{"id":9252,"date":"2018-11-16T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2018-11-16T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:03:53","slug":"gaslighting-anti-jewish-and-anti-muslim-rhetoric-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2018\/11\/gaslighting-anti-jewish-and-anti-muslim-rhetoric-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaslighting, Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Rhetoric: What to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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A brief tour of gaslighting.<\/b><\/p>\n

1. \nA thing happens, something is said or done.<\/li>\nA person is told it did not happen, or that it did not happen the way she thinks it did. This telling can come from individuals, as well as groups, and is a means of seizing and maintaining power. (One can indeed be gaslit into believing gaslighting is not happening.)<\/li>\nShe knows what she saw and\/or heard.<\/li>\nShe is again told that that is not what happened.<\/li>\nShe begins to wonder if she\u2019s going crazy.<\/li>\nRepeat 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n**
   ** **A brief tour of gaslighting in the modern political era<\/b><\/p>\n

   \nVocalized again and again: clarion call,\u00a0dog whistles<\/a>, code words, signaling to White supremacists that he is with them.<\/li>\nShe hears it. She knows what to look for, how to hear it, because after hearing it for years, she knows it all too well.<\/li>\nBut \u2013 \u201cThat\u2019s not what he meant,\u201d \u201cYou just need something to be angry about,\u201d \u201cStop making trouble,\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re the only one who thinks that.\u201d<\/li>\nWhen something happens \u2013 a mosque or synagogue defaced, Muslims and Jews attacked in the streets,\u00a0White supremacists converge and march<\/a>, she is told it is merely an aberration, the work of a few, but certainly not the result of purposeful galvanization of hatred. Certainly not.<\/li>\nRepeat 1, 2, 3 and 4.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n**
   ** In our current political era, those who use \u00a0anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic rhetoric are very aware of what they\u2019re saying, and they know how to speak in covert terms in order to make it seem like they\u2019re not doing it at all. Here are some examples.<\/p>\n
   ** **A brief collection of anti-Semitic code words and phrases.<\/b><\/p>\n

   \u201cElites\u201d\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 In 2016, Hillary Clinton was accused of being at the helm of \u201ca global power structure<\/a>\u201d ( the term \u201celites\u201d was used earlier in the speech), whose goal was to destroy the working class. Anti-semitism has often relied on the idea that Jews are somehow separate from everyone else (see \u201cAliens\u201d below), but the characterization of Jews as elite is a means of perpetuating the notion of a cabal that seeks to control the banks, the media, and ultimately,\u00a0world governments<\/a>. \u201cElite\u201d perpetuates the idea that all Jews are wealthy and have attended prestigious colleges, where they have been welcomed into the aforementioned cabal.<\/p>\n

   \u201cAliens,\u201d people from another world, etc \u2013 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Jews are disloyal to the country where they live, that they are tricksters and interlopers who cannot be trusted. See: Roy Moore\u2019s attack on George Soros (a lighting rod anti-semitism on the Right from not only non-Jews, but Jews as well), in which Moore accused Soros of promoting an agenda that was \u201cnot American culture<\/a>.\u201d \u201cSoros comes from another world that I do not identify with,\u201d Moore told\u00a0American Family Radio<\/a>\u00a0in December 2017.<\/p>\n

   \u201cInternational banks\u201d \u2013\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0One particular clarion call to Neo Nazis is the use of the phrase \u201cinternational banks<\/a>.\u201d \u201cInternational\u201d is key, connected with the anti Semitic obsessions that Jew are not true Americans (their loyalty is actually to Israel), who are only interested in money, and the control of it. Therefore, Jews are responsible for any economic distress, vulnerability, and disparities affecting \u201creal\u201d Americans.<\/p>\n

   When it comes to anti-Muslim speech, the language is a little less coded. Unfortunately, we live in a time when it\u2019s acceptable \u2013 in some political circles, even lauded \u2014 to disparage Muslims.<\/b><\/p>\n

   \u201cTerrorists\u201d \u2013\u00a0<\/b>February 2018: 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz shot and killed seventeen people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. November 2017: 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley murdered 26 when he opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Texas. June 2015: 21-year-old Dylann Roof killed nine African Americans at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. All of these young men committed acts of terrorism, but the media did not label any of them \u201cterrorists.\u201d That term is reserved for perpetrators who are Muslim.<\/p>\n

   \u201cRadicals\u201d \u201cExtremists\u201d \u201cFundamentalists\u201d \u2013\u00a0<\/b>There are members of every faith \u2013 and no faith \u2013 who interpret and apply their belief system in ways outside the norm. But, how often do we hear about Christian extremists, Hindu fundamentalists, or Buddhist<\/a> radicals? If any of those terms \u2013 \u201cradical;\u201d \u201cextremist;\u201d \u201cfundamentalist\u201d \u2013 comes without mention of a specific belief system, you can bet it\u2019s being used to refer to Muslims, who are considered de facto \u201cextreme.\u201d<\/p>\n

   \u201cFemale genital mutilation\u201d \u201chonor killings\u201d<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 The terms may seem like they are referring to specific practices that, in reality, span across cultures and geography. \u201cFemale genital mutilation\u201d (used to refer to the partial or total\u00a0cutting or removal of the\u00a0external female genitalia<\/a>)\u00a0is found in\u00a0Africa, Asia and the Middle East but immediately evokes \u201cMuslim\u201d even though there is scant evidence that Islamic sources permit, much less require or encourage, the practice. Similarly, for \u201chonor killings\u201d\u2014the murder of a family member when the perpetrator believes that person has brought\u00a0shame onto the family<\/a>. It is practiced in diverse cultures but also references, in coded terms, Muslims and Islam. Together, these phrases impugn Islam and Muslims of being against women\u2019s dignity and equality.<\/p>\n

   It\u00a0is<\/i>\u00a0happening. We are not wrong, we are not imagining things , and we are not helpless. We do, however, have an obligation to understand what we are hearing to call it out, to see to it that these are no longer regarded as secret codes, but as weapons. We must urge others to do the same, and no matter what, to keep listening.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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