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Killing Talk...
Throughout the South here in the US this phrase was used for many years to describe an escalation of stupid and senseless rhetoric that was likely to end in violence. When the talk involved irrational fear of The Other it became more likely to be literal killing, not just a bloody fight with one’s brother-in-law or best friend.
It often preceded something far worse: a lynching.
I’ve been hearing a lot of killing talk here in the Republic lately, and while it’s not confined to the South by any means, and never was, it is in a part of the South that the potentially most volatile and dangerous sort of killing talk has been spurting, like blood from a severed artery. The incredibly stupid, insane, and vicious talk coming from the Dove World Outreach Center and its pastor Terry Jones, down in Gainesville, Florida. Talk of their"Burn a Koran Day" event. Well Onward, Christian Soldiers, and shades of the Third Fucking Reich.
Racist and bigots like Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh et al try to convince the general public that their hate-filled incendiary speech is not in any way harmful or leads to verbal and physical attacks on whatever group of people they are lashing out at and making jokes about such as putting the targeted group in Internment Camps or deporting them en Masse or regulating by law or by common practice where they are permitted to work or live.
In this article Al Calhoun points out that in his experience growing up in Southern United States that the rhetoric of Hate-Speech could easily lead to violent actions ie whippings and lynchings of African Americans.
So when the rhetoric gets over-heated attacking a particular group ie Muslim Americans, Hispanics, blacks, Jews could and has already led to the commission of violent acts on Muslim Americans and other groups.
Quote from: " Killing Talk " by Al Calhoun at Southern Exposure Sept. 8, 2010
Racist and bigots like Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh et al try to convince the general public that their hate-filled incendiary speech is not in any way harmful or leads to verbal and physical attacks on whatever group of people they are lashing out at and making jokes about such as putting the targeted group in Internment Camps or deporting them en Masse or regulating by law or by common practice where they are permitted to work or live.
In this article Al Calhoun points out that in his experience growing up in Southern United States that the rhetoric of Hate-Speech could easily lead to violent actions ie whippings and lynchings of African Americans.
So when the rhetoric gets over-heated attacking a particular group ie Muslim Americans, Hispanics, blacks, Jews could and has already led to the commission of violent acts on Muslim Americans and other groups.
Suggested reading: The Eliminationists : How Hate Talk Radicalized The American Right by David Neiwert, pub. 2009.
Neiwert traces how the demonizing of a targeted group by way of Hate Speech eventually leads to verbal and physical attacks on the targeted group ie Native Americans, Immigrants, Asians, Catholics, Jews, blacks , Hispanics, Latinos, Germans, Irish , Gays, Muslims and so forth.
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Push back by Muslim Americans
Muslim Americans trying to get their message out that they too are "Real Americans"
This has become necessary as professional Islamophobes in America have become relentless in their verbal incendiary attaacks on the Muslim American community. In America anti-Islam Hate Speech is still being promulgated through xenophobic Hate Talk Radio and even by some in the mainstream Media the media and the internet ie Pastor John Hagee, Pat Buchanan, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Michael Savage, Dennis Miller,Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, the GOP's Propagana TV news network Fox .
CAIR-Houston Billboards Target Islamophobia
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Uploaded by CAIRtv on Jul 7, 2011
If you drive in the Houston area, chances are you've seen at least 1 of the 10 billboards from the Council of American Islamic Relations, Houston chapter.
They've been drawing a great deal of attention, both positive and negative.
The billboards are part of CAIR's "Peace and Unity" campaign. They've been up for about a month now and, like me, you may have wondered why the billboards are even up. And why now?
Since the 9-11 attacks, many Americans continue to have a very negative image of Muslims: dangerous men with beards and weapons and oppressed women who hide under scarves.
Video: Muslims Called 'Enemy' at Hearing on Minn. Islamic Center
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Uploaded by CAIRtv on Aug 18, 2011
PLYMOUTH, Minn. (WCCO) — An Islamic Community Center is one step closer to moving into a Plymouth neighborhood, but not everyone in town is happy about it.
A downtown Plymouth post office doesn't use most of the space in their building and it's for sale. So, the Northwest Islamic Community Center made an offer to buy it.
That move brought a rare crowd into the Plymouth Planning Commission meeting Wednesday night.
It's because the Islamic group would like to share the building with the post office, leasing it back for rent, which means prayer services and postal services would be in the same building.
During a public hearing on whether the building should be used for religious purposes, citizens sent strong messages — on both sides.
"Aiding the enemy is treason," said one man opposed to the center.
Video: US Congressmen Allen West Dismissive of Muslim Constituents' Concerns (CAIR)
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Uploaded by CAIRtv on Aug 16, 2011
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) -- A South Florida Muslim group sent Congressman Allen West a letter asking him to disassociate himself from activists the group considers anti-Islamic.
Congressman West did respond and the letter he sent back is raising some eyebrows.
If it looks like the shortest letter you've ever seen from a member of congress, it probably is. How short? Try one word, in capital letters: "NUTS!"
"I was shocked at first. I didn't expect this from a congressman," said Nezar Hamze, the executive director of CAIR Florida — the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Video: CAIR Attorney Says NYPD-CIA Spying May Violate Law (Democracy Now!)
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Uploaded by CAIRtv on Aug 25, 2011
DemocracyNow.org - Democracry Now! speaks with Gadeir Abbas, staff attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, about the new investigation by the Associated Press that reveals how, after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the New York City Police Department decided it could no longer trust other agencies to prevent terrorism, and started expanding its own intelligence gathering.
In the process, it became "one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies," targeting ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government. The report, titled "With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas," also finds that these operations "benefited from unprecedented help from the CIA, a partnership that has blurred the line between foreign and domestic spying." The report details how police used informants, known as "mosque crawlers," to monitor sermons, even without any evidence of wrongdoing. Also falling under NYPD's scrutiny were Imams, taxi cab drivers and food cart vendors — jobs often done by Muslims.
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