Hi, Middle Easterner here, just fyi middle easterners can be women, children and babies too. Salam.
Some additional thoughts on this. Earlier this year when McCain died, people lauded him for his 2008 retort to a lady who was concerned Obama was an Arab by saying "no, ma'am he is a decent family man".
But of course Arabs can be decent family men, just like Middle Easterners can be woman, children and babies.
Too often we think the right response to such scaremongering is to say "No, this is not true" but the correct response so what if it was true. Even if these human beings happen to be from the Middle East, so what?
And as a factual matter, being from Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador, as many of these people are, does not mean you might not also have middle eastern origins. In fact, there are sizable Palestinian populations in each of these countries, most that immigrated 100 years ago.
More on that here palestine-studies.org/jps/fulltext/1…
This is not proof that anyone in the caravan might have middle eastern heritage but rather that it is unknowable and really irrelevant to the fact that they are people seeking refuge and that is all that matters.
This is not proof that anyone in the caravan might have middle eastern heritage but rather that it is unknowable and really irrelevant to the fact that they are people seeking refuge and that is all that matters.
The people of the Mid East are incredibly diverse. We are light and dark skinned. We have brown, blue green and hazel eyes. We have red hair & freckles. Some curly hair, some straight. We are not going to fit into the boxes of your preconceived notions so dont try to put us there
Anyway, Trump is hoping to stir up white rage ahead of the election by trying to connect "terrorism" & immigration. BTW, GW Bush did this too, see Operation Frontline I & II. The right response is not to fact check within his framework but reject his framework all together. Salam
