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My Home Depot Employee Self Service
John Miller, NYPD agent abettor of intelligence and counterterrorism, said Wednesday: “We did all-encompassing beat to the barter rental business. We visited over 148 barter rental locations in this area. The industry has had a aerial akin of acquaintance on this amount from the NYPD.” And “Miller said that if a aggregation is apprehensive of a ambitious renter, they usually adjournment or artlessly abjure a rental to let badge investigate.”
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Really? The companies abjure rentals to apprehensive characters? Is that so?
Sayfullo Saipov, the New York City barter jihad accumulation murderer, looks like a jihadi. But to accede that would be to appoint in ancestral profiling, and accustomed the absolutely Islamic actualization of his facial bristles (a hadith depicts Muhammad cogent Muslims to trim their mustaches but not their beards, because the Jews and Christians trim their beards but not their mustaches), religious profiling, a actualization of “Islamophobia,” as well.
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Imagine now that you were the agent at Home Depot back Saipov came in to hire his truck. You apprehension his beard, his demeanor, his all-embracing appearance. The vehicular jihad attacks in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Nice, Jerusalem, Ohio State University and so abounding added places beam beyond your mind. It occurs to you that the man continuing afore you absent to hire a barter could be intending to mow bottomward non-Muslim pedestrians with it. You may alike accept heard about the Islamic State’s charge to Muslims to use, for vehicular jihad attacks, absolutely the affectionate of barter that Saipov wants to rent.
But again you stop yourself. You advise your close voice. “You can’t anticipate this way,” you acquaint yourself. It’s racist. It’s bigoted. It’s Islamophobic. Aloof because this adolescent looks like a jihadi doesn’t beggarly that he is one. So what if he is adherent and advertent in Islam; hundreds of millions of bodies who will never be terrorists are as well. You’ve got to action this Islamophobia in your heart.
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You watch as Saipov fills out the forms. You run his acclaim agenda through the system. You brainstorm what would appear if you did abjure him a rental: tomorrow the Council on American-Islamic Relations would be there, accusatory about Islamophobia in Home Depot. Your face would be on NY1, CNN, MSNBC. You ability alike accomplish the advanced folio of the New York Times: “Home Depot Agent Denies Service to Man Because He Was Muslim.”
You can see it all, like a dying man seeing his action beam afore his eyes. You wouldn’t aloof lose your job. You’d lose your name, your reputation, maybe alike your affairs for approaching application anywhere. You’d be accepted and hated civic as an “Islamophobe.”
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You opt for self-preservation. You hire Saipov his truck.
A bizarre scenario? Hardly. The Fort Hood jihad accumulation assassin Nidal Hasan abashed his coworkers with his jihad talk, but his superiors didn’t investigate or admonishment him, they answer him. They didn’t appetite “Islamophobia in the Military” exposés with their names on them. The neighbors of the San Bernardino jihad murderers saw all kinds of apprehensive action at the arduous couple’s house, but didn’t alarm the police: they were abashed of actuality apparent as racially profiling the couple. The Fort Dix jihad annihilation artifice was aghast by a adolescent man who begin out about it but at aboriginal hesitated to alarm badge for abhorrence of actuality “racist.”
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This is the bake-apple of the “Islamophobia” advertising that has been formed into Americans on a circadian base for years now. Bodies are abashed to “say something” if they “see something,” for abhorrence of the displacement and career ruin that accuse of “Islamophobia” could bring. That is the focus of my new book Confessions of an Islamophobe, which capacity the abounding amount of this advertising initiative: the amount to women, gays, Jews, Christians, civil liberals, civil Muslims, and others. Eight are asleep in New York because of the abhorrence of “Islamophobia.” How abounding added charge die afore we abandon this advertising straitjacket? Preorder your archetype of Confessions of an Islamophobe actuality now.
Robert Spencer is the administrator of Jihad Watch and columnist of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. Coming in November is his new book Confessions of an Islamophobe. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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