To:\u00a0 The Council for American\/Islamic Relations
\nFrom:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Crabby Peasant
\nRe:\u00a0 Well, You Know<\/p>\n
Dear CAIR:<\/p>\n
For starters – condolences about last week’s shooting.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s a horrible thing and proves that even the most placid parts of the First World can be awful, anarchic places.\u00a0 This should be a lesson for a lot of privileged, white, First World “progressives”…<\/p>\n
But I digress.<\/p>\n
Your Minnesota chair called for Minnesotans to reject Islamophobia<\/a>:<\/p>\n The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a press conference Friday morning in Minneapolis, with a number of speakers highlighting the threat of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States and across the world.<\/p>\n Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of CAIR-MN, called for all Minnesotans to stand against Islamophobia.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only way we can move forward is when the average Minnesotan says, \u2018Not in my state, not on my watch,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThat is the only way we can move forward.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n On a couple levels, I couldn’t agree more.\u00a0 I’ve fought with some of my political party’s moron bigot fringe against “Islamophobia”.\u00a0 And like a lot of\u00a0 people like me, I’ve offered to take any Muslim citizen who wants to learn a more active form of self-defense to the range (given that the closest thing to a positive lesson one can take from last week’s atrocity is that “a good guy with a gun” works for Muslims too<\/a>).<\/p>\n But while we’re talking about bigotry – let’s see to all the antisemitism?<\/p>\n Don’t be coy.\u00a0 You know it exists. You may not agree it’s a bad thing…<\/p>\n …and right there, there’s the problem.<\/p>\n Any chance you could speak out against that?<\/p>\n Have your people call my people.<\/p>\n That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To:\u00a0 The Council for American\/Islamic Relations From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Crabby Peasant Re:\u00a0 Well, You Know Dear CAIR: For starters – condolences about last week’s shooting.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s a horrible thing and proves that even the most placid parts of the First World can be awful, anarchic places.\u00a0 This should be a lesson for a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-70269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-minnesota-politics","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70273,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70269\/revisions\/70273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}