. The most common usage that I
have noticed is as just an exclamation with no apparent intent to shock
anyone. It is kind of equal to dagnabit. Even as a notoriously literal
minded person I can see that.
On 2/14/2017 11:26 AM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
We are a violent people. Worse than our violence is our denial that
we are a violent people. But before I go forward on this subject,
something in the article struck me as very, very wrong...and perhaps
points back to our denial. We can write the word, "Fuck" over and
over again, when quoting people's outrage and anger, but we write,
"N****" when referring to the word, Nigger. Despite the fact that
many of my people came to this Land as Freemen, they were mostly
humble peasants, the working class of their day. Of course they
participated in the slaughter of the occupants of this New World, but
they were seldom found in the mansions of the Landed Gentry, unless
they were among the servants. Nonetheless, I become as insulted and
outraged when some frothy mouthed asshole shouts in my face, "Go Fuck
yourself!", as I am sure a Black person is outraged by being called,
"Nigger". No real point here, just an observation about our decision
to use one word for shock value and another as a taboo.
But back to my ramble. We are, as I claim, a violent people in full
denial. We show up in great numbers on Sunday morning to sing praises
to a God of Love, and then shove one another in our hurry to get out
of the parking lot first. We nod and smile at folks we know in the
grocery store, but shove our cart ahead of others in our rush to be
first in line. We step back to allow someone to come off a bus,
before we clamber aboard, only to have that person angrily shove us to
one side. Growing road rage, marital violence,child abuse, envy and
suspicion seem to be controlling our lives.
All of us...my sociology professor told me never to say, "All"...so I
do, in his memory, but All of us have two sides, living inside
us...sort of like the two heads of our same political party...and
these sides are in conflict. Our upbringing, our Life's experiences
along with our genetic makeup determines which side gets most of our
attention, and thus, dictates how we deal with the world around us.
And there are those among us who quickly understand that they can
elevate themselves by manipulating us. Far too long we Humans have
allowed ourselves to be herded toward the negative side within us. We
must, for our own survival, turn to that other positive side, and feed
it and nurture it. But in order to do so, we must come to terms with
our denial of our violent nature.
As a boy, I remember hearing horse trainers say, "Break the horse"
when talking about preparing a young horse for riding. Today we see
more trainers "preparing" their young horses. They have learned the
difference between breaking a horses spirit, and gaining its
cooperation...as partners rather than as Master and Servant.
Why can't we apply such conditioning to our own people? Why are our
prisons full of people being broken, rather than conditioned. Until
we deal with our denial of our violent nature, we will most likely
continue to build more and bigger prisons.
Carl Jarvis
*****
6 Rules Of Islamophobia In America
The Huffington Post tracked Islamophobia in the U.S. throughout 2016.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_news_donald-2Dtrump_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=l-voCi1OUKeuHv7whUMapxdIYqUAwTI9PIkdwH3ympA&e=>
Here’s
what we learned.
After the 2015 terror attack in Paris, when Donald
Trump<
and other GOP presidential candidates were ratcheting up theirhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_all-2Dthe-2Dislamophobic-2Dacts-2Din-2Dus-2Dcanada-2Dsince-2Dparis-5Fus-5F564cee09e4b031745cef9dda&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=Z0-7ScafsXz1k0_huWDFTramYc0W81U9LRyoPooJClE&e=>
anti-Muslim
political speech, we started a running
list<
of Islamophobic acts. Sadly, in less than two months, the list became sohttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mediamatters.org_blog_2016_02_04_fox-2Dnews-2Dco-2Dhosts-2Dhavent-2Dheard-2Dof-2Dany-2Danti-2Dmusl_208389&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=exyZxXOlCgGbxRXMH-vatDYC728u_UJnJbSfMxzxQ2k&e=
long the webpage often wouldn’t load.
This made us recognize the very real surge in anti-Muslim incidents
sweeping
the nation — a surge many wanted to deny was happening at all. (Think
Fox
News host Eric Bolling saying he “hadn’t heard of
any<
”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com_islamophobia_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=aOARwe9FerkeC1iAjzP6iXRXOCNeM_3TFxFCkAVnPaE&e=>,
anti-Muslim hate crimes.)
So we developed The Islamophobia
Project<
and committed to tracking anti-Muslim violence, vandalism,http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/5880e2c61200002d00ad883a.jpeg]
discrimination,
public policy and political speech throughout 2016.
[
CAIR-St Louishttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_anti-2Dmuslim-2Dhate-2Dtrump-2Dsupporters-5Fus-5F57fbcd79e4b0e655eab66379&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=AydDdj7W0ClErtX_BWmetx18a8QhmgbEwzmFYqv1p-g&e=>
America, 2016. A man with a gun screams at a Muslim family near St.
Louis.
“You Muslim?” he allegedly said. “All of you should die.”
The timing of the incidents we collected helped reveal patterns. We
discovered<
that Trump supporters attacked, harassed, or plotted to kill Muslims athttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_anti-2Dmuslim-2Dattacks-2Deid-2Dal-2Dadha-5Fus-5F57d80602e4b0fbd4b7bb650c&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=y0Yux4P0EIm1UX_OmRv6x5etNvCytJKMY9vkIj96IiE&e=>
least 13 times during the election cycle, proving a potential link
between
Trump’s rhetoric and the actions of supporters. We documented
apparent<
surges<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_anti-2Dmuslim-2Dcrimes-2Dramadan-5Fus-5F5786a2c4e4b03fc3ee4f1d99&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=GsiZlOZa_eogbqFTLgsasy3YjcckqGC-3Jjw_WeNozo&e=>
in anti-Muslim incidents during Muslim holidays.islamophobia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It’s now been a year, and our project is a sad and seemingly endless
scroll
through nearly 400 stories of Muslims in America being attacked,
threatened,
scapegoated, and profiled, seeing their places of worship vandalized and
their faith denigrated.
An email address we set up as a source for tips —
<mailto:
islamophobia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
—
generated hundreds of responses. Many people expressed gratitude for thehttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_muslim-2Dveteran-2Dgraffiti-2Dlocker-5Fus-5F57e03e50e4b0071a6e08d719&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=ExNmvBEN0U0L4oQp9OSPUvkxWeEpKtK7W7AdU9rrSgk&e=>
project. One email led to a
story<
about a Muslim Army veteran who found the word “terrorist” written onhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.jihadwatch.org_2016_11_huffington-2Dposts-2Dchristopher-2Dmathias-2Duses-2Dsplc-2Dhit-2Dlist-2Dof-2Dfoes-2Dof-2Djihad-2Dterror-2Dto-2Dsmear-2Dbannon&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=hBC2SaLoao4b-Pkl-jP7UaBRHzQRndnnVVeA5F5sqn8&e=>
his
locker. Mostly, we received anti-Muslim hate mail.
Our reporters and editors were
attacked<
on anti-Muslim hate group sites and trolled relentlessly on Twitter ―https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_republicans-2Ddonald-2Dtrump-2Danti-2Dmuslim-5Fus-5F56e2d92ee4b065e2e3d59aef&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=fDROJ1_Oz14jtsbqlUSwHy6DXl0Ia3x3Q8tcWEfqN2Q&e=
signs
that the project was making waves.
And, if you scroll through the tracker to March 10, 2016, you’ll read
about
the then-frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary saying: “I
think
Islam hates
us<
.”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_harryonmen_status_796250292215873536&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=NiUEEE3tLU7Fibo8qFCUi3oCrbOMcyqHMmOROs4TBG8&e=>
So much cynicism and misinformation was packed into those five words.
That
Trump could say them and go on to get elected president of the United
States
underscores just how successfully Muslims have been designated the
“other”
in this country.
When a group is an “other,” it’s easier to attack them, or to strip them
of
their civil rights. Our tracker documented this time and again.
But in another sense, Islamophobia isn’t something that can ever be
tracked
comprehensively. There’s too much of it, and not every instance becomes
a
headline.
It’s ubiquitous in the daily lives of Muslim Americans. It’s when a
Muslim
mom
tells<
her daughter to maybe not wear the hijab today. It’s a Muslim fatherhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_donald-2Dtrump-2Dmuslim-2Dstudents-5Fus-5F5785459ee4b03fc3ee4e4778&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=vdGFcobChpvwdsyIHvlHZ4gccvBZwmzPM2fc0yJj-FA&e=>
having
to
explain<
to his children that no, they’re citizens, they can’t be deported. It’shttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.latimes.com_entertainment_la-2Det-2Dhollywood-2Dvalues-2Dupdates-2Dhow-2Dhollywood-2Ds-2Dmuslim-2Dportrayals-2D1483650479-2Dhtmlstory.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=ixVW62ARIZDkCxv2WJnb2W3nZX5lbCvcKQmUJ0yDbrU&e=>,
how
almost every Muslim in a movie is depicted as a
terrorist<
and it’s why cable news channels onlyhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_posteverything_wp_2015_12_28_stop-2Dasking-2Dme-2Dto-2Dcondemn-2Dterrorists-2Djust-2Dbecause-2Dim-2Dmuslim_-3Futm-5Fterm-3D.236c0617b415&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=XW09fNQcVml_LEO3dzutrHZPhXLQqCn0CMepeTa30WQ&e=>
ask<
Muslims if they condemn terrorism.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__projects.propublica.org_graphics_hatecrimes&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=iTz-9WrVxdC8wgRWlxIZDBIHPTXJQKkH6JwV3fhZGd8&e=
With the rise of Trump, the silver lining is that now, more people seem
to
be paying attention to anti-Muslim hate. Media organizations are
covering
the subject more robustly. The nonprofit investigative news organization
ProPublica has launched its own project, called “Documenting
Hate<
,”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_column_this-2Dweek-2Din-2Dhate&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=lgOCjfyEufC-AgstX-_cwopmHbG18Szi4qebHZPolew&e=
and The New York Times has started a weekly column on the subject
called,
“This Week in
Hate<
.”http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/5880ed461200002d00ad8868.jpeg]
This year, we won’t be updating the Islamophobia Tracker. The story is
so
much bigger than a dataset now. But we will continue telling stories of
hate
and extremism. And we will pay close attention to the new presidential
administration that seems hell-bent on vilifying Muslims and persecuting
them.
Having tracked hate for a year, we’re able to see that people who
disparaged
Muslim Americans are mostly reading from the same old script. It’s
possible
even to look at our project as a kind of how-to guide for anti-Muslim
bigotry ― a list of six “rules” of Islamophobia in America.
And if we’re going to help protect our Muslim neighbors, coworkers,
friends
and family, these are six “rules” that desperately need to be dismantled
and
destroyed.
Rule 1: Muslims are not American.
[
Mark Wilson via Getty Imageshttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nbcconnecticut.com_news_local_Man-2DArrested-2Dfor-2DHarassing-2DMembers-2Dof-2DMosquePolice-2D384336941.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=o9cZP7pRm9YATE9V6dgEHSU95014JAEtaO2xzCbuPjg&e=>
“Go back to your country,” a man
screamed<
at worshipers leaving a Connecticut mosque. “C**t, you don’t belong inhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.newsnet5.com_news_state_muslim-2Dwoman-2Dand-2Dher-2Dfamily-2Dassaulted-2Din-2Dcolumbus-2Dtraffic&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=2r4trF2HqC6thiBHyxucVhGS7zrWhTHAO_nNbBZE82o&e=>
this
country. Go back to your fucking country,” another man
shouted<
at a Muslim woman and her family in Ohio.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_local_public-2Dsafety_a-2Dswiftly-2Dhit-2Dcar-2Dhorn-2Dsoon-2Dleads-2Dto-2Dcharges-2Dof-2Da-2Dhate-2Dcrime_2016_06_22_639d5c5e-2D38ab-2D11e6-2Da254-2D2b336e293a3c-5Fstory.html-3Futm-5Fterm-3D.8a3ca8e9672c&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=rJ_eb99GFg7LbyDGn1mdXVJ14tMlBefYaq26TT7edWg&e=>
“Get the hell out of the country you bitch-ass Muslims,” a woman
screamed<
at a Muslim mother and daughter in Maryland. “You’re not even from here,https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gothamist.com_2016_11_21_uber-5Fdriver-5Farab-5Fterrorist-5Ftrump-5Fvi.php&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=IKubc2LAGer1q4aGrH0RqfpWDtzUQWZxECKLjoc9x-s&e=>
motherfucker! Fuck you and your family, you terrorist fuck!” a man
yelled<
at a Moroccan Uber driver in Queens, New York.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cnn.com_2016_09_10_us_brooklyn-2Dmuslim-2Dwomen-2Dattacked_index.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=8_s9acjBBLZfsg76dnhD9z1XnQP1J5Bf6vkhf7b9CJk&e=>
“Get the fuck out of America, bitches,” a woman in Brooklyn, New York,
screamed<
at two Muslim women pushing their babies in strollers. “This is Americahttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.salon.com_2016_09_14_gop-2Drep-2Dsteve-2Dking-2Dslams-2Dcolin-2Dkaepernick-2Dthis-2Dis-2Dactivism-2Dthat-2Dis-2Dsympathetic-2Dto-2Disis_-3Futm-5Fsource-3Dtwitter-26utm-5Fmedium-3Dsocialflow-26utm-5Fsource-3Dtwitter-26utm-5Fmedium-3Dsocialflow&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=YjLGB9VTkfzr5vmr2oiM1zlSIZir7BUzAyGyj1TXxWY&e=>
—
you shouldn’t be different from us.”
And when pundits and politicians decried San Francisco 49ers quarterback
Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem, they were quick
to
baselessly
blame<
this alleged act of unAmerican-ness on the influence of Kaepernick’shttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_fox-2Dnews-2Ddidnt-2Dair-2Dmuslim-2Dsoldier-2Dspeech-2Dkhzir-2Dkhan-5Fus-5F579b9b3de4b0e2e15eb5c5e9&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=n-5VOCobieXTL89LW7vL0aI_UtNW1XGLiM4Uqr-jT8Q&e=>,
Muslim
girlfriend.
Muslims just can’t be from here, the thinking goes ― even though Muslims
fight in our military and die in our
wars<
and even though a United States without Muslims has neverhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_carla-2Dgardina-2Dpestana_a-2Dunited-2Dstates-2Dwithout-2Dmuslims-2Dhas-2Dnever-2Dexisted-5Fb-5F8916708.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=B6LimaQf8pvMdfkRjD7K2gJ4Yt0Gsc_sMrvNvikEFuY&e=>.
existed<
Rule 2: All Muslims are terrorists.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.abqjournal.com_896172_muslim-2Dshopper-2Dwearing-2Da-2Dhijab-2Dharassed-2Dby-2Dwoman-2Dat-2Dgrocery.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=DQKXkOHYP9Vptb-8lUgeKKGwJf-ERzZTHpsWRChd0FI&e=>
A hate-filled voicemail left at the San Francisco chapter of the Council
on
American-Islamic Relations.
“You’re a terrorist,” a woman
yelled<
at a Muslim woman inside a New Mexico grocery store.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thegazette.com_subject_news_public-2Dsafety_hateful-2Dnote-2Dtaped-2Dto-2Ddoor-2Dof-2Diowa-2Dcity-2Dfamily-2D20161114&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=WNgj2g-NDViUOuCmzMdNwxfLfFIMitO42mubiyAtNNs&e=>
“We don’t want n****rs and terrorists here. #Trump,” read a
note<
taped to the door of a Muslim family’s home in Iowa.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_muslim-2Dveteran-2Dgraffiti-2Dlocker-5Fus-5F57e03e50e4b0071a6e08d719&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=ExNmvBEN0U0L4oQp9OSPUvkxWeEpKtK7W7AdU9rrSgk&e=
Mohamed Abbas, a 32-year-old Iraq War veteran and American citizen with
PTSD
who happens to be Muslim, found
“terrorist<
”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.enterprisenews.com_news_20160718_easton-2Dofficials-2Danti-2Dmuslim-2Dpost-2Dleads-2Dto-2Dcalls-2Dfor-2Dresignation&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=U_LdGwRQDgFaU5qRBAgE71rPRBhTG74b5_W6oBgUEIo&e=>
written on his locker inside a California Marine Corps base.
“When you say the word ‘Islam’ to Mike Goodman, it means ‘terrorist,’”
Goodman, a member of a Massachusetts town commission,
said<
of himself. “When you say ‘Muslim,’ it means a person. Islam is nothinghttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.pewresearch.org_fact-2Dtank_2015_11_17_in-2Dnations-2Dwith-2Dsignificant-2Dmuslim-2Dpopulations-2Dmuch-2Ddisdain-2Dfor-2Disis_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=I51lDfJ5Hhc1CDfB3ixWIN1g_CqcG7Q6cdhZjXWu8h4&e=>
but
full of terrorists.”
That’s<
just<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thedailybeast.com_articles_2015_01_14_are-2Dall-2Dterrorists-2Dmuslims-2Dit-2Ds-2Dnot-2Deven-2Dclose.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=s7kuwBVIHIO71uI6P37rblmnWv2HTYE3x8X1WX1Nvus&e=>
not<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bridge.georgetown.edu_here-2Dare-2Dthe-2Dmany-2Dmuslim-2Dcondemnations-2Dof-2Disis-2Dyouve-2Dbeen-2Dlooking-2Dfor_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=E9p0AAy6Iebe00QJROp7V3f8DlZhtVGHUUfyrlpxo_c&e=>
true<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_world_2015_dec_08_donald-2Dtrump-2Dfamous-2Dmuslims-2Dus-2Dhistory-3Fncid-3Dfcbklnkushpmg00000090&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=m4SrJHpEmmaBcENKt1GZkvOjJys1ieBTbIv_-X8FQwA&e=>,
Mike.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.orlandosentinel.com_news_breaking-2Dnews_os-2Dtitusville-2Dmosque-2Dvandalized-2D20160103-2Dstory.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=pwxv22qCW1iueUugp7HbhEkyThTUcIHubrY5MB_56kA&e=>
Rule 3: Pork is to Muslims as a crucifix or garlic is to vampires.
A Texas anti-Muslim militia group dips bullets in pig’s blood. Why? To
send
Muslims “straight to hell.”
In Florida, a man allegedly
trashed<
a mosque with a machete before leaving bacon on the front doorstep. Athttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.omaha.com_news_crime_vandals-2Dleave-2Draw-2Dbacon-2Don-2Ddoor-2Dof-2Dthe-2Dislamic-2Dcenter_article-5Fac65f49e-2Dba40-2D11e5-2D9cff-2D432567a4ddeb.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=v7-3FZNEPCGAtl5j1AkUtqd0zQxE0f8rD9TTbuLUo6s&e=>
mosques in Nebraska
<
and Lashttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.washingtontimes.com_news_2015_dec_29_bacon-2Ddesecration-2Dputs-2Dlas-2Dvegas-2Dmosque-2Dcenter-2Dant_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=VaEsiAYIvXvzqO_0gd6djdBlqaXYiAgGpLXWPxffp_g&e=>,
Vegas<
men wrapped bacon around mosque door handles. In Raeford, North Carolina,https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nydailynews.com_news_crime_army-2Dreserve-2Dofficer-2Dleft-2Dbacon-2Dflashed-2Dgun-2Dn-2Dmosque-2Darticle-2D1.2669344&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=0R4xtnl4cLKQTjb7BPhwSzVT_lcvGkJMtivo8N4xmNI&e=>
a
man carrying a handgun left packages of bacon at the mosque and
threatened
<
to kill worshippers.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__talkingpointsmemo.com_news_anti-2Dmuslim-2Dattacks-2Dafter-2Dsan-2Dbernardino&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=uC2O4dsMRgB_r9ou7nl78uJB30KNMtTmZgCUSkLepdg&e=>
In Philadelphia, someone left a severed pig’s head
outside<
a mosque. And outside a mosque in Lawton, Oklahoma, someone dumped ahttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nydailynews.com_news_national_pig-2Dcarcass-2Ddumped-2Doklahoma-2Dmosque-2Dhate-2Dcrime-2Darticle-2D1.2903909&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=ccttYt1yj2WgrcgSyuqmOY3aIxYFNP2Kapai_NjUlK8&e=>.
whole
pig
carcass<
And then there’s Trump, who in 2016 washttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.politifact.com_truth-2Do-2Dmeter_statements_2016_feb_23_donald-2Dtrump_donald-2Dtrump-2Dcites-2Ddubious-2Dlegend-2Dabout-2Dgen-2Dpershi_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=5W9sG4T0JV89GnSMCCe80cKbumQfDpHEwNO5Vgn1uRk&e=>
fond<
of telling an apocryphal story of how a U.S. general killed Muslimhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3D4c7AWS4Bc-2DM&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=PY6el3vwKqE9GYEPbDlZqSiJ56v6UR--vStSWVQUpao&e=>.
insurgents with bullets dipped in pig’s blood.
Like Judaism, Islam generally prohibits its followers from eating pork.
While these pork-based acts of hate are undoubtedly meant as insults,
the
perpetrators also seem to ascribe mythical or inhuman qualities to
Muslims,
as if pork could magically fend them off, or send them straight to
hell<
As one anti-Muslim activist told comedian Samantha Bee on her show thishttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mic.com_articles_147308_watch-2Dsamantha-2Dbee-2Dexplain-2Djust-2Dhow-2Ddumb-2Dislamophobia-2Dis-23.V7whKZ3eH&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=_QLsloMjv5eGEO0RKg79Ffkm-X5_CFI2muLbQXhbUFo&e=
year: “A pig head to Muslims is like a crucifix to a
vampire<
.”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_letsgomathias_status_817124776300965888&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=fBI7Di5yFP6ZsTvxnVKmWliVd1NAvfX0skq7FEEiXfI&e=>
Muslims, of course, don’t believe this. Most don’t eat pork ― and that’s
about the extent of it. As one Muslim HuffPost employee put
it<
recently after reading about the pig carcass in Oklahoma: “I swear I needhttp://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/5880f1211700002e00fdf8c9.jpeg]
to
spread a rumor that Muslims don’t eat cupcakes.”
Rule 4: All brown people are potentially Muslim, and are therefore
potentially terrorists.
[
Courtesy of the Jabara familyhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__pix11.com_2016_11_07_nyc-2Dmarathon-2Drunner-2Dridiculed-2Dcalled-2Ddirty-2Dmuslim-2Das-2Dhe-2Dran-2D26-2Dmile-2Drace_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=ITx85o6nb64Aep1qxXYQJqU5Vp4wbSgTEl5BvagsNiQ&e=>
Khalid Jabara, an Arab-American Christian, was fatally shot by a
neighbor
who often called the Jabaras “dirty Arabs,” “Aye-rabs” and “Mooslems.”
Simran Jeet Singh was running in the New York City Marathon when he said
someone
called<
him a “dirty Muslim.” Harmann Singh said a manhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.boston.com_news_local-2Dnews_2016_11_18_harvard-2Dstudent-2Dsays-2Da-2Dman-2Dcalled-2Dhim-2Da-2Dfing-2Dmuslim-2Din-2Dcambridge&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=E9UOH4-OvhyOdkDJzB82H_oiDx2k5DhveRK0VGJlLCg&e=>
called<
him a “fucking Muslim” inside a Cambridge, Massachusetts, store. “You’rehttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.kerngoldenempire.com_news_bakersfield-2Dsikh-2Dman-2Dattacked-2Doutside-2Dhabit-2Dburger-2Dgrill&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=Bl0MEexbTB_hYWbtaOU7MT5RHfz84pjK2GW1WwGtYPU&e=>
trying to blow up this country, I should (expletive) kill you right now,
you
know,” Balmeet Singh said a man
told<
him outside a California burger restaurant.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_paul-2Draushenbush_difference-2Dbetween-2Dmuslims-2Dand-2Dsikhs-2Dmisses-2Dthe-2Dpoint-5Fb-5F1747311.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=fbjmONm5o2KuBmLLycnsMc1BqBQ2laxaWFaGipl4wgA&e=>.
All three Singhs, who are not related, wear turbans and are Sikh, not
Muslim. Sikhs are commonly perceived as Muslims in the U.S., and are
targeted in anti-Muslim hate crimes, even though Sikhism and Islam are
completely different religions ― not that it should
matter<
In Oklahoma in August, a 61-year-old ex-convict named Stanley Majorshttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_khalid-2Djabara-2Dkilled-5Fus-5F57b493b8e4b0b42c38afb448&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=UYOP7JvCbXWzk5pOyRpgF3vHDBedgDQRDah3_ADW8a0&e=>
allegedly shot and
killed<
a 37-year-old man named Khalid Jabara outside his home. Majorshttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_search-3Fq-3Dracialization-2Bof-2BIslam-26oq-3Dracialization-2Bof-2BIslam-26aqs-3Dchrome..69i57.665j0j4-26sourceid-3Dchrome-26ie-3DUTF-2D8&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=SPoOzYYO8cMCO_33eA6jOyV1uzazr2m7e5KuHhw-zzs&e=
reportedly
had harassed the Jabara family for years. He called the Jabaras “dirty
Arabs,” “Aye-rabs” and “Mooslems.” The Jabaras are Christian immigrants
from
Lebanon.
This phenomenon is sometimes called the “racialization of
Islam<
,”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_news_acts-2Dof-2Dfaith_wp_2015_09_14_a-2Dstartling-2Dnumber-2Dof-2Damericans-2Dstill-2Dbelieve-2Dpresident-2Dobama-2Dis-2Da-2Dmuslim_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=9T_9-IjN-poWKUYMgxGWaUPx6-IhRY_xPyvBRArx2xc&e=>,
and it helps explain why nearly 30 percent of
Americans<
includinghttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cnn.com_2015_09_18_politics_trump-2Dobama-2Dmuslim-2Dbirther_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=lK4MoAzf92dMIyTwqo4HFiOPRxWD5UlqYFARjT19xhM&e=>
possibly<
Trump, still think the country’s first black president is secretly ahttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__talkingpointsmemo.com_livewire_ken-2Dweyler-2Dpublic-2Dassistance-2Dmuslims&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=I7BhY4IrxkrPjG8PPvlgPgvMzeEfUZmAXxV7l1YThwY&e=>
Muslim.
Rule 5: Islam is not a religion, it’s a violent ideology.
Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s national
security adviser and an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist, saying that
Islam
isn’t a religion.
Islam “is an ideology posing as a religion. Islam is intolerant and
deceitful, and its adherents are ordered to overthrow our way of life and
to
replace it with ‘Sharia’ law,” Republican New Hampshire state Rep. Ken
Weyler
wrote<
in testimony submitted to the state House.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_trump-2Ddelegate-2Dvoicemail-2Danti-2Dmuslim-5Fus-5F57694eb6e4b099a77b6e3a73&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=dcbqsAUctSH39rjwwHq_WlP1J-MaDetZKYe8FRsi8cE&e=>
In Pennsylvania, a school board member
said<
that Islam is “not a religion” and is “not only godless, but pagan.” Inhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_local_virginia-2Dpolitics_va-2Drepublican-2Dapologizes-2Dfor-2Dtrump-2Dlike-2Dtweets-2Dagainst-2Dmuslims_2016_06_29_d089b5b4-2D3c7b-2D11e6-2D80bc-2Dd06711fd2125-5Fstory.html-3Futm-5Fterm-3D.b308d252211a&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=trFkohll-1a4i90bOuQrvCb2E0DrREwvJ5R0bmkpB6A&e=>
Virginia, a member of the Republican State Central Committee
tweeted<
that Islam is a “death cult organized by Satan” and “is not a religionhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.sltrib.com_home_4622022-2D155_rolly-2Dexecute-2Dcommunists-2Doutlaw-2Dislam-2Dutah&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=MbGYZfAfLUCuwFt7ogmoOHIxIsND5ew1o8dur8ZDm6M&e=>
of
peace but an ideolgy (sic).”
And in Utah, the state’s third-largest political party called for
outlawing
Islam<
altogether, arguing that because it’s not a religion, it’s not protectedhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.merriam-2Dwebster.com_dictionary_Islam&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=a5gGXmfZdCksa4mZ3pxBeWTWOVxaTDeC9fwdkj9y89E&e=>
under the First Amendment.
Merriam-Webster
defines<
Islam as “the religious faith of Muslims including belief in Allah ashttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.npr.org_sections_thetwo-2Dway_2015_04_02_397042004_muslim-2Dpopulation-2Dwill-2Dsurpass-2Dchristians-2Dthis-2Dcentury-2Dpew-2Dsays&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=rhwmSEM1rCmMlLhfFGVBPauGSD9mcop1RimX0cQ2Qyw&e=>
the
sole deity and in Muhammad as his prophet.” It is practiced by 1.6
billion
people<
and is the world’s second-largest religion, after Christianity. It ishttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__foreignpolicy.com_2016_06_14_if-2Dislam-2Dis-2Da-2Dreligion-2Dof-2Dviolence-2Dso-2Dis-2Dchristianity_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=HAsLZAvfHOTHOcBz-VbokqRIWNsEcO54AlA2EAMPby4&e=>
no<
more<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thedailybeast.com_articles_2015_01_14_are-2Dall-2Dterrorists-2Dmuslims-2Dit-2Ds-2Dnot-2Deven-2Dclose.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=s7kuwBVIHIO71uI6P37rblmnWv2HTYE3x8X1WX1Nvus&e=>
inherently violent or peaceful than any other religion.http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/58790efb1200002d00ad76e9.jpeg?cache=cjy33u2zfb]
Rule 6: There’s a secret Muslim plot to take over and/or destroy the
United
States and/or Western civilization from within.
[
Richard Ellis/Getty Imageshttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_muslim-2Dbrotherhood-2Dted-2Dcruz-5Fus-5F58764d44e4b092a6cae42666-3F88apkzyjgx0jtc5wmi&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=5cyI3HSx_IYDRHw92qbg1WaeoOgBOXP2kyVe1aYXvKE&e=>,
Frank Gaffney, an advisor to Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, has
long
pushed the “civilization jihad” conspiracy theory. In a press release for
a
bill that could destroy American Muslim
groups<
Cruz cited “civilization jihad.”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_ben-2Dcarson-2Dmuslims-2Dschizophrenic-5Fus-5F56c35c6ae4b0b40245c80190&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=XzleAWzS3ICXGBr063mxmj71DVfW14Xl6ScICS518zU&e=>
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson
warned<
of a “civilizational jihad” against the U.S., wherein “jihadists” whohttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rightwingwatch.org_post_michele-2Dbachmann-2Dmuslim-2Dmigrants-2Drape-2Dwomen-2Dto-2Dcommit-2Djihad-2Dand-2Ddestroy-2Dwestern-2Dchristendom_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=0Azcf0LWQLCcqjSmXraExV504FscZCyPoJECpGRXT-Q&e=>
“disguise themselves as moderate Muslims” would “infiltrate, multiply
and
take positions of power” in order to “replace our Judeo-Christian values
with Islam.”
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann
described<
the influx of Muslim migrants and refugees into Europe and the U.S. as ahttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thehill.com_blogs_pundits-2Dblog_homeland-2Dsecurity_276636-2Dmuslim-2Dbrotherhood-2Dday-2Don-2Dcapitol-2Dhill&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=GFl3bGw3e__dDLWUQ8Y2hel3wB5JXfUE3VsPaZ9tcVE&e=>
“planned invasion” meant to destroy “western Christendom.” It’s part of
a
“civilization jihad,” the tea party Minnesota congresswoman explained,
aimed
at “Islamizing” the West.
The news site The Hill published an article by Frank Gaffney, an adviser
to
presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in which Gaffney
wrote<
that Muslims in the U.S. have a “civilization jihad” aimed athttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bridge.georgetown.edu_civilization-2Djihad-2Ddebunking-2Dthe-2Dconspiracy-2Dtheory_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=oYDOiYNO5lqYCtkqCjYzNwjr43gZAoNJ3OU4SlWv46o&e=>.
“destroying
Western civilization.” This Muslim conspiracy, he explained, uses
“stealthy,
subversive means like influence operations to penetrate and subvert our
government and civil society institutions.”
The idea of a “civilization jihad” is a thoroughly debunked conspiracy
theory<
But it’s also a popular one that has contributed to this country’s dimhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_americans-2Doverestimate-2Dmuslim-2Dpopulation-5Fus-5F5852e354e4b012849c05f509-3F9d5g72ilmlwwx6flxr&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=INhYrrGmHfG2mtbl6uasQxTU1c8ggooP5yroSAL5Gfk&e=>
view
of Muslims. A recent survey
revealed<
that Americans think there are 54 million Muslims in America. There are_______________________________________________
only
about 3 million.
“If you’re promoting anti-Muslim bigotry and your theory is that a small
percentage of the population is going to take over, it doesn’t work very
well,” Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman at the Council on American-Islamic
Relations, told HuffPost recently. “You have to create the impression
that
there’s a flood of Muslims taking over America.”
