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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: Mariner

maybe they’ll self-deport.


41 posted on 12/03/2015 8:25:30 PM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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To: Cementjungle

Muslims know who the radicals and fundamentalist’s are in their community,but they won’t turn them out of fear.


42 posted on 12/03/2015 8:25:55 PM PST by Oldexpat
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To: Mariner

I don’t see how the “backlash” could be enough.

Run them all out of the country. There’s no room for Islam, or their Sharia laws.

I cannot imagine living in a World I have to listen to some a-hole in a tower call to prayer five times a day. Maybe that’s what drives them insane enough to shoot people.


43 posted on 12/03/2015 8:26:23 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: Cementjungle
She was expecting backlash at the Islamic private school?


44 posted on 12/03/2015 8:26:24 PM PST by amorphous
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To: Mariner

I am tired of foreigners and anti-Americans like muslims getting to tell Americans we can’t be Americas or else it hurts their poor widdle feelings!


45 posted on 12/03/2015 8:26:27 PM PST by CodeToad (III)
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To: Mariner
Well considering it wasn't the American People that invited them here, our ‘thing’ in the Rainbow Hut invited them, I don't think we need to make them feel welcome...

America has always opened Her arms to help those in need, I don't see where these ‘killers’ are in need, except to make America the ‘hellhole’ that they came from...

Personally, I would like to put everyone on them, including the ‘thing’ in the Rainbow Hut on a boat back to where they came from...and make sure they never attempt to put another foot on American soil again....

9/11; Fort Hood; and now San Bernadino....how much is it going to take?

46 posted on 12/03/2015 8:27:03 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (TRUMP SUPPORTER 100% from day ONE!!!)
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To: Mariner
Everything boils down to, "We should fear Muslims. And they shouldn't be here."

Yep.

GET OUT.

47 posted on 12/03/2015 8:27:27 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Mariner
After Paris and California attacks, U.S. Muslims feel intense backlash

HORSE MANURE, just more Enemedia disinfomation and meme peddling.

Poor abused Mohammedan goat humpers, everybody's so mean to them, it's so difficult for them to rape their boys and murder thir daughters with these awful Jews and Christians around, let alone the bacon.

48 posted on 12/03/2015 8:27:43 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: blueyon
so how many were denouncing this latest attack?

"Denouncing" isn't going to cut it, any more. "Peaceful" Muslims are going to have to start going non-peacefully after terrorists and terrorist supporters. If the "peaceful" Muslims are outnumbered, they can at least point the rest of us in the right direction. (Names, addresses, etc.)

49 posted on 12/03/2015 8:28:02 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: Mariner
Rabia Chaudry kept her 7-year-old daughter home from her private Islamic school in Maryland on Thursday, fearing anti-Muslim backlash

This is not actually an example of a backlash. It doesn't say one thing about the way Americans treat muslims. Ahhh, but who cares. We report feelings, not facts.

50 posted on 12/03/2015 8:28:04 PM PST by irv (Live Tea or die!)
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To: Mat_Helm
Paint all of our F-16's like the Danish AF and let loose the dogs of war on ISIS.


51 posted on 12/03/2015 8:28:27 PM PST by Mat_Helm
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To: Mariner

ËœWe should fear Muslims. And they shouldn’t be here”
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Truth


52 posted on 12/03/2015 8:29:04 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Islamophobia? It is not irrational to fear evil)
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To: Kozak

Mu8slims who remain in their sick death cult have no one to blame but themselves if their neighbors don’t trust them any more.

No sane, moral and responsible person should wittingly remain a Muslim for more than 30 seconds. Every single living Muslim needs to grow a pair and quit, renounce and condemn this sick cult.


53 posted on 12/03/2015 8:29:32 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: FatherofFive

Would we have won WWII if, a few days after Pearl Harbor, the Media started complaining about the backlash agaisnt the Japanese?


54 posted on 12/03/2015 8:29:42 PM PST by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: Mariner

bullcrap. there has been zero backlash. this is fake outrage from the attacker class.


55 posted on 12/03/2015 8:29:51 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Mariner

6-21-3-11 Muslims!


56 posted on 12/03/2015 8:29:57 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: Lurker

They don’t know what “backlash” is. Yet.


57 posted on 12/03/2015 8:30:37 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Mariner

If they prefer shariah to Liberty, let them go back where they came from.


58 posted on 12/03/2015 8:30:52 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Mariner

You want to see backlash?

Try being a Christian in a Muslim country.


59 posted on 12/03/2015 8:31:24 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: Sasparilla
EXACTLY !

They declared war on us and now they whinge and whine and play the "victim".

They don't like it here/feel fearful?

THEY SHOULD LEAVE !

60 posted on 12/03/2015 8:31:30 PM PST by nopardons
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