A Christmas tale from the Washington Post… “Young U.S. Muslims are rising up against Israel in unlikely places”:
As she watched the conflict in Israel and Gaza unfold this fall, 17-year-old Asmmaa Zaitar finally had enough. She decided to organize a protest in support of the Palestinian cause in a very unlikely place — a courthouse in Huntsville, Ala.
Initially, Zaitar, a second-generation Palestinian American, was terrified that no one would show up. Zaitar knew it was a conservative town better known for divisive debates over Confederate monuments than for protests against a war overseas.
But as the rally began, dozens of fellow Muslims, including women wearing headscarves, trickled into the town square in late October carrying signs decrying Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip. Local media showed up, and Zaitar knew she had succeeded in connecting her city — and its growing Muslim population — to a conflict halfway around the globe.
… protests in support of the plight of Palestinians are springing up, showcasing the continued spread of the U.S. Muslim population into the country’s heartland. Children of refugees from Muslim nations organized many of the demonstrations, evidence of a political awakening among a new generation of young Americans who are helping to shape U.S. public opinion in support of a cease-fire in the Middle East.
How long has the Great Replacement not been happening?
The burst of activism — which Muslim scholars said would have been unthinkable just a decade or so ago — is rooted in the broad spread of Muslim families throughout the United States.
From the first major waves of migrants to the United States in the 1970s through the 1990s, Muslims tended to cluster in just a handful of states, including New York, California and Michigan.
Like many immigrant groups, over time some moved elsewhere in search of jobs and opportunities. More recently, many new refugees from Muslim-majority nations have settled directly into states in the South or Midwest in hopes of finding more affordable housing.
A 2017 analysis from Pew Research Center estimated that 3.45 million Americans are Muslim, three-quarters of whom are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Overall, the nation’s Muslim population is far younger than the overall U.S. population, with Pew finding 35 percent of Muslims were 18 to 29 that year, compared to 21 percent of the overall population.
Using data on religious institutions gathered by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, a Washington Post analysis found that 234 U.S. counties have seen an increase in the number of Muslim congregations since 2000, representing around 7 percent of counties nationwide. In 217 counties, mosque membership doubled between 2000 and 2020. And across the nation, the number of mosques has more than doubled since 2000, according to the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a research firm that studies Muslim communities.
Was it smart for Democrats to have passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, without which only Muslims with very high levels of education and earning power would have been admitted as immigrants?
Muslim voters overwhelmingly supported Biden, and helped the Democrat carry several states including Michigan and Virginia.
Ole Miss:
Sand N****!
So I take it Phil that you don’t buy the “magic soil” argument — that once an immigrant steps foot on the magic soil a thousand or more years of culture disappears?
reappears in 2nd generation. after extensive Democrat DEI brainwashing zombie machine cycle. 1st generation was just happy to be away fro thousand years of cultural lidership
USA is created on replacement theory. This was the basic principle in wiping off native Indians and the whole migration towards west.
As little as 40 years ago, when immigrant migrated to USA, legally, they did so to improve their lives and the lives of their children’s. To enjoy and *immerse* themselves into the American dream and the American way of life. Now days, thanks to “no human is illegal”, free shelter and food, and of course to DEI, the American way of life is disappearing bit-by-bit! America is no longer a melting-pot.
Point me to a service phone call, postal letter, hospital, big-box stores, government buildings, public buildings and even schools that don’t have a posting in multiple languages! We have to accept immigrants for who they are but yet immigrants will NOT accept the American way of life!
As for those Muslim protesters, once the current dust settled down with Hamas in Israel, will they protest against the leaders of their own and other Arab countries? There is far more unjust and killing committed by Arabs-against-Arabs in Arab countries.
My father told me that people went to America (from south-east Europe) to work, earn and save money, and than to come back. It was probably in times before and during WWI, maybe later (I do not know if immigration laws from 1920’s changed that). As a small child he heard people say: “You should not stay longer then few years in America, because you get accustomed to American way of living, you will start to spend to much money, and you will save nothing”.
It will be interesting to see how USA foreign policy will evolve as the Muslims gain more influence in the American political landscape. Eventually the Jewish lobby will have to compete with Arab lobby for influence. Will that threaten Israel existence, or bring an end to the war? Time will tell…
I don’t see Muslims getting much more influence. They are not well educated and are generally not that wealthy. Pro Israel lobbies don’t have much to fear about Muslims per se amd if public opinion changes about Israel, it will be despite of an increase in Muslim voters.
@Anon, “I don’t see Muslims getting much more influence.” Are you sure about that? They already disappointed the LGBTQ community [1].
The fact they reproduce fast and our immigration policy doesn’t discriminate against the able and unable, it’s just a matter of time that they will take over.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/16/hamtramck-michigan-pride-flag-ban/