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June 10, 2019
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Sarsour's
Group Calls Brown Copt a 'White Nationalist'
by John Rossomando • Jun 10, 2019
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Being a "white nationalist" doesn't mean having European
ancestry in Linda Sarsour's world. Her group, MPower
Change, joined the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Philadelphia chapter in charging that Raymond Ibrahim, an American Copt of
Egyptian ancestry, whose people have been severely discriminated against
under Islamic rule for centuries, is a "white nationalist."
The smear campaign is part of an effort to have the U.S. Army War
College rescind a June 19 speaking invitation to Ibrahim.
"In a time of rising white nationalism, Islamophobia, and horrific
violence stemming from these ideologies, the College is endorsing and
fostering anti-Muslim hate within the military by inviting Ibrahim,"
MPower Change wrote in a petition on its website.
To classify Ibrahim in the same category as white supremacists who hate
Muslims for being non-white is to show ignorance of the severe persecution and discrimination faced by the
Coptic people under nearly 14 centuries of Islamic rule.
Copts face constant discrimination and persecution at the hands of
their Muslim neighbors, a fact that colors the view of Islam held by
Ibrahim and other Copts whose relatives face Jim Crow-style conditions in
their homeland.
MPower Change argues that Ibrahim "advances an Orientalist and
inaccurate view of Islam." Among other things, Ibrahim denounced
Muhammad as a "false prophet" and a "liar," which is considered blasphemy under Islam. This
"Orientalist" epithet stems from late Columbia University scholar Edward
Said's book 1978 Orientalism, which asserts that Islam and the West
belong to the same civilization and complains about the Christian rejection of Islam as a
heresy.
Ibrahim's assertion that "Muslim hostility and terrorization of the
West is not an aberration but a continuation of Islamic history" promotes
prejudice against Islam and Muslims, MPower Change complains.
But Muslim sources such as Islamweb.net acknowledge that Islamic threats of
violence against majority Christian lands date back to Muhammad. It notes that Muhammad sent an emissary to the Eastern
Roman Emperor Heraclius calling on him to give up his Christianity for
Islam or "pay him taxes in return for him allowing you to remain upon
your faith; or, to prepare for war against him." Muslim armies invaded
the empire, defeating Heraclius' forces in the Battle of Yarmouk in
636 A.D. after Muhammad's death. It paved the way for the Islamic conquest
of the rest of the Middle East.
It's not the first time CAIR and its allies have tried to silence voices
it doesn't like. In 2017, it failed to stop IPT Fellow Patrick Dunleavy from
teaching an Air Force course on prison radicalization. Similar allegations
cast Dunleavy as an "Islamophobe."
This attack on Ibrahim should meet the same fate.
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