Over the last few weeks a disturbing trend of noose-hangings has developed on a handful of college-campuses across America reminiscent of cross-burnings and acts of political intimidation of entire groups of people in the past.
These noose-hangings have came after the case of the Jenna 6 in Louisiana, where a school district, a prosecutor, and a local culture of racial intolerance, formed a cocktail of bigotry that turned its back as noose-hangings and de-facto segregation was directed towards the African-American community, and worked to give white citizens of Jenna a special social and artificial legal status.
Clearly, a generation or two after the civil-rights movement, there is something that has remerged in the culture that is helping to divide and not unite people of different backgrounds, and it is my assertion that a large part of the cultural pull of hate today is coming from the vile combination of talk-radio, right-wing cable news, forces online, misguided political leaders and think-tanks such as those of David Horowitz
Can it then be of any surprise that the noose-hangings, a symbol of the terrorism of the old-right in America, are occurring within weeks before the “Islamo-fascism” Awareness Week being put on by Horowitz and his numerous allies on the far-right of the American political spectrum?
Just as the noose of the Old South noose was tied around the necks of black men as they hung from trees, and the modern noose on campuses is meant to remind African-American students that hate and the belief of white supremacy is not dead, Islamo-fascism Awareness Week is meant to “plant the seeds of hate” (as Rev. Walter Fauntroy stated), that can one day blossom into a climate that creates a global noose around the neck of every Muslim and the life and blood of our community is snuffed out by those on the ideological-right in conjunction with those groups with religious and tribal animosities towards Muslims based on ignorance and fear.
Listen to their words, read in-between the lines, the speakers at the Islamo-fascism Awareness Week and Mr. Horowitz himself, are those who oppose affirmative-action and civil-rights legislation in America, vilify immigrant communities on the home-front, and are leading the call for war against Iran and a number of other Muslim countries, and Gestapo Dreyfus-like tactics to be used against American-Muslims.
This is what it is clear we must unite against hate and we encourage all to do your part and join the MAS United Against Hate Campaign.
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