{"id":80928,"date":"2015-12-02T21:58:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T05:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80928"},"modified":"2023-09-08T04:47:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:47:01","slug":"how-american-jews-can-protect-american-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80928","title":{"rendered":"How American Jews Can Protect American Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beinart writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On November 27, the Islamic Center of Lexington, Kentucky received an email vowing that \u201cI’m going to kill everyone\u2026 there you Muslim f***s.\u201d<\/a> On November 24, when congregants at the Islamic Center of South Plains in Lubbock, Texas arrived for morning prayers, they found the mosque\u2019s glass door smashed<\/a>. On November 21, a group of armed protesters surrounded the Islamic Center of Irving, Texas, and then posted the names and addresses of local Muslims on Facebook<\/a>. On November 20, the Islamic Center of Corpus Christi, Texas received a letter demanding that congregants \u201cconvert to Christianity now, before it is too late.\u201d<\/a> On November 17, police arrested a Houston man for threatening to \u201cshoot up a mosque.\u201d<\/a> On November 16, the Islamic Center of Omaha, Nebraska was vandalized for the third time in four months<\/a>. On November 15, worshipers arrived at the Baitul Aman Mosque in Meriden, Connecticut to find it riddled with bullet holes<\/a>. On November 13, the Islamic Center of St. Petersburg, Florida received a call threatening to \u201cfirebomb you and shoot whoever is there.\u201d<\/a> On November 12, attackers smeared feces and vandalized Korans<\/a> inside The Islamic Center of Pflugerville, Texas.\n <\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t think the United States is witnessing an epidemic of anti-Muslim bigotry, you\u2019re not paying attention. It\u2019s fueled by the savagery of ISIS. And it\u2019s fueled by presidential candidates like Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, who declare that Islam is \u201cnot consistent with the Constitution,\u201d<\/a> insist that America accept only Christian refugees<\/a> and propose that the government register Muslims<\/a> and close mosques<\/a>. Because of their hateful opportunism, which is echoed daily in conservative media, less than a majority of Iowa Republicans now believe Islam should be legal in the United States<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beinart writes: On November 27, the Islamic Center of Lexington, Kentucky received an email vowing that \u201cI’m going to kill everyone\u2026 there you Muslim f***s.\u201d On November 24, when congregants at the Islamic Center of South Plains in Lubbock, Texas … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151342,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80928\/revisions\/151342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}