Posted on 10/06/2016 4:04:34 AM PDT by SJackson
More Islamopandering from Obama. My latest in PJ Media:
Obama came into office amid hopes that America’s racial divisions would become a thing of the past. Instead of healing them, however, Obama has exacerbated them.
Now he is going even further: one of the lasting legacies of his disastrous administration may be the creation of an entirely new “race.”
USA Today reports:
[T]he White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in decades.
If approved, the new designation could appear on census forms in 2020 and could have far-reaching implications for racial identity, anti-discrimination laws and health research.
This new Middle Eastern/North African designation — “MENA” — is being created for the benefit of Muslim Arabs. However, MENA would include Middle Eastern and North African Christians and other non-Muslims, and would exclude Muslims who aren’t Middle Eastern and North African.
It is unclear whether Israeli Jews would be able to claim the MENA race. Certainly, the designation is not being created for their benefit.
For years, those of us who have dared to note how Islamic jihadis invoke the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and to recruit peaceful Muslims have been accused of “racism.” This Big Lie has been repeated incessantly, without any breaking of ranks among the bought-and-paid-for mainstream media. In response, I have repeated more times than I could possibly recall:
What “race” is the jihad mass murder of innocent civilians?
I’ve pointed out just as often that Muslims who believe their god commands them to wage war against, and to subjugate, those who don’t believe as they do come in all races. And that race has nothing to do with their imperatives.
These simple truths have not stopped the charges of “racism,” of course. Those charges have George Soros millions behind them, and a seemingly endless supply of well-paid Leftist and Islamic supremacist operatives eager to repeat them.
But perhaps the difficulty of sustaining this irrational charge over the long-term has caused some concern to this propagandist cabal, as this new Obama initiative would supposedly give that propaganda a better footing.
The new race initiative is advancing amid additional propaganda about Muslim victimhood. Khalid Beydoun, a law professor at the University of Detroit, struck an appropriate victimhood pose when he explained that the new race:
… just aids and facilitates the state’s ability to know where these communities are in a very specific fashion.
As if the point of the new race was to persecute Muslims and other Middle Easterners. Digging even deeper, Beydoun added:
My inclination is to think that individuals who might identify might not check the box for fear of retribution — especially if Trump wins.
Nonetheless, Beydoun acknowledged:
In the grand scheme of things, it’s really a progressive stride forward. But in the broader landscape, it’s taking place in the context of greater animus against Arab Americans, and really, Islamophobia.
In reality, this new designation would be the impetus for Muslims in the U.S. to receive a basket full of perks.
MENA would allow an incoming Hillary Clinton administration, among other things, to enforce “the Voting Rights Act … drawing congressional and state legislative district boundaries” – i.e., to gerrymander districts to exaggerate Muslim voting power.
MENA would establish “federal affirmative action plans … evaluating claims of employment discrimination in employment in the private sector” — i.e., expand Obama administration efforts to establish special preferences and accommodations for Muslims in the workplace.
MENA would help “minority-owned small businesses get federal grants and loans” — i.e., make sure that Muslim-owned businesses get a healthier slice of the federal taxpayer pie….
Read the rest here.
They mean MUSLIM…which is not a race. It’s a mental disease.
They are consistent with the children of Ismael and Ham.
I’m concluding a modified/classified definition of “racism”: the wanton injection of race into issues not otherwise involving race.
Jews are to be white Menans, at best.
The only plus I see is that the “demographics” of an area will be more specific, in as much as I’ve read that Middle East/Muslims presently list themselves under the category “white” in the census.
I prefer Jihadi:
A person, usually and almost exclusively a Muslim who wages a ‘Jihad’ (Holy war) to spread Islam. This can be done through peaceful means, but mostly through extremely violent means.
And what is the scientific basis for the appearance of this new “race”?
I guess Trump is a racist for wanting to vet them. Will they declare Mexicans a new race also so it’s ok to call Trump a racist for wanting to keep out illegal Mexicans?
They’ve watered down the meaning of “racist” and “racism” so much the last 8+ years it’s not as big a deal when they are used. “Racism headlines” no longer mean someone did something disgusting. Once they can remove any/all meaning to the word “race” we can stop using all 3 of those words.
Yet they also believe there is such a thing as racial discrimination!
Controlled by the administration.
What do you want to bet it's fast-tracked to be done before the end of the year?
This Afro-moron still doesn’t know the difference between a NATIONALITY, and RACE.
Should I be classifying myself as European-American?
My family came here in the 1600’s, they dropped their hyphen in 1776...we all have been saying “American” for around 240 years...
Why not? Gore invents the Internet and Mullah Obama, peace be unto him, invents a new race.
Divide and conquer.
No problem. Just one more group to bar from ever coming here.
We already have that classification, they’re called ‘Arabs’.
Obama’s question to himself: “Can I find one more way to divide and separate people instead of bringing them together?”
Obama’s answer to himself: “Yes, I can!”
Precisely
How about sub-Saharan??
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