24, February 2017 Islamophobia &
Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism
and Islamophobia have once again reared their ugly heads. Eleven Jewish
community centers across the country received bomb threats. At a cemetery in
University City, Missouri, more than a 100 Jewish gravesites were desecrated.
Facing intense criticism President Trump finally broke his long silence and
denounced anti-Semitic threats. But this came a week after he chastised a
Jewish reporter, Jake Turx, for asking about the recent bomb threats at his
news conference. In his usual nasty bullying style he heaped scorn on the
reporter and the “dishonest media” and demanded the reporter sit down.
During
the press conference with Prime Minister, Netanyahu, Trump side-stepped a
similar question posed by an Israeli reporter by heaping self-congratulatory
praise on his “amazing election victory” raising increasing concerns about his
rapidly declining mental faculty.
According
to the Southern Poverty Law Center the number of anti-Muslim groups in the US
has tripled last year, from 34 in 2015 to 101 last year. Hate groups have
received a huge boost by the candidacy and then election of Donald Trump who
has been very adept at fanning the flames of racial disharmony and has now
become “divider-in-chief”.
Sadly,
Trump has unleashed a kind of Pandora’s Box of hatred in our country. And those
are not easy things to get back in the box.
But
in rare gesture of racial harmony a Muslim group went online to raise money to
help the Jewish community restore the damaged tombstones.
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