June 5 On Sunday June 4 in Columbus, Ohio, a white supremacist brutally assaulted Rahma Warsame, a Muslim woman, for defending another woman whom he was harassing while shouting racist, anti-Muslim epithets. Warsame’s injuries include four missing teeth, a badly swollen face, busted lips and a swollen nose. She has a 12-year-old son who now has to deal with the pain and terror of his mother being attacked in this way.
Witnesses heard the assailant shout, “You will all be shipped back to Africa!” before he came after her. It is an absolute outrage that at the time of the assault, the perpetrator was interviewed by police but released without charges.
It is abundantly clear that the Trump/Pence fascist regime has spearheaded and unleashed a rising tide of hatred, government persecution, and violent mobs against Muslims and all immigrants. Trump has continued to push forward his explicitly racist Muslim ban. He has referred to immigrants as “snakes” out to get to people. He’s publicly promoted a Muslim registry! Even beyond all of this, his intellectual hit men like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulis call for Arab people to be rounded up, and refer to them as “cockroaches.”
Emboldened by all of this, his fascist base is rallying June 10th in dozens of cities across the country. They claim to oppose Sharia law, but they are really against all Muslims. They insist that Muslims don’t deserve freedom of religion or any legal protections. Every time these people speak and gather, they are organizing to whip up violence and spread hate.
All this is a key part of a fascist program that is targeting different groups, while preparing people to go along with and actively support genocide. This is why they must be protested and drowned out. They are organizing to silence, brutalize, and murder Muslims and anyone who comes to their defense. They are the modern day version of the Nazi foot soldiers. We know from history that ignoring them does not make them go away. They must be drowned and not given any space to organize any further.
In the name of humanity, it is right to drive fascists out of your town and most importantly, out of the White House. The stakes are too high not to speak up. First they came for the Muslims… JUNE 10: WHERE WILL YOU BE?