ACLU Deputy Director: “I Emphatically Refuse” To Condemn Jihadist Terrorists “Just Because I’m Muslim”

An American Muslim representing the American Civil Liberties Union named Rana Elmir has recently taken to the Washington Post with her refusal to apologize for Muslim terrorism.

In her provocative article in Monday’s Washington Post, Elmir claims that she is often asked to condemn Islamic terrorism, to which she replies: “I emphatically refuse.”

She then goes on to compare the systematic slaughters wrought under the name of Islamic terrorism with “the terror advanced by mostly white men at the alarming rate of one mass killing every two weeks in this country.”

Elmir draws a parallel between the Islamic State and “Dylann Storm Roof’s attack on parishioners of a historic black church in South Carolina, Robert Dear’s attack on a Planned Parenthood facility, the murder of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School,” and “the slaughter of moviegoers in Colorado or Louisiana.”

“I will not be bullied into condemning terror perpetrated by psychopaths who misrepresent and distort Islam for their deranged purposes,” she wrote.

“Muslims across the globe are not threats. They are threatened,” she wrote.

As an example of the terror experienced by Muslims, Elmir recounts how “an American Muslim woman who wears hijab spoke to me of a paralyzing fear she feels every time she leaves the house.” Not exactly having your throat slit, but one can see her point. Sort of.

Elmir argues that Muslims “contribute to our own oppression by erroneously believing that if we just apologize, then the anti-Muslim rhetoric will end.”

“Condemnation,” she says, “becomes our admission of guilt.”

When a religion, and a people, are behind the attacks of hundreds of innocent people, the ideology is guilty by design. Condemnation doesn’t admit that guilt, it separates you from it. All Elmir is doing by refusing to condemn is implying support.

Source: Brietbart