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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.”
Now they are the frightened victims, they can’t wear their crap, can’t pray, they have only themselves to blame by allowing their violent brothers to terrorize.
She should wear a bag over her head to show solidarity with The Unknown Comic.
I remember years ago when she was at FOX, and there was a segment about a Confederate Flag and she reported later how many people were defending it, and how she was surprised.
Not sure where she is from, but the woman has gone completely loon since being at CNN.
Waiting for Cuomo and Camerata to recommend concealed carry for all those anticipating attacks by Muslims.
it would make her horse face look better.
I like THAT idea
Uh folks, she is doing what those who sign her paycheck want, just as she did at Fox.
she was a loon , but not as much as now, as she went into a tirade over the Confederate Flag while she worked at FOX.
It was always there, but she held it in, now she is surrounded by like mind nutters, and has joined them.
Great idea!
Maybe we should all go blackface too in order to show solidarity with our black neighbors.( I bet that would go over quite well—LOL )
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Step 1: Just a suggestion, but it would be a nice gesture to wear a hijab to reassure scared Muslims.
Step 2: You know, if you were a nice person, and tolerant and all, you’d be happy to wear a hijab. I really don’t get why you’re refusing. Wow. Just wow.
Step 3: Put on the hijab or else, bigot.
Maybe, but the best “bag over the head” story came from the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. They had a very erratic, eccentric owner named Harold Ballard who was known to engage in some pretty bizarre antics. He once fired the team’s very popular head coach (Roger Nielson) when the team was going through an awful stretch. There was a huge outcry from the fans and media, and Ballard couldn’t even find anyone else to take the job so he was forced to hire Nielson back. He tried to convince Nielson to wear a bag over his head behind the bench for his first game back, but Nielson wouldn’t take him up on it. LMAO.
” islam you filthy anal buggering faux religion.”
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Let’s see how that goes over.
Nope.
Ban em all. Remove em all. Never let them back in again.
Screw that crap!@!
Those gawdless bastards need to wear crosses and get on their damned knees!!
Wait, who just attacked who?
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