Trump Didn’t Start The Anti-Iranian Fire
Trump built on and rode the wave of a project that has been years in the making.
Trita Parsi, President, National Iranian American CouncilTyler Cullis, Legal Fellow, National Iranian American Council
March 6, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Last
week, Adam Purinton – a 51-year-old white man – reportedly stepped into
a bar in Kansas and shot at two Indian men, killing one. He then left
the bar and went to a restaurant where he allegedly confided to
a barmaid that he had just killed two “Iranians.” With that act, the
anti-Muslim and anti-immigration rhetoric that rode Donald J. Trump to
the White House has now spilled over into fear for the physical safety
and security of Iranian Americans.
Yet
Trump is not the sole author of this newfound dread. He was not present
when the foundation for the climate of fear and hate that so suffocates
our politics today was being laid. Instead, Trump built on and rode the
wave of a project that has been years in the making. While there can be
no mistaking Trump’s contribution to this project, Trump is nothing but
the most outward symptom of an affliction that has long plagued our
country. To chalk up the killing in Kansas to him and him alone – while
ignoring the anti-Muslim and anti-Iran rhetoric that has long toxified
our discourse – risks misdiagnosing a cause for its most prominent
champion.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-didnt-start-the-anti-iranian-fire_us_58bdc7e6e4b09ab537d5b99e?b55u7s0n4v0m86w29
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