African Americans Help Lessen Islamophobia

African American Muslims are a people that have faced discrimination and fear before and are
equipped to play a significant role in pushing back against a new incarnation of cultural
discrimination and misunderstanding – Islamophobia, says Faheem Shuaibe.

Oakland, California - African American Muslims have a role to play when it comes to the
widespread Islamophobia (an irrational fear of Islam) that is prevalent in the West. The
unfortunate fact is that some Americans see Muslims as a disease to be rooted out. However, as
is the case with immunisation, the "disease" can sometimes also be the source of a cure.

African Americans have faced derisive stereotyping before – including public name calling and a
complete exclusion from basic human rights. Such behaviour created a marginalised cultural
category and position in a pathological culture. And African Americans have struggled for
generations to overcome this categorisation.

So, when some in the United States negatively and aggressively stereotype Muslims as many
people once did African-Americans, it provokes a latent hostility in the United States,
conjured up by certain talk show hosts and others who use such labelling to garner support with
their audiences, and reinforces an ethos of opposition or aggression.

Obama, McCain should condemn Islamophobia
Dawud Walid

Now that Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have become the presumptive presidential nominees
for the Republicans and Democrats, they should address how all bigotry, including Islamophobia,
hurts America.

The need to address this issue is urgent given the spike in anti-Muslim rhetoric and
fear-mongering during the presidential campaign. Former GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee
wrote a commentary titled "We must defeat Islamofascism" in an effort to prove his national
security prowess. His commentary falsely linking Islam to the odious philosophy of fascism was
published on the same day that the British government announced the curtailment of "aggressive
rhetoric" relating to Islam and Muslims.

During the Nevada caucuses, anonymous phone calls repeatedly referring to "Barack Hussein
Obama" reached thousands of voters. Invoking the name "Hussein," which means handsome in
Arabic, has become a key weapon of Obama's Islamophobic detractors.

Islamophobia, like other forms of bigotry, is un-American. Allowing it to grow unchallenged is
opposed to our national values that mandate dignity and freedom from marginalization for all
people, regardless of race, gender or creed.

Moslem cartoon character mohammad was a child molester and goat fucker ,
the dirty bugger wrote:

Moslem cartoon character mohammad was a child molester and goat fucker ,
the dirty bugger wrote:

Moslem cartoon character mohammad was a child molester and goat fucker ,
the dirty bugger wrote:

HOW TO BECOME A SHITSKIN MOSLEM - this is how: fuck goats, fuck your
mother (nikomak), molest children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the
time, never shower or bath, beat your wives, learn terrorist activities
at a maddrassa, wipe your ass with stones, sell the donkey you fucked to
a nearby village, marry...

Ramabriga wrote:

Ramabriga wrote:

HOW TO BECOME A SHITSKIN MOSLEM - this is how: fuck goats, fuck your
mother (nikomak), molest children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the
time, never shower or bath, beat your wives, learn terrorist activities
at a maddrassa, wipe your ass with stones, sell the donkey you fucked to
a nearby village, marry a nine year-old , send your child off to an
indoctrination camp, practice thighing with little kids, ............
Practice all those and you too could become a prophet !!

Elif air ab tizak mohammad !!!!

Ramabriga wrote:

HOW TO BECOME A SHITSKIN MOSLEM - this is how: fuck goats, fuck your
mother (nikomak), molest children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the
time, never shower or bath, beat your wives, learn terrorist activities
at a maddrassa, wipe your ass with stones, sell the donkey you fucked to
a nearby village, marry a nine year-old , send your child off to an
indoctrination camp, practice thighing with little kids,...

Ramabriga wrote:

HOW TO BECOME A SHITSKIN MOSLEM - this is how: fuck goats, fuck your
mother (nikomak), molest children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the
time, never shower or bath, beat your wives, learn terrorist activities
at a maddrassa, wipe your ass with stones, sell the donkey you fucked to
a nearby village, marry a nine year-old , send your child off to an
indoctrination camp, practice thighing with little kids, ............
Practice all those and you too could become a prophet !!

Elif air ab tizak mohammad !!!!

Ramabriga wrote:

HOW TO BECOME A SHITSKIN MOSLEM - this is how: fuck goats, fuck your
mother (nikomak), molest children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the
time, never shower or bath, beat your wives, learn terrorist activities
at a maddrassa, wipe your ass with stones, sell the donkey you fucked to
a nearby village, marry a nine year-old , send your child off to an
indoctrination camp, practice thighing with little kids, ............
Practice all those and you too could become a prophet !!

Elif air ab tizak mohammad !!!!