Carl,
Well, you're sounding very democratic and people centered and all that sort of
thing. But you're full of it! Your writing skills are phenomenal. You express
yourself beautifully and clearly and when you write, your intelligence and
education are apparent. And while I agree that people without good language
skills may have important things to say and we should listen to everyone who is
attempting to communicate with us, I do not believe that it is necessary to
derrogate education and intelligence in order to show that we are good
Progressives or Leftists, or whatever. Remember that what Chris Hedges does on
a voluntary basis, is to teach writing and literature to prisoners. He respects
his students' intellecdtual potential, but he's is helping them learn to
express themselves effectively.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 10:52 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy]
Okay okay, I knew as soon as I said it that I'd get some well deserved flack.
It wasn't exactly what I wanted to say, but I'm sort of puny today, and we had
to run into Tacoma...which is enough to make anyone feel puny. Sure, language
is our most central means of putting across our thoughts, record our events,
track our history, and set forth the confusing directions to operating all the
new fangled gadgets that we seem to not be able to live without.
But what I really was driving at was that we do not need to speak what we used
to call the King's English in order to make our point. Of course the more a
person understands their language, the better they should be able to express
their thoughts. But in day to day interaction it is more a matter of getting
the message across than which words we use.
"I beg your pardon, old Chap, but I shall not be leaving with you".
"I ain't gonna go!" Either way, the message is clear.
It took me some time to learn, for example, that a person who said to me, "I
toad you so", was no less intelligent than the person who said, "I told you
so". I let what I called, improper language
usage(prejudice) get in the way of listening to what the other person was
saying. "Don't Ax me why", I just done it.
I have found that language can be used as a means of letting other folks know
that we are superior to them, just as certainly as we hold up our degrees or
our family tree.
I recall receiving an award for an article I wrote. A fellow sent me a note in
which he took my article apart, showing me all of my errors in grammar...and
maybe in grampar, too. But the people(brilliant folk that they were)understood
the purpose of that article. It was not a piece written to show off my
language skills, which are modest at best, but to attempt to make a
point...which they obviously understood(because of their natural brilliance).
Frankly, I hope that before I die, I am able to hold myself up to be just about
as good as anyone else, and not to feel superior because of some small
difference between us...like our use of language.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/15/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think I disagree with that statement about language not being important.
I'm certainly not distressed by naughty words. I use them a lot,
privately, in my own home when I'm frustrated or annoyed. I'm more
cautious about using them with other people for whom they may be
distressing. But the use of language, the way in which we express
ourselves, the way in which we communicate with others, is very
important. And I think that the art of using language to communicate
is fast disappearing. Just think about all those tweets and how they
omit any subtleties and can, therefore, get people into difficulty.
And a lot of articles I read lately on line, are filled with them, as
if these brief statements from people whose names I know, actually say
something meaningful. Additionally, as I've been attempting to learn
how to access the podcasts on my new stream and people on the VR
Stream list offer help, the help is often inadequate because they
don't explain anything in context, and they omit steps. If I continue
to ask questions and I accumulate answers, and I keep playing with the
device and the podcast feeds, I'm learning. There's something about
tech manuals and tutorials, or possibly all of the people who have the
talent in this area, which tends to derrogate clear, concise, literary
descriptions. That's not how techie think or talk. And our whole
society tends to be saturated with this new communication. What I like
about books is that they depend on literary description. The primary
communication in our society today is a kind of shorthand, tweets, menus,
short video clips.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 12:57 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy]
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
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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
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anti-Muslim hate crimes.)
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discrimination, public policy and political speech throughout 2016.
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Louis.
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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>
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about a Muslim Army veteran who found the word “terrorist” written
on his locker. Mostly, we received anti-Muslim hate mail.
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― signs that the project was making waves.
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read about the then-frontrunner in the Republican presidential
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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.
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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
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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 a Muslim mother and daughter in Maryland. “You’re not even from
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_2016
“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_20
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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6utm-5Fmedium-3Dsocialflow&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83
ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt
0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=YjLGB9VTkfzr5vmr2oiM1zlSIZir
7BUzAyGyj1TXxWY&e=>
this alleged act of unAmerican-ness on the influence ofhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpo
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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khzir-2Dkhan-5Fus-5F579b9b3de4b0e2e15eb5c5e9&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9
KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtG
HfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=n-5VOCobie
XTL89LW7vL0aI_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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zZTHpsWRChd0FI&e=>
at a Muslim woman inside a New Mexico grocery store.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thegazette.c
“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.huffingtonpo
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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P7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=ExNmvBEN0U0L4oQp9OSPUvkxWeEpKtK7W7AdU9rrS
gk&e=
”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.enterprisene
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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ds-2Dto-2Dcalls-2Dfor-2Dresignation&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38Yx
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&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=U_LdGwRQDgFaU5qRBAg
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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.thedailybeas
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2Dnot-2Deven-2Dclose.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83c
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true<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian
.com_world_2015_dec_08_donald-2Dtrump-2Dfamous-2Dmuslims-2Dus-2Dhist
ory-3Fncid-3Dfcbklnkushpmg00000090&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38Yxd
rPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&
m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=m4SrJHpEmmaBcENKt1GZ
kvOjJys1ieBTbIv_-X8FQwA&e=>,
Mike.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.orlandosenti
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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kfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt0GV7
WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=pwxv22qCW1iueUugp7HbhEkyThTUcIHu
brY5MB_56kA&e=>
a mosque with a machete before leaving bacon on the front doorstep.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.omaha.com_ne
At mosques in Nebraska <
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and Lashttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.washingtonti
Vegas<
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mosque-2Dcenter-2Dant_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXe
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pLXWPxffp_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__talkingpointsmem
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.c
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s=5W9sG4T0JV89GnSMCCe80cKbumQfDpHEwNO5Vgn1uRk&e=>
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_article
this
year: “A pig head to Muslims is like a crucifix to a vampire<
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ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=8xkKqt
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.”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_let
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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o&m=8xkKqt0GV7WBzdQCROnP7Ia9ifRgQasmUgO9Q0ZgPCY&s=fBI7Di5yFP6ZsTvxnV
KmWliVd1NAvfX0skq7FEEiXfI&e=>
recently after reading about the pig carcass in Oklahoma: “I swearhttp://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/5880f1211
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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JqU5Vp4wbSgTEl5BvagsNiQ&e=>
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.kerngoldenem
“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.huffingtonpo
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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,”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonp
and it helps explain why nearly 30 percent of Americans<
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possibly<
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Trump, still think the country’s first black president is secretlyhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__talkingpointsmem
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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in testimony submitted to the state House.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpo
In Pennsylvania, a school board member said<
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that Islam is “not a religion” and is “not only godless, buthttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonp
pagan.” In Virginia, a member of the Republican State Central
Committee tweeted<
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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_h
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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altogether, arguing that because it’s not a religion, it’s nothttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.merriam-2Dw
protected under the First Amendment.
Merriam-Webster
defines<
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Islam as “the religious faith of Muslims including belief in Allahhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.npr.org_sect
as the sole deity and in Muhammad as his prophet.” It is practiced
by 1.6 billion people<
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and is the world’s second-largest religion, after Christianity. Ithttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__foreignpolicy.co
is no<
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inherently violent or peaceful than any other religion.http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/58790efb1
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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Cruz cited “civilization jihad.”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpo
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson warned<
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of a “civilizational jihad” against the U.S., wherein “jihadists”https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rightwingwat
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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the influx of Muslim migrants and refugees into Europe and the U.S.https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thehill.com_blog
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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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<
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dim view of Muslims. A recent survey revealed<
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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.”