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Charly Boy is back with his weekly insightful articles.
In this week’s write-up, Charly Boy speaks about the man of the moment Republican candidate front runner Donald Trump and his recent Anti-Muslim statement.
Donald
Trump on Monday, December 7, 2015 called for a ban on Muslims entering
the United States, a statement which shook the world.
Charly Boy on a bike in front of his Abuja home (Ladun Liadi)
Responding to the
controversial statement, Charly Boy writes that Donald Trump merely
reflects the sentiments of anti-Muslim Americans.
You can read his article below;
"CNN,
and the social media has been agog with the latest Donald Trumps
declaration of banning Muslims from entering America. For the past few
days I have remained fixed on CNN watching how the American media has
become so bemused with Trumps soaring position at the polls, regardless
of his very wild and unpresidential statements. The fixation on a
candidate who trades yabis for substance has become awesome. There seem
to be this love hate relationship with the American media. Hummm!
America for show.
"On the 7th of December
2015 the front runner of the Republican Party, Donald Trump advocated
for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United
States"
"Since then Trump has been widely
and correctly criticized for this, accused of wanting to reproduce
discriminatory policies like those of prewar Europe, when Jews were
forcibly registered. But looking at the timeline of events since the
Paris attacks, and indeed in the months before them, it becomes clear
that Trump isn't actually the problem here. It has become obvious that
Trump is merely indulging a sentiment that was already widespread,
especially after the Paris/California shooting.
"The
fact that Trump has bluntly refused to stand down on his declaration
about Muslims which is getting widespread outrage shows how accustomed
Americans have become to out-in-the-open anti-Muslim prejudice in the
country. Can't say I blame them that much.
"America's
climate of anti-Muslim hatred and fear is on the high rise, a form of
bigotry known as Islamophobia, is rampaging out of control. And it has
very real and legitimately scary implications for the millions of
Americans who follow Islam.
"The day
after Trump's "I no send you" comments, a makeshift militia, wearing
military-style camo, some of them masked, showed up outside an Islamic
center in Irving, Texas, carrying assault rifles and announcing they had
come to stop the "Islamization of America." Where is all of this
heading to, one wonders. It's not that Trump is the cause of such strong
anti-Muslim hatred but rather that his comments widely believed and
legitimately popular among a slice of Americans is the leading edge of
an Islamophobic movement that may turn violent. It may no longer be
police shooting Inocent black, but average Americans hunting and killing
Muslims.
"The threat of violence often
has the same theatrical point as violence itself, to terrify and
intimidate, to inflict psychological suffering on the targeted group in
the form of fear and alienation, to force that targeted group to live a
little bit less in the open and more in the shadows.
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"So my
question is this, for how long will Donald Trump be allowed to fan this
Islamophobic messages which is definitely causing the GOPs sleepless
nights. Is he going to be the favoured candidate for the republicans. A
good meal for Hillary Clinton if you ask me. How can the excesses of
Trump be cut down. For months, Trump has defied the laws of political
correctness and gravity by maintaining his lead despite a never-ending
string of mis-yarns and controversies. I strongly doubt if his
improbable campaign can go the distance
"Yesoooo,
America may be down for the show. After all, slizzy shows like Jerry
Springer was a Hit. But It is time for Americans to restore their
political reputation by demonstrating the ability of the American
political process to deflate the bubble of a candidate so high on
self-importance and so low on policy-specifics. Donald is definitely in
for the show, the new Reality show. Maybe very soon, republicans will
have this to say. YOU ARE FIRED."
