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CNN Anchor: Americans Should Wear Hijabs To Show Solidarity With Fearful Muslims
The Daily Caller ^ | Nov. 29, 2016 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 11/29/2016 7:47:41 PM PST by Mr. Mojo

Americans should wear hijabs to show solidarity with Muslim women who fear being attacked for wearing the religious head covering, CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota suggested on Monday, just hours before an Islamic radical stabbed students at Ohio State University.

“Maybe there will be a movement where people wear the head scarf in solidarity. You know, even if you’re not Muslim,” Camerota said during an early-morning broadcast on CNN’s “New Day.”

“Maybe it’s the way people shave their heads, you know, sometimes in solidarity with somebody who is going through something,” she added.

Camerota was responding to a CNN segment about Muslim women who say they live in fear of being verbally or physically attacked for wearing head scarves.

The segment tied a spate of alleged incidents in which Muslim women have been targeted for wearing hijabs to Donald Trump’s presidential win.

“The Trump Transition: Fearful Muslim women take steps to be safe,” read the chyron that CNN chose for the segment.

“I hope I can wear it one day again. I hope I can feel safe enough to do so,” Marwa Abdelghani, a Muslim-American woman, told the network.

The piece did not note that some of the alleged hate incidents in the aftermath of Trump’s win have been found to be hoaxes. An 18-year-old University of Louisana-Lafayette student was charged with filing a false report after she claimed that a group of white Trump supporters hurled racial slurs at her and stole her hijab several days after the election.

Ironically, hours after the CNN segment aired, an 18-year-old Somali refugee named Abdul Razak Ali Artan attempted to kill students at Ohio State University.

Artan, who was killed by a campus police officer after stabbing numerous students with a butcher knife, reportedly complained online before the attack about the treatment of Muslims throughout the world. And in an interview with Ohio State’s student newspaper earlier this year, Artan complained about the lack of prayer rooms on campus.

“I wanted to pray in the open, but I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media,” he said in that interview. “I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be.”

During the CNN segment, Camerota’s co-host, Chris Cuomo, suggested another solution for Muslim women who fear being attacked.

“I think self-defense training is good for everybody,” he said. “Prepare yourself for whatever can come.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cnn; islam
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101 posted on 11/29/2016 9:12:32 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Paladin2
Besides creating the Marines, what positive thing has Islam contributed to the USA?

LOL!
I never thought of it like that.

102 posted on 11/29/2016 9:12:58 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Paladin2

Gun & ammo sales.


103 posted on 11/29/2016 9:14:58 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

How does Alyson feel about her forthcoming cliterectomy?


104 posted on 11/29/2016 9:18:04 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: Mr. Mojo

I am about 10,000 times more likely to don a Crusader’s uniform than a hijab - and I’m Jewish, thus having little love for Crusaders.


105 posted on 11/29/2016 9:21:11 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ari-freedom

although they can burn the flag,.. if we were to burn hijabs, that would be a hate crime!


106 posted on 11/29/2016 9:35:50 PM PST by bitt (The most insidious power that the media has, is the power to ignore - Chris Plante, WMAL)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Americans should wear hijabs to show solidarity with Muslim women who fear being attacked ...<<<

Perfect love casts out fear. Hijabs don’t.

Geeze lady...it’s winter time. EVERYBODY wears a coat and a hat unless you live in the tropics. What’s the problem?


107 posted on 11/29/2016 9:37:30 PM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: Paladin2
“...what positive thing has Islam contributed to the USA?”

I just want to go one day between now and the end of my life where I can wake up and NOT hear anything in the news about muslims, Islam, hajibs, burkas, sharia law, honor killings, CAIR, halal food, ISIS, Shia, Sunni, Syria, Iraq, Somali “refugees”, the koran, arabs, the muslim brotherhood or the latest muzzie outraged about something stupid and beserking into sudden jihad syndrome...I just one day. I'm sick to death of all of it...and to answer your question, it has contributed absolutely nothing positive to America's cultural heritage. As I often say: "There were no Muslims on the Mayflower."

108 posted on 11/29/2016 9:43:23 PM PST by Towed_Jumper (I'm not homophobic --I'm homonauseated.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Is this Wolf Blitzer wearing a hijab?



109 posted on 11/29/2016 9:44:28 PM PST by Heart-Rest (Don't be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. Galations 6:7)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I have a better idea... to truly show solidarity with fearful Muslims, how ‘bout all female registered democrats are compelled to wear a full burka under threat of assault and/or imprisonment?


110 posted on 11/29/2016 9:52:33 PM PST by leakinInTheBlueSea
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To: Mr. Mojo

CNN hosts should volunteer as human shields for IS camps the day before Trump swears in.


111 posted on 11/29/2016 9:57:38 PM PST by enduserindy (I always smile when my competition doubles down on stupid.)
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To: Mr. Mojo; TBP

I know at least 1 person who’d rush to the Hijab Store given his close associations with the Pakis - Council of Khalistan’s very own Tim Barnes Phares (TBP).

Courtesy ping TBP. While I think the practice is shameful, I think a hijab will look really good on Ajrawat, Aualakh, and the rest of the uglies that make up the Council of Khalistan.


112 posted on 11/29/2016 10:12:04 PM PST by indcons (Hillary for Prison)
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To: Mr. Mojo

CNN should practice what they preach: all of their female anchors and guests should wear Hijabs at all times for a week. You know, to show “solidarity” with fearful Muslims. And then the week after that, they could all wear feather headdresses to show “solidarity” with fearful Indians. And then the week after that, they could all wear Mexican headdresses to show “solidarity” with fearful Mexicans. And so forth ...


113 posted on 11/29/2016 10:12:27 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: silverleaf

Meagyn Kelly in a burqa?


114 posted on 11/29/2016 10:15:04 PM PST by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp: Replace Ryan & McConnell; Primary Lyn' Ted and others.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

CNN should try its hand at being a news organization for a change.


115 posted on 11/29/2016 10:33:28 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Mr. Mojo

CNN is a broke dick network and is only a praetorian mouthpiece!!!


116 posted on 11/29/2016 10:35:27 PM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Fungi

These barbarians never had it so good living in the West. None of them have any intention to live under sharia and none will return to their open latrines known as muslim countries. The West should ignore their demands and not take them seriously.


117 posted on 11/29/2016 10:36:12 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA IS ALL THAT TRULY MATTERS)
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To: Fungi

These barbarians never had it so good living in the West. None of them have any intention to live under sharia and none will return to their open latrines known as muslim countries. The West should ignore their demands and not take them seriously. The aholes know that they are safer living in the West than in their own countries.


118 posted on 11/29/2016 10:38:50 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA IS ALL THAT TRULY MATTERS)
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To: Mr. Mojo

She didn’t happen to be wearing one at the time, did she?


119 posted on 11/29/2016 10:53:56 PM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Since they are no longer the Clinton News Network, they go back being the Cresent News Network!


120 posted on 11/29/2016 11:06:37 PM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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