by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Truthdig
May 9, 2011
Image via Wikipedia
News personalities, politicians, self-appointed experts on the Muslim world, and law enforcement and intelligence officials, as well as the Christian right, have successfully demonized Muslims in the United States since the attacks of 2001. It is acceptable to say things openly about Muslims that could never be said about any other ethnic group. And as the economy continues to unravel, as we face the possibility of revenge attacks by Islamic extremists, perhaps on American soil, the plight of Muslims is beginning to mirror that of targeted ethnic minority groups on the eve of the war in the former Yugoslavia, or Jews in the dying days of the Weimar Republic.
The major candidates for the Republican nomination for the presidency, including Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee, along with television personalities such as Bill Maher, routinely employ hate talk against Muslims as a way to attract votes or viewers.
[…]
via Truthdig
Copyright © 2011 Truthdig
Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His latest books are Death of the Liberal Class, and The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.
see
Pingback: Chris Hedges: Muslim Extradition and Repression – Dandelion Salad
Pingback: Beyond Fitna (2008) | Dandelion Salad
Pingback: Fundamentalism Kills by Chris Hedges « Dandelion Salad
Pingback: The Stimulator: Islamophobia + George Monbiot gets nuked « Dandelion Salad
Pingback: Chris Hedges: The World As it Is « Dandelion Salad
Pingback: Chris Hedges: American Muslims demonized to justify US war « Dandelion Salad