This refers to the news report, “Muslim doctor shot while on his way to Houston mosque.” (July 4)
Just imagine, a doctor is going for morning prayers at a Houston mosque and is ambushed and shot at by some radical elements. Another American Muslim is attacked outside a Florida mosque, a day earlier.
If you pass it as some normal criminal acts, then there is some more shocking news in store: An Emirati is heckled and is insultingly wrestled to the ground by none other than the US security officials near a hotel in Ohio over terrorism fear.
The US that considered itself as world police admonishing others about dos and don’ts in a civilized world is today a pathetic shadow of its own sham world power status. The rise of Donald Trump only justifies for the underlying tension in the country that has been simmering on for long without a check.
Islamphobia is a new phenomenon, but a general culture of racism against blacks, promoting a gun culture and pampering of fringed groups like LGBT in the name of freedom, have always been there as a ready recipe for an upcoming violent society and which is indeed showing its real face now.
In pursuit of a utopian world order, the US has been ignoring the malaise in its own backyard and which is dangerous enough to eat into the vitals of a society that US always wanted to present as a 21st century model for the world to emulate. — Shahid Rahman, Dubai
US seized within
