Posted on 04/23/2013 8:47:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Washington Post tried to turn the camera lens around on the violent Tsarnaev brothers. Their arrogant liberal assumption: the real question is what this says about us backwards Americans, not about the bombers. The headline in huge type was “Who do we think they are? The answer says a lot about who we are.”
What we are, apparently, is a sad gathering of “Islamophobes,” because the story is a collection of quotes from Muslim activists and authors who tweeted “please don’t be a Muslim” and feared that Muslim assailants would spur Americans to practice “discrimination or retaliation or shame.” Even after the Tsarnaevs were found, the Post reported “Brown Muslims” were relieved:
Embedded in the misunderstanding [of Caucasian Muslims] is the stereotype that to be a Muslim, one must be a darker-skinned person of Middle Eastern descent.
Asra Nomani, a Muslim writer [and former Wall Street Journal reporter], noted that some members of the larger Muslim American communities with Middle East or South Asian roots expressed relief when they saw photos of the accused bombers.
“‘Brown’ Muslims were like, ‘Whew, it’s not one of us,’?” she said. “And then people felt that would protect Arabs or Indians or whomever from being targeted. It’s like a sigh of relief.”
That "Brown Muslim" quote was put in bold type inside the Style section. The first paragraphs of this mass psycho-analysis by reporters Krissah Thompson and Michelle Boorstein suggest that apparently, Americans can’t evaluate who the Tsarnaevs are without satisfying some deep psychological need to police our “in-group” boundaries.....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
yes they are
This has got to be part of the “Great Deception” of the Last Days.
isn’t that cute? The sickos at the WAPO calling other peopple sick- go jump in a lake wapo
Well, I hate the liberals at the Washington Post a hell of a lot more than I hate the average Muslim.
What does that say about me, I wonder?
The photos are digitally lightened, just as 0bama’s are digitally darkened (plus addin in the deep tanning stuff for his head and arms/hands).
The Left is flailing about at the moment, making lots of mistakes.
This article doesn’t attack backwoods rednecks, but urban, privileged Bostonians who are coping with being attacked.
Those marathon bombings mugged an entire region (you know the saying: a conservative is just a liberal who has been mugged).
Such articles are mistakes for the Left. They are going to further shift the New England mindset toward the Center, away from the Left.
Ask Big Pappi how he feels today.
I’m confused. This was an isolated incident, just a couple of lone wolves. Why would anyone expect this attack or the next attack to be from a Muslim? It never crosses my mind to care whether a criminal or terrorist is white. Why would a member of any group have that worry about members of their own group?
Is the entire press corp blind to the fact that people all over the world are different colors, and that most of them are ok with it? What a pathetic bunch of wusses we depend upon for our daily mush.
“‘Brown’ Muslims were like, ‘Whew, it’s not one of us,’?” she said. “And then people felt that would protect Arabs or Indians or whomever from being targeted. It’s like a sigh of relief.”
Were those the same brown muslims that celebrated and handed out candy to their fellow brown muslims on 9-11-2001?
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