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Abcarian: Republicans fearing a midterm rout revive Islamophobia as political strategy
Sacramento Bee ^ | Updated March 22, 2026 | By Robin Abcarian

Posted on 03/22/2026 5:50:48 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Boy, it's been a struggle whipping up ugly racist sentiment since President Trump "closed" the border last year. No more stories about immigrant caravans marching ominously north to steal our jobs and rape our women. No more tall tales of Haitian gangs eating the cats, eating the dogs. Sure, immigrants might still be "poisoning the blood" of our country, as the president claimed numerous times during his 2024 campaign. But with so many violent deportations and the killing of two white American citizens protesting them, that rhetoric has lost some of its glow. What we need are some fresh scapegoats. Who can white people blame now for their woes? Hey, I know! How about Muslims?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abscarian; notphobia; officialdemnarrative; rationalfear; sacbs; scaryabscarian

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The reality

On March 1, Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Senegal, shot up a beer garden in Austin, Texas. He murdered three people and wounded 14 others. Diagne wore a "Property of Allah" sweatshirt, along with an Iranian flag T-shirt.

On March 7, 2026, Emir Balat, the son of a naturalized citizen from Turkey, and Ibrahim Kayumi, the son of naturalized Afghan refugees, threw IEDs toward a conservative protest outside Gracie Mansion, the New York mayor's residence.

This same week, on March 12, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, another naturalized U.S. citizen, this time from Sierra Leone, went into an ROTC meeting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Once there, he murdered the instructor, Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shah, a decorated combat veteran. Jalloh shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he fired. Jalloh had previously been convicted for attempting to support ISIS but was released before serving his full sentence.

That same March day, Ayman Muhammed Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, whose family in the Middle East currently has strong Hezbollah terrorist ties, drove his car rigged with explosive fireworks into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

1 posted on 03/22/2026 5:50:48 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Everyone can see the troublemakers.
The voters elected Trump to deal with the troublemakers.
Trump is solving problems caused by the troublemakers.
Democrats announce that Trump is oppressing the troublemakers.


2 posted on 03/22/2026 5:56:03 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: artichokegrower
Islamophobia? The irrational fear of Islamists causing harm? You keep using that word - I don't think it means what you think it means.
3 posted on 03/22/2026 6:04:03 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: artichokegrower

Did the author visit a learing center yet?


4 posted on 03/22/2026 6:07:08 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: artichokegrower

The person that wrote this “piece” is completely out of touch with reality.

All the things she mocks actually DID happen.

The word “unhinged” comes to mind.


5 posted on 03/22/2026 6:07:16 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: OttawaFreeper

This is part of her bio on the la times web site.....tells me all I need to know.

“Robin Abcarian is an opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She writes about news, politics and culture. Follow her on Bluesky”


6 posted on 03/22/2026 6:11:30 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: artichokegrower

This is what Berkeley produces. Pure and utter BS. Her background is covering the Oscars. Maybe she should get one for stupid opinions of the year.


7 posted on 03/22/2026 6:13:13 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: artichokegrower

What a hateful, vile-spewing woman.


8 posted on 03/22/2026 6:18:08 AM PDT by sauropod
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I don’t have Islamophobia. I know what those Camel humping Pedophiles do. It isn’t what Americans want, we are a Judeo-Christian nation, raised to respect the Son of GOD, not to respect a child rapists!


9 posted on 03/22/2026 6:28:44 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: All

Don’t worry the Republican Party hates White people just as much as the Dems, it’s all an act


10 posted on 03/22/2026 6:36:28 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Go back to Boston...... they are your kind


11 posted on 03/22/2026 6:43:29 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: artichokegrower
Reminds me of the German girls welcoming migrants who rape them…

Italian Trulli
12 posted on 03/22/2026 6:43:29 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: artichokegrower

Phobic? Nope!


13 posted on 03/22/2026 6:49:25 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: bert

Both political parties support replacing White Americans with the third world.


14 posted on 03/22/2026 6:53:49 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: escapefromboston

Balderdascious and probably malicious, drivel


15 posted on 03/22/2026 7:01:15 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: artichokegrower

Robin Abcarian plays the race card because he’s too stupid to look at any facts. I wonder if the twit knows the UAE has joined with Trump to protect the Hormuz. And the people of Iran - the people Trump wants to take over? They’re Muslim Robin Abcarian.


16 posted on 03/22/2026 7:01:47 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats effing over TSA agents so China will be able to sneak in 'migrant' military aged men?)
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To: Thommas

Correct ... my definitive term is “Islamomisia” not “Islamophobia”.


17 posted on 03/22/2026 7:12:14 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: artichokegrower

All further elections are compromised or open to compromise.


18 posted on 03/22/2026 7:23:34 AM PDT by Theophilus 7
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The other side wouldn't complain unless:

(A) It was a valid strategy.

(B) It was a successful strategy.

19 posted on 03/22/2026 7:30:30 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Trump II)
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To: artichokegrower

Who the hell is this loser author with a big race card mouth?


20 posted on 03/22/2026 7:30:41 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (My Pronouns are "Y'all" and "All Y'all". )
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