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don't you dare use my religion as a rhetorical tool to defend your security state
my brother-in-law was stopped by the DHS while entering the US because he no longer had his Christian name, also he's brown and tall and burly. a friend just lamented that she gets patted down, REPEATEDLY, not because she's a devout Muslim — she's NOT — but because she's dark-skinned and has an “Arabic” name.
you do not use my religion in defense of your security state.
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and no, your don't get to talk about how it's impossible that discrimination of Muslims cannot possibly be racist since it's a religion...
...when the first victims of hate crimes after 9/11 were SIKHS.
how do you know if someone was as devout Muslim, by the way? by racialised features, including having a tendency to grow beards, and “looking Muslim”?
fuck off.