Now this one is personal to me. There isn't actually a particular news story about this but I'm gonna link one having to do with Obama's address sunday night. So last night Obama addressed the nation following the shooting in san bernadino talking about how we are going to fight isis in the middle east, what we should do about gun violence in our country and to put reason into the conversation that has been dominated by anti-muslim sentiment built out of misplaced fear. I knew there were islamaphobes in our country but the amount and how vigurously they attacked muslim people. I engaged in this bout of words last night for many reasons and not just the rhetoric but the completely false data and research they used to support their insane ideas. It absolutely pisses me off just thinking about it. So first i'll go to a twitter user by the name of amy mek (@amymek) she is a self described christian evangelical who believes in the constitution (especially the 2nd amendment) and is a member of the nra she accused obama of not being able to screen "one saudi woman how could we screen the 200,000 syrian refugees (which see called jihadist in parentheses) obama wants to import". Lets break this statement down. The first thing is the woman wasn't Saudi arabian and obama doesn't screen people coming into this country that's not his job obviously. On top of that she got into this country from obtaining a visa which is much easier than the extremely rigorous process we have for people to enter this country under refugee status which takes 2-3 years once you get past the now lets turn to numbers specifically 200,000 thousand which doesn't make since because obama explicitly stated he wanted to accept 10,000 syrian refugees. Now to the point of refugees all being jihadist. As previously mentioned it is extremely hard for people to gain refugee status and and it shows. Since 9/11 we have accepted over 780,000 people from the middle east through refugee status of those 780,000 none have been linked to a terrorist crime or violent killings and only three have been arrested of suspected terrorist activities key word suspected. Now those numbers are huge and show just how little risk there is is in bringing in 10,000 syrians to this country. Sadly I have to say that tweet was probably the nicest and most moderate statement she made. Other statements called for banning the Quran, mosques, islam, and all muslim refugees from this country which is obviously a total violation of the first amendment. She also accused islam of promoting violence and being a religion of total extremist. Then later went on to say we should declare war on not just isis but all muslims and we are ready to fight them with all of are guns. Her comments drew lots of support from her 63k followers and tweets similar to hers were all over twitter. I was glad to find so many like me who were correcting misleading information and taking on and challlengeing this offensive verbal rhetoric many of whom I have been able to talk to as we support each other in fighting such dangerous hate. Now if you look at all of this it rhetoric it draws so many similarities to fascism in the 30's and 40's and actually one person made it even easier to make my point by posting tweet showing a picture that says when Nazi's rose to power only 5-10% of germans were actually members of the nazi party and that only 5-10% percent of islamics people in the middle east are jihadist but I did some number crunching so apparently only 25% percent of voters actually vote in the democtratic primary's that choose our democrat and republican nominations. If we split that in half that's 12.5% percent from each side. If trump garners half the primary's vote he'll be representing 7-8% of those eligible to vote similar to the numbers hitler would've had you can couple it with so many instances of similar rhetoric and beliefs of his supporters. Which is why we need to be vigilant about promoting truth and equality and what's right and to support each other as we do so.
So update on this I'm pretty sure we all heard trumps new "plan" to bar muslims from entering and it's total bull not much else to say I could go in depth but I'm to tired to do so also I got into another conversation about accepting refugees and there's to much to talk about and honestly it makes me wanna give up so if you wanna hear more of what I had to say check my twitter be warned the responses of those I tried to talk to in a respectful way is disheartning
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/opinions/parini-obamas-isis-speech/index.html
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