Targeting El-Sayed, Right-Wing Media Figures Say Muslims Can't Belong In America
Right-wing hosts and guests cast his Muslim faith as disqualifying, with repeated attacks on air and online as the Michigan race nears Election Day.
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CHRONIC. In the very tense campaign for the "midterms", Islamophobia proves to be more virulent than after 11 September, while Michigan could elect the first Muslim senator in its history, a Democrat, writes Anne-Sylvie SprengerThe campaign for the parliamentary elections of mid-terms has taken a resolutely racist turn in recent weeks in the United States. To hide its failures notably on the purchasing power, the disaster of the war against Iran…
Targeting El-Sayed, Right-Wing Media Figures Say Muslims Can't Belong In America
With just days left until Election Day, right-wing media figures are speaking about Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in openly Islamophobic terms, equating his Muslim identity with terrorism or antisocial tendencies often without even a pretext of justification. Islamophobia has long been endemic in conservative media and it was foundational to the creation of the post-9/11 national security state, two political forces that are inextrica…
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