The WSJ just published an OpEd by a man who is on record supporting the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians—reminding us once more why trust in corporate media has collapsed
Thank you Qasim for pointing out that genocide is still genocide regardless of when or where it happens! Why does the white race think it's okay for non whites to die, for the crime of simply existing? This is a purely racist issue. Ask Trump! If he had his way he wouldn't bother with concentration camps, he would simply order ICE to shoot anybody that's tan is permanent! When Hitler did it, it was considered a race war. Now we are supposed to allow Israel to do it? Why? Because it's "anti-semitic" if we don't? Trump likens white South Africans to a race war! Why, because they are WHITE. He forgets, conveniently, that they killed, maimed and raped the population to become their "superiors!" The double standard we practice in the world has to stop! I'm white btw unless somebody wants to nitpick.
I am promoting my campaign to be the new president and treasurer of all nonprofits, and then we are all going to stand up together and invoke the Declaration of Independence. We are taking back our consent to be governed by this corrupt government. Google me, Sassy Grace Woodruff, Nancy K Woodruff, Nancy k Sack.
Nonprofits are not owned by their creators. They are owned by the entire public as they are public corporations. When a nonprofit is breaking its bylaws, and they all are, then anyone of the public can call a vote for new leadership of any nonprofit. I am asking for all of them. I can hold two offices, president and treasurer, so that I have control of the money and can spend it as I please. If you see somebody who is hungry and you have the means to feed them and you don't do it your faith is dead. A nonprofit is only for humanitarian reasons and if they have any money in the bank and someone is hungry, they must feed them or they are breaking their bylaws.
Nonprofit means no money in the bank if someone is in need. A true nonprofit is capable of spending all the incoming money, so that it circles around and comes back. The Bible says every seven years the church must declare jubilee, which means no one owes debt anymore except for their property, and every third seven years which is 21 years they are debt-free including all property. I have never heard of a Jubilee ever taking place but that's what I plan to do when everyone chooses me to be the new president and treasurer of all those trillions and trillions of dollars.
Familiar nonprofits are Bill Gates's foundation, Warren Buffett's foundation, World Vision, Feed the Children, Red Cross, the Catholic Church, the Baptist Church, the Pentecostal church, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, Islam's nonprofits, Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Clubs, Feeding America, United Way, UNICEF, American Heart Association, Goodwill, Rockefeller foundation, and so many more!
Once we are taking care of ourselves, there is absolutely nothing the government can do when we take back our consent to be governed, because that's what the Declaration of Independence tells us to do.
When, in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station, to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created, equal that they are endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the CONSENT of the governed.
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter, or to abolish it, and institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall see most likely to affect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown that mankind are more DISPOSED to SUFFER, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future Security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of the people of the United States, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of Government. The history of the US Presidents is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct objection the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the United States. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world.
The presidents have refused their assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
TIME TO ADD YOUR GRIEVANCES TO THE LIST THAT IS WAY LONGER THAN THEY HAD AGAINST THE KING OF ENGLAND. WE SHALL FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT WHERE ALL MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN, REGARDLESS OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN, OR WHERE THEY CAME FROM SHALL BE EQUAL! Make life fair for all.
I also want to add: Sadanand Dhume is NOBODY to talk about India’s partition, he is a Marathi, his family never had to relocate. He doesn’t get to weaponise our pain and trauma. It’s Bengal & Punjab that got broken into pieces. Nobody who has ever been displaced will advocate for it and use it to justify another population’s displacement. He is a typical Indian-origin opportunist who uses white ignorance and racism to his advantage.
Everybody that uses hate mongering of anybody is an opportunist. Among them I count the rethuglican party and the far-right "influencers" too! People are just PEOPLE stop treating others as you would never wanted to be treated yourself!
Notice the way Dhume phrases things. If you’re trying to get away with a crime, it’s better to say ‘I am innocent’ than ‘I am not guilty’, because if you say the latter, people are still hearing the words ‘I’ ‘am’ and ‘guilty’. So when Dhume writes sth like ‘Mamdani is not going to impose Sharia law’ people are still reading and unconsciously absorbing the words ‘Mamdani’ and ‘Sharia law’ or ‘Mamdani is (not) going to impose Sharia law’.
Who gives a damn what he says. In your heart of hearts you KNOW what's right and what's wrong. Stop letting others define you! Then we can all live in peace!
Qasim, thank you so much for taking the time and energy with your words to debunk the dangerous phrasing Dhume uses in his op-ed. It's especially dangerous because as you said, he doesn't define what an Islamist is, and many throughout the political spectrum (especially to the right) conflate an Islamist and Muslim far too often. I've been guilty of this myself at times. I appreciate you!
Fantastic rebuttal. Is it okay if I share this with my college writing students along with the WSJ original editorial? Your essay demonstrates how to do write a rebuttal.
After seeing Zohran posted at the Liberation March (NOT corporate pride) waving a trans pride flag, I knew this was going to be a wild show of Islamophobia from every direction. As an Arab American, I feel this “Schrödinger’s Islamist” bit is such a hallmark of the West that it just makes Zohran *more* American.
I hope his involvement gets more people in our age bracket involved in local politics. I have faith in the people to topple the empire and bring real community and change. May we have many more Zohrans in this next election cycle!!
I'm intimately familiar with Brandolini's law. I just didn't know what to call it. It's ironic that they seem to be holding the Epstein goods over Trump.
"the perpetual bombing of Palestinians helps ignite extremists groups" It seems no one ever GETS that truth. The US government meddling in South America (the Commies are coming!!) and the "invasion" of immigrants across the Southern border--there's a connection there, get it! 9/11 and US government meddling in the Middle East--there's a connection there, get it! The trouble is, governments do the meddling, and innocent citizens pay the price. In the case of Gaza, I can hardly listen to it anymore, what the brave doctors are telling us (is enough to make ME become an extremist).
Thank you for this wonderful article. All of the articles.
It’s particularly rich for the people currently throwing fits about immigrants to holler about “Jews living on formerly Muslim land.”
The United States of Utter Hypocrisy.
Their misdirection, strawman arguments, and hypocrisy is off the charts.
Thank you Qasim for pointing out that genocide is still genocide regardless of when or where it happens! Why does the white race think it's okay for non whites to die, for the crime of simply existing? This is a purely racist issue. Ask Trump! If he had his way he wouldn't bother with concentration camps, he would simply order ICE to shoot anybody that's tan is permanent! When Hitler did it, it was considered a race war. Now we are supposed to allow Israel to do it? Why? Because it's "anti-semitic" if we don't? Trump likens white South Africans to a race war! Why, because they are WHITE. He forgets, conveniently, that they killed, maimed and raped the population to become their "superiors!" The double standard we practice in the world has to stop! I'm white btw unless somebody wants to nitpick.
I am promoting my campaign to be the new president and treasurer of all nonprofits, and then we are all going to stand up together and invoke the Declaration of Independence. We are taking back our consent to be governed by this corrupt government. Google me, Sassy Grace Woodruff, Nancy K Woodruff, Nancy k Sack.
Nonprofits are not owned by their creators. They are owned by the entire public as they are public corporations. When a nonprofit is breaking its bylaws, and they all are, then anyone of the public can call a vote for new leadership of any nonprofit. I am asking for all of them. I can hold two offices, president and treasurer, so that I have control of the money and can spend it as I please. If you see somebody who is hungry and you have the means to feed them and you don't do it your faith is dead. A nonprofit is only for humanitarian reasons and if they have any money in the bank and someone is hungry, they must feed them or they are breaking their bylaws.
Nonprofit means no money in the bank if someone is in need. A true nonprofit is capable of spending all the incoming money, so that it circles around and comes back. The Bible says every seven years the church must declare jubilee, which means no one owes debt anymore except for their property, and every third seven years which is 21 years they are debt-free including all property. I have never heard of a Jubilee ever taking place but that's what I plan to do when everyone chooses me to be the new president and treasurer of all those trillions and trillions of dollars.
Familiar nonprofits are Bill Gates's foundation, Warren Buffett's foundation, World Vision, Feed the Children, Red Cross, the Catholic Church, the Baptist Church, the Pentecostal church, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, Islam's nonprofits, Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Clubs, Feeding America, United Way, UNICEF, American Heart Association, Goodwill, Rockefeller foundation, and so many more!
Once we are taking care of ourselves, there is absolutely nothing the government can do when we take back our consent to be governed, because that's what the Declaration of Independence tells us to do.
When, in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station, to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created, equal that they are endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the CONSENT of the governed.
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter, or to abolish it, and institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall see most likely to affect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown that mankind are more DISPOSED to SUFFER, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future Security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of the people of the United States, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of Government. The history of the US Presidents is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct objection the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the United States. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world.
The presidents have refused their assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
TIME TO ADD YOUR GRIEVANCES TO THE LIST THAT IS WAY LONGER THAN THEY HAD AGAINST THE KING OF ENGLAND. WE SHALL FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT WHERE ALL MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN, REGARDLESS OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN, OR WHERE THEY CAME FROM SHALL BE EQUAL! Make life fair for all.
I also want to add: Sadanand Dhume is NOBODY to talk about India’s partition, he is a Marathi, his family never had to relocate. He doesn’t get to weaponise our pain and trauma. It’s Bengal & Punjab that got broken into pieces. Nobody who has ever been displaced will advocate for it and use it to justify another population’s displacement. He is a typical Indian-origin opportunist who uses white ignorance and racism to his advantage.
Everybody that uses hate mongering of anybody is an opportunist. Among them I count the rethuglican party and the far-right "influencers" too! People are just PEOPLE stop treating others as you would never wanted to be treated yourself!
Notice the way Dhume phrases things. If you’re trying to get away with a crime, it’s better to say ‘I am innocent’ than ‘I am not guilty’, because if you say the latter, people are still hearing the words ‘I’ ‘am’ and ‘guilty’. So when Dhume writes sth like ‘Mamdani is not going to impose Sharia law’ people are still reading and unconsciously absorbing the words ‘Mamdani’ and ‘Sharia law’ or ‘Mamdani is (not) going to impose Sharia law’.
Yes, well said. He's very deliberate in his fear mongering.
Who gives a damn what he says. In your heart of hearts you KNOW what's right and what's wrong. Stop letting others define you! Then we can all live in peace!
Wow...Dhume is a damned fool. A fool who has no problem stirring up hate with over-the-top lies.
I hope Mamdani wins the NYC race for mayor - maybe Dhume will have a hissy fit and split in half like Rumpelstiltskin.
This is why I love #TacoDon and WSJ prospects at mutual destruction. There is no winners in that lawsuit.
Great takedown of an absurd hit piece. The keyboard equivalent of a mic drop. Liked and restacked. Thanks Qasim!
Thank you, Douglas!
Qasim, thank you so much for taking the time and energy with your words to debunk the dangerous phrasing Dhume uses in his op-ed. It's especially dangerous because as you said, he doesn't define what an Islamist is, and many throughout the political spectrum (especially to the right) conflate an Islamist and Muslim far too often. I've been guilty of this myself at times. I appreciate you!
Amen! Your help is essential and I deeply appreciate your time, energy, and dedication.
Thank you Naveeda
The Wall Street Journal represents the Oligarchs who now control our former Democratic Republic.
They want to want to devide us so they can make even more money.
VOTE EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN OUT OF OFFICE!
Completely agree.
4600+ well written words. An excellent rebuttal and one that is impossible for honest people to discount or dismiss.
Thank you Johnathan.
Fantastic rebuttal. Is it okay if I share this with my college writing students along with the WSJ original editorial? Your essay demonstrates how to do write a rebuttal.
Of course! By all means! Please do.
After seeing Zohran posted at the Liberation March (NOT corporate pride) waving a trans pride flag, I knew this was going to be a wild show of Islamophobia from every direction. As an Arab American, I feel this “Schrödinger’s Islamist” bit is such a hallmark of the West that it just makes Zohran *more* American.
I hope his involvement gets more people in our age bracket involved in local politics. I have faith in the people to topple the empire and bring real community and change. May we have many more Zohrans in this next election cycle!!
Yep, it's just so disingenuous.
I'm intimately familiar with Brandolini's law. I just didn't know what to call it. It's ironic that they seem to be holding the Epstein goods over Trump.
"the perpetual bombing of Palestinians helps ignite extremists groups" It seems no one ever GETS that truth. The US government meddling in South America (the Commies are coming!!) and the "invasion" of immigrants across the Southern border--there's a connection there, get it! 9/11 and US government meddling in the Middle East--there's a connection there, get it! The trouble is, governments do the meddling, and innocent citizens pay the price. In the case of Gaza, I can hardly listen to it anymore, what the brave doctors are telling us (is enough to make ME become an extremist).
Thank you for this wonderful article. All of the articles.
Thank you Celeste ❤️✊🏽
When you said Dhume wrote “enough bs to fill an Olympic stadium”, you weren’t kidding! Woo!
Yeah it was nauseating reading through his OpEd