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After Paris and California attacks, U.S. Muslims feel intense backlash
The Washington Post ^ | December 3rd, 2015 | By Kevin Sullivan, Elahe Izadi and Sarah Pulliam Bailey

Posted on 12/03/2015 8:13:30 PM PST by Mariner

Rabia Chaudry kept her 7-year-old daughter home from her private Islamic school in Maryland on Thursday, fearing anti-Muslim backlash from Wednesday’s massacre nearly 3,000 miles away in San Bernardino, Calif.

“I think we are all feeling exhausted and very vulnerable,” said Chaudry, a lawyer and national security fellow at the New America Foundation. “I’m angry at those people who did this attack. And I’m angry at how this is being politicized. Everything boils down to, ‘We should fear Muslims. And they shouldn’t be here.’ ”

American Muslims say they are living through an intensely painful moment and feel growing anti-Muslim sentiment after the recent Islamic State attacks in Paris and this week’s San Bernardino shootings, carried out by a Muslim husband and wife.

The motivations of the California killers are still unclear, although authorities are investigating it as a potential act of terrorism. Muslims said they are bracing for an even more toxic climate in which Americans are increasingly suspicious of Muslims.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: muslimlivesmatter
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To: FatherofFive

Is there any doubt as to why the current occupant of the White House removed the bust of Winston Churchill?


101 posted on 12/03/2015 8:53:31 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Mariner

If anyone, anywhere, for any reason, does not feel welcome or is uncomfortable dwelling in the country they are in, then it’s time to move.

There are many muslim countries in the world - for the life of me I don’t know of any logical reason as to why they would not prefer to live there, seeing as they love their religion so much.


102 posted on 12/03/2015 8:54:03 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Twink

True, true....all of that. :-)


103 posted on 12/03/2015 8:55:20 PM PST by nopardons
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To: JudyinCanada

But the point is, the stinking Muslims are on a world wide jihad, to conquer the world and force their evil, disgusting cult on us.


104 posted on 12/03/2015 8:57:47 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Mariner

Here’s the deal:

If Muslims feel so “put upon” by the backlash resulting from ISLAMIC terrorism... then just maybe they ought to TAKE ACTION - real, verifiable, and meaningful action to fight terrorism! Duh....

Lets see - how many mass marches have we seen against terrorism organized or participated in by huge numbers of Muslims who are crying out for ISLAMIC terrorism to stop?

How many believable condemnations of ALL terrorism have we seen come from Islamic leaders?

What steps are those of the Muslim population taking to stop/prevent/war against terrorism?

The crickets are chirping...


105 posted on 12/03/2015 8:58:05 PM PST by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Did you notice how nervous he was? Not like he was surprised about what the bastards did, but more like there was going to be a ton of bricks coming down on him in the near future.


106 posted on 12/03/2015 8:59:47 PM PST by Squeako (It's a Cult of Personality and it's gonna be huge...a huge missed opportunity to vote conservative.)
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To: rbg81

The media did complain but we were a different country then.

By the 1970s/1980s, our schools began teaching in earnest, that the attack on Japan was wrong. Same thing they’re doing now, just sooner. And we won’t win on that front until we fight it and we aren’t fighting it.


107 posted on 12/03/2015 9:00:20 PM PST by Twink
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To: nopardons

And our politicians, and many brain-dead citizens don’t get that, even though the muslims freely admit it, and it’s in their “holy” book.


108 posted on 12/03/2015 9:01:53 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Mariner
It has come to this:

Britain bound trucker hangs raw pork off the outside of his lorry in an attempt to keep desperate Muslim migrants from stowing in the back


109 posted on 12/03/2015 9:02:12 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: Mariner

All this time I thought it was Middle Eastern adulterers and gays that were feeling intense back lashing.


110 posted on 12/03/2015 9:04:58 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: Mariner

No sympathy. Muslims can renounce their religion and Sharia law if they’d like to join the rest of the civilized world and be respected in the US.


111 posted on 12/03/2015 9:05:37 PM PST by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: JudyinCanada

They’re closer to their black box at Mecca over there also. No Muzzie in his right mind should want to live in this evil, racist country. They all need to go home.


112 posted on 12/03/2015 9:05:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who is fact checking the state controlled, leftwing media's fact checkers?)
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To: JudyinCanada
Our educational systems do NOT teach factual history anymore and so many people's abject lack of ability to concentrate on anything much, nor remember things ( blast the stupid electronic crap we have now ! ) is part of the problem.

Add to that, what 7 very long years of barry, the naked king of slime, and the MSM holding him up, and we have a floundering nation filled with idiots !

113 posted on 12/03/2015 9:10:40 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Mariner

If they are still here, they aren’t feeling it at all!


114 posted on 12/03/2015 9:11:18 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Daffynition

I LOVE that ! :-)


115 posted on 12/03/2015 9:11:25 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Mariner

Exactly what is the “intense backlash?” Have people hurt their feelings, said mean things about their false prophet, complained about being targeted for jihad murder?

All I want is an assurance that American muslims won’t get sudden jihad syndrome. ...and maybe that they will renounce all violence, including the idea that anyone who renounces islam is marked for death.


116 posted on 12/03/2015 9:13:39 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: Mariner

Backlash?

Pshaw. Any of ‘em been beheaded?

I am SICK of these media LIARS. There has been no BACKLASH....unless you consider people hopefully WAKING UP to the dangers of Islamofascists a “backlash”.

CHRISTIANS in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Iran....THOSE folks are suffering a BACKLASH....not the Muslims in America.


117 posted on 12/03/2015 9:14:57 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: nopardons

True. We let the left take over the educating of our kids. I don’t know exactly how it happened (because of unions, likely), but most kids are sent off to be indoctrinated for upward of 12 years. I home-schooled, and that was years ago, before it became popular.


118 posted on 12/03/2015 9:15:27 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Mariner

I would gladly pitch in.


119 posted on 12/03/2015 9:17:08 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Mariner

Actually, if they’re so worried about backlash, they’d best take it up with the cause of the problem....and that would be none other than their muslim brothers, the jihadists.

How long do they think the rest of the world will be subject to slaughter and NOT start to react?


120 posted on 12/03/2015 9:22:19 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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