Sweet mother of sorrow, can we give the fucking Islamophobia a rest?
The whole thing is based off a single terror attack from nearly 25 years ago, carried out by religious extremists, with a death toll exceeded by COVID during several individual days during Disease Delighting Donnie’s first term. If this sounds familiar, it’s because “religious extremist” is often part of the profile of our homegrown mass murderers. There is no part of this country - not even a single county and maybe not even a single town - where Islamic crime outstrips Christian crime. Fucking bet. If you want to pick on Abrahamic religions, gotta catch ‘em all.
Granted, you wouldn’t know that checking the Most Wanted on the FBI site. At any time it is at best 20% white people, who produce the majority of our violent extremists of any religion. Know how I can tell? Damn near every high profile killing in the last ten years has ended up being a right wing white male. Even the heavily right-leaning media acknowledges this.
I’ve known several Muslims. By and large peaceful, honest people. I knew one that was a scummy business sort, but that had nothing to do with his skin or religion. He was just as profit-driven as most business folk. Your heart is what you sell to get rich, after all.
Mamdani will be fine. After The Squad showed up, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were going to destroy America. If they’re doing so, they cleverly waited until Trump was in office again to do it.
I know I want anyone that smart on my side anyhow.
(Edited to add scale of how many Americans Muslims have killed compared to how many Donald Trump has personally killed.)
The New York vote was evidence that most people agree with you. New York is a very diverse city that reflects American demographics better than any city. Zohran Mamdani won all the demographics, including, last I looked, the Jewish vote.
The fascists are terrified.
I am appalled at what old school Dems and the Supreme Court are doing. Our immigration is a nasty mess. It needn't be that way.