re: #246 Citizen K

The whole point is fighting back against the concept that ‘Allahu Akbar’ is, inherently , a violent and terroristic phrase, and that anyone who dare uses it (i.e. Muslims) is somehow inherently terroristic themselves. That’s the point they’re trying to get at, because as others have pointed out above, the way the phrase is treated, you’d think it translated directly to ‘Death to the West’. They don’t care about the context, they’re trying to criminalize Islam and Muslims as a whole by making some indelible attachment between that phrase and terrorism as a whole.

Sure, formally the message could be read as “we normal Muslims say AA millions of times during our lives, doesn’t mean *we* are terrorists”. But due to ambiguity in the way it was written it could also read “just because this guy shouted AA doesn’t mean *he* is a terrorist”. Her subsequent comment goes rather in the latter direction:

He could be mentally ill. Disgruntled recently fired employee. High on drugs. That saying is so common he could have yelled it randomly.

— rabia chaudry (@rabiasquared) October 31, 2017