Rally for American Muslims Against Isis

2018-04-19T02:48:57+00:00December 9th, 2015|Tags: , , , |

ashleylovespizza:

joanofdarc:

This is my adorable, brave, intelligent father yesterday at the rally he organized, American Muslims Against Isis. #peaceformuslims (at Times Square – 42nd Street)

Islamophobia comes from ignorance, misunderstanding, and lack of empathy. This guy rules, obviously. He is courageous and amazing.  But boy, I wish there were people like him -everywhere-.

I visited home last week. My family lives in Cranberry, a little suburb of Pittsburgh that has rapidly developed, population-wise and economically, in the last decade. 28,098 people reside there, and 94% of them are white. 3% of them are Asian. There are 351 black people in the entire township, and 107 “other race”.  (data from http://cranberrybusinesshub.org/217/Demographics)  It is noticeably homogeneous to me, almost creepily so, but that is because my daily norm is living in Boston – not exactly a pillar of racial harmony, »

2015-05-14T21:07:17+00:00May 14th, 2015|Tags: , , , , , , |

The good news is that everything that is said about muslims today, that they’re not american, that they’re fearful, that they’re foreign that they don’t belong here, everything that is said about muslims today was said about jews in the 40s and 50s,  was said about catholics at the end of the 19th century, and those two religions, through the passage of time, through the slow building of relationships, through the integration of story became very much apart of the religious fabric of this country. The same thing is going to happen to Muslims. The bad news is, then we’ll find someone else to hate.

Reza Aslan
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