Parking Space Terrorism | Ramzy Baroud

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Ramzy Baroud

Time for Action after Killing of Three U.S. Muslims

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust

Feb. 18, 2015

The murder of three American Muslims at a University of North Carolina condominium on Feb. 10 was no ordinary murder, nor is the criminal who killed them an ordinary thug.

The context of the killings, the murder itself, and the media and official responses to the horrific event are a testimony to everything that went wrong since the United States unleashed it’s long-drawn-out “war on terror,” with its undeclared, but sometimes declared, enemy, namely Islam and Muslims.

Horrific as it was, the killing of a husband and wife, Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, by homegrown terrorist Craig Stephen Hicks, is the kind of violence that can only fit into a greater media and official narrative, which designates millions of innocent Muslims, in the United States and across the world, as enemies or potential terrorists.

Countless television hours and endless space in numerous media have been dedicated to vilify and demonize Muslims throughout recent years. Muslims’ attempts to distance themselves from every militant grouping, ideology and tendency has done them no good. A Muslim is a terrorism suspect until proven innocent, especially if a bearded, brown man, or a headscarf-clad woman.

The end result of that dehumanization has been racism, racial profiling, extra-judicial killings and war. It was only a matter of time before that violence reached the nominally safe Muslim communities in the United States itself.

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