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2016-03-25 Home Front: WoT

'Islamophobia': U.S. cities face anti-Muslim backlash

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Posted by Fred 2016-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 00:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 00:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 00:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 02:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 07:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Our only worry is infidels will fight back.

Posted by regular joe 2016-03-25 09:50|| 2016-03-25 09:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 10:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 10:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 11:27|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 12:20|| Front Page Top

#11 join the enemy in droves

????

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-25 13:08|| 2016-03-25 13:08|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 13:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Lots of terrorism by other hyphen Americans, P2k?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-25 13:15|| 2016-03-25 13:15|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by Secret Master 2016-03-25 14:10|| 2016-03-25 14:10|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 16:24|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 16:27|| Front Page Top

#17 rjschwarz, the key word is join.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-25 16:36|| 2016-03-25 16:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 17:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 17:58|| Front Page Top

#20 You can only join things that started out separate.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-25 18:01|| 2016-03-25 18:01|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-03-25 20:55|| Front Page Top

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