TweetI calmly disagree with you, Paul!! Last week, on the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman tweeted to his 4.6 million followers that “Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn’t a mass outbreak of ant-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily happen. And GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit, he tried to calm prejudice, no feed it. “I calmly disagree with Paul, Americans attacks and hate crimes against Muslims shot to the roof, and Bush calmy invaded two Muslim countries. Paul, you need to get out of the house more often. When Mr. Krugman started writing for…
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Media Fake Objectivity and The Story of Sophia Rashid .!!
Tweet Seen I: The Visit The Birthplace of Minnesota On one beautiful Saturday afternoon, Sophia Rashid, a 25-year-old Muslim woman, decided to take her four-year-old daughter to Stillwater for an outing. “It was a gorgeous day,” she thought. Stillwater Afterall, as their website tagline says, Stillwater is “The Birthplace of Minnesota.” Sophia, like many Americans, went for burger and ice cream at Leo’s Grill & Malt Shop. As Sophia was leaving with her daughter, on the sidewalk, she was approached by Metscial gang. The Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood, the ACB, according to ADL, “… is a small white supremacist prison/street gang based primarily in Minnesota and Kentucky. violence racist prison criminal group.” The…
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THE HOLY WAR
TweetThe Arab American community must face its own prejudices, bigotry and biases, much of these the residual effects of colonial history and pure ignorance of Arab history and culture. Arabs themselves are people of color, our heroes were blacks, our prophets were blacks, our teachers our neighbors and friends were blacks. A few summers ago, it was Friday noonish, and I was standing by the door of Holy Land Grocery in Northeast Minneapolis. The place was vibrant; people were coming and going at a fast pace. A Somali man in his ironed white khamiis was rushing out of the door carrying some grocery bags. A policeman hanging around outside seemed concerned and…
