Thread by @monaeltahawy

To be clear: fuck Trump and the Islamophobia he peddles in BUT he did not create it. He is an inheritor of:
- GOP outright hatred & incitement vs Muslims
- Democrats’ cowardly use of the “good Muslim” card: “Muslims are in our armed forces & police”

In 2016 elections:
- Donald Trump was vowing to ban Muslims (which he did via Muslim Ban bs 6 countries)
- Clinton had Kizr Khan and his wife Ghazala Irshad at DNC - parents of a Muslim soldier who was killed in the US war in Iraq. ie Muslims are “good” and fight “our” wars.

Russ Feingold was the ONLY senator - Democrat or GOP - who in 2001 voted against the Patriot Act. Who cared about surveillance and all that shit when it was portrayed as targeting a bunch of brown Muslims, hey?

Bush - recently rehabilitated as a cuddly grandpa artist - launched wars against 2 Muslim majority countries as revenge for 9/11.
Obama left office with the US militarily involved in at least five Muslim countries.
Anyone looks “good” compared to Trump but look closer.

And before white supremacist shits who massacred Muslims in a #NewZealand mosque quoted Trump in their “manifestos,” a white supremacist shit who massacred teenagers in Norway quoted Pamela Geller who sits atop a hate group whose ads in the NYC Subway I defaced in 2012.

I already told you about arson vs my brother’s Midwest mosque in 2012. Soon after 9/11, FBI Special Agent visited him at home to ask him if he “knew anyone who had celebrated 9/11” & in 2003 had to submit to Special Registration - fingerprints & details for national database.

So are those the only two roles available to Muslims in the US: Terrorist or Victim?

And is the only way out of that to serve in the US armed forces or be in law enforcement?

Fuck all of that.