well, according to Milan Kundera, the whole comrade, first name, Mrs. so and so
is my mother, not me was instituted, if informally, to create a false sense of
equality and solidarity. If you think about it, it can be just as polarizing if
used in that way.
Which brings me to a comment Carl made recently:
"Language, like our other possessions, is nothing more than an attempt
No, dear, haha, just kidding, language is far more than that, and, again,
to demonstrate our cleverness and superiority over others.”
It's complicated, but indeed it is very common here in Michigan for people
including women to call all sorts of folks Honey, or hon. I do so myself.
This is a kind of age thing hereabouts and I find young folks including wait
persons call me sir which I find more offensive than honey for sure.
I usually say, "I work for a living, please call me "Joe". Or, "Now you've
made me feel old."
Yup, I'd rather be called honey, darling, dear or anything else but sir.
I'm not some bloody knight for crying out loud.
And sir is so stratifying. Its a class thing.
Oh for the days in revolution when we called each other comrade, or citizen
or even colleague.
Oh, but those days were not here.
So, now my dears I must end this rant.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender
"rogerbailey81" for DMARC)" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 8:54 PM
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy]
You've heard the expression, the past is another country. It appears to be.
It has a different language, customs and culture.
On 2/16/2017 8:45 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
An interesting topic...to me.
Back in the Dark Ages of the 1930's and 40's when I was a child, kids
were baby goats, so we did not say, "Hey you kids!" Nor did we say,
"you guys". I would say, "Some of my friends are going..." or, "A few
of the other children in my class..."
Nearly all adults were addressed as Mister or Missus or Miss...and
their last name.
But I heard many clerks and waitresses say, "Dearie" when talking to
female customers. And most of these waitresses and women clerks who
used Dearie when speaking to strangers, would call children, "Honey".
"Can I help you, Honey?'
My mother's stiff, formal German side kept her away from such terms of
endearment. If we were in a store and mother wanted the attention of
a clerk she did not know by name, she would clear her throat and say,
in a loud voice, "Excuse me please." My dad would say, "Pardon me mam
when addressing a strange woman. But he would simply say, "Excuse
me", to another man. We were never taught to say "Sir" But we were
told over and over that we must respect our elders.
These days I call most of my doctors by their first names. Part of
the reason is that the doctors introduce themselves by first names. I
usually take my cue from how the stranger introduces themselves. By
the time I reached an age where I should have been called Mister
Jarvis, customs had changed, and I was just plain, "Carl" to my
students and to my coworkers.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/16/17, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.huffingtonpo
Here’s
what we learned.
After the 2015 terror attack in Paris, when Donald Trump<
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3ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKq
t0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=l-voCi1OUKeuHv7whUMapxdIYqU
AwTI9PIkdwH3ympA&e=>
and other GOP presidential candidates were ratcheting up theirhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpo
anti-Muslim political speech, we started a running list<
st.com_entry_all-2Dthe-2Dislamophobic-2Dacts-2Din-2Dus-2Dcanada-2Dsi
nce-2Dparis-5Fus-5F564cee09e4b031745cef9dda&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9K
dLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGH
fQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=Z0-7ScafsXz
1k0_huWDFTramYc0W81U9LRyoPooJClE&e=>
of Islamophobic acts. Sadly, in less than two months, the listhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mediamatters.org
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<
_blog_2016_02_04_fox-2Dnews-2Dco-2Dhosts-2Dhavent-2Dheard-2Dof-2Dany
-2Danti-2Dmusl_208389&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXek
fBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7W
BzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=exyZxXOlCgGbxRXMH-vatDYC728u_UJnJ
bSfMxzxQ2k&e=
”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 Muslimshttps://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=>
at
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 forhttps://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=>
the
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.https://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=>,
It’s
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 belonghttps://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=>
in
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 fromhttps://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=>
here,
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 ishttps://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=>
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<
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 ishttps://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=>
nothing
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.https://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=>
At
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, Northhttps://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=>
Carolina,
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 showhttps://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=
this
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 Ihttp://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/5880f1211700002e00fdf8c9.jpeg]
need
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.https://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=>
“You’re
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.”https://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=>
In
Virginia, a member of the Republican State Central Committee
tweeted<
that Islam is a “death cult organized by Satan” and “is not ahttps://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=>
religion
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 nothttps://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=>
protected
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. ashttps://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=>
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<
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.huffingtonpost.com_entry_americans-2Doverestimate-2Dmuslim-2Dpopulation-5Fus-5F5852e354e4b012849c05f509-3F9d5g72ilmlwwx6flxr&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=INhYrrGmHfG2mtbl6uasQxTU1c8ggooP5yroSAL5Gfk&e=>
dim
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.”
