Open season on Muslims

[glasshouses]

Sister of Chapel Hill Victim Suzanne Barakat - American Sniper ‘ Dehumanizes ’ Muslims

I hope she doesn't think all Americans feel like this.

[leveymg]

1. There are some who have been working hard to deny that this was a Hate Crime.

I feel the same kind of disgust for them as for Holocaust Deniers. The same sort of phenomenon at work.

[mmonk]

2. Well the Muslim community in Raleigh is pretty tight knit and they certainly have friends that were

sad and also, probably outraged. But they also friends outside the faith. But I'm sure they are worried about the climate in America and especially its politics and media currently.

[randr]

3. The movie actually dehumanizes

the people who go to see it.

[dissentient]

4. I sympathize with her, but I don't think the movie American sniper can be blamed

for these deaths. That is just way over the top, and ultimately would lead to censorship, going down that path.

[mmonk]

5. No but it's just another brick in the wall.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Then what causes the far larger number of hate crimes against black people and gay people and

Jewish people? Because such crimes are way more common than crimes against Muslims. They are all of them terrible things. There are about 1300 crimes of bias against LGBT people each year, every year there are murders, rapes, savage beatings. When it comes to anti gay bias, it's very clear that a great deal of that is based on religious teachings in Christianity and in Islam. A large percentage of those who attack LGBT people clearly say they act because of their religion. And yet you don't see LGBT people suggesting that those religions need to be censored or limited. And the religious people who want limits to secular speech never, ever suggest that they would accept limits to speech dubbed 'religious'. This means they want to be permitted to attack LGBT people with impunity while being protected from all criticism by 'anti blasphemy' type laws. They want to call me names and attack my family without any recourse for us to respond or protect ourselves.
It is not acceptable, and it will not happen.