http://tabish.me/random/nidal-malik-hasan-shooter-at-fort-hood-has-same-last-name-and-is-muslim/ A sample of my day-to-day thoughts Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://tabish.me/random/nidal-malik-hasan-shooter-at-fort-hood-has-same-last-name-and-is-muslim/comment-page-1/#comment-641 Mel Snyder Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:23:24 +0000 http://tabish.me/?p=109#comment-641 Tabish: Just as you, a Muslim, are sensitive to comments that assume Muslim names mean Muslim faith, and Muslim faith = terrorism, I as a Jew was probably more sensitive to you to the repeated media references to Madoff's Jewish faith, how he screwed Jews more commonly than non-Jews, etc. The media falls back on stereotypes of Jews as deceivers, a throwback to the Judas legend, and Muslims as terrorists. But here's the difference - Jews of good conscience today reacted to the killers name with "God, I hope he's not a terrorist, it will feed the nation's anti-otherness penchant." We defend your rights because in their violation, we see risk to ours. Not by coincidence is the ACLU largely composed of Jewish lawyers - and that we defend your women's rights to wear the hijab as we do for our males to wear kippah (religious caps). We are in this together, Tabish. Tabish: Just as you, a Muslim, are sensitive to comments that assume Muslim names mean Muslim faith, and Muslim faith = terrorism, I as a Jew was probably more sensitive to you to the repeated media references to Madoff’s Jewish faith, how he screwed Jews more commonly than non-Jews, etc. The media falls back on stereotypes of Jews as deceivers, a throwback to the Judas legend, and Muslims as terrorists. But here’s the difference – Jews of good conscience today reacted to the killers name with “God, I hope he’s not a terrorist, it will feed the nation’s anti-otherness penchant.” We defend your rights because in their violation, we see risk to ours. Not by coincidence is the ACLU largely composed of Jewish lawyers – and that we defend your women’s rights to wear the hijab as we do for our males to wear kippah (religious caps). We are in this together, Tabish.

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