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Rana Elmir is the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and lectures on issues related to Islamophobia, free speech and the intersection of race, faith and gender.
Washington Post
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/why-i-refuse-to-condemn-terrorism-20151229-glwlqm.html
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Bible versus Koran, do you know the difference?
Dutch comedians disguise a Bible as a Koran and read some of its most shocking verses to people on the street to test prejudice against Islam.
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Muslims across the globe are not threats. They are threatened.
Muslim vulnerability is not just contained abroad. The pernicious disease that is Islamophobia is spreading at home, thanks to a steady diet of repugnant rhetoric and equally misguided policies. While the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI fell in 2014 in most categories, the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose, with Muslim Americans experiencing five times the number of hate crimes today than they did before the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Examples of crimes, threats and harassment against American Muslims abound. Last month, a group of individuals euphemistically called "armed protesters" by the media rallied outside the Islamic Centre of Irving in Texas, greeting worshippers with assault rifles and other weapons. Later, the organising group published the names and addresses of Muslim families and "sympathisers" on social media. In New York, a store clerk was beaten by a man who yelled "I kill Muslims". In California, a woman berated a group of Muslims praying in a park and then threw hot coffee on them. Elsewhere in California, police are investigating a fire at a mosque as a hate crime.
The list goes on, with even children in the role of both target and perpetrator. A Muslim girl in New York was put in a headlock, punched repeatedly and called ISIS (an alternative acronym for Islamic State) by her classmates. An aggrieved mother reported on social media that she had to comfort her eight-year-old daughter because she began packing a bag after she heard "someone with yellow hair named Trump wanted to kick all Muslims out of America".
A friend who has committed herself to bringing interfaith communities together and who has never shrugged off a question about her identity as an American Muslim woman who wears hijab spoke to me of a paralysing fear she feels every time she leaves the house. In a country that cherishes religious freedom, countless other women are sincerely questioning whether they should remove their hijab for the safety of their children.
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Rana Elmir is the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and lectures on issues related to Islamophobia, free speech and the intersection of race, faith and gender.
Washington Post
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/why-i-refuse-to-condemn-terrorism-20151229-glwlqm.html
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Bible versus Koran, do you know the difference?
Dutch comedians disguise a Bible as a Koran and read some of its most shocking verses to people on the street to test prejudice against Islam.
...
Muslims across the globe are not threats. They are threatened.
Muslim vulnerability is not just contained abroad. The pernicious disease that is Islamophobia is spreading at home, thanks to a steady diet of repugnant rhetoric and equally misguided policies. While the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI fell in 2014 in most categories, the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose, with Muslim Americans experiencing five times the number of hate crimes today than they did before the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Examples of crimes, threats and harassment against American Muslims abound. Last month, a group of individuals euphemistically called "armed protesters" by the media rallied outside the Islamic Centre of Irving in Texas, greeting worshippers with assault rifles and other weapons. Later, the organising group published the names and addresses of Muslim families and "sympathisers" on social media. In New York, a store clerk was beaten by a man who yelled "I kill Muslims". In California, a woman berated a group of Muslims praying in a park and then threw hot coffee on them. Elsewhere in California, police are investigating a fire at a mosque as a hate crime.
The list goes on, with even children in the role of both target and perpetrator. A Muslim girl in New York was put in a headlock, punched repeatedly and called ISIS (an alternative acronym for Islamic State) by her classmates. An aggrieved mother reported on social media that she had to comfort her eight-year-old daughter because she began packing a bag after she heard "someone with yellow hair named Trump wanted to kick all Muslims out of America".
A friend who has committed herself to bringing interfaith communities together and who has never shrugged off a question about her identity as an American Muslim woman who wears hijab spoke to me of a paralysing fear she feels every time she leaves the house. In a country that cherishes religious freedom, countless other women are sincerely questioning whether they should remove their hijab for the safety of their children.
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