Lebanese Christian: “Donald Trump is good for Middle Eastern Christians”Here is an eye-opening article that shows the mainstream narrative of Trump’s “racism” for what it is. “This piece is not a defence of Donald Trump.” It is something more insightful, and valuable, than that.
“Donald Trump is good for Middle Eastern Christians,” by Najwa Najib, Medium, October 29, 2016:
The 2016 presidential election has turned into a breeding ground for op-eds about every possible topic under the sun, though most focus on Donald Trump and the supposed danger he poses to the world in general and to Muslims in particular. People who have absolutely no right to speak on topics of domestic policy, foreign policy, Islam, whatever, have suddenly been given soapboxes. Where these used to be targets at which we all mostly rolled our eyes, they are now elevated. Off the top of my head, I can think of big names with big things to say about Donald Trump’s policies. Louis CK compares Trump’s run to “being Germany in the ’30s,” where apparently they did not “[see] the shit coming”. In a New York Times op-ed, Aziz Ansari, not a practicing Muslim, fears for his Muslim family’s safety because he thinks that, in rounding 0.03% of Muslims being investigated for potential ISIS extremism down to 0, those 1,000 under investigation will do the same damage as 0 extremists could. Jill Soloway, creator of a show no one wants to watch, said in the press room following her Emmy win that “any moment [she has] to call Trump out to being an inheritor to Hitler, [she] will,” because Trump apparently ‘otherises’ Muslims. Read More At:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/lebanese-christian-donald-trump-is-good-for-middle-eastern-christiansAnd:
https://medium.com/@najwa.najib/donald-trump-is-good-for-middle-eastern-christians-350f049bed62#.ojxdfevql
