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Home Front: WoT
'Islamophobia': U.S. cities face anti-Muslim backlash
2016-03-25
[USATODAY] Cities across the USA are preparing for the next phase that inevitably follows a terror attack: anti-Muslim backlash.
I've not yet seen the many predictions of an anti-Muslim backlash pan out. But Muslims and Progressives remain convinced of its inevitability.
Across social media, in public forums on college campuses, and even in mainstream political rhetoric from presidential candidates, anger over the deadly terror attacks in Brussels has spawned discontent and suspicion directed at Muslim groups. After the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
grabbed credit for the attacks, leaders in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and spoke out quickly to dissuade anti-Muslim sentiment.

The aftermath of an attack "is always a difficult time for Muslims in the United States," said Nabil Sheikh, a leader of the Muslim Students Association at Princeton University.

"On Princeton’s campus, students took to anonymous forums like Yik Yak to comment that there are Muslims at Princeton who are radical and would therefore condone yesterday’s attacks," Sheikh said. "These comments not only are appalling and inaccurate but also threaten the well-being of Muslim students."
The Muslim Student Association is the youth branch of the the Muslim Brotherhood in America, ie radicals. Q.E.D.
Posted by:Fred

#21  #14 Guys: you're listening to a college student.

Sure, but he's only the first of -- ummm -- eight or nine Muslim spokesmen channeled by several "journalists" in a bigtime news outlet with no analysis, let alone rebuttal. CAIR's a "civil-liberties organization," for Pete's sake? If they'd thrown in the SPLC, I think I might've cried.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2016-03-25 20:55  

#20  You can only join things that started out separate.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-25 18:01  

#19  Join, attempt to join, I don't think that changes the point at all. They are not siding with the West the way the Japanese and Germans living in America did during WW2.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-03-25 17:58  

#18  Seems sort of out of proportion with those leaving for the ME festivities out of Minnesota. Couldn't be the water*. The water is good.

* oblique reference to Casablanca
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-03-25 17:00  

#17  rjschwarz, the key word is join.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-25 16:36  

#16  According to CNN "More than 20,000 foreigners have flocked to fight for ISIS, the radical Sunni group that controls portions of Iraq and Syria."

LINK
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-03-25 16:27  

#15  g(r)omgoru, you haven't seen a lot of articles of wanna-be Jihadists returning to the west disenfranchised by their experiences with ISIS? Or busted by FBI on their way to join? I'm not sure how many constitute a 'drove' but I don't think the term is out of line.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-03-25 16:24  

#14  Guys: you're listening to a college student.
Posted by: Secret Master   2016-03-25 14:10  

#13  Lots of terrorism by other hyphen Americans, P2k?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-25 13:15  

#12  ..that was the America of the 'melting pot' meme. The last three decades of 'multiculturalism' wants you to join your kin and blood against America.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-03-25 13:08  

#11  join the enemy in droves

????
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-25 13:08  

#10  Japanese-Americans and German-Americans joined the US military to prove their loyalty and some were tremendous assets. Muslims complain about the never occurring backlash or join the enemy in droves.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-03-25 12:20  

#9  AOSHQ:

"British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow's Train Bombing"

-- Classic line from Jim Treacher back in 2005
Posted by: Frank G   2016-03-25 11:27  

#8  IslamoPHOBIA? Phobia a strong, irrational fear of something that poses little or no real danger. This is not phobia. This is anger, and a justified rational response to a belief system that fosters terrorists. Fancy fake medical term. What the dancy fake medical term for Islamo-PissedOffWithAssholes?



Posted by: Thrusoger Thusotch6157   2016-03-25 10:20  

#7  I've not yet seen the many predictions of an anti-Muslim backlash pan out. But Muslims and Progressives remain convinced of its inevitability.

The Muslims and the Left always predict (wrongly, in most cases) that someone will do something because of the ethnocentric "That's what I would do" belief of imposing their own group's typical reactions on to what humanity as a whole would do.

Most people (and religions) I find are peaceful, welcoming and forgiving.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2016-03-25 10:13  

#6  Our only worry is infidels will fight back.
Posted by: regular joe   2016-03-25 09:50  

#5  Not that the average Muslim would have any empathy for the victims of Muslim terrorists.

We know that an average Muslim has zero empathy for his own sister.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-25 07:44  

#4  The aftermath of an attack "is always a difficult time for Muslims in the United States," said Nabil Sheikh, a leader of the Muslim Students Association at Princeton University.

It's probably more difficult for the victims themselves, as well as the friends and family of the victims. Not that the average Muslim would have any empathy for the victims of Muslim terrorists.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2016-03-25 02:23  

#3  Yup, that's the standard response to a Muslim terrorist attack.

Worry about the possibility of a backlash against Muslims. And not so much about future attacks.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-03-25 00:51  

#2  The aftermath of an attack "is always a difficult time for Muslims in the United States," said Nabil Sheikh, a leader of the Muslim Students Association at Princeton University.

"On Princeton’s campus, students took to anonymous forums like Yik Yak to comment that there are Muslims at Princeton who are radical and would therefore condone yesterday’s attacks," Sheikh said. "These comments not only are appalling and inaccurate but also threaten the well-being of Muslim students."


I'll just note that Nabil's first instinct was not to condemn the Brussels attack. As far as I'm concerned, that means he supports it.
Posted by: Raj   2016-03-25 00:37  

#1  Any coverage of vehicle blockades trying to prevent members of the mosque from attending services?

(do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-03-25 00:04  

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