Posted on 09/22/2016 5:53:13 PM PDT by PROCON
When I was 16, a Texas police officer pulled me over and said "it's people like you that are ruining this country. Go back to your country." People who speed, I thought? Girls who are late for figure skating practice? I wasn't sure what he meant. What country was I supposed to go to? I was born and raised in Austin. Then, it dawned on me. It was a month after 9/11, and he meant Muslims.
Islamophobia is widespread. In the 15 years that have followed the Sept. 11 attacks, many Muslim or Middle Eastern Americans have been repeatedly exposed to hate and discrimination in the United States.
The unfounded hatred of Islam or stigmatization, fear and dislike of Muslims rose to 67 percent in 2015, the highest it has ever been. Right after 9/11, unfavorable attitudes toward Muslims were at 60 percent. In fact, hate speech and crimes against Muslim Americans tripled after the San Bernardino and Paris attacks. Muslim Americans have been harassed on college campuses, they have lost jobs, mosques have been vandalized, Muslim charities have had their assets frozen, and racial profiling has occurred at airports and on the streets.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
OK....
Take a few minutes to read this illogical screed, great entertainment.
Moreover, when people are targeted based on their identity, the persistent exposure to discrimination has a pervasive, negative effect on health. Being a victim of Islamophobia can be traumatizing, with severe and lasting health impacts.
So, you're worried about YOUR health?
Well, we non-muslims are worried about OUR LIVES.
Focus on your own 7th century death cult and quit whining!
The author can shove her silly little liberal ideas ...you know where.
Fixed
I misread the title. I thought it said “why we should treat Islam as a public health issue”, which made more sense.
Dumb twit is buried in student loan debt for a PhD that qualifies her to flip burgers, and she thinks she is smarter than everybody else.
Oh? So when all these islamic terror attacks in the US and world happen and we’re kinda sorta upset over that then we’re phobic?????
PS: Islam is a mental disease.
No Muslim will ever be my countryman. I’ll never trust one, and I’ll never care for their presence.
Instead of always pointing fingers at “Islamophobia” maybe they should do something about the idiots using their religion to slaughter others.
That is how they classified thought crimes in the USSR.
Islam is incompatable with democratic ideals and processes. Islam was founded by a crazy pedophile and perpetuates domination over non believers at any cost and by any means necessary. It is a virulent political movement acting as a murder cult and posing as a religion.
Blacks in the old south have what this girl might have called “Klanaphobia”. Jews in WWII era Germany might have what she would call “Naziphobia”. The peaceful Jews of Medina who took Mohammad in when he was driven out of Mecca and were later pillaged, slaughtered, and raped for their charity might have what she calls “Islamaphobia”. As do the Christians being slaughtered by Muslims in Africa. And all the other places Muslims are slaughtering people for the crime of not submitting to Islam.
Moreover, when people are targeted based on their identity,
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Does that include the white drivers that are set upon by ‘peaceful demonstrators’ just because they are white or the people who answer no when a troglodyte with a knife asks if he/she is Muslim or maybe the people the Charlotte NC head of Nation of Islam says that WHITE businesses should be boycotted because a BLACK officer shot a BLACK THUG?
Just checking...
Except that it isn’t unfounded. It is founded in countless terrorist attacks and constant news about gruesome, gruesome attacks against anyone that isn’t to their liking, including other Muslims and many, many Christians. Yes, unfounded it is not.
Shame on the Dallas Morning News for even giving a forum to this bitter, biased ignorant little twit . . . .so the cops pulled you over, BFD, Guess what Sister, all of us get pulled over for one reason or another
You poor little victim. Maybe you should take the cops advice after all
I'm just a knuckle dragger, so I don't see how its possible for an intelligent, rational person to have an unfounded hatred, fear or dislike of a declared murder cult or its believers.
I have suspected for many years that the hard left were traitors.
It is now certain. They are treasonous scum. They love our enemies and hate American traditions.
“Unfounded”?
Many non-Muslim Americans have been repeatedly exposed to religiously motivated murder and mayhem perpetrated by muslims in the United States.
So FOAD, Goleen or whatever your stupid name is!
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