So after another mass shooting, and anticipating another round of funerals for innocent victims, President Obama said “
Enough is enough…this is not normal. We can’t let it become normal.”
At about the same time the President was making his remarks, a
spokesman for the Washington D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic
Relations, Ibrahim Hooper said, “
The picture is getting increasingly
bleak. There’s been an accumulation of anti-Islamic rhetoric in our
lives that I think has triggered these overt acts of violence and
vandalism.”
President Obama, in this case is wrong; this is normal and regardless
what decent Americans want, as the Muslim spokesman said the picture is
getting increasingly bleak and not just because there are too many guns
in America. There are too many hate-filled
wingnuts and
Republicans inciting violence against other Americans. And sadly there
are enough angry white guys, with guns, who are going to do the
Republicans’ bidding and start shooting innocent Muslims. That was the
threat leveled at an Islamic Center in Kentucky and it was the latest result of Republican “
anti-Muslim rhetoric” providing exactly the results Republicans intended; violence against American citizens who practice Islam.
The threats of violence targeting the Islamic Center of Lexington
Kentucky prompted the Imam, Mahmoud Shalash, to contact Lexington police
and federal Homeland Security officials at about the time a maniac was
killing innocents in a Colorado Springs women’s healthcare clinic. The
death threat came by way of email saying, “
I’m going to kill everyone I there (sic) you Muslim f–ks. Salabis is coming for you.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest
Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, requested stepped up
protection from state and local law enforcement authorities for the
mosque and its adherents.
No-one on the planet should be surprised at the escalation of
violence and animus toward Muslims, whether they are American citizens
or not. Republicans have made whipping up hate toward the Muslim
community their current cause célèbre after spending no small amount of
time and effort demeaning Hispanic immigrants ad nauseam. In fact, the
violence targeting Muslims is no different than the violence toward
Planned Parenthood and it is “
Mission Accomplished” for Republicans inciting terror attacks against Americans they despise.
Although law enforcement officials are withholding information about
the motive behind the Colorado Springs’ gun rampage, the city’s mayor
said that people can make very accurate “
inferences from where it took place.”
Fine, then Americans can make a very accurate inference that
Republicans have blood on their hands for inciting rage and more
violence towards women’s healthcare providers; just like they are
inciting violence against American Muslims.
CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper said what any decent American believes and was
brave enough to say what Washington leaders are afraid will incite
Republicans to abject rage; the Republican cabal incites domestic terrorism. Hooper
said,
“
This clear terroristic death threat targeting a house of worship
must be treated seriously by local, state and federal law enforcement
authorities and the perpetrator should be apprehended and brought to
justice. Our nation’s leaders must send a clear message challenging the
rising Islamophobia that leads to such threats.”
To punctuate his point, Mr. Hooper cited a current FBI alert to New York City police about an armed anti-Islam extremist who is
traveling across the country to “
confront”
Muslims. Hooper also noted that in Connecticut, the FBI and local
police are investigating multiple gunshots fired at the Baitul Aman
mosque. In Florida, two Tampa Bay-area mosques received threatening
phone messages on Friday night and the FBI said the person also made
threatening calls to the Islamic Society of St. Petersburg. In a suburb of Austin, Texas, the Islamic Center of Pflugerville
discovered
feces and torn pages of the Quran that had been thrown at the door of
the mosque. Muslim leaders encouraged authorities to investigate the act
as a hate crime and law enforcement is doing just that. Still in Texas,
in a suburb of Houston authorities
arrested a man accused of threatening on social media to “
shoot up a mosque” and he was charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony.
CAIR attributes this latest spike in anti-Muslim terrorist incidents
to remarks by political candidates and lawmakers in the run-up to the
2016 general election. In a statement, CAIR said the glaringly obvious;
“Of particular concern is the extreme anti-Muslim rhetoric and
falsehoods being espoused by leading Republican pretender candidates Trump and Carson. Another contributing factor to this marked
rise in Islamophobic hostility is state governors and lawmakers playing
on public fears and spreading misinformation about Syrian refugees being
resettled into the United States.”
The national director of CAIR said his organization has made official
appeals to law enforcement officials to step up patrols at mosques and
other Islamic institutions
. “We urge public officials and
presidential candidates not to scapegoat American Muslims and not allow
Islam to be demonized by Islamophobes or by the anti-Islamic actions of
terrorists. We have men, women and children who come to the masjid to
pray every day, and since these attacks, they have reduced the frequency
of their visits to the masjid with fear for their lives.” Republicans
are likely damn proud of themselves for demonstrating how much they
detest and oppose this pathetic country’s so-called freedom of religion
by having a major hand in prohibiting the “wrong” religious adherents
from worshiping out of fear for their lives; it is very ISIL-like.
Despite all the Republican-incited domestic terrorism against
practitioners of a religion the evangelical religio-wingnuts want eliminated from
America, the spokesman for the New York mosque that was shot up, Salaam
Bhatti, said the shootings, vandalism, and death threats are “A
teachable moment. As we do raise awareness of attacks in mosques, we
will see mosques do not respond in violence. Islam teaches us to teach
peace.” So does christianity teach peace, but this is America and its
most visible representatives of the neo-christianity polluting this
country have spent years preaching violence against Muslims as part of
their drive to make America the most “structurally violent nation” on
the face of the Earth. Sadly, they are succeeding beyond their wildest
dreams and with every new act of domestic terrorism, whether against
women’s health clinics or American Muslims’ houses of worship, they get
more blood on their hands. With all due respect to the White House,
despite what President Obama says, these Republican-incited acts of violence
are normal and it is all down to Republicans inciting terrorists to
action against American citizens.
