One of my points, though, is that it is not only men who call women
whose names they do not know honey. In my experience, at least around
here, women call them honey too. Nevertheless, once I became self
conscious of it I promptly dropped it.
On 2/16/2017 5:07 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Yes, well I think that, "Honey", is sexist or patronizing or something on that order. But
it's a typical way for certain kinds of men to refer to women. I was struck with the
inappropriateness of Trump introducing Kellyann Conway to an audience, and after he told them who
she was and asked her to come up to the microphone, he said something like, "Come here
Kellyann. Come here, Sweetheart. Kellyann, Baby". It really sounded awful. The tone of his
voice was dripping with, well I think it was sexual innuendo.
Miriam
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On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 4:19 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy]
I much prefer informality, but I don't think I would feel entirely comfortable with a
complete stranger calling me dear either. And that reminds me of another discussion I had
once. The question was what do you call someone whose name you don't know. I was
discussing this with someone once because it was led to by another subject we were
discussing. I was discussing the topic of sexism with another man and a part of the
conversation touched on inappropriately familiar forms of address that some men used
toward women. I suddenly realized that I might be a little guilty of that myself and I
then brought up what do we call someone whose name we do not know. With men it is easy.
You say, for example, "Hey man, come here a minute." But what if it is a woman?
It sounds really awkward and a bit rude to say, "Hey woman, come here a minute." Well, I
had gotten into the habit of calling them honey. I also knew exactly where I had gotten that from.
Just about everyone I came in contact with did that. Whether the person speaking was male or female
they called any woman whose name they did not know honey and I had picked up the habit. The man I
was talking to was not from around here and he thought it was regional because it was not his
experience to have heard that so much. In retrospect I think he was right. If I had gone to another
state I probably would not have heard women called honey so much. Anyway, I knew that I had not
always done that, but I could not think of what I had called them before. However, I had made
myself self conscious of it. After I had that conversation I found myself addressing a cashier or a
waitress or some other woman I didn't know and right when I was about to call her honey I would
stop myself and just talk to her without calling her anything. That was the advice the man with
whom I had the conversation gave me and he said that he didn't call them anything. Now I think I
have figured out what I called women whose name I did not know before I picked up the habit of
honey. I called them what I call them now, nothing. I just speak to them. If it was in a situation
where calling them nothing might be ambiguous like in a crowded restaurant I might point at them
and say, "Hey you," but now that I can't see it would be difficult to get their attention
no matter what I called them. By the way, when I was calling them honey I never met with any
objections.
On 2/16/2017 9:28 AM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
What that woman was calling me in the hospital was, "Dear", which I found to be
patronizing and over familiar. People tend to call old people and children, "Dear". In
the New York metropolitan area, I doubt any doctor would refer to him or her self by his or her
first name. My friend, Art, who was 22 years older than I, said that if our eye doctor felt
comfortable calling him, Art, without first asking his permission, then he didn't see why he
couldn't call our doctor, Joseph, which is his first name. But I don't think he ever did so.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran
Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 9:59 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy]
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.huffingtonp
Here’s
what we learned.
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of Islamophobic acts. Sadly, in less than two months, the listhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mediamatters.or
became so 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<
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anti-Muslim hate crimes.)
So we developed The Islamophobia
Project<
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RXOCNeM_3TFxFCkAVnPaE&e=>,
and committed to tracking anti-Muslim violence, vandalism,http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/5880e2c6
discrimination, public policy and political speech throughout
2016.
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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<
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that Trump supporters attacked, harassed, or plotted to killhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonp
Muslims at least 13 times during the election cycle, proving a
potential link between Trump’s rhetoric and the actions of
supporters. We documented apparent<
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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 gratitudehttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonp
for the project. One email led to a story<
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about a Muslim Army veteran who found the word “terrorist” writtenhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.jihadwatch
on his locker. Mostly, we received anti-Muslim hate mail.
Our reporters and editors were
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on anti-Muslim hate group sites and trolled relentlessly onhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonp
Twitter ― 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<
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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<
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her daughter to maybe not wear the hijab today. It’s a Muslimhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonp
father having to explain<
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to his children that no, they’re citizens, they can’t be deported.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.latimes.com
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Muslims if they condemn terrorism.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__projects.propu
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<
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and The New York Times has started a weekly column on the subject
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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.
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at worshipers leaving a Connecticut mosque. “C**t, you don’thttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.newsnet5.co
belong in this country. Go back to your fucking country,” another
man shouted<
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at a Muslim woman and her family in Ohio.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washington
“Get the hell out of the country you bitch-ass Muslims,” a woman
screamed<
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at a Muslim mother and daughter in Maryland. “You’re not even fromhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gothamist.com_2
here, motherfucker! Fuck you and your family, you terrorist fuck!”
a man yelled<
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at a Moroccan Uber driver in Queens, New York.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cnn.com_201
“Get the fuck out of America, bitches,” a woman in Brooklyn, New
York, screamed<
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at two Muslim women pushing their babies in strollers. “This ishttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.salon.com_2
America — 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<
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source-3Dtwitter-26utm-5Fmedium-3Dsocialflow-26utm-5Fsource-3Dtwitt
er-26utm-5Fmedium-3Dsocialflow&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPt
fJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=
8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=YjLGB9VTkfzr5vmr2oiM1
zlSIZir7BUzAyGyj1TXxWY&e=>
this alleged act of unAmerican-ness on the influence ofhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonp
Kaepernick’s Muslim girlfriend.
Muslims just can’t be from here, the thinking goes ― even though
Muslims fight in our military and die in our wars<
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2Dkhzir-2Dkhan-5Fus-5F579b9b3de4b0e2e15eb5c5e9&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZ
uz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6Nrs
nGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=n-5VO
CobieXTL89LW7vL0aI_UtNW1XGLiM4Uqr-jT8Q&e=>,
and even though a United States without Muslims has never existed<https://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=>.
Rule 2: All Muslims are terrorists.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.abqjournal
A hate-filled voicemail left at the San Francisco chapter of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations.
“You’re a terrorist,” a woman
yelled<
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2Dwoman-2Dat-2Dgrocery.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt
83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xk
Kqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=DQKXkOHYP9Vptb-8lUgeKKGw
Jf-ERzZTHpsWRChd0FI&e=>
at a Muslim woman inside a New Mexico grocery store.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thegazette.
“We don’t want n****rs and terrorists here. #Trump,” read a note<
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taped to the door of a Muslim family’s home in Iowa.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonp
Mohamed Abbas, a 32-year-old Iraq War veteran and American citizen
with PTSD who happens to be Muslim, found “terrorist<
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4b0071a6e08d719&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5
xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQ
CROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=ExNmvBEN0U0L4oQp9OSPUvkxWeEpKtK7W7Ad
U9rrSgk&e=
”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.enterprisen
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<
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eads-2Dto-2Dcalls-2Dfor-2Dresignation&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh3
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qRBAgE71rPRBhTG74b5_W6oBgUEIo&e=>
of himself. “When you say ‘Muslim,’ it means a person. Islam ishttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.pewresearch
nothing but full of terrorists.”
That’s<
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just<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thedailybea
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s-2Dnot-2Deven-2Dclose.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt
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not<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bridge.georgeto
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true<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardia
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story-3Fncid-3Dfcbklnkushpmg00000090&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38
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Kt1GZkvOjJys1ieBTbIv_-X8FQwA&e=>,
Mike.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.orlandosent
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<
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kXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt
0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=pwxv22qCW1iueUugp7HbhEkyThT
UcIHubrY5MB_56kA&e=>
a mosque with a machete before leaving bacon on the fronthttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.omaha.com_n
doorstep. At mosques in Nebraska <
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and Lashttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.washingtont
Vegas<
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2Dmosque-2Dcenter-2Dant_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83c
kXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt
0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=VaEsiAYIvXvzqO_0gd6djdBlqaX
YiAgGpLXWPxffp_g&e=>,
men wrapped bacon around mosque door handles. In Raeford, Northhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nydailynews
Carolina, a man carrying a handgun left packages of bacon at the
mosque and threatened <
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to kill worshippers.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__talkingpointsme
In Philadelphia, someone left a severed pig’s head outside<
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a mosque. And outside a mosque in Lawton, Oklahoma, someone dumpedhttps://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=>.
a whole pig carcass<
And then there’s Trump, who in 2016 was fond<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.politifact.
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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 showhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mic.com_articl
this
year: “A pig head to Muslims is like a crucifix to a vampire<
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.”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_le
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<
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recently after reading about the pig carcass in Oklahoma: “I swearhttp://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/5880f121
I need to spread a rumor that Muslims don’t eat cupcakes.”
Rule 4: All brown people are potentially Muslim, and are therefore
potentially terrorists.
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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<
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him a “dirty Muslim.” Harmann Singh said a man called<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.boston.com
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him a “fucking Muslim” inside a Cambridge, Massachusetts, store.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.kerngoldene
“You’re trying to blow up this country, I should (expletive) kill
you right now, you know,” Balmeet Singh said a man told<
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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 Stanleyhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonp
Majors allegedly shot and killed<
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a 37-year-old man named Khalid Jabara outside his home. Majorshttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com
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<
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Oj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9i
fRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=SPoOzYYO8cMCO_33eA6jOyV1uzazr2m7e5KuHhw-zzs&e=
,”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washington
and it helps explain why nearly 30 percent of Americans<
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Dmuslim_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=C
K8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7I
a9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=9T_9-IjN-poWKUYMgxGWaUPx6-IhRY_xPyvBRArx2xc
&e=>,
includinghttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cnn.com_201
possibly<
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YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar
6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=l
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Trump, still think the country’s first black president is secretlyhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__talkingpointsme
a 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<
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aQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB
5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q
0ZgPCY&s=I7BhY4IrxkrPjG8PPvlgPgvMzeEfUZmAXxV7l1YThwY&e=>
in testimony submitted to the state House.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonp
In Pennsylvania, a school board member said<
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7694eb6e4b099a77b6e3a73&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ck
XekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0
GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=dcbqsAUctSH39rjwwHq_WlP1J-Ma
DetZKYe8FRsi8cE&e=>
that Islam is “not a religion” and is “not only godless, buthttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washington
pagan.” In Virginia, a member of the Republican State Central
Committee tweeted<
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=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP
7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=trFkohll-1a4i90bOuQrvCb2E0DrREwvJ5R0bmkpB
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that Islam is a “death cult organized by Satan” and “is not ahttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.sltrib.com_
religion of peace but an ideolgy (sic).”
And in Utah, the state’s third-largest political party called for
outlawing Islam<
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j7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9if
RgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=MbGYZfAfLUCuwFt7ogmoOHIxIsND5ew1o8dur8ZDm6M&e=>
altogether, arguing that because it’s not a religion, it’s nothttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.merriam-2D
protected under the First Amendment.
Merriam-Webster
defines<
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kKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=a5gGXmfZdCksa4mZ3pxBeWT
WOVxaTDeC9fwdkj9y89E&e=>
Islam as “the religious faith of Muslims including belief in Allahhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.npr.org_sec
as the sole deity and in Muhammad as his prophet.” It is practiced
by 1.6 billion people<
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A5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZX
ar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s
=rhwmSEM1rCmMlLhfFGVBPauGSD9mcop1RimX0cQ2Qyw&e=>
and is the world’s second-largest religion, after Christianity. Ithttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__foreignpolicy.c
is no<
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Bgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7W
BzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=HAsLZAvfHOTHOcBz-VbokqRIWNsEcO54
AlA2EAMPby4&e=>
more<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thedailybea
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83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xk
Kqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=s7kuwBVIHIO71uI6P37rblmn
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inherently violent or peaceful than any other religion.http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/58790efb
Rule 6: There’s a secret Muslim plot to take over and/or destroy
the United States and/or Western civilization from within.
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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<
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92a6cae42666-3F88apkzyjgx0jtc5wmi&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38Yxd
rPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do
&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=5cyI3HSx_IYDRHw92q
bg1WaeoOgBOXP2kyVe1aYXvKE&e=>,
Cruz cited “civilization jihad.”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonp
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson warned<
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ae4b0b40245c80190&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBg
q5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBz
dQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=XzleAWzS3ICXGBr063mxmj71DVfW14Xl6S
cICS518zU&e=>
of a “civilizational jihad” against the U.S., wherein “jihadists”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rightwingwa
who “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<
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2Dto-2Dcommit-2Djihad-2Dand-2Ddestroy-2Dwestern-2Dchristendom_&d=Dw
MFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTD
mB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO
9Q0ZgPCY&s=0Azcf0LWQLCcqjSmXraExV504FscZCyPoJECpGRXT-Q&e=>
the influx of Muslim migrants and refugees into Europe and thehttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thehill.com_blo
U.S. as a “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<
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kKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=GFl3bGw3e__dDLWUQ8Y2hel
3wB5JXfUE3VsPaZ9tcVE&e=>
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’shttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonp
dim view of Muslims. A recent survey revealed<
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uz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6Nrs
nGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=INhYr
rGmHfG2mtbl6uasQxTU1c8ggooP5yroSAL5Gfk&e=>
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.”
