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Def Jam Records co-founder Russell Simmons will host a rally dubbed “I Am a Muslim Too” on Sunday in Times Square to protest President Donald Trump’s recent executive action on immigration.
Women’s March on Washington organizer Linda Sarsour and MuslimGirl founder Amani al-Khatahtbeh will speak at the event, along with Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and Imam Shamsi Ali of the Jamaica Muslim Center.
“Everyone except white privileged males are in immediate danger,” Simmons said in a statement. “African Americans, women, Latinos, Asians and LGBTQ are all at risk, but there is no freedom in that privileged status either because the spirit of the oppressor is oppressed as well.”
In a blog post on GlobalCitizen.org on Thursday, Simmons described Trump’s order as “morally, politically, economically, and ethically unconstitutional.”
“As a yogi, I feel and believe all Americans should feel personally threatened by Trump’s choices to target Muslims,” the 59-year-old rap mogul and entrepreneur said. “Targeting any one of us is in fact targeting all of us.”
No, but it's nice to see we're able to have a rally like that here in the US.
If you tried to do this in most middle eastern countries you'd likely wind up with a car bombing from a rival muslim group and suffice to say the jews wouldn't even be around.
But hey, we need more people with those views to move to the US I guess?
It would be funny if we just tested groups of refugees by having them in a "waiting room" with a TV on Al Jazeera, CNN etc. and run a fake story about something like another rampage in London or Paris perhaps a bombing of Tel Aviv etc. Let in the people that showed shock and put the ones that started cheering back on a boat.
Um also, I find his comments towards "white males" to be offensive and ironic coming from a guys whose religion widely treats women like its the 18th century.
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