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This is a Checkpoint!

Posted By mike On August 28, 2010 @ 12:22 pm In Small Foot Print | 1 Comment

Yes, please. Check your hatred. Check your lunacy. Check your bigotry before you go any further.

In NY the conflict, rhetoric and hate crimes are building up in response to the fear-mongering, the wedge-politics of the opposition to the Ground Zero mosque - Cordoba House, a community center blocks away from the Twin Towers.

In Olympia, the home of slain activist [1] Rachel Corrie, the boycott divestment and sanction movement is roiling the community and spilling over around the Northwest Coast. [2] BDS Olympia has made the news for its work to persuade the [3] Olympia Food Co-op to join the BDS movement.

Many folks who feel a special kinship with the State of Israel are in an uproar and the community is engaged in an animated and heated debate about Israel, Palestine, boycotts, two state/one state solutions and more.

[4] clipped from [5] theactivist.org

“This Is A Checkpoint!”

Posted by [6] Chris Maisano on 8/26/10 • Categorized as [7] Culture,[8] Domestic,[9] International,[10] News and Views

When I first read about how Michael Enright [11] nearly murdered New York City cab driver Ahmed Sharif simply because he is Muslim, I immediately assumed that the hysterical campaign against the Park51 “Ground Zero Mosque” had resulted in the kind of violent act it seemed it would inevitably produce. Over the last few weeks, the civic atmosphere here in New York turned poisonous as the conflict over Park51 reached a fever pitch.

I have personally overheard numerous people around the city commenting ignorantly on the project, its backers, and Islam itself. Last Sunday, hundreds of people protested against the Park51 project in lower Manhattan in a demonstration inspired by raving Islamophobes like [12] Pam Geller, whose [13] Atlas Shrugs blog provides a glimpse into the terriyfing dreamscape that is the far-right id. Unsurprisigly, video emerged of a rabble of know-nothings accosting a black man falsely assumed to be Muslim and shouting charming epithets like “Muhammad was a pig!”

Read the whole post at [14] The Activist.

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[1] Rachel Corrie: http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/
[2] BDS Olympia: http://www.olympiabds.org/
[3] Olympia Food Co-op : http://olympiafood.coop/index.html
[4] Image: http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/
[5] theactivist.org: http://theactivist.org/blog/this-is-a-checkpoint/comment-page-1
[6] Chris Maisano: http://theactivist.org/blog/author/cmaisano/
[7] Culture: http://theactivist.org/blog/category/culture
[8] Domestic: http://theactivist.org/blog/category/politics/us-politics-and-issues
[9] International: http://theactivist.org/blog/category/politics/international-issues
[10] News and Views: http://theactivist.org/blog/category/politics
[11] nearly murdered New York City cab driver Ahmed Sharif: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20014757-504083.html
[12] Pam Geller: http://mediamatters.org/research/201008190024
[13] Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
[14] The Activist: http://theactivist.org/blog/this-is-a-checkpoint/comment-page-1
[15] Image: http://clipmarks.com/share/7DC67701-67CB-4637-9C9E-87DAD5DDA79C/blog/

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