The media's coverage of the New Zealand shooting is making Islamophobia worse. (via latimesopinion)
An image grab from TV New Zealand taken Friday shows an armed police officer at a hospital following the mosque shootings in Christchurch. My mother, who has spent her whole life wishing her children spent more time facing toward God, has been pleading for years that I not go to the mosque.
Islamophobia is not just a slur or a pull of a hijab; it is not just a ban on who can come into this country and it is not just a massacre that is livestreamed. All of that is a heinous expression of anti-Muslim bigotry, but it is explicit expression; it is an expression of Islamophobia that is easy to categorize.
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