Border Officials Illegally Enforcing Muslim Ban Racially Profile A British Citizen (VIDEO)


Last year, 54 Americans lost their lives in Muslim terror attacks.

It’s not that the figure is not upsetting, it’s not that the people responsible for those murders should not be punished.

It’s just that we need to get some sense of perspective.

Because 54 lives lost equals one-third of one percent of all murders. Because excluding suicide, some 15,060 people were killed in the U.S. by firearms in 2016. A further 30,607 were injured. There were 385 mass shootings mostly perpetrated by White males.

Indeed, out of a population of 3.3 million American Muslims, only 46 have been linked to violent extremism at home or abroad and of those 46 only 24 were involved in an actual terrorist plot.

For the sake of 24, an entire religion is being victimized.

Logic would dictate that we turn the spotlight on Christianity. After all a staggering 83 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians. Such demographic dominance frees us of the need to even crunch the numbers; if you are unfortunate enough to be murdered in the USA, the odds at it will be by a Christian.

As University professor Charles Kurzman noted in a new report on violent extremism:

“The 54 fatalities caused by Muslim-American extremists in 2016 brought the total since 9/11 to 123. More than 240,000 Americans were murdered over the same period.”

It’s time to get some perspective.

Before things turn uglier than they already are.

Mistakes On a Plane

A British schoolteacher traveling as a member of a school party from the UK was escorted off a plane as it arrived in Reykjavik in full view of the children he was there to protect and educate.

Juhel Miah is a respected member of the community in which he works. He has no criminal record and no links to any terrorist organizations. No reason has been given for his removal but then, we all know the reason. We merely have to look at his name and arrive at the answer to the question.

They took him off the plane because he’s Muslim.

Speaking to The Guardian, Miah said:

“I’m not an angry type of person. I don’t get easily worked up, otherwise, I wouldn’t be a teacher. But I was definitely angry. It hit me the hardest was when I was being escorted off the plane. Everyone was looking at me.”

He added:

“Not just members of the public but my school, my kids, fellow teachers. It made me feel so small as if I had done something wrong as if I am a criminal. Everyone must have been thinking that – even the kids from my school. I hope not but that’s what was going through my head. I didn’t know where to look.”

The State Of Two Nations

The U.S. couldn’t ask for a more staunch ally than the United Kingdom. For more than a century the relationship between the two countries has been one of cooperation fueled by shared values.

The very same values that the U.S. is currently deviating from.

In a week where President Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K. was defended by the British Parliament, that a British citizen could be treated to such ethnic profiling by America, of all countries represents something far more significant than the site of one man being bundled off a plane.

How much longer can U.S. allies continue to support such actions?

As Miah pointed out:

“This shouldn’t happen to anyone. I’ve followed all the procedures, I’ve ticked all the right boxes yet they made me feel like a criminal. I was in shock, I couldn’t believe it was happening. I felt powerless as if I was being targeted and there was nothing I could do.”

The U.S. is now run by a cabal infested with racist demagoguery. By a group of aging billionaires eager to turn back the clock to the halcyon days of their youths where everything was shiny and white. A clusterfuck of the privileged who never had to deal with Jim Crow and whose rose-tinted view of an America that never existed neatly sidesteps the visceral, undemocratic, and inhumane realities of pre-civil rights era society.

They want their youth back and for the sake of 24, they are willing to wage war on 1.6 billion Muslims.

They are going to get us all killed.

Watch Miah’s theory as to why he was removed from the plane.

 

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