Memo to Trump: pork isn't Kryptonite to Muslims. But bigotry might be yours

[MelbHawker 6,583]

I can't believe there are Americans who are actually going to vote for this idiot.

[Morphine Prince 109,681]

11 minutes ago, MelbHawker said:

I can't believe there are Americans who are actually going to vote for this idiot.

Nearly 100,000 Republicans already have in the primaries. 

[Jesse Pinkman 4,660]

I'm confused. Did he really say that? In the article, it was stated that it was a hoax. Wouldn't be surprised if his evil ass really said it, though.

[Seeka 12,372]

And there are people on this site who would vote for this man. Ugh.

I'd become an assassin to kill this guy. Though we'd have to kill the vice president as well.

Fear mongering in a first world country is probably the best place to do fear mongering. We're not forced together by poverty, everyone keeps to themselves, some choose to remain uneducated...

And it just came to my mind that Trump looks like a less pretty Kefka. Something tells me Trump wouldn't even hesitate about poisoning an entire water supply to just kill a few people.

[lego 44,165]

12 minutes ago, Metamorphosis said:

I'm confused. Did he really say that? In the article, it was stated that it was a hoax. Wouldn't be surprised if his evil ass really said it, though.

He did say it. The story he narrated is hoax (though it's equally disgusting even if it would be true).

It's not the first time he's using false stories on his rallies.

[Jesse Pinkman 4,660]

10 minutes ago, VampireHeart said:

He did say it. The story he narrated is hoax (though it's equally disgusting even if it would be true).

It's not the first time he's using false stories on his rallies.

Oh I understand now. He's like a modern day Hitler. I'm disgusted by his every action.

[TiphEret 1,320]

So that guy does not want muslims and arabs to come to the US because he considers their countries barbarian but he is praising torture? I have a friend that was tortured in his home country many times (Iraq) and that's something impossible to support unless you are clueless or really fukced up. That guy truely disgusts me, I really hope he is trolling I can't believe someone could say such things and get away with it while possibly be elected? wtf! 

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Memo to Trump: pork isn't Kryptonite to Muslims. But bigotry might be yours

 

The Republican front-runner’s latest foray into Islamophobia would almost be funny, if it didn’t make being a stereotype-trafficking bigot more acceptable

 

What is it with bigots and bacon?

On Friday night, Donald Trump recounted for his supporters an inaccurate story about John Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, who he alleged decided to summarily execute 49 of 50 Muslim prisoners while helping to put down a rebellion in the Muslim region of Mindanao from 1909-1913. The icing on the cake? The bullets were, as he noted, dipped in pig’s blood.

The fiftieth prisoner was left alive, presumably to go tell his friends of the horror; Trump claimed there was thereafter no more violence for twenty-five years.

It is, of course, completely untrue: Pershing was known for his comparative tolerance of Islam and even appointed Muslims to as deputy district governors under him. It is ironic, too, because in seizing the Philippines, America simply inherited a long-running conflict between the Muslims who had once ruled from Manila and the Spanish who succeeded them.

 

But Trump is hardly the first conservative to apparently believe that the sight of porcine products is Kryptonite to Muslims.

A pig’s head was thrown at a Philadelphia mosque in December. Bacon was found wrapped around the handles of mosque doors in Oklahoma last April and Las Vegas in December and on the doorstep of an Orlando mosque in January. A pig’s head was left outside of a mosque construction site in upstate New York in 2013. A company started marketing pork-laced ammunition in 2013. Bacon-related vandalism aimed at intimidating Muslims seeking to pray was reported in New York City and near Shreveport, Louisiana as far back as 2011.

Just put pork anywhere near us Muslims, some people seem to believe, and we’ll soon keel over in psycho-spiritual distress. (Someone should start the rumor that we respond similarly to Oreo cookies and Amazon gift cards.) But now the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president is supporting and encouraging his supporters to believe it.

Next we’ll hear that if you only dip drivers licenses in pig’s fat, Muslims will be unable to bring themselves vote against him.

Republicans might like to say that guns don’t kill people, people kill people – but pig’s blood doesn’t kill Muslims or send us straight to hell, as some bigots reportedly believe. Telling a story about dipping bullets in pig’s blood before killing 49 Muslims with impunity is particularly offensive, not least because the summary execution of so many people is a footnote to a story that traffics in crude stereotypes about our dietary restrictions. (It’s not hard to imagine the deserved outcry if the victims were adherents of another major religion who eschew pork – Jews.)

Like many Muslims, pronouncements like these are beginning to seriously unnerve me. It doesn’t matter to me whether Donald Trump is serious or not; it doesn’t matter if he’s viable or not. What matters is that Trump is now saying openly what only the most reactionary Republicans would say in hushed tones amongst themselves because they knew it was offensive and unacceptable to nearly everyone else.

Trump has rubbed the wrong bottle; that genie he’s conjured cannot be easily put back, even if other Republicans might want it to be.

But it’s possible that they don’t. Of the current crop of Republican candidates, nearly all of them are warmongers, racists or bigots. Besides Jeb Bush – yes, I said that – and John Kasich, not one of the other candidates has had the courage to stand up to anti-Muslim sentiment except in a perfunctory or halfhearted way.

Marco Rubio pretends like there’s no such thing as Islamophobia. Ben Carson thinks American Muslims are schizophrenic. Ted Cruz is all about carpet bombing huge swaths of the Middle East. (Why not just drop lots of pig’s heads? I mean, sure, lots of pigs have to die, but we all have to make sacrifices.) The former candidate Chris Christie wasn’t even down with a single Syrian orphan refugee.

What’s so egregious about all of this is that America’s Muslims, nor really any of the world’s Muslims, conceived of nor orchestrated the Iraq war that has since spawned a terrorist movement – Isis – that Americans currently fear more than any other.

Yet, we are asked to apologize for our religion every time some extremist uses it as a justification for violence. People ask me, over and over, where the moderate Muslims are as though anything but a fraction are extremists.

Maybe they should start asking where the moderate Republicans went. There definitely seem to be fewer and fewer of those.

 

 

Written by Haroon Moghul

 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/20/donald-trump-pork-not-muslim-kryptonite-bigotry

 

Nice piece, @Haroon  

[Popo 3,781]

He's probably going to force the terrorist to watch re-runs of the khardashians  

[Auro 1,829]

That title is an example of perfectly executed reading

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On 2/20/2016 at 7:21 AM, Benji said:

If for some bizarre reason he did become the president, he is going to become such a large target to assassinate for these kind of comments.

It wouldn't be a bizarre reason. First of all, many of the other Republican candidates suck. Second, the Democratic candidates would have a lot more votes if they didn't want to [a] end people's gun rights  [ b ] provide amnesty for illegals and [c] support abortion.

People aren't voting Trump just because they like Trump. They're also voting Trump because they hate the Democrats.