Posted on 06/03/2020 5:17:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Two themes permeate much of the discourse surrounding ongoing riots: that racism in America, particularly against blacks, is "systemic" and that any show of force against the "protesters" — many of whom are simply criminals, looters, and thugs out to capitalize on a tragedy — is more proof of America's ingrained racism and intolerance.
Wonderfully encapsulating these two points is Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). In a recent interview, she asserted that "we are living in a country that has truly for a long time brutalized African-Americans, from slavery, to lynching, to Jim Crow, to mass incarceration and now to police brutality." As for the rioters, they "were terrorized," Omar claims, "by the presence of tanks, by the presence of the National Guard and the militarized police."
Let's respond to these two charges of "brutalization" and "terrorization" by way of analogy — say, by looking at how minorities are treated (including vis-à-vis tanks) in nations where Omar's religion permeates, which is to say in Muslim nations. Egypt is a perfect example, as its non-Muslim minority, the Christian Copts, make for about the same percentage of the general population that blacks do in America: 15%.
Back in 2011, and due to nonstop attacks on their churches — whether from local authorities that demolish "unlicensed" churches or from Muslim mobs that burn down recognized ones — Egypt's Christians held a demonstration in Maspero. By any stretch of the imagination — and especially compared to what's happening now in the U.S. — their protest was orderly and peaceful. It was, after all, actually about ending discrimination against Christians and their churches, not capitalizing against weak leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Americas Blacks, or America’s Whites
Imagine Whites terrorizing many cities across American, and
wantonly killing Blacks as if it was hunting season.
Can you imagine the uproar?
American blacks are not terrorized
American’s blacks are given preferred minority status over whites. No so with Islam’s Christians.
I agree...
Islams ‘Christians’ don’t believe Israel should exist.
What is an ‘Islam’ Christian?
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I'm Christian and pro-Israel.
BUT -- you need to explain how your oxymoron (above) is relevant to (and justifies) the Muslim persecution of Egypt's Copts.
Go ahead -- we're waiting for your un-biased, brilliant explanation...
TXnMA
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The ongoing terror acts are not directed at blacks. Does it harm blacks and other residents of targeted neighborhood, of course. But that's largely tangential to the objection of forcing political change. In the Islamic world Christians are the target.
Yeah I’m sick of this “black are oppressed minorities” crap. That hasn’t been true for several decades at least. More of the devil’s lies we’re supposed to swallow without question.
I’m in the middle of an FB exchange now, with a family friend’s friend (who IS black).
Actually asked again “do you think blacks are oppressed?” as if she doesn’t know the answer.
I’d like to add, I don’t care if we’re ALL white with the same scenarios, even the premise that there is rampant “police brutality!” is false.
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