Browsing all posts tagged with Muslims.

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Weekly Diaspora: Fort Hood Shootings Unleash Poisonous Punditry

Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Weekly Diaspora: Fort Hood Shootings Unleash Poisonous Punditry

WHEN TERROR STRIKES the hearts of Right Wing punditry, the result too often is a demonization of communities of color. Be they Mexican or Arab or Muslim or Chinese or Japanese, it’s an age-old reflex. It’s time to think smarter, broader, and find the root causes of the nation’s troubles.

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A Loathsome Day On Parade

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

MY HEART RACED faster and faster and when it was over I…I let the sadness wash through me as it had to for a few moments. The bold ignorance and hate and bigotry was…terrifying. And sad. And loathesome. And real. But not new. This energy takes people’s lives every day in some part of this land. But maybe we move closer to a new time. And simply that possibility is inspiring.