What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words, terrorism? 9/11? ISIS? The Taliban? While these examples are certainly just, they don’t always represent terrorism in its entirety. Dan Brown […]
Category: Islamophobia
Where are you from? (The Coast) How long have you been here? (I look at my watch and say 50+ years)
More “bad days” ahead. We’re not going to throw up our hands even as social media now shifts to predictable Islamophobia. Notable is that the shooter in Boulder bought his gun on the evening of […]
PA Dems Double Down To Stop This Homophobic, Islamophobic GOPer Become A State Senator
Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: The Republican nominee for PA Senate District 33 has no plan to help Pennsylvania. What he has instead is a scare-campaign built on bigotry, lies, and lunacy. […]
MN-05: Democracy for America & Progressive Change Campaign Committee Stand With Ilhan Omar (D)
Received two e-mails yesterday in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D. MN-05). The first one from Democracy for America: Since her election, Rep. Ilhan Omar has been an prime target for white supremacists on the […]
Excellent Critique of How the Establishment – with McCain's help – Brought Us Trump.
From Crooks and Liars, Jeet Heer of The New Republic rips into the political establishment which McCain was a party to that HELPED produce Trump. There is a link to Heer’s Tweets on McCain’s funeral. […]
Samantha Bee Demands Abolishment of ICE. Democrats Should Heed The Call.
ICE was created from the ill-conceived “Patriot Act” in 2003. In the wake of rampant Islamophobia, immigration changed overnight from being an economic/labor issue to a national security issue. The newly created ICE was headed by […]
Mich. GOP State Dir. of African American Engagement posts hideous Islamophobic meme on social media
Originally posted at Eclectablog.com. That guy up there is Wayne Bradley (or “Wayne WB Bradley as he calls himself), the Michigan Republicans' State Director of African American Engagement. He runs the GOP office in Detroit that opened […]
The Myth of Islamophobia
There is a rather disconcerting idea touted by so-called progressives on the order of: Islamophobia is on the rise in the West: most particularly in Europe and the United Sates. The idea itself presupposes that […]
