printTo demonstrate how victimized she felt by Donald Trump, a swaddled Muslim woman (a flight attendant, no less; I hope with Air Islam!) appeared at Trump’s Rock Hill, South Carolina rally wearing what the WaPo described as the “yellow eight-pointed stars, reminiscent of the six-pointed stars Jews were forced by the Nazis to wear on their clothing during the Holocaust. On the eight-pointed stars, a common symbol in the Islamic world, was this message: ‘Stop Islamophobia.’”
As Donald Trump questioned the motives of Syrian refugees at a Friday night rally, saying they “probably are ISIS,” a woman sitting in the stands of the sports arena behind him silently stood. She was wearing a white hijab and a blue T-shirt that read: “Salam, I come in peace.”
Trump kept speaking, but soon the crowd erupted, holding up their campaign signs and chanting: “Trump! Trump! Trump!” That was the formal signal for security to remove her from the rally — even though she stood quietly, not saying anything.
For her theatrics, the woman, Rosa Hamid, had appropriated a symbol of Jewish oppression. Worse. Hamid has a Chutzpah, considering Muslims invented this Mark of Cain for Jews. It was not the Nazis who dreamt up the yellow cloth with which they tagged Jews; it was “introduced by the caliph who succeeded the prophet Mohammad.”
From “DID MOHAMMED INVENT PROFILING?”:
When it comes to the sensitive topic of racial or ethnic profiling, Muslims, historically, were innovators in their own right. The Nazis were not the originators of the yellow cloth with which they tagged Jews. The odious tagging rag has its origins in the laws of the Charter of Omar—a set of vicious anti-infidel rules that were applied to Jews with extra vim. These laws were introduced by the caliph who succeeded the prophet Mohammed.
Prior to the prophet, Jews and Arabs did indeed live in relative harmony, but when Mohammed failed to convert the Jews to Islam, the proselytizing prophet of peace exterminated at least one Jewish tribe, etched the Holy Koran with anti-Jewish vitriol, and launched centuries of brutality against Jews. Arabs also preceded the Nazis by centuries when they devised the Jewish ghetto, that dwelling demarcator known in Arabic as the hara or mella. Following the Arab conquest in the seventh century, Jewish life in the Islamic world became fraught with massacres, blood libel, and plunder. Synagogues were regularly torn down, and Jews were impelled to pay special head and property taxes. … (January 9, 2002)
(January 9, 2002.)