Does your skin crawl every time you hear Ann Coulter, William Bennett or some other radical-right wingnut savor the pleasure of saying “Barack HUSSEIN Obama”
Did you take pleasure in learning the famous story of World War II Denmark, when the Nazis ordered all the Jews to wear yellow stars–and the King of Denmark proudly pinned one on, as did many of his countryfolk?
Well, we’re not alone. Mark Hussein Gordon, of sonomacreative.com, has set up a Facebook group called Hussein is my name too! All you have to do is join, change your middle name in your profile, and remember to change it back after the election, and you can show solidarity both with Barack and with the Arab and Muslim communities by being Hussein for a couple of weeks.
I think this is brilliant. And I thank Robin Hussein Blum for drawing it to my attention.
Shel Hussein Horowitz
Thank you for such a timely and relevant posting. Let us not forget the bitter lessons of history.
The bitter lessons of history? Are you kidding me?
The bitter lessons of history would teach you that if you aren’t Muslim, you are in jeopardy in a Muslim nation. If you are a Christian or Jew, your danger increases.
http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Persecution_of_non-Muslims_in_Muslim_countries
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Jews_in_Arab_lands_(gen).html
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/country_info.php?PHPSESSID=62cf45dafba3c6c9928ed5d1dd42d134
Thanks for both of your comments.
The bitter lessons of history teach ME that driving a wedge between people of different religions is not a smart thing to do. We all need to work together to accept diversity and to oppose fundamentalist extremism of any religion.