Jews gather nationwide on Chanukah to challenge Islamophobia and racism

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32. I know what you are talking about. What I am saying is this: the Muslim community in the US would

benefit from communicating with the other minorities who have much more and longer experience with negative stereotypes and who do in fact endure a larger number of physical and rhetorical attacks than do Muslims as a whole. We all live here. People like myself who oppose bias crimes and characterization of minorities oppose all such things, not just the bits aimed at ourselves or our favorites. If you do as you do, and try to excuse some bias crimes and rhetorical attacks in order to make others seem worse, you are not opposing all bias crimes you are opposing some of them and downplaying others. This is a bad choice for the community you wish to protect.

LGBT and Jews are very frequent victims of bias crimes. Who does those crimes? Christians and Muslims. Yeah. We do not rush to the press to point out that we have been victimized and then point out which community the criminals came from. Why? Because to do so can encourage crimes against both the group of the original victims and the group the criminals came from. What matters is that a person was attacked due to the bigotry of another person.

The way a community deals with bias crimes done to their own and by their own is a very important set of choices. LGBT have done very well with all of this. So we have a skill set. We are of course willing to share those skills. I think your verbiage is totally harmful. Something to think about.