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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: SkyDancer

You might think all of those Islamist attacks on civilians in America are backlash against “perceived aggression” (wars) in the middle east but college professors and presidential mentoring bigoted preachers will tell that is just chickens coming home to ROOST, Little Eichmans and all...


41 posted on 09/22/2016 6:44:47 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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To: A_Former_Democrat

I’m curious how few degrees of separation she is from CAIR officials.


42 posted on 09/22/2016 6:46:27 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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To: Rome2000

We had a copy of the Ford & Allen book when I was growing up (’60s).

It was such laughable propaganda even a 10 year old could see it was stupid.


43 posted on 09/22/2016 6:46:49 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: PROCON

"The unfounded hatred of Islam or stigmatization"

She lost me right there. If she is so stupid she can't see the foundation for fear, distrust, stigmatization, and even hatred for Islam ... then she's too stupid to debate. For pity's stake, even muslims are fearful of other muslims who are more muslim than they are. Cults are like that.


44 posted on 09/22/2016 6:51:18 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: jsanders2001
Her pic makes me want to rip off her glasses and whatever Muslim head covering she has on

Judging from her UT profile pic, she doesn't wear glasses and goes uncovered.

From her profile:

Her research focuses on social determinants of health and health disparities with a particular attention to communities in or from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). She examines the relationships between Islamophobia, gender, and family demography and population health outcomes in the United States and MENA. Her work often focuses on how social and demographic processes affect women’s health over the life course. Her research interests include migration and health, family and community contexts of immigrant households, intergenerational relationships, women’s sexual and reproductive health, and evaluation of global and domestic public health programs and policies.

She needs to go on a field trip to Raqqa.

45 posted on 09/22/2016 6:59:10 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: 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.

Or, far more likely, she is just lying about the entire "incident."

46 posted on 09/22/2016 7:15:21 PM PDT by montag813
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To: AndyTheBear

47 posted on 09/22/2016 7:23:20 PM PDT by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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To: montag813
..she is just lying about the entire "incident."

That is my opinion also.

We have seen too many phony incidents of so-called "islamophobic attacks" perpetrated by muslims trying to garner sympathy.

They lie, that's what muslims do.

48 posted on 09/22/2016 7:25:14 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON
Why we should treat all Islamophobia as a public health issue.

Slow, hanging curveball alert!

Paging Mickey Mantle.

49 posted on 09/22/2016 7:25:22 PM PDT by logitech
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To: PROCON
...many Muslim or Middle Eastern Americans have been repeatedly exposed to hate...

How many Muslims have been killed by Americans committing hate crimes?

How many Americans have been killed by Muslims committing hate crimes?

(Just askin'.)

50 posted on 09/22/2016 7:33:17 PM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: PROCON
You can always shut these people down with one simple phrase:

Muslims don't believe in the Natural Rights of Man

51 posted on 09/22/2016 8:40:16 PM PDT by kiryandil (George H. W. Bush: "Read my lips. I'm a Republican.")
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To: Organic Panic
it's people like you that are ruining this country <<<...

When I was that age...The officer said..Do u want me to have to call your parents?

I was self-Policed and didnt even know it!

52 posted on 09/22/2016 9:08:56 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: PROCON
All disagreements with the prevailing ideology should be treated as "health issues." Institutions should be developed to treat these health issues residentially. Alexander Solzhenytsin described how these institutions should work in his The First Circle.
53 posted on 09/22/2016 9:13:40 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: Travis McGee

sometime a picture is worth a 1000 words....


54 posted on 09/22/2016 9:15:09 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: PROCON
The unfounded hatred of Islam or stigmatization, fear and dislike of Muslims

It is well founded.

55 posted on 09/22/2016 9:15:09 PM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: Da Coyote

No kidding...GTFOOMC


56 posted on 09/22/2016 9:15:44 PM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: PROCON
Muslim Americans have been harassed on college campuses

What a load. Moslems are treated like gods on college campii, and every accommodation imaginable is made for them.

57 posted on 09/22/2016 10:29:04 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: PROCON

The author is mentally ill.


58 posted on 09/23/2016 1:56:21 AM PDT by Ray76
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To: PROCON

It’s not Islamophobia that is the issue. It’s Islamoblindness and there is an epidemic of it. Islamoblindness is the inability to see the truth about islam’s attempt at world conquest and the core belief that lying about terrorism will make it not happen to themselves.


59 posted on 09/23/2016 7:46:57 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Dutch Boy
Well said!

The majority of thinking Americans suffer from islamonausea.

60 posted on 09/23/2016 8:06:49 AM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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