MAGAs: Why won’t Muslims just assimilate to our country!?!

Muslims: [Get elected to office]

MAGAs: …Wait not like that

The ink has barely dried on Mamdani’s historic victory & already the coordinated Islamophobia machine is in overdrive. If you thought post-9/11 or the 2011 “Shariah law scare” were the peak of anti-Muslim hysteria, I regret to inform you, its about to get worse:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/warning-anti-muslim-hate-and-islamophobia

To Recap This Week in Corporate Media

@nytimes: New Yorkers, DO NOT rank Mamdani. Rank Whitney Tilson.

Result:
•Tilson got .8% of the vote.
•Mamdani is the overwhelming Democratic nominee.

@washingtonpost: Even though the people have spoken, and we have the benefit of hindsight, let us show you just how stupid and out of touch we are.

A reminder that it was never about following the law and being documented—it was always about banning non-white immigration, period.

Elon Musk, an white undocumented immigrant, can destroy the Govt & he's praised. A brown immigrant and US citizen can get elected to NYC Mayor & he's a danger. smh

The Democratic machine threw everything they had—billionaire endorsements, NYT op-eds, a deluge of corporate cash, and the full weight of washed-up politicians like Andrew Cuomo, Bill Clinton, and Michael Bloomberg—at Zohran Mamdani. And he still won. Big.

They can either learn from him and become the party for working people, or continue to suffer at 26% approval rating. Here's what Mamdani's win can mean for American politics:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/mamdani-wins-with-the-many-over-the

How can you defend Iran with stories like this of a woman 5 months pregnant, arrested on suspicion of a civil violation, forced to sleep in shackles on a dungeon floor with cockroaches, denied access to reproductive healthcare, & suffered a stillbirth, which she was forced to deliver in front of prison guards. Horrific.

WAIT. Did I say Iran? I meant this happened in Louisiana this week to Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, whose fiancee is a US citizen and she had no criminal record. #ThisIsAmerica

A reminder that while Netanyahu was bombing Iran, and while Trump was bombing Iran, not only did Iran never have a nuclear weapon, but the Israeli Govt is still committing genocide of Palestinians, taking Gaza by forced occupation (a war crime), and a new Harvard study shows per the Israeli military itself at least 377,000 Palestinians are dead or missing.

Continue to raise your voice. Do not be silent to this ongoing genocide perpetuated every day by war criminals. Silence is complicity.

If you still don't see the danger of SCOTUS letting Trump deny people due process of law & instead arbitrarily deport them to third countries without regard to their health, safety, or prison conditions in that third country—then you still don't understand why Hitler built camps in third countries.

On Episode 176 I interview Ana María Archila—NY Working Families Party Director—to discuss Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor. Mamdani was polling at just 1% three months ago, and now he is in a viable position to win—how did this happen?

(Remember to Rank Mamdani #1)
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-qasim-rashid-show-episode-176

Mahmoud Khalil peacefully protests genocide of Palestinians
•Trump: ANTISEMITISM—THROW HIM IN PRISON!

Rümeysa Öztürk writes OpEd condemning genocide of Palestinians
•Trump: ANTISEMITISM—THROW HER IN PRISON!

UF Law student & self-described Nazi Preston Damsky writes paper arguing US Constitution only applies to whites, & Jews should be “abolished”
•Trump: SILENCE
•Trump Judge John Badalamenti awards Damsky the Book prize AND highest class grade AND Florida Law school defends it as “free speech”

Meanwhile ,known champion of women's rights Bill Clinton has endorsed Andrew Cuomo, fellow known champion of women's rights.

/s

We live in the stupidest timeline.

Today in particular I’m just so glad Merrick Garland prioritized “norms” over the U.S. constitution, our republic, and any hope of saving our democracy. Otherwise we might have run the risk of a functioning government.

I hope Garland knows that—along with Mitch—cowardice will always be his legacy.

BREAKING: Trump has announced that moments ago the United States has attacked 3 nuclear sites in Iran, specifically Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.

The vile hypocrisy of this fascist to break the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 despite Iran’s compliance, and now to attack Iran without reason in 2025.

This is 2003 Iraq WMDs all over again and countless innocent people will pay the price for these absurd lies.

I'm no psychic but I'm willing to bet one reason the Democratic Party has a 26% approval rating is because while Establishment Dems remind everyone that Trump is a 27X credibly accused sexual abuser & thus unfit for office, they're lining up behind 13X credibly accused sexual abuser Andrew Cuomo for Mayor.

They seem unable to recognize their own hypocrisy, but voters do, and rightly find it inexcusable.

New data from CATO, a right leaning think tank, confirms that only 6.9% of the 204K immigrants ICE arrested are violent, 93% have no violent convictions, & 65% have no convictions, period.

Over the past year those violent crimes resulted in ~30 deaths, which I agree is 30 too many. Meanwhile, white US citizen men killed 8200 people.

Those who are silent on 8200 murders by white men but loud about 30 deaths by brown & Black men should stop pretending they actually care about violence or life.

As Trump attacks students who dare speak up for basic justice for Palestine, a student at the University of Florida Law School named Preston Damsky wrote a paper arguing that the Constitution only applies to white people & Jews and non-whites should be “abolished by any means necessary.”

A Trump-nominated judge named John L. Badalamenti who teaches the class gave Damsky the highest grade and awarded him the Book prize.

University of Florida Law School defended the decision as “free speech.”

A federal court has blocked Louisiana’s law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classrooms.

Louisiana ranks #46 in education. Maybe MAGAs should spend less time forcing religion into public schools and more time investing in actual education. Also, funny how when I offered to teach kids the Islamic call to prayer along with the 10 Commandments, MAGAs didn’t like the idea. I wonder why?🤔

FACT 1: DHS Sect Noem’s ICE cronies are wearing masks & concealing their identities while terrorizing Black & brown people—just like the Klan does.

FACT 2: Noem’s full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem, i.e. KLAN

In short, she’s literally the KLAN leader of a dangerous group of secret racists who terrorize Black and brown people. Can’t even make this up.😑

BREAKING: Federal judge orders Trump regime to release Pro-Palestinian pro-justice activist Mahmoud Khalil. Plain clothes ICE fascists arrested Khalil without a warrant, charge, or any due process. He has been in the custody of immigration agents since March 8 and missed the birth of his son.

The Trump regime wanted another 7 days to build the case against Khalil. The Judge denied that request.

Khalil is ordered to be released TODAY. A victory for free speech, justice, & the US Constitution✊🏽

A brief history of gun control in America:

NRA: We need unlimited firearms to stop tyrannical government

Black people: Sounds good, we are open carrying in California

NRA: Not so fast. We're banning firearms

[ICE raids California, targets Black and brown people with illegal arrests]

Black and brown people: Hey NRA, here's that tyrannical government you mentioned

NRA: Oh, we meant tyranny against white people. We're perfectly good with fascists targeting you

The End