Muslims Drifting Through Crisis, Towards Kerry
Charles Johnson
Tue Sep 7, 2004 at 7:01 pm PDT • Views: 142
Agence France Presse says that American Muslims don’t face the same kind of segregation as African Americans did in the Jim Crow era—but that doesn’t stop them from whining as if they do: Muslims drift, not run, towards Kerry.
CHICAGO (AFP) - They may not face the segregation that once defined the lives of black Americans, but many Muslim Americans feel that they are fighting the civil rights battles of the 1950s and 60s all over again.
The discrimination has changed with the times — indefinite detentions, closed hearings, secret evidence, and racial profiling have replaced segregated schools, diners, and beaches — but the sense of being a second-class citizen is the same.
Or at least that’s the contention of the leaders of the US Muslim community, who are fighting to make Muslim civil rights an issue in this November’s US presidential elections.
“There is a crisis of civil rights for Muslims in this country,” said Agha Saeed, chairman of the American Muslim Alliance, (AMA) at a national gathering of US Muslims this weekend.
“Today, Muslims and Arabs are second-class citizens in the United States.”
Frank says: