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[quote=jsteele]One of the reasons I have been aggressive about deleting threads and posts that I see as anti-Muslim is that I am concerned about anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate crimes that result when people are demonized. There have been two incidences of Muslims and/or Arabs being killed in recent days. In New York, an Imam and his assistant where shot in the head after leaving their mosque. A Hispanic man has been arrested for their killing, but at this point we don't know his motive. However, given that the two victims were dressed in traditional clothing and were not robbed or shot for any apparent reason, it is suspected that this was a hate crime. But, let's wait for the investigation to determine this.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a killing of a Lebanese-American was much more clearly rooted in anti-Arab and anti-Muslim prejudice. In this case, a white man with a history of violence began harassing his Lebanese neighbors. Despite the fact that the family is Christian, he made many anti-Muslim as well as anti-Arab statements to them. The family was able to get a restraining order against the man, which he was arrested for violating. He was then arrested for hit and run after running into the mother with his car. Out on bail for the hit and run, he was able to obtain a gun. When 37-year-old Khalid Jabara heard that his neighbor was armed, he called the police. The police came, said there was nothing they could do and left. Eight minutes after the police left, the neighbor walked up to Khalid and shot and killed him.

When the killer, Vernon Majors, was arrested for the hit and run last year, "Majors remarked that Mrs. Jabara and her family were filthy Lebanese and they throw gay people off roof tops."  This is a perfect example of ISIS and American Islamophobes working in concert. ISIS committed an atrocity as an act of propaganda. Their action is not reflective of the views of the vast, vast, majority of the world's Muslims. It is even less reflective of the views of Muslims in America and it is absolutely not reflective of all but a microscopic percent of the world's Christians (the Jabara's religion). Yet, Islamophobes have managed to implant this perception of Muslims into significant numbers of Americans. They have literally done ISIS' work for them.

Trump says that he wants to make America great. I submit that America can not be great when negative stereotypes of minorities are not only allowed to flourish, but encouraged, leading to hate crimes. It cannot be great when our justice system allows a man to violate a restraining order, commit a hit and run, and then be released without monitoring to return next door to his victims. It cannot be great when gun laws allow such a man to obtain a weapon and prevent police from doing anything about it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/16/mans-unusual-fixation-with-lebanese-neighbors-led-to-murder-tulsa-police-say/
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