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Why we should treat Islamophobia as a public health issue
dallasnews.com ^ | Sep. 22, 2016 | Goleen Samari

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.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: health; invasion; islam; islamofacism; islamophobia; muslims; whining
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To: PROCON

We should treat Islam like a public health issue, because muslims are dangerous to the health of non-muslims.
Any of them can start following the example of their prophet at any time and start killing infidels.

Isolate, quarantine and eradicate.


21 posted on 09/22/2016 6:09:33 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: PROCON

An Islamic snowflake.


22 posted on 09/22/2016 6:12:42 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

I did too ;’}


23 posted on 09/22/2016 6:12:47 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: PROCON

Just once I wish one of the ‘slime snowflakes would experience some REAL hostility. In the form of a fist in their face or a boot up their ass. Something meaty, instead of this whiny, sniveling carping about perceived insults and hurt feelings.


24 posted on 09/22/2016 6:13:33 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: PROCON

Kuffars’ fear of Islam MAY cause stress in Muslims, which may lead to Suddenly Jihad Syndrome (SJS) and Premature Explosion (PEX).

The cure is a sustained dose of Quranic Propaganda (Qupro) from elementary school until the death bed, which could be the side of the road or airplane fuselage due to aforementioned SJS or PEX


25 posted on 09/22/2016 6:19:10 PM PDT by sagar
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To: PROCON

Judging by the brief scan of her CV, and her association with “population control,” I read in this that it may be necessary to place Islamophobes in mental hospitals for their own good.


26 posted on 09/22/2016 6:21:00 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...".)
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To: PROCON

“The unfounded hatred of Islam”

Well now, I am not too sure about that.


27 posted on 09/22/2016 6:21:11 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: PROCON

Civilizational jihad. America is a place where those persecuted in the name of Islam can find safety. To refer to those who stand for freedom from oppression ‘mentally ill’ is nothing more than a shining example of Islamic superiority complex - the same Islamics that make a show of setting themselves apart in a nation that gave up Puritanism 300 years ago.


28 posted on 09/22/2016 6:21:17 PM PDT by blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))
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To: Da Coyote

I think a more interesting course would be the “Typical Terrorist Profile” which would list all the terrorist activities committed since 2001 and include the methods of attack, the nationality of the terrorist, the religion of the terrorist, who their victims were, the method of torture or destruction utilized and the motive behind the attacks. THEN I’d like to prepare the report and give Ms. Liberal Low IQ Muslim a BIG CUP of STFU.


29 posted on 09/22/2016 6:22:16 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Da Coyote

Muslims are slaughtering Christians in the Middle East. What does this idiot indict them for?


31 posted on 09/22/2016 6:30:15 PM PDT by odawg
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To: D_Idaho
I read in this that it may be necessary to place Islamophobes in mental hospitals for their own good

That's what the IslamONazi is saying.

Anyone who sensibly fears them will be declared insane and institutionalized.

The Soviet Union did the same with dissidents. Because if you criticized the Perfect State, you must be crazy.

Logical. As long as you accept the original premise.

32 posted on 09/22/2016 6:30:19 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: PROCON
It never ceases to amaze me that liberals are so blind to irony. People who have a fear of people who, for no reason other than they do not share their religious beliefs, are brutally killing them need to have their heads examined for unwarranted fear that is warranted.

That even made me dizzy typing that.

33 posted on 09/22/2016 6:32:02 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: PROCON

The Left has to get out ahead of the inevitable backlash of undertandable fear and righteous indignation of Americans who want to survive and see their unalienable rights preserved.


34 posted on 09/22/2016 6:33:33 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Regulator
The American left has been conspiring to turn blacks into stupid degenerate communist parasites for close to 90 years.

The GOP is clueless, and has never tried to stop them .


35 posted on 09/22/2016 6:34:08 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: PROCON
We should probably treat sexual slavery of captured Yazidi girls as a public health issue, too, eh, Goleen? How about lowering a cage full of prisoners into a pond? Perhaps stoning should be considered too?

Jeez, liberalism is a mental disorder..

36 posted on 09/22/2016 6:35:11 PM PDT by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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37 posted on 09/22/2016 6:36:50 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee
That poor soul falling to his death is emotionally gripping.

A necessary reminder.

38 posted on 09/22/2016 6:40:05 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: odawg

Islam is a political/military entity shrouded by religion, they have been killing for 1400 years, we have already fought two wars with them. They will continue to kill us.

They can not reform.


39 posted on 09/22/2016 6:40:34 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: PROCON

61% of muslims in America are first generation immigrants. Many resent this nation and still hope that Sharia Law becomes the law of the land.

We are being colonized.

And as bad as they have it over here, things are FAR FAR worse for non-muslims (or muslims who convert away from Islam) back in the countries they came from.


40 posted on 09/22/2016 6:42:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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