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magnificent-nerd · 3 years ago

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Why Naqib in The Boys sucked

Image description: fictional character Naqib in Amazon Prime’s show The Boys.

(Is the fire in the background an excuse to use racist Yellow Filter to show how exotic he is? Hmm.)

I first posted this on my blog in Dec 2020, and since nothing in superhero media has changed for the better at this time (September 5th, 2021), I’m going to keep talking about it.

Because nobody else does. So, without further ado:

WHY NAQIB SUCKS.

I was a big fan of The Boys season 1; I love superheroes, I love deconstructing a genre. Sure, it has its problems, but overall I enjoyed season 1 and thought the show had potential.

(That’ll learn me for being hopeful!)

When season 1 ended with this big build up of mostly nameless brown and background characters as Muslim terrorists (deep sigh) we the audience are left thinking this one Muslim character (Naqib) whose superpower is to blow himself up repeatedly (insert another long deep sigh here) is going to be The Big Bad of season 2.

I had my misgivings about that direction. Firstly, as you can see from the image of Naqib, he is highly exoticised and is walking around bare chested with Arabic writing on his chest. He looks more like a generic western media depiction of a genie than he does a supervillain.

And yet he's the first prominent Muslim character in superhero media I've seen in YEARS.

(See my post about MENA and Muslim character good guys, including Joe played by Marwan Kenzari in The Old Guard, which is technically a comic book movie but it’s not what I’d call ‘caped and costumed’ superheroes so it’s more... superhero adjacent.)

I follow superhero content closely and as far as I'm aware the last time we saw any named Muslim characters in superhero movies WITH SPEAKING LINES was:

Instance 1) Iron Man 1 back in 2008 with The Ten Rings in Afghanistan, showing multiple Muslim characters as baddies/terrorists, but only two of them as a named character and with any meaningful lines to say. And despite one of them, Yinsen (actor Shaun Toub), being a good guy he still dies! Which is common in western media for Muslim and MENA characters.

Note: Fellow Iron Man 1 castmate, actor Sayed Badreya, makes an important point in this GQ article: "I die in Iron Man, I die in Executive Decision. I get shot by everyone. George Clooney kills me in Three Kings. Arnold blows me up in True Lies…" (x)

Instance 2) A more recent instalment in Batman V. Superman in 2016, with some unnamed 'General' character and mercenaries/terrorists in Nairomi, Africa, referred to only as "the desert" throughout the movie. All reference to the General's actual name are available in an extended/deleted scene only, so a very poor and vague depiction in the final cut.

Instance 3) The generic and badly written ‘bad guys’ in Wonder Woman 1984 (2020 movie), which was honestly such a racist depiction of Arabs and Muslims that many critics pointed out we hadn’t seen a depiction this terrible since 1994′s True Lies. (At least most critics were in agreement that WW84 movie was generally terrible, so there’s that.)

And that's it, those are the only major instances showing any Muslim actors or characters in a caped and costumed superhero movie.

Some other fleeting glimpses of Muslims onscreen:

Glimpse 1) I spotted a girl wearing a hijab among the nameless and unspeaking background characters of Peter Parker's class in Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). A first for Marvel movies, apparently.

Glimpse 2) Disney Plus show Falcon and Winter Soldier (2021) had two nameless Muslim characters walk by in a scene that’s supposed to be Tunisia (using Yellow Filter), and ‘thank’ the present American Air Force (eye-roll).

Glimpse 3) Netflix show Jupiter’s Legacy (2021) had a nameless Muslim sailor conversing with one of the main characters in a scene, with meaningful dialogue about racism. (WOW. Really good.) Bonus: no yellow filter. It’s a pity he’s a nameless background character because this brief instance is the least problematic MENA rep I’ve seen in ages, but it is very brief.

I just wrote about Glimpses 2 and 3, and how the Netflix show outdid Disney when it comes to these nameless walk-on Muslim characters.

This is pretty pathetic overall, these small crumbs, especially compared to better rep and probably the only instance of legit MENA superheroes in a ‘costumes and capes’ style superhero show, the Tarazi siblings on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.

Anyway, now I’ve listed what crumbs are available across the live action superhero genre, back to The Boys.

I was intrigued about how season 2 would handle Naqib and any characters relating to him, and what storyline they'd use.

Was I excited at the possibility of seeing Muslim supers onscreen? Damn straight I was. Did I mind that they were baddies? Well, yes and no. When you only ever get crumbs or no crumbs at all, you tend to get excited over one stale old crumb.

After the build up for season 2, I eagerly sat down to watch the first episode, only to have the first five minutes of episode 1 Trigon him.

Note: who's Trigon, you ask? Well if you didn't watch the DCEU's Titans show, Trigon was The Big Bad who was hyped up throughout season 1, introduced in the season 1 cliff-hanger episode as this big 'oh shit!' moment for the cast of heroes, only for him to fizzle out like a wet fart in the first episode of season 2 while the show pivots wildly in another direction.

Exactly what happened to Naqib in the first five minutes of The Boys season 2.

Erm, so, Naqib. Farewell, I guess? As a character you briefly appeared in 2 episodes, portrayed by a different actor in each (Krishan Dutt, and Samer Salem). It seems the writers used you as a plot device when they needed a cheap cliff-hanger for a direction that ultimately went nowhere.

Am I disappointed? Yeah, I am. Overall I thought season 2 of The Boys was weaker than season 1, but I'm not here to talk about the whole season: I want to talk about Naqib and this missed opportunity.

The Boys and its showrunners sell the show as being a satire of recent and well known superhero content, of all the big movies and TV shows. There's been a lot of patting themselves on the back for calling out overused tropes in superhero media (and sometimes they've done this satire well: see the LGBT marketing scene with Queen Maeve in season 2), but my issue with the show on their Muslim rep, or should I say lack thereof, is if your show has even less Muslim character rep than the content you're trying to parody, how is this a win for satire?

Naqib and that whole angle came across as a lazy, half-assed swing from the writer's room. Sure, perhaps a lot of the non-Muslim and non-MENA audience won't even notice, as we've been ignored by western media or made into nameless, generic, vacuous baddies for decades now. Non-Muslims and non-MENA just accept that we're always the baddies for no particular reason at all (which feeds into Islamophobia, by the way) and The Boys' writers could say they are simply satirising the tropes already present in media...

But, and this is a big but, the media that The Boys is satirising has already made a step toward better inclusion and representation: Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), Marvel comics' first Muslim superhero, is entering the MCU as a lead character in her own Disney Plus show, debuting in 2022.

Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan is also cited to appear in upcoming Captain Marvel sequel, The Marvels (2022), which will be a major movie.

The MCU has also cast a Muslim actor (Mahershala Ali) as the lead in a reboot of Blade. That's going to be big news when it starts filming.

So to the showrunners on The Boys, I say this: now you've done this small angle of 'all Muslim characters are terrorists, yuckity-yuck!' like we've seen in major superhero movies thus far, and you've brushed that aside in favor of focusing on other whiter villains, my question is will you come back to Muslim and MENA characters again? Or is that all you got?

Because if that was ALL, then the current score is Disney/MCU:02, Netflix:02, DCEU:02, and The Boys: a big ZERO as far as Muslim and MENA rep goes.

Originally posted on my blog, magnificently nerdy.

If you, like me, are always on the lookout for onscreen Muslim and MENA characters in superhero media, and have spotted any characters in superhero TV shows I haven’t watched yet, let me know about them!

Here is my post on good guys, featuring Old Guard’s Joe, and Blindspot’s Rich Dotcom.

Here’s my post about the Tarazi siblings on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow TV show.

And, if Marvels’ Eternals gets released on schedule for 2021, we will have a MENA actor portraying a supporting character. I just hope Marvel gives him a name.

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deargodsno · 3 years ago

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On the streets of American cities, Jews are being attacked simply for being Jewish. In my hometown of New York City—home to over 1 million Jews—a man named Joseph Borgen was set upon by a group who “punched, kicked and pepper-sprayed him while shouting antisemitic slurs.” One man was arrested and faces charges for having committed second-degree assault as a hate crime, along with first-degree gang assault. Surveillance video, along with video taken by a bystander, shows that man hitting Borgen—who seems to have been chosen because he was wearing a yarmulke on his head—repeatedly with a metal crutch.In South Florida, a Jewish family out walking suddenly faced a van full of men who hurled trash at them, screaming: “Free Palestine, f--- you Jew, die Jew. We’re going to rape your daughter. We’re going to rape your wife.”There was another attack in Los Angeles, where witnesses described dozens of men who went from waving Palestinian flags to throwing bottles at diners outside a restaurant, spewing antisemitic insults, and physically attacking them. The men “started running towards the tables and asking indiscriminately, ‘Who’s Jewish?'” These weren’t Cossacks roaming through the village looking for Jews to beat during a Czarist-era pogrom. This is the United States of America in 2021. During Jewish American Heritage Month, no less.

These attacks, along with other acts of violence, instances of harassment, and vandalism of synagogues have occurred all over the country since the recent violence in the Middle East in which 256 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed. According to the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitic hate crime reports in the U.S. almost doubled—rising from 127 to 222—in the two weeks after fighting began versus the prior two weeks. Most of the incidents appear to be connected to support for the plight of the Palestinians.

Although I’m focusing on hate crimes targeting Jewish Americans—a topic that deserves a post specifically devoted to it—it’s important to note both that American mosques and Muslim community centers have been vandalized during this period as well, and that multiple prominent Muslim American leaders have condemned antisemitic violence. Likewise, American Jewish leaders have denounced these recent Islamophobic crimes. Thankfully, I found no reports from Muslim groups or other media mentions of hate-based physical attacks on Muslim or Arab/Palestinian individuals relating to this issue.

.....But seriously, the Biden White House has taken a number of other steps beyond just words, including meeting with leaders of Jewish organizations, having the Department of Homeland Security issue a specific warning to law enforcement to be on the lookout for antisemitic incidents, putting together a coordinated effort across the federal government to fight this violent hate, and preparing to nominate a State Department Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Leading Jewish officials expressed strong satisfaction with Biden’s overall response.

At the same time, we have seen unequivocally antisemitic statements coming from members of Congress—just not the ones cited above. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene—who has previously engaged in wild antisemitic conspiracy theories about “Jewish space lasers” causing wildfires in California—directly equated to the Holocaust a mandate that House members wear a mask:

One would think it would be unnecessary to explain this, but no, sending six million Jews to their deaths in a frighteningly close-to-successful attempt to annihilate every Jew on Earth is not the same thing as asking people to put a mask on their face in order to keep their colleagues safe from a deadly disease during a motherfucking pandemic. Only 19 states require public schools to teach about the Holocaust. Is it a surprise that Greene’s Georgia isn’t one of them? Neither is neighboring Tennessee, where the owner of a Nashville hat store—perhaps inspired by Greene—started selling yellow badges in the shape of a Jewish star with the words “NOT VACCINATED.”

#antisemitism #jews

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creepingsharia · 4 years ago

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Congresswoman Dingell (D-MI) urges Facebook to pro-actively eradicate ‘100% of anti-Muslim content before it is even seen'

In other words, the pro-active enforcement of Islamic sharia law.

Facebook already bans the majority of content that exposes jihad and sharia and FB recently hired a member of the Muslim Brotherhood to its oversight board.

Congresswoman Dingell to Facebook: Eradicate Anti-Muslim Content On Your Platform

WASHINGTON, D.C. December 15, 2020 – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) today urged immediate action from Facebook to eradicate anti-Muslim bigotry from the platform and demanded Mark Zuckerberg implement six measures to combat bigoted content. In a letter signed by 29 colleagues, Dingell cited instances of anti-Muslim content on Facebook and recent reports showing the role of the platform in inciting violence against the Muslim community.

In her letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Dingell asked for Facebook to implement the following measures:

Form a working group comprised of senior staff focused on anti-Muslim bigotry issues and responsible for coordinating work within the company to address hate groups, tropes, bigoted content, and anti-discrimination training.

Enforce your hate content and hate group policies in a way that ensures militias and white supremacists cannot use your event and group pages to terrorize targeted communities.

Committing to an independent third-party review of the company’s role in enabling anti-Muslim violence, genocide and internment.

Strive towards and commit to a 100 percent proactive detection and removal of anti-Muslim content and all other forms of hate before it is even seen.

Commit to regular anti-discrimination training for your entire staff world-wide

Training key staff on civil rights issues and common words, phrases, tropes or visuals used by hate actors to dehumanize and demonize Muslims.

“We thank Congresswoman Dingell and her colleagues for holding Facebook accountable for the harm it has inflicted on American Muslims here and Muslims abroad,” said Scott Simpson, Public Advocacy Director of Muslim Advocates. “Just last week, we learned that not only did the Christchurch shooter use Facebook to livestream his slaughter, he also was a member of multiple anti-Muslim hate groups on the platform. Anti-Muslim hate has consequences and Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg must finally take action to stop it from proliferating on their platform.”

Dingell’s letter was signed by Debbie Dingell, Rashida Tlaib, André Carson. Carolyn B. Maloney, Ilhan Omar, Jahana Hayes, Max Rose, Barbara Lee, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Bobby L. Rush, Daniel T. Kildee, Jared Huffman, Kathy Castor, Gwen S. Moore, Lauren Underwood, Jan Schakowsky, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mark Pocan, Grace Meng, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Darren Soto, Donald S. Beyer Jr., James P. McGovern, Peter Welch, Jamie Raskin, Pramila Jayapal, Yvette D. Clarke, Raúl M. Grijalva, Earl Blumenauer, and Nydia M. Velázquez. Additionally, her letter has received the support of the following organizations: CODEPINK, Common Defense, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Networks Group, Jetpac, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Justice for Muslims Collective, MomsRising, National Iranian American Council, Peace Action, Progressive Democrats of America, Project South, ReThinking Foreign Policy, and National Network for Arab American Communities.

To read the full letter, please click here.

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Daniel Greenfield provides some context:

30 House Democrats go to war against the First Amendment

Considering the letter’s call for, "100 percent proactive detection and removal of anti-Muslim content", the safe assumption would be that they want to ban everything critical of Islam.

That's a disturbing attack on the First Amendment coming from 30 House members.

Democrats have repeatedly pressured Facebook and other social media companies to remove speech they politically disapprove of, whether by President Trump or other conservatives, eroding the thin line between private companies acting on their own initiative and government officials conspiring to violate the First Amendment by banning certain kinds of political speech.

After multiple hearings, legal proposals, and legislative threats, it’s no longer possible to view Facebook’s censorship of political speech as anything other than government censorship. When enough pressure by government officials has been applied to a company to censor certain kinds of speech, the company’s decision to censor speech becomes government censorship.

30 House members would now like Facebook to censor criticism of Islam and political protests against Islamic terrorism. One of the few examples of anti-Muslim content in the House letter was a political protest against the Islamic Society of North America’s 2019 conference.

That was the conference which included an appearance by two Democrat presidential candidates, Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro, whose forum was moderated by Salam Al-Marayati, the head of MPAC, who had defended Hamas and Hezbollah. Also participating in a round table at the conference was Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing, who has defended the Islamic mandate to kill gay people.

This is the sort of information that AOC, Omar, and 28 other House Democrats, want banned.

House Democrats trying to shut down protests targeting their own candidates is a blatant violation of the First Amendment which was meant to prevent exactly that kind of thing.

And the party of social justice wants to stop Americans from protesting against an Imam who says things like, ”Brothers and sisters, you know what the punishment is, if a man is found with another man? The Prophet Mohammad said the one who does it and the one to whom it is done to, kill them both.” What happens when ‘anti-Muslim content’ meets anti-gay content?

The 30 House Democrats don’t want to talk about any of this which is why their letter doesn’t.

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And if that's not enough, there's an independent third-party review of Facebook’s compliance.

CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood groups would be brought in to define what “anti-Muslim content” is and then senior staff, approved of by CAIR and its allies, would set moderation policies to suppress “tropes” used by “hate actors” like Jihad, Sharia, Taqiyya, and terrorism.

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The more Democrat officials lay out the kind of censorship they would like internet platforms to perform, the more the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech becomes a dead letter. And this letter, signed by 30 House Democrats, is a new threat to our freedom of speech.

America does not have blasphemy laws. And politicians are not allowed to ban speech they don’t like. The letter to Facebook makes it more urgent than ever that our elected officials find ways to protect the marketplace of ideas from political censorship by Democrats and Facebook.

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Robert Spencer concludes:

Rep. Debbie Dingell Demands Facebook Remove Criticism of Islam

...Dingell and her henchmen are demanding that Facebook implement policies that will institutionalize and universalize such fascist hysteria. Even worse, the political climate is so rancid today that

Dingell will pay no political price either for her association with Hamas-linked CAIR or for her open opposition to the freedom of speech

. If she doesn’t know that Hamas-linked CAIR and its allies have for years been demonizing and stigmatizing honest discussion of the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism as “anti-Muslim,” and that her demands will also likely result in the silencing of such discussion, she should know it.

Dingell is actively aiding an endeavor to silence all criticism of Islam, which is all smeared in the same way, and enabling the tacit acceptance of Sharia blasphemy law, which forbids such criticism. She is, in short, the very definition of a useful idiot.

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Or a traitor failing to uphold her oath to the U.S. Constitution.

#Islam #Muslim #Sharia #Legal #Law #News #Media #Terror #1A #FreeSpeech #Politics #Religion #Immigration #Life

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thisiswhatwereupagainst · 4 years ago

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TW: FOR ANTI-KURDISH RACISM AND GENOCIDE I was curious if there was any Kurdish representation in Marvel, so I went looking on the Marvel wiki. This was the only character I found. I was honestly blown away by how heartlessly racist and offensive this is. The term “problematic” doesn’t even come close. Let me explain why. Kurdish people are an incredibly persecuted group in the Middle East, and have been the victims of MULTIPLE attempted genocides. Two of the most well-known instances is the Anfal genocide (1986-1989) and the Halabja Massacre (1988), which occurred in Iraq under the orders of President Saddam Hussein, who actively tried to exterminate or “Arabize” them. The Anfal genocide killed 50,000 to 182,000 Kurds using firing squads, aerial bombing, and chemical warfare. There were mass disappearance of tens of thousands of non-combatants, including large numbers of women and children, and sometimes entire villages. The Halajba attacks were done by dropping chemical bombs on Halabja's residential areas, and killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injured 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians, and has left a legacy of increased birth defects and cancer rates in the population since. It’s not just these two instances either, nor just in Iraq. Kurdish women are routinely captured and sold into sexual slavery. The words "Kurds", "Kurdistan", and "Kurdish" were officially banned by the Turkish government, banned the Kurdish language, and made Kurds take Turkish names.They are persecuted in Syria as well. Pretty much anything horrible that can happen to a people, has happened to the Kurds and is probably still happening to the Kurds. But, most people in the US don’t even know they exist. Speaking of the US, without getting into too much of a history lesson, the Kurdish people have also been consistent allies to the United States as much as such a scattered and powerless people can be. And the US has CONSISTENTLY ABANDONED AND BETRAYED THEM. So. Let’s break this down. Leyla (who does not even get a last name??) is a Kurdish woman who works for the Iraq regime. That’s about like having a Jewish person work willingly with Nazis. Like remember the outrage people had about the MCU Maximoffs working for Hydra? That’s what you should be feeling now. Even if it’s shown as done under duress, it’s...something you should really reconsider writing. And she didn’t do it under duress anyway, she specifically states that Saddam didn’t even know she was Kurdish and she didn’t care what he was doing, she just wanted the opportunity to work as a scientist, until it was HER husband and child who were killed, which is...I am not saying a person like that could not exist but do you really want that to be the first Kurdish rep in Marvel? Having her then become a terrorist that is attacking Baghdad (aka showing a Kurdish person as dangerous to Iraqi civilians instead of vice versa) and the United States forces (again, real Kurdish people have been allies to the US) and then needing to be taken out by a a white man from the US is just...it’s disgusting. And the fact he does it by BOMBING HER is just...it’s like if the hero beat a Native American character by giving them a smallpox-infected blanket, I cannot begin to wrap my head around how HORRIBLE this is. The fact that the “bomb” is just milk of magnesia to neutralize acid doesn’t really make it better---there’s no reason the writers had to specifically make it via bombing, what the fuck. On top of that, Tony Stark isn’t just a superhero at this point---he’s actually the Secretary of Defense, answering directly to President Bush. Yes, President Bush is in this comic. And on top of that, Leyla is naked this entire time, because she’s basically like fiery acid in the shape of a woman...and her nipples are depicted REALLY prominently in one panel. Like they’re very...there. Do I need to remind you guys about real-life Kurdish women being kidnapped and trafficked as sex slaves en masse? Maybe don’t hypersexualize a character who isn’t even shown as sexual? Especially when she’s a WOC from this background? It’s like they were determined to just do EVERYTHING they possibly could to be offensive. And the fact that Leyla is the first and thus far ONLY Kurdish character in Marvel, as far as I can find anyway, just makes this all the worst. Holy shit, and I thought how Haven/Radha Dastoor was done as the first Indian character was horrible. This is just...it’s really off the charts, and it’s not something done ages ago, this is from 2004. We fucking had Google then, and I can actually tell they did do research, given how Saddam’s persecution of the Kurds is part of her backstory, how her parents specifically died in Halajba, etc. So they weren’t even ignorant, they KNEW about the Kurdish history and persecution and STILL THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA. And by “they” I specifically mean John Jackson Miller and Phillip Tan, if you’re looking who at is to blame. I just...I’m really wowed by this, and I felt it needed to be put out there for the egregious racism it is.

#iron man #tony stark #marvel #racism #kurds #kurdish #meta #leyla #vitriol #ishtar

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bountyofbeads · 5 years ago

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Trump's harsh words on 'squad' reinforce dark posts online

https://apnews.com/e43cf06befa24408b5a500626f2550d9

"Racist, inflammatory and inaccurate content has circulated on far right blogs, news sites and social media accounts about Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and her three freshman colleagues since they ran for public office. With his tweets and harsh comments, Trump has elevated that rhetoric, playing into a conspiratorial feedback loop that reared its head repeatedly during his campaign and presidency.*

Trump's harsh(bigoted, xenophobic fascist) words on 'squad' reinforce dark posts online

By JILL COLVIN and AMANDA Seitz | Published July 19, 2019 9: 25 PM ET |

WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before President Donald Trump turned up the heat on four Democratic congress- women of color, saying they should "go back" to their home countries, hateful rhetoric and disinformation about the self-described squad was lurking online.

Racist, inflammatory and inaccurate content has circulated on far right blogs, news sites and social media accounts about Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and her three freshman colleagues since they ran for public office. With his tweets and harsh comments, Trump has elevated that rhetoric, playing into a conspiratorial feedback loop that reared its head repeatedly during his campaign and presidency.

Trump rose to conservative prominence by falsely claiming former President Barack Obama, the first black president, wasn't born in the country. Since then, he has promoted claims and memes that originated in the darkest corners of the internet while fueling new ones of his own.

His latest targets are Omar and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.

In his Sunday tweets , Trump claimed, without identifying the women by name, that the minority legislators "originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe." He suggested they should "go back" to those "totally broken and crime infested places," even though three of the four were born in the U.S. and all are U.S. citizens. He has since questioned the women's allegiance to their country, accusing them of hating America and promoting terrorism while suggesting they should leave America if they're unhappy here.

For some, the Republican president's tweets were shocking. But for others, they were just an average day on Facebook or Twitter, where allegations that Omar was not legitimately elected, is not a U.S. citizen and committed immigration fraud have festered in far right chatrooms, blogs and social media sites since she was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2016.

"This is the agenda of white nationalists, whether it is happening in chat rooms or it's happening on national TV," Omar said this week. "And now it's reached the White House garden."

Omar was born in Somalia and immigrated to the U.S. as a refugee in 1995 when she was a child. She became a U.S. citizen in 2000 at age 17.

The rumors about her have been spread by dozens of conservative social media figures and bloggers, including Michelle Malkin and Laura Loomer, the latter now banned from Facebook. In February, self-described far right social media influencers Jacob Wohl and Loomer flew to Minneapolis, where they provided live updates on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook of their trip to "investigate" Omar's past and immigration status. Even seemingly everyday citizens have taken to social media to upload their own theories on Omar's background, with one Minnesota woman posting a video months ago on Facebook sharing "proof" Omar is not a U.S. citizen. The video has been watched more than 50,000 times.

Trump also repeated a contested claim, characterizing as "fact" that Omar had married her brother, before acknowledging that he really didn't know.

"Well, there's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother," Trump said this week in response to a question posed by a conservative news outlet. "I know nothing about it. I hear she was married to her brother. You're asking me a question about it. I don't know, but I'm sure that somebody will be looking at that."

Omar has described such allegations as "disgusting lies." She has declined to provide access to immigration records, birth certificates or other documents that could verify her family history.

Omar, the biggest target of online vitriol among the four legislators, has made comments that raise eyebrows, including a remark this spring in which she referenced the Sept. 11 attacks by saying that "some people did something." She was also criticizing for asking a judge in 2016 to show leniency toward a man accused of trying to join the Islamic State.

But other allegations have been provably false.

Before they took office, for instance, Omar and Tlaib, the first Muslim women elected to Congress , were dogged by false online allegations that they were so anti-American they did not intend to take the oath of office. Others tried to delegitimize Omar in memes that falsely claim Obama resettled 70,000 Somali refugees in Minnesota in an effort to ensure her election. In fact, the state received 6,320 Somali refugees during the Obama administration. A similar inaccurate claim was later floated online about Iraqi refugees in Tlaib's home state of Michigan.

Other comments by the women have been taken widely out of context. Around February, social media users and fringe sites began circulating an edited 2013 clip that they said showed Omar "laughing" at al-Qaida and admitting to taking a "terrorism" class.

The full context of the 28-minute interview, originally broadcast on a local Minneapolis TV station, shows she was talking about a U.S. college course and was making a point about how the Arabic language had been hijacked by extremist groups to mean something negative.

In the 2016 presidential election, Russians relied on a similar online playbook, deploying anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in an effort to boost Trump's prospects.

Racially divisive content was the biggest component of the Russian disinformation campaign, according to Ian Vanderwalker, counsel for the Democracy Program at the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice. One Facebook post linked to a Russian agent, for instance, featured a group of women walking in headdresses and asked: "What are they hiding?"

"A lot of it was fearmongering that was intended to mobilize right-leaning voters," Vanderwalker said. "Some of it was similar to or echoed themes in Trump's own campaign."

He predicted Russians would revive racially fraught social media content in 2020.

Negative sentiment about the four congresswomen has migrated into more mainstream outlets recently. Last week, just days before Trump's incendiary tweets, Fox News host Tucker Carlson described Omar on his show as having "undisguised contempt for the United States."

The president's comments, in turn, appear to have inspired even more negative online rhetoric, including a new batch of Facebook and Twitter posts that describe Omar as a "terrorist." Memes also have emerged calling the women "anti-American" and "enemies within." One mock movie poster labels the women "The Jihad Squad" and includes the tagline: "Political Jihad is their game."

The attacks are part of a pattern for Trump, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of a recent book about how Russian hackers and trolls influenced Trump's election. She pointed to Trump's birther claims against Obama, which she said suggested "he doesn't belong here, he belongs somewhere else," as well as Trump's unfounded claims in 2016 that Hillary Clinton and Obama were co-founders of the Islamic State group.

Chants at the president's rallies — such as "Lock her up!" in reference to Clinton or the newly minted "Send her back!" refrain for Omar — emerge because Trump has cast the women as enemies of the nation, Jamieson said.

The result, she said, is to discredit "the loyalty, patriotism and ability to act on behalf of the U.S. of an elected official."

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nadiasindi · 2 years ago

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The most Criminal Official of Oregon late A.G. Dave Frohnmayer had deleted and removed all the record from Lane County that shows I'd changed my name to Nadia Sindi then he lift my old name Faika M. Sindi and changed the first letter of my name made it Saika Findi!! and trapped me with a Criminal record since 1987!!

It had happened when late A.G. Frohnmayer was Oregon A.G.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/University+president+faces+ethics+complaint.-a0153374882?fbclid=IwAR1lSXHpNvxvFW0TxkLDBhjELusnbonQkvyk8I3L7Ovt2UnNodwONa0nD2o Late Oregon A.G. Dave Frohnmayer and Both D.A. Doug Harcleroad, Alex Gardner with the Lane County Sheriff, trapped me in a criminal record since 1987. They have changed first letter in my first name to "S" So I couldn't expunged it!!

My life with Liberal Klans in Oregon!

Arab/Muslim Americans are treated less than animals! We are called Sand N…

We are being prosecuted in a daily basis! High tech lynching, institutionally racism! Especially for Arab women!!

Oregon late A.G. Dave Frohnmayer had my SS# blocked & prevented me from getting employed, made me homeless and jobless!

Dave Frohnmayer was the one who started & initiated the fraud of Foreclosed-houses & taking over our homes!

His bank robber Rep.Bob Ackerman, Doug McCool, UO Prof. Margaret Hallock. Hired Scarlet Lee/Barnhart Associates. Forged my family’s signature. Gave our fully paid Condo to the thief Broker Bob Ogle, his mom Karen Ogle was working in the USA Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She administered the power of attorney to have my sister signature, added her son to the deed. Sold without my signature!

Bob Ackerman had never responded to the Summon from the Court, and the sheriff never served me or arrested him either!! ThIs is what kind of criminal government we have in Oregon!!

Arrest Rep. Bob Ackerman, Doug McCool, Broker Bob Ogle, his mom Karen Ogle, Scarlet Lee/Barnhart Associates, UO Prof. Margaret Hallock, Wells Fargo

Both D.A. Doug Harcleroad, Alex Gardner told me they have NO JURISDICTION on Frohnmayer! Oregon criminal Officials are complicit with these crimes against me!

Both EPD, Lane County Sheriff Dept. and the FBI had been told to step down from investigating the bank robber Rep. Bob Ackerman & the rest of Lane County Criminal Officials are complicit with him!!

I ran five times for public offices! Voter Fraud & Sedition by Lane County government to protect & cover up for the two criminals Frohnmayer & Ackerman!!

Oregon government is complicit with their crimes!!

Please sign petition.

Dave Frohnmayer was going to kill me by sending some fabricated story after he called the manager where I used to live to tell her he was waiting for him to pick him up from the Airport! Then Frohnmayer sent me a team of Doctors for Mental health to Evaluate me!

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American Muslims are available in varying backgrounds, as specialists and cabbies; legal advisors and paper merchants; bookkeepers, homemakers, scholastics, media characters, competitors and performers. Albeit American Muslims make up around one percent of the U.S. populace, most Americans can name a few acclaimed American Muslims. Names like Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Mos Def, Fareed Zakaria, Shaquille O'Neal, Lupe Fiasco,

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Very first corona-virus fatality recorded outside China, as toll passes 300

Beijing: China's death toll from a new coronavirus boosted to 304 on Sunday amid warnings from the Globe Wellness Organisation that nations need to be prepared in case the illness spreads among their populations. The warning came as the Philippines reported the first death from the virus outside China. The individual, a 44-year-old Chinese guy, died on Saturday after being confined given that January 25, Health And Wellness Secretary Francisco Duque claimed. The man is the friend of the first case of the virus in the Philippines, a 38-year-old Chinese lady. " Throughout the individual's admission, he developed severe pneumonia," Duque informed a press conference. " In his last few days, the patient was secure and showed indicators of improvement, however, the condition of the individual worn away within his last 24-hour leading to his demise," he added. The couple, both from Wuhan, China, got here in the Philippines from Hong Kong on January 21. They are the only validated instances in the Philippines until now. Meanwhile, 6 authorities in the city of Huanggang, neighbouring the epicentre of Wuhan in Hubei district, have actually been discharged over "inadequate efficiency" in handling the outbreak, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It pointed out the mayor as saying the city's "capabilities to treat the people stayed inadequate and also there is a serious lack in medical products such as protective fits as well as clinical masks." Numbers from the National Health and wellness Compensation showed an increase of 45 in the casualty as well as more than 2500 in the number of situations for an overall of 14,550, well over the number of those infected in the 2002-03 break out of SARS-- severe intense respiratory system disorder-- which broke out in southern China before spreading out worldwide. In spite of imposing extreme traveling restrictions in your home, China has chafed at those enforced by international governments, criticising Washington's order disallowing access to a lot of non-citizens who went to China in the past two weeks. Australian Head Of State Scott Morrison revealed comparable measures Saturday, following Japan and Singapore. New Zealand also introduced on Sunday it will certainly disallow entry into the country from all international nationals arriving from mainland China due to the enhancing danger. The ban holds from Monday and also the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as Profession additionally increased its traveling advice to New Zealanders for all of landmass China to "Do not take a trip", the highest level. South Korea also introduced it will bar access by foreigners who have seen Hubei Province. Together with India it flew numerous their citizens out of Wuhan, the city at the centre of an area where some 50 million individuals are avoided from leaving in a sweeping anti-virus effort. The evacuees entered into a two-week quarantine. Indonesia and also Saudi Arabia also left people. The virus' quick spread in two months motivated the World Health and wellness Organisation on Thursday to declare it a global emergency situation. That statement "flipped the button" from a mindful attitude to advising federal governments prepare for the possibility the virus could spread out, said the WHO rep in Beijing, Gauden Galea. The majority of situations reported up until now have actually been people that saw China or their member of the family. The company acted out of worry for poorer countries that might not be outfitted to respond, stated Galea. Such a declaration asks for a co-ordinated international reaction and can bring even more money and also sources. WHO stated it was particularly worried that some instances abroad involved human-to- human transmission. "Countries need to prepare yourself for possible importation in order to recognize cases as early as feasible and in order to await a residential break out control, if that occurs," Galea informed The Associated Press. The USA proclaimed a public health emergency situation on Friday and also Head of state Donald Trump authorized an order disallowing entry to international nationals who checked out China within the last 2 week, which scientists state is the infection' longest incubation duration. The constraints do not put on instant household of American residents as well as irreversible residents. China criticised the US controls and "hostile comments" affirming that Beijing was stopping working to comply. "Equally as the WHO advised versus travel constraints, the US hurried to go in vice versa. Certainly not a motion of goodwill," claimed foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying. Australia, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, the USA and Vietnam all reported brand-new instances Saturday. Spain verified its first case - a German man that had close contact with a contaminated person in Germany and after that took a trip to the Canary Islands with friends. Four friends that were hospitalised with him have actually disappointed signs and symptoms. Both the brand-new virus and also SARS are from the coronavirus family members, which additionally consists of those that create the common cold. The death rate in China is dropping, but the variety of validated cases will maintain expanding since thousands of specimens from suspected cases have yet to be tested, WHO's Galea stated. "The case fatality proportion is resolving out at a much reduced degree than we were reporting three, currently four, weeks back," he stated. Although scientists expect to see minimal transmission of the infection in between individuals with household or other close call, they are worried about situations of infection spreading to individuals that may have less exposure. The United States Protection Department said on Saturday it has actually consented to house as much as 1000 individuals who might need to be quarantined upon arrival from overseas travel due to the coronavirus and that two of the 4 centers chosen remain in California. President Trump as well as Canadian Head Of State Justin Trudeau likewise reviewed their countries' initiatives to monitor, include, and minimize the rapidly spreading out new coronavirus in a telephone call on Friday, the White House said. Read the full article

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Need for Speed Heat Update 1.5

Need for Speed Heat was Released on November 8, on PS4, XBox One, and PC. Pre-Order it: Here

Quality of Life improvements

Holiday Vanity Items

It is the time of the year, the holiday season is approaching quickly. To help you decorate your cars in preparation for the festive time, we added some vanity items that you can purchase in the garage. You can pick up two horn sounds and two underglows, one each themed for Christmas for New Year’s, so you can drive around Palm City in seasonal style.

Quick Routing

You mentioned you wanted to spend less time reading the map and more time driving. Not only did we overhaul the look of the in-game phone app for better readability. We also implemented a quick routing option that you can access from the phone menu. This way, you can navigate to the nearest safe house or gas station quicker and more comfortable - and focus on shaking the cops.

Speedwalls

We all agree that racing is fun, but racing with friends is even better. To make it easier to see who clocked the fastest time, we’re bringing Speedwalls to Sprint Races, Circuit Races, Off-road Races and Drift Trials. Check who’s on top of the leaderboard for a track, and fine tune your ride to take their crown.

Environment - Night race intros

This was something you said you were missing a lot, as it sets the mood for the night races. As mentioned in the previous update notes for 1.4, we were always planning on bringing the visual effects back. So we did. Fancy lights, smoke, cars, the whole package.

Polestar Hero Edition

Probably one of the most common questions after the release of Need for Speed Heat was about the Polestar that’s on the game cover. “But… can I drive it again?” Joe was chased by Mercer and Shaw, the car was pushed off the bridge and it has been sitting on the bottom of the ocean since. Following this update, you can unlock the Polestar Hero Edition if you complete all the story missions: The main campaign as well as all driver stories. Just don’t drive it off a bridge again.

When you exit or enter a garage, the “Enter Garage” prompt won’t suppress other HUD elements anymore. Which means you will see the map and speedometer at the same time.

As you build your rep and explore the map, you unlock activities and collectibles. We tweaked the UI to make it clearer that these are locked until you reach a certain rep level.

When you’re customizing the performance parts of your car, you’ll now find a label informing you which part is currently equipped to that car / engine. It will also show how many of that specific part you own, and have a clearer call out when you’re buying a duplicate part.

Other

Some of you mentioned that you’re being busted while casually driving, albeit slow - so we reduced the maximum speed that you can be busted at.

We also made a small tweak to the cop spawn mechanics in online play. Your experience should not be affected, there might just be fewer cop cars in areas without players.

Bugfixes

Missions

When you’re returning to the garage after the first night out, the reward from the “Make a Name” mission should now be banked correctly.

You can no longer complete the daily challenge “Drift over 164 yd in a single drift” while Wayne is commandeering the vehicle during the “Let it Slide” mission.

You should no longer be able to unlock the “Warp Speed” achievement during “The Exchange” cinematic.

Added missing subtitles for Traditional Chinese during “The Exchange”.

Lucas will no longer be floating during the intro of “Breaking the Law”.

When you’re out on your first night in the game, you’ll find that the event text is now saying “Finish the event” and no longer “Finish 1st”.

In the first night mission, Ana’s marker should now be pinned to the minimap, making her easier to find if you lose her.

Events

Some events are marked with an exclamation point, which means they have different levels you can switch between: The base level (lower car rating recommendation) and the challenge level (higher car rating recommendation). Some events had a lower reward for the challenge level than for the base level, which is corrected by this update.

Event rewards should now reset to their original value after entering and exiting the garage.

You should no longer be able to start a Crew Time Trial while entering the garage at the same time.

When choosing “Retry” after finishing an event, the race outro should no longer play with a black screen and audio only.

It should no longer be possible for two players who are playing online to start the same solo event at the same time. It resulted in a lot of traffic and it was unclear which AI racer belonged to which race.

You should no longer be able to get stuck in an endless countdown loop when starting a drift event.

During the “Winx” and “Crazy Cowboy” races, the AI drivers will now make a specific jump instead of taking a detour.

You should no longer be able to drive your car into and become stuck in a barrier during the “Ceryneian Hind” drift trial.

The “Marlin” circuit race will now award the correct amount of Bank. It was actually paying a little more than intended.

The “Winx” High Heat event now will correctly award a volatile part.

When you receive a volatile part from a high heat event and get busted before you enter a safehouse, you will now lose that part.

Declining an event should no longer trigger the equipped active auxiliary item.

During races, the distance between AI racers and the player that’s shown on the leaderboard should update more frequently.

We clarified the daily challenge “Drive in oncoming traffic” by changing the objective text to “Stay in oncoming traffic”. This should underline that you have to stay in oncoming traffic continuously, until the challenge is completed.

When the Racer Challenges menu shows “Congratulations, you completed racer challenges!”, you are now no longer able to select new Racer Challenges, as it was intended.

The user ID of the player that last edited a crew information category is now displayed correctly in the menu.

The description for the “Dual Turbo Charger” will no longer overlap other UI elements.

The live tuning menu will now correctly display the time it takes the car to drive the ¼ mile in the correct measurement unit: seconds.

Opening the phone menu during events should no longer cause it to overlap the race standings, but make them disappear for as long as the phone menu is open.

The “route to event” option should now be available in the in-game phone app, even if you had set a route to that event before.

The message “Text contains profanity, please change to continue” should no longer randomly pop up while in the garage.

During night race intros, text that was previously cut off the screen when the display language was set to Arabic is now showing correctly. Race types should also no longer overlap race names during race intros.

During drift trial intros, text that was previously overlapping when the display language was set to Polish is now showing correctly.

There was a line of player subtitles missing, but we found it.

Cars / Garage

The player character’s feet should no longer be visible underneath the car when driving a Mercedes AMG A 45.

The front bumper of the Nissan GT-R 2017 should no longer disappear when adding a splitter while a Pandem or Rocket Bunny front fender and bumper are installed.

Stock brake discs should now be available for the Mustang starter car.

The 394hp 3.8l flat 6 engine now has the proper sound when swapped into specific Porsche models.

When the car is critically damaged, the hood of the Dodge Viper SRT should no longer block your view when using the bonnet camera.

Fixed an issue where switching between specific car parts of the Porsche 718 Cayman GTS resulted in the camera showing a different scene.

The paint menu UI will no longer overlap the menu when using certain screen aspect ratios.

The unlock criteria for the Nissan 370Z Nismo in the Dealership will now correctly state “Unlocked after collecting all Street Arts”.

The “Back” button should now work correctly in the “Community Wraps” section.

Visual

Added some decals that were available in the NFS Heat mobile app to the game.

One of the decals was missing the option to change its color, which has now been added.

Fixed some subtitles that were out of sync with the game audio.

Reduced pop-in of textures in several instances.

The helicopter that’s flying during the introduction race should no longer be shaking.

There was a tree in the Palm City Raceway district that had no collision and you could drive straight through it. We moved it to a different spot.

The dark boxes backing the subtitles now appear correctly for each line, some of them were a bit flashy before.

Performance

Improved several instances where you could encounter FPS drops during specific events and missions.

Improved performance when playing on PCs that barely meet the minimum requirements.

Fixed an issue that could cause a crash during the “Apollo 10” circuit race.

Several fixes for instances where the game was crashing.

Several fixes for instances where the game was hanging.

The game should no longer hang when removing the PS4 controller via the PlayStation menu while getting busted.

The game should no longer be stuttering during “Crew Level Up” notifications.

We improved the loading process of some time trials, so the intro sequence is now shown before the event starts.

Other

You should now encounter more cops when circling Palm City Raceway at night.

Several fixes for instances where item synchronisation would fail.

When sharing a wrap and then losing the internet connection, the game could become stuck on a loading screen, which shouldn’t happen anymore.

When reporting another player’s Custom Wrap or License Plate, you should no longer receive an “Unknown Error” message.

On rare occasions, the game could get stuck when promoting a crew member to the recruiter role. Fixed!

There was a rare chance that the game could get stuck after accepting a party invite while customizing a car with a large number of decals. This should no longer happen.

A car parked in a specific location would spawn under the map and fly several meters in the air before falling down to the ground again. We moved it to a safer area.

There’s an invisible spot on a bridge in Cape Castille you can crash into. We removed that. Although it was entertaining to park next to the bridge and see all the AI cars bump into it.

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Need for Speed Heat Update 1.5 Quality of Life, Performance & Visual Improvements, full patch notes

Ghost Games has announced that a brand new update for Need for Speed Heat will come out tomorrow. According to the release notes, Update 1.5 comes with a number of Quality of Live and User Interface improvements.

Moreover, it will feature a number of performance and visual improvements. For instance, it will improve several instances where you could encounter FPS drops during specific events and missions. It will also improve performance when playing on PCs that barely meet the minimum requirements.

The game will also be more stable than before. For example, this new patch will fix an issue that could cause a crash during the “Apollo 10” circuit race. It will also pack several fixes for instances where the game was crashing or hanging.

As always, Origin will download this latest update the moment it becomes available tomorrow. Below you can also find its complete changelog.

Need for Speed Heat Update 1.5 Release Notes

Quality of Life improvements?

Holiday Vanity Items

Quick Routing

Speedwalls

We all agree that racing is fun, but racing with friends is even better. To make it easier to see who in your crew clocked the fastest time, we are bringing Speedwalls to Sprint Races, Circuit Races and Off-road Races. For Drift Trials, you will be able to see which crew member racked up the highest score. Check who’s on top of the leaderboard for a specific track, and fine tune your ride to take their crown.?

Environment – Night race intros

This was something you said you were missing a lot, as it sets the mood for the night races. As mentioned in the previous update notes for 1.4, we were always planning on fixing this bug and bringing the visual effects back. So we did. Fancy lights, smoke, cars, the whole package.?

Polestar Hero Edition

Probably one of the most common questions after the release of Need for Speed Heat was about the Polestar that’s on the game cover. “But… can I drive it again?”. Joe was chased by Mercer and Shaw, the car was pushed off the bridge and it has been sitting on the bottom of the ocean since. Following this update, you can obtain the Polestar Hero Edition if you complete all the story missions: The main campaign as well as all driver stories. Just don’t drive it off a bridge again.?

When you exit or enter a garage, the “Enter Garage” prompt won’t suppress other HUD elements anymore. Which means you will see the map and speedometer as soon as you exit the garage.

As you build your rep and explore the map, you unlock activities and collectibles. We tweaked the UI to make it clearer that some of them are locked until you reach a certain Rep level.

Other

Some of you mentioned that you’re being busted while casually driving, albeit slowly – so we reduced the maximum speed that you can be busted at.

We also made a small tweak to the cop spawn mechanics in online play. Your experience should not be affected, there might just be fewer cop cars in areas without players.?

Bug Fixes