
Danger: The New McCarthyism against Yemenis and Muslims
I know many Yemenis and Muslims are frustrated with the conditions in the USA and many western countries. Some people were unjustly targeted with prejudice that cost them their lives and livelihoods. After 9/11, Islam was labeled as an evil religion that produces violence. This huge negative campaign continues with the cartoons against the prophet SAW and even the divorce of that young girl in Yemen. Every time there is even a hint of anything negative they are working hard on exploiting it and expanding it to label all Muslims. So what is your answer?
Should we just go back to Yemen?
The following podcast highlights how Muslims and Yemenis in America are being targeted and by racist individuals and groups that hate Islam and anyone that tries to represent it positively in the west.
Mp3 Podcast
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080807-0906.mp3History on McCarthyism
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/arthur-miller/mccarthyism/484/Throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing in Eastern Europe and China. Capitalizing on those concerns, a young Senator named Joseph McCarthy made a public accusation that more than two hundred “card-carrying” communists had infiltrated the United States government. Though eventually his accusations were proven to be untrue, and he was censured by the Senate for unbecoming conduct, his zealous campaigning ushered in one of the most repressive times in 20th-century American politics.