Elected officials last talked about Muslim Americans this way in 2001.
Republican members of Congress have spent the last four weeks saying they would choose dogs over Muslims and declaring they don’t belong in America. The Speaker of the House called Islam a “misguided religion” to justify the Iran war, then refused to condemn any of it, calling the rhetoric “popular sentiment.”
Today, a man previously imprisoned for helping ISIS attacked a Virginia ROTC classroom, and another man drove a truck loaded with explosives and a rifle into a Michigan synagogue with 140 children inside.
What followed 2001 reshaped America for a generation. Now the rhetoric is running ahead of the violence, not behind it, and it’s being road-tested as midterm election talking points during an unpopular war against a Muslim nation. After a classroom and a synagogue were attacked in the same day, Senator Tuberville fanned the white-hot extremist flames by posting pictures of the burning Twin Towers next to New York City’s first Muslim mayor eating dinner during Ramadan and calling him the enemy inside the gates.
Call your representatives and demand they go on the record. Every member of Congress who stays silent through these bigoted attacks is permitting hate speech against their own constituents. We all own what happens next.
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Sen. Tuberville posts image linking New York City's first Muslim mayor hosting a Ramadan iftar to the September 11 attacks, calling Muslims "the enemy inside the gates."
Source: The Hill
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Source: RTE
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: The Independent
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Source: ProPublica
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Source: KXTV Sacramento
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Source: Houston Public Media
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Source: CNBC
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Source: Defense One
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Source: NextGov
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Source: CNN
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Source: WDIV Detroit
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Source: USA Today
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: Wired
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Source: NBC News
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Source: Politico
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Source: The Colorado Newsline
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