Posted on 12/19/2015 1:15:55 PM PST by ifinnegan
Sofia Ali-Khan Dec. 7, 2015
Dear Non-Muslim Allies,
I am writing to you because it has gotten just that bad. I have found myself telling too many people about the advice given to me years ago by the late composer Herbert Brun, a German Jew who fled Germany at the age of 15: “be sure that your passport is in order.†It’s not enough to laugh at Donald Trump anymore. The rhetoric about Muslims has gotten so nasty, and is everywhere, on every channel, every newsfeed. It is clearly fueling daily events of targeted violence, vandalism, vigilante harassment, discrimination. I want you to know that it has gotten bad enough that my family and I talk about what to keep on hand if we need to leave quickly, and where we should go, maybe if the election goes the wrong way, or if folks get stirred up enough to be dangerous before the election. When things seem less scary, we talk about a five or a ten year plan to go somewhere where cops don’t carry guns and hate speech isn’t allowed on network television. And if you don’t already know this about me, I want you to know that I was born in this country. I have lived my whole life in this country. I have spent my entire adult life working to help the poor, the disabled and the dispossessed access the legal system in this country. And I want you to know that I am devoutly and proudly Muslim.
I am writing this in response to a non Muslim friend’s question about what she can do. Because there is much that can be done in solidarity:
If you see a Muslim or someone who might be identified as Muslim being harassed, stop, say something, intervene, call for help.
If you ride public transportation, sit next to the hijabi woman and say asalam ‘alaykum (That means ‘peace to you.’). Don’t worry about mispronouncing it; she won’t care. Just say "peace" if you like. She’ll smile; smile back. If you feel like it, start a conversation. If you don’t, sit there and make sure no one harasses her.
If you have a Muslim work colleague, check in. Tell them that the news is horrifying and you want them to know you’re there for them.
If you have neighbors who are Muslim, keep an eye out for them. If you’re walking your kids home from the bus stop, invite their kids to walk with you.
Talk to your kids. They're picking up on the anti-Muslim message. Make sure they know how you feel and talk to them about what they can do when they see bullying or hear hate speech at school.
Call out hate speech when you hear it—if it incites hatred or violence against a specified group, call it out: in your living room, at work, with friends, in public. It is most important that you do this among folks who may not know a Muslim.
Set up a “learn about Islam†forum at your book club, school, congregation, dinner club. Call your state CAIR organization, interfaith group or local mosque and see if there is someone who has speaking experience and could come and answer questions about Islam and American Muslims for your group. They won’t be offended. They will want the opportunity to do something to dispel the nastiness.
Write Op Eds and articles saying how deplorable the anti-Muslim rhetoric has gotten and voice your support for Muslim Americans in whatever way you can.
Call your state and local representatives, let them know that you are concerned about hate speech against your Muslim friends and neighbors in politics and the media, that it is unacceptable and you want them to call it out whenever they hear it, on your behalf.
Out yourself as someone who won’t stand for Islamophobia, or will stand with Muslims—there is an awful lot of hate filling the airways, and there are an awful lot of people with access to the media and/or authority stirring the pot about Muslims. Please help fill that space with support instead. Post, write, use your profile picture or blog to voice your support.
Ask me anything. Really. Engage the Muslims in your life. Make sure you really feel comfortable standing for and with your Muslim friends, neighbors, coworkers.
I can tell you that in addition to the very real threat to their civil and human rights that Muslims are facing, we are dealing with a tremendous amount of anxiety. While we, many of us, rely on our faith to stay strong, we are human. This is not an easy time. What you do will mean everything to the Muslim Americans around you. Thank you for reading and bless you in your efforts. Share freely.
media inquiries to: fb.muslim.allies@gmail.com 540 315 1823 ‪#‎standingwithmuslims‬ ‪#‎muslimallies‬
©Sofia Ali-Khan
This is the propaganda going around and that many many fall for. It reminds me of the Bund in WWII.
It seems to be coordinated via CAIR, or at least it presents CAIR an authorized representative.
This is quite insidious as it is based on lies, character assassination, and pure distortions of reality.
It is, though, quite explicit in calling its target audience "non-Muslim allies" rather than fellow Americans or some such.
Note also the recommendations are things that are happening in terms of public school indoctrination under guises or studying history or geography.
We need to chase and harass these people out of the country. Seriously.
It’s what they do to any non-Muslim, anywhere in the world where they get into positions of power.
Let's do that.
Muslims and their non muslim friends can kiss my non muslim arse.
What do we do when they hand us letters saying, “CONVERT OR DIE”?
Just a little more Taqiya for soft headed low info type infidels.
“Note also the recommendations are things that are happening in terms of public school indoctrination under guises or studying history or geography.”
EXACTLY! What about that idiot in Virginia who was having her little brats “learn” calligraphy by copying the Muslim profession of faith? That moron WAS MAKING LITTLE MUSLIMS, whether or not she realized it, and ISIS will be knocking on their door one day!
That is the only statement I need from you to determine that you are either a liar or an idiot.
Either way, I care not for your happiness. As far as i'm concerned, either as a liar or a fool, you *NEED* to be frightened and unhappy. Your fantasy ideas are not compatible with reality.
LEAVE !!!! We don't want you here if you are that stupid, and we doubly don't want you here if you are deliberate liar.
Outlaw Islam
Expel all Muslims
Stop all aid to Muslim lands
“If you ride public transportation, sit next to the hijabi woman and say asalam alaykum (That means peace to you.). Don’t worry about mispronouncing it; she won’t care. Just say “peace” if you like. She’ll smile; smile back.”
Then her dad and brothers will take her to the garage and slice her throat, thus saving the family’s honor.
Looks like Sofia forget “tattoo on the back of your neck “cut on the dotted line” “
HaHaHaHaHa! Taqiyya!
Isn’t Obamaland great?
Radical Muslims talk openly about killing us and tearing down our government and anyone who questions this gets in trouble.
Oh well, if you didn’t like it you wouldn’t keep voting for it, would you? LOL! :D
“That is the only statement I need from you to determine that you are either a liar or an idiot.”
Agreed and more so, it showed she does not believe in American Constitutional Freedoms.
I think whomever wrote this at CAIR: “somewhere where cops don’t carry guns and hate speech isn’t allowed on network television” did it because he knows it will jerk liberal heartstrings and they laugh and laugh about it.
Dear Sophie,
Tell your people to stop bombing, killing, threatening and harrassing my people. Tell them to stop coming in to MY country and trying to force me to adapt to their culture. Tell them to stop calling us the Great Satan and Israel the Little Satan. Tell them stop throwing acid on little girls who want to go to school. Tell them to stop enslaving women and people of other religions. Tell them to stop inje ting acid into dogs to euthanize them. Tell them to leave the goats alone. And tell them to just generally stop being assholes. When they can do all of that for, oh say, 40 years, then we’ll talk. Until then, FO.
Sincerely,
RoosGirl
the Enemy Within (including the IllegalImmigantInChief) needs to be repatriated (expelled) back to the 56 Krapistans they’ve already infiltrated and conquered
ps: what happened to all the Christians, Jews, and other non-Muslims who used to live in those 56 countries?
guess...
Dear Miss perfect-in-every-way Muslim prom queen. We know that you are highly civilized people who would never think of harming a fellow human being or even lying about it. We know that those occasional hiccups of mass murder, beheadings, driving people out of their homes, taking women prisoner and raping them, crucifying people who are naughty by believing the wrong things and of course the ever popular bombings are things that happen in every culture. So who is anyone to judge our dear Muslim friends.
I am sure that when you are together among other Muslims you express your shock at the attacks visited on Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and other religious minorities in Muslim countries. I am also sure that you are generous with donations to non Muslims who are victims of religious victimization.
We are so lucky to have you among us shining the light of truth on us, leading the way and saving us from our heathenish ways. What would we do without Muslims like you?
Signed:
Wanna-be-Muslima.
The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam
John Quincy Adams on Islam
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).
I didn’t think of that, I pictured a woman going up to her and befriending her, not a man. Regardless, there should have been a caveat—not recommended for men.
“That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:...” Gods of the Copybook Headings - Kipling
Fourteen hundred years of this so you would think someone would have learned the lesson. Oh hell here is the link for those who have not. http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
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