What would you think if I told you every high school kid in baggy pants was a drug dealer?
Or every woman wearing lipstick was a prostitute?
How about that every black man on the street was getting ready to rob you?
Or every Italian guy was a mobster?
Offended yet?
Then you should be equally offended by IslamoFascism Awareness Week because it employs the same twisted logic as the revolting statements above and its objective is equally ugly: every time you see a Muslim, the organizers of IslamoFascism Awareness Week want you to think “terrorist”.
I used to believe that fear and hatred of Muslims was the last acceptable prejudice in America. But the more I see the spread of initiatives like IslamoFascism Awareness Week and watch books like Robert Spencer’s unbelievably stupid Religion of Peace? Why Christianity is and Islam Isn’t fly off the shelves, the more I realize that Islamophobia is far worse than I thought.
It’s not just the last acceptable prejudice in America. There are people who want you to believe that hating Muslims is your patriotic duty.
I wonder what country they think they live in.
The America I live in doesn’t discriminate against people based on their religion. The America I believe in is based on the idea that people from different backgrounds can build a nation characterized by equal dignity and mutual loyalty together.
One of the founding fathers of my country, Thomas Jefferson, had enough respect for Islam and Muslims that he owned a copy of the Qur’an. Another one of my founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, declared that the pulpit of a hall he helped build in Philadelphia would be open to a Muslim preacher.
The America that I love faces real threats from terrorists. Too many of those terrorists call themselves Muslims. Victory requires that we focus like a laser beam on these enemies.
Anybody encouraging America to take its eye off the terrorists by spinning the illusion that all 1.3 billion Muslims in the world are dangerous is weakening our national security and endangering your life.
So much for the so-called patriots who brought you IslamoFascism Awareness Week.
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