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V.Balasubramani
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[h=1]I’m frightened, I’m frightening: I’m a Muslim in America[/h]The narrative around Islam is being hijacked in the US, while Muslims stand on the sidelines, too scared to speak.
In the wake of the spate of global terror attacks, including the recent San Bernardino shooting in California, hateful rhetoric toward Muslim populations – residents, immigrants and refugees alike – has returned full force in the American media.
As I write these lines, TV presenters are spewing hate couched in nationalistic rhetoric and no one bats an eyelid.
Presidential candidates are free to outdo each other in inciting hatred by promising policies more ludicrous and extreme with each passing day, and they do so with full impunity.
As a Muslim and a South Asian, I see piercing eyes staring at me, simultaneously frightened and frightening.
I was not around to witness the Islamophobic rhetoric in the aftermath of 9/11, but in contemporary times, so powerful is the hate that it gives off an unwelcoming aura in the land of liberty and opportunity. In times such as these, the fact that Muslims who have made the United States their home – and made innumerable contributions to American society and economy – have earned every right to be here is simply lost.
Read more at: http://scroll.in/article/776624/im-frightened-im-frightening-im-a-muslim-in-america
In the wake of the spate of global terror attacks, including the recent San Bernardino shooting in California, hateful rhetoric toward Muslim populations – residents, immigrants and refugees alike – has returned full force in the American media.
As I write these lines, TV presenters are spewing hate couched in nationalistic rhetoric and no one bats an eyelid.
Presidential candidates are free to outdo each other in inciting hatred by promising policies more ludicrous and extreme with each passing day, and they do so with full impunity.
As a Muslim and a South Asian, I see piercing eyes staring at me, simultaneously frightened and frightening.
I was not around to witness the Islamophobic rhetoric in the aftermath of 9/11, but in contemporary times, so powerful is the hate that it gives off an unwelcoming aura in the land of liberty and opportunity. In times such as these, the fact that Muslims who have made the United States their home – and made innumerable contributions to American society and economy – have earned every right to be here is simply lost.
Read more at: http://scroll.in/article/776624/im-frightened-im-frightening-im-a-muslim-in-america
