There have been some reports of attacks on Muslims following the election. From NBC News:
The first police reports started trickling in within 10 hours of Donald Trump’s victory speech.
A Muslim student from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette reported being attacked by two men on Wednesday morning. The victim told investigators that one wore a white “TRUMP” hat while they hit her with a metal object and shouted obscenities as she fell to the ground. University police say the suspects fled with the woman’s wallet and hijab.
The center of the campus was also defaced with incendiary pro-Trump language.
Another Muslim woman said she was attacked from behind in a parking garage at San Jose State University. A man ran up and pulled at her hijab, choking her, university police said.
Other than in specific direct self-defense or in proximate defense of others, violence is wrong, regardless of the perpetrators.
We should never try to justify or rationalize it.
Update
It is now being reported that the charge was a hoax. Via Talking Points Memo:
A University of Louisiana at Lafayette student admitted to police that she made up a story about being beaten, robbed and having her hijab ripped off by two men, one of whom she said was wearing a white “Trump” hat, The Advertiser reported Wednesday.
“During the course of the investigation, the female complainant admitted that she fabricated the story about her physical attack as well as the removal of her hijab and wallet by two white males,” the Lafayette Police Department said in a news release, obtained by the site.
Police have dropped the investigation, according to the site.
What hasn’t been dropped is whatever fear was created by the original false report. It also will call into question actual reports of harassment or attack.
Perpetrating violence should still never by justified or rationalized. Neither should lying about being attacked.
Certainly not justified under any circumstances, but the first appears to have been a hoax.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/student-nola-hijab-robbed-trump-hat
That’s one of the problems with the charge of Islamophobia. Too many of the claims of Islamophobia have been fraudulent.
Hahahahahaha! This is all just fantastic! Did you see that people are burning their New Balance shoes? People protesting a company for not shipping jobs overseas and being against trade deals that negotiate more wealth for the wealthy – what could possible be a better example of how insane “the left” in this country has become?
Good, let them hyperventilate and lie, lie, lie, until American reaction to these claims is: OK, another lie, knew it all along.
We now have students at our high school, the one where we have helped with speech and debate for years, following around the black students and calling them n$ggers. Carving swastikas in the bathrooms. I had no idea this was going on until someone sent me the link. Talked with the coach. Has been going on for a bit since the election got heated. Breitbart and other alt-right sites are quite popular with these students and they are bringing it to school. So far, they sanitized this out what they put in the paper, the minority kids have only received anonymous threats of violence.
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/education/index.ssf/2016/11/students_yelling_cotton_picker_heiling_hitler_at_this_local_school.html
Steve
Sounds to me like there may be a reasonable argument that although Trump didn’t cause it he legitimized bad behavior.
It’s also a good argument for lowering the temperature rather than raising it.
I think I’ve mentioned it before that although I saw a lot of racism when I was growing up well over a half century ago in my family the worst sin you could commit was racism. When I was seven or eight I came home from school one day and quite casually used the n-word. I got a spanking and a lecture. That stayed with me.
Yeah, I wouldn’t get too excited by any of these claims. It’s all Haven Monahans and Duke Lacrosse rape hoaxes, while they burn the damned place down and call for exterminating their enemies.
“It is now being reported that the charge was a hoax. Via Talking Points Memo:”
Imagine that. Just like during the campaign. Meanwhile the beatings and riots and road blocks etc are on film in many cities, including Chicago.
Let me add that any state that attempts to secede should be Shermaned, and everyone that supports secession should be shot.
The worst sin in our house was disobedience. A plaque with the appropriate verses from Deuteronomy 21 was displayed prominently in our house.
Steve