"Boston Bombings Have Led to Multiple Revenge Attacks on Innocent Muslims"

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Boston Bombings Have Led to Multiple Revenge Attacks on Innocent Muslims

by Rebecca Greenfield at the Atlantic Wire

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/boston-bombings-lead-multiple-muslim-revenge-attacks/64392/

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The same week that the New York Post first falsely reported the Boston bombing suspect was a Saudi national then falsely put a Moroccan-American track runner on its cover, it accurately reported on Friday an attack on an innocent Bangladeshi man living in the Bronx who some "idiots" mistook for an Arab. Abdullah Faruque, a South Asian network engineer, was at an Applebees on Monday night when he was accosted by a group of three or four men, reports the Post, after they asked if he was an Arab. It wasn't until he got home, his shoulder dislocated, that he found out about the bombing at the Boston Marathon. “I saw the news, and then it hits me: That’s why I got jumped,” he told the Post.

It's possible for this sort of baseless revenge to happen, with or without the Post's help. But it's worth wonderng where these men— and the one who assaulted a Muslim doctor in Boston, and the ones who vandalized the future site of a Boston mosque—got the idea for taking out revenge on a "dark skinned male" in the wake of the bombing.

The Muslim community expects it, at this point. "A certain routine has emerged, in which some Muslims seem compelled to make clear that they denounce the violence and consider it a violation of Islam — often even before the attacker's religion is determined," Max Fisher wrote over at The Washington Post. Rather than sit back while people (and journalists) speculate, they attempt to distance the religion as a whole from the situation. Circulating false information about the identities of suspects in major newspapers and TV networks kind of counteracts those efforts.

At this point it's still not quite clear the link between the suspects and Islam, but even so the Islamic community is preempting more negative responses like the unfortunate revenge attacks this week. Dzhokhar Tsaraev listed Islam on a social media profile, and his deceased brother may have posted a video associated with Al Qaeda. Though, the endearing uncle of the two suspects assured the media today that the actions have nothing to do with Islam. Yet, the mutterings of the word "muslim" going around today have already led to a heightened awareness from the Muslim American community about further retaliation. Several American Muslim groups came out Friday condemning the attacks, including a Boston mosque, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Masjid At-Tawheed of York, and Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA.


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[freshwest]

1. Unfortunately, we can't sue the MSM outlets who fanned the hate in the USA. They're home free.

[Montoya]

2. nt

This is what the right wing has created. These two terrorists.

[JDPriestly]

3. I would like to see the press report on stories quoting various religious

leaders condemning these kinds of killings whenever they happen regardless of the reason.

So often the positive things that religious leaders say that promote tolerance are not reported while the intolerance of a small but loud group of wanna-be religious leaders receives a lot of media coverage.

Tolerant, liberal religious movements deserve credit for the good they do and for the love and peace that they try to spread in the world.

Whether people are religious or not, I think most would like to see more reporting on leaders of all kinds who speak out in favor of tolerance and peace in the midst of violence and chaos. In my view, that should be the function of religion in society -- to promote peace and understanding.

[Amonester]

4. This is sad beyond words, but not surprising in a world of violent cretins.

Why is it a world of violent cretins, albeit a minority of, to begin with?


I'm scared at the thought more of them violent cretins will start searching for how to make pressure-cooker bombs now...