Most everything Americans thought they knew about Muslims here and abroad has been challenged, on screen, and at an unprecedented pace.
Fifty pairs of white shoes outside New Zealand's All Souls Church were laid out to represent the 50 people gunned down at two Christchurch mosques.
Then came the shady websites with names that made them appear to be deep fonts of knowledge about Islam and the Middle East. I will not list them here, just as the media has largely withheld the identity of the mosque shooter, a white supremacist who subscribed to such garbage and livestreamed the killings with the hope it would go viral.
A poster recently on display at a Republican-sponsored public gathering at the West Virginia statehouse featured an image of Omar superimposed over a photo of the twin towers burning, “‘Never forget’ — you said,” read a caption at the top of the poster. “I am the proof — you have forgotten,” said a lower caption over the congresswoman’s image.
Had Omar looked less, well, Muslim, and more like former Illinois Democratic Rep. Paul Findley, a frequent critic of Israel, it’s doubtful we’d even be having this conversation. In fact, there was no widespread public uproar in the 1980s when Findley, who is white, regularly spoke out for Palestinian rights and against unfettered U.S. support of Israel.Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are not at odds with each other.
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