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Does anyone believe the following hearing is islamophobia?
"Arab American Leader Responds After GOP Senator Says at Hearing, “You Should Hide Your Head in a Bag” democracynow.org 09/19/24
"We speak with Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, after she faced racist and hostile questioning from Republicans at Tues…
Does anyone believe the following hearing is islamophobia?
"Arab American Leader Responds After GOP Senator Says at Hearing, “You Should Hide Your Head in a Bag” democracynow.org 09/19/24
"We speak with Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, after she faced racist and hostile questioning from Republicans at Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, including Senator John Kennedy, who told Berry, “You should hide your head in a bag.” The experience illustrated the very problem of dehumanization the hearing was meant to address, Berry says: “That kind of bigotry and hatred is difficult to hear from anyone, but to actually experience it at a hate crime hearing from a sitting member of this institution was pretty extraordinary.”
Just a little sample of this hearing made me to lament that our country can elect another clown for senator who is incapable to allow the interviewed to speak:
"SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: Do you support or oppose Iran in their hatred of Jews?
MAYA BERRY: Again, I’m going to emphasize, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, none of them is going to —
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: You can’t bring yourself to say no, can you?
MAYA BERRY: This discussion — sir, I don’t support —
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It’s real simple.
MAYA BERRY: Excuse me. I’m going to —
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: And —
MAYA BERRY: If I may?
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: Nah, nah, no!
MAYA BERRY: As a Muslim woman — as a Muslim woman, sir, I’m going to tell you —
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: I —
MAYA BERRY: — I do not support Iran. But what I will tell you is that —"
This is what is waiting for all of us if we allow these fundamentalists to grab more power.