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HOW MANY JPP PANTY-PISSERS THOUGHT THIS PHAKE PHOTO WAS REAL?
A picture of a man posing with a "Koran, wearing a suicide vest" went viral after some social media users claimed it was taken by one of the Islamic State terrorists that attacked Paris.
The only problem: It was a doctored shot of a young Canadian Sikh.
No matter how powerful or dangerous you may believe the Koran to be, it is similar to the Bible in that it can't take selfies.
But none of that mattered because the person who tweeted the Photoshopped image likely knew that ignorance of Muslims would result in jumping to conclusions.
Despite data showing that, since 9/11, white Americans have committed the largest number of ideology-based attacks in the U.S., the collective imagination of what a "terrorist" looks like is a "Muslim."
Because they don't know much, and don't seem to want to know much, about Islam — "Muslim" is often a code word for "brown."
This process has become a sad reality for brown people across America.
In September, a Sikh named Inderjit Singh Mukker was hospitalized after being beaten unconscious. His assailant called him "terrorist" and "Bin Laden" and told him to "go back to his country."
Mukker is a U.S. citizen who has been in the country for 27 years — longer than his assailant has been alive.
Last week, four people were removed from a plane when a woman reported "suspicious behavior" of one of the passengers. His crime?
He appeared to be of "Middle Eastern descent" and he was watching the news on his phone.
The same day, an Uber driver picked up a passenger from a bar in Charlotte, N.C. The passenger asked if his driver was Muslim, and then beat him and threatened to kill him.
It's not difficult to connect the dots.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-selfie-mistaken-terrorist-20151125-story.html