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Muslims and Islamophobia

Anti Muslim Rhetoric in US Reaching a Dangerous Level

by Sheila Musaji

Nov 12, 2009

http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/anti_muslim_rhetoric_reaching_a_dangerous_level/0017729

After the Fort Hood Tragedy, every national Muslim organization and most local organizations condemned the actions of Major Hasan without qualification. When a Yemen based cleric, Anwar al Awlaki praised the shooting, they also repudiated al Awlaki’s comments. Many Muslims have spoken up condemning this tragedy, as they have previously spoken up against all forms of extremism and terrorism.

The President of the United States, top military Generals, and the Secretary of the Homeland Security Dept. have all appealed for reason and asked people not to turn this into blaming Islam or all Muslims.

However, what passes for analysis are items like the following:

Tunku Varadarajan in an article “Going Muslim” in Forbes suggests that the term in his title “would describe the turn of events where a seemingly integrated Muslim-American--a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the U.S. Army at Fort Hood--discards his apparent integration into American society and elects to vindicate his religion in an act of messianic violence against his fellow Americans. This would appear to be what happened in the case of Maj. Hasan.”

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