My latest in PJ Media:
You know what you need? The New York Times knows. Your moral superiors at the Times know that what you need today is a harrowing tale of racism, oppression, “Islamophobia,” xenophobia, and all the rest of the things make for a true horror story as far as the Left is concerned. On Thursday, the New York Times gave you what you need: it featured a lengthy whine by Laila Lalami, 4,500 words long but entirely summed up by its title: “I’m a Muslim and Arab American. Will I Ever Be an Equal Citizen?”
Who is Laila Lalami? If you were one of the smart set, the real in-crowd, you would know already. But here’s the scoop for the great unwashed: Laila Lalami is a bestselling novelist. She has been nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. She was interviewed at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival. She has been featured on the cover of the prestigious Kirkus Reviews. Her novel The Moor’s Account won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
Lalami’s novel The Other Americans was a best-of-2019 selection from NPR, Time, and Kirkus, and a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Yet despite being rich with honors and praise, hailed and celebrated everywhere, Laila Lalami wants you to know that as a Muslim migrant, she is a victim, and a second-class citizen, and it’s your fault, you racist, redneck “Islamophobe.” Someone actually left her a note reading, “Go back home!,” and the note-writer might want to go back home himself if forced to read the rant Lalami contributed to the Times in response. She pours out 4,500 words in the New York Times about how this isn’t the first time Americans have said rude things to her. She says that these rude statements, as well as others that have been said to Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar, are apparently tantamount to a denial or revocation of the U.S. citizenship of these Muslims.
There is much more. Read the rest here.
Dude says
Not until you remove all the sedition from your “scriptures”, dude.
Until then no one can trust you.
Rob says
Ft Hood was shot up by one of your brethren. He too had numerous priviledges granted. You tell us why you are trustworthy?
Kalim Alaka says
According to the Koran, Mohammad said “I swallow the sword of Allah and drink his milk”………does this mean Laila Lalami seeks to emulate the prophet. peace be to him…….???
gravenimage says
I can’t find this verse in the Qur’an–citations?
Terry Gain says
Without citing the Surah how are most of us to know whether that is true? Here’s a plea for more effective communication. Help us know and spread the truth about Islam. Cite the Surah.
mortimer says
Kalim Alaka has made a facetious, scurrilous remark.
Rufolino says
Moslems are permanently discontented with society until they reach supreme power. Then they become discontented with each other.
gravenimage says
Oh…duh. I read Kalim Alaka’s post again and got it–sorry, I was slow on the uptake yesterday. 🙂
gravenimage says
Rob, Dude is no Muslim–he is an Anti-Jihadist. Read his post again.
Wellington says
Seconded.
william carr says
The acclaim she has received contradict her claim to be marginalised.
I wonder if she thinks about what her situation might be in the country she left to live in USA. The thing about Moose limbs is that you can never give them enough. like spoilt children they always cry for more
Giacomo Latta says
They are special and therefore very needy.
curious george says
This from a young woman from Cameroon, West Africa
I Love America Too Much to Stay Silent
https://www.prageru.com/video/i-love-america-too-much-to-stay-silent/
j c a reid says
Ditch the degenerate, perverted, Fascistic, misogynistic, paedophilic ideology that passes itself off as a “Religion”,, then you can be a US citizen.
gravenimage says
Award-Winning Author Asks in New York Times: ‘I’m a Muslim and Arab American. Will I Ever Be an Equal Citizen?’
………………..
She’s *already* an equal citizen–and lauded far more than most people are, rightly or wrongly. But like most fake-victim mongering Muslims, she has to keep whining.
What she *really* means is when will the “filthy Infidels” be forced to keep any concerns about the violent threat of Islam to themselves–if they know what’s good for them?
Ray Jarman says
+1
GI,
Another way to answer her, is she ready to accept the greatness of this nation and forgo the temptation and evilness found in her un-holy Qur’an.
gravenimage says
Agree, Ray.
Durodola says
Too bad. The great America has given too much, in fact, the cream of her dear heart to these unworthy strangers ,in the name of liberalisms to the extent America may no longer be able to rescind that terrible mistake and decision ever! Many Americans are just not showing any concerns about this evil around them, what I call an ‘I don’t care’ attitude. But, one day, you will begin to care too late, when American land of freedom, with the motto that most nations of the world envy, In God We Trust would have been completely overrun by Islam and its agents and collaborators.
Remember you cannot serve God and the Devil. No sitting on the fence either. No neutral ground. The rest of us who are Truth thirsty are waiting and watching. America, make your choice!
gravenimage says
Don’t write us off yet.
Terry Gain says
She is clearly an equal citizen under US law, But as a female she is clearly not an equal Muslim under Islamic law. So many accolades for such a stupid person.
I love irony.
FYI says
I love Irony too but muslims never,ever,seem to get Irony.
Or Logic.
{..islam is the religion of ‘peace’,muhammed is the ‘best example’ of a man,the koran is the ‘perfect’ book..really?}
She is NOT equal to a man under islamic law in an islamic country{koran 2:282} and here she is being privileged in the West availing of our hard won freedoms and yet bawling about inequality.She would not have such freedom in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.
She talks about equality:but her koran/god/cult does not see infidels as equal to muslims
{koran 3:110 muslims are “the BEST community”,koran 98:6 non-muslims are ‘the WORST of created beings’}
And WHY is she not wearing a hijab when allah insists muslimas wear one especially ‘when they go abroad'{koran 33:59}But she is free NOT to have to wear one in the West,a freedom that does not exist for women in iran.
What a two faced muslima hypocrite she is.
No surprise she writes for the NY times,that rag of fake news.
mortimer says
Terry Gain has given the correct answer, namely, that Laila Lalami “is clearly an equal citizen under US law”.
She is arrogantly and without evidence claiming victimhood! But, clearly again, Laila Lalami is conflating RESPECT from people with ‘equality’.
RESPECT IS EARNED, LADY! Not simply DEMANDED as you are arrogantly doing!
PRCS says
Correct!
gravenimage says
Great exchange.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Under the 14th Amendment, Laila Lalami enjoys the same rights as other U.S. citizens. This is an outrage. Under the coming Caliphate States of America, Muslims will have rights that are denied to kafirs. We will need to repeal the 14th Amendment. And while we’re at it, let’s also repeal the 13th Amendment, which is incompatible with sharia.
Robert Spencer asks, “Who is Laila Lalami?” In addition to her literary achievements, she is also a pop songwriter. Here is her most famous composition (notice at 1:25 how she is wearing the Islamic symbol the Rub-el-Hizb — look it up):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1bIxMYPlas
gravenimage says
Mark, are you sure this is the video you intended to post?
Also, Laila Lalami does not appear to be a songwriter or singer from what I can find.
TheOwlx3 says
Islam is the most intolerant and violent religion on earth. It is the cancer of this earth which will make this world like hell. All non-muslims should resist and fight back Islam and its Jihadis. Our survival is at stake. Wake up all non-muslims!
Jerome B Bigge says
Given the time that Islam has existed, the numbers of people killed by believers in Islam over the 14 centuries it has existed, it is quite possible that the total death toll. (allowing for population growth since the beginning of Islam) likely exceeds that of all deaths in the entire 20th Century by the wars of that century. And also the deaths caused by the dictators of this past century. A figure estimated to be in the hundred million range!
Boycott Turkey says
I’m a Christian will I ever be a equal citizen in a Islamic hellhole
tim gallagher says
Well said, Boycott Turkey. Nope, you’ll never be treated as an equal in a Muslim country. It annoys then hell out of me how Muslims, wherever they gain power, treat non-Muslims like crap, yet, like this Muslim woman in this report, always whinge about how they aren’t treated well enough in our non-Muslim countries. I refuse to give Islam, this barbaric load of crap of a religious ideology, any respect at all. Islam, with its rotten attitude towards non-Muslims, deserves no respect. The woman in this report, with her whingeing, whining victimhood attitude, demonstrates what I consider is the paranoia that most Muslims seem to have. Also, she demonstrates the chip on the shoulder that all Muslims seem to possess. Here in Australia where I live, the Muslims, as always, never stop whingeing and whining, whereas the Buddhists, Hindus, etc seem to think they are being treated OK, treated just like everybody else is treated. It’s always the Muslims that are whining endlessly. They don’t fit in anywhere.
Expat88 says
Well said, and yet despite all the complaints they endlessly keep coming to Western Christian countries. So it is all bogus, because if things were really so bad as they say, then they wouldn’t vote with their feet in that one-way direction, towards the culture they later cry crocodile tears about!
Boycott Turkey says
I agree I’m fed up to with there whinging and this hoax called islamophobia being shoved down our throats when I see our Ancient Byzantium churches Being destroyed everyday in Turkey and hearing About the Christians and Hindus being persecuted and they try to equate that to a cartoon of Muhammad and burning the satanic Koran as persecution but it’s us being persecuted as they trying to take our free speech away by playing the islamophobia hoax card
Durodola says
You seem not to know enough of them. Give them one, they grab ten! They always want more than the real owners. And like over-pampered babies, they cry over every unfulfilled request.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comments. Expat88, I think it’s an ongoing Muslim invasion, which Muslims have been continually carrying out for 1400 years, invading and destroying the far better cultures that were previously there. Boycott Turkey, you notice the neverending whingeing by Muslims as well. On the woman in this report. I just thought about how she is saying, will I ever be an equal citizen? But this is bullshit in my opinion, because supremacist Muslims are always seeking not to be equals to non-Muslims but rather to take over and impose their Islamic garbage on everyone. I’m sure she really wants to be in charge and impose Islam, like all Muslims do, not to be an equal.
Boycott Turkey says
True Tim once funny thing is they not treated 2nd class more like we are we are not given special privileges to protect Christianity we barely have any free speech now with there threats of islamophobia which is a oppression on Christians who want to talk about the racist Koran
Expat88 says
I agree with Tim and Boycott Turkey. Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately, we (in the Western world) have become our own worst enemy with all the self criticism and self loathing and political correctness that goes on. This only makes it easier for Muslims who immigrate to play the fake victim card and use this attitude against us. They have learned that lesson well. Until we collectively grow a spine and stand up to this nonsense, it isn’t going to change. They have 50+ Muslim countries to choose from where they would be happier since they feel so aggrieved here!
gravenimage says
Arab saying, “show a victim’s face and take over”.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comments. Yes, it just struck me, hang on, this is bullshit from this Muslim woman saying, oh, when will I be treated as an equal, blah blah. Such hypocrisy. Look at the rotten way Muslims treat non-Muslims in any country where they gain power. They never for a second think of treating non-Muslims as equals. My only answer is to keep Muslims out, they are nothing but trouble out of all proportion, when compared to other groups of people, such as Buddhists or Christians, etc. So I agree with you, Expat88, about the need to grow a spine, although I think it is mostly a matter of getting enough people in our societies to educate themselves a bit about islam’s vile content and wake the hell up. If that happens, we will solve the problem with Islam. We’ll shut Muslims out in the way that Hungary and other similar countries do. Maybe Muslims will then say, oh, everyone hates us, let’s ditch Islam. It’ll probably never happen, just a dream I occasionally have. Anyway, just keeping Muslims out is the only answer to all the trouble they always bring.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“…the Buddhists, Hindus, etc seem to think they are being treated OK, treated just like everybody else is treated.”
Correct, tim.
For muslims, it’s not enough to be treated fairly and equally – like everybody else.
They must receive “special” treatment…
gravenimage says
Damn good question, Boycott Turkey.
Ray Jarman says
Dear Laila, Both Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have denounced the American people, the Stars and Stripes, and the president of the United States on many occasions, so why should Americans think positive about Muslims if you and they are the face of the cult. Another way to prove your sincerity would would be to stand in front of me while I am burning your un-holy piece of trash and lament that you totally disagree with my actions but you respect my right to do so. Also, how about renouncing Islam’s seditionist Sharia laws.
Wellington says
I would ask her in which of the over 50 Muslim-majority nations is a non-Muslim an equal citizen?
I have so had my fill of Muslim belly-aching about Western nations while Muslim nations engage in all kinds of suppression of the human rights of non-Muslims PER their own religion’s requirements (e.g., Sura 9:29—the subdued rot and all that nonsense).
Even Muslims in Muslim lands don’t have near the rights that Muslims have in the West, let alone non-Muslims in Muslim lands. What a massive hypocrite the Islamic world is in general.
So sick of Islam. So very sick of it.
Westman says
What a whiner she is, such a downtrodden victim.
Since when did being equal make us free from the criticisms and judgements of others?
I could tolerate being as equal as Laila Lalami. In fact, I’m now called a racist because of the color of my skin, told I reside on stolen property, and should be supporting a minority because of slavery that was practiced by NONE of my ancestors.
How about trading places Laila?
James Lincoln says
Westman,
My grandparents – on both sides – immigrated to United States in the late 1800s, well after the abolition of slavery.
And yet, I am viewed by some – who do not really know me – as a racist residing on stolen property.
And that I should pay “reparations” to blacks because of the history of slavery in the United States – which neither myself nor my ancestors had any part of…
Boycott Turkey says
Well said
gravenimage says
Agree, Westman, and James.
And yes–none of us has any guarantee to be free of critics, nor should this exist. But it does for Muslims under Shari’ah re any criticism of Islam.
And it is not just the case that many Americans today are not descended from slaveowners, but that some of us are descended from those who fought and sometimes died to *end* slavery, which is even more perverse re “reparations”.
Val says
Laima, if you say that a person who commits murder, rape, and robbery is a “messenger from god” then you are the lowest of filth. Of course you are not equal. If you want to be equal then denounce the evil criminal Muhammad.
jewdog says
Will someone please put out this garbage? Pick up is tomorrow.
Guy Macher says
Short answer–No! Long answer –Hell, no!
Mike 2 says
??
Rarely says
In what way(s) isn’t she an equal citizen? None that are obvious. Seems that she well on her way to achieving the American dream. It doesn’t appear that her religion, sex, race etc. have held her back at all. Even though she’s getting a nasty note or two from the odd racist because of one of these “differences” she really is being treated as an equal citizen.
She might ask her question of Jewish or Chinese Americans who still face nasty notes, ugly stares, overt prejudice and often worse. They have been in the U.S.A. for a few hundred years and have made very significant contributions. Similarly she might ask Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, Americans of Puerto Rican descent or Japanese-Americans. Neither the Irish nor the Italians were welcomed with open arms, etc., etc., & etc.
She wouldn’t dare ask Native Americans the question and could be laughed out of the country if she posed it to an African-American.
It seems that only Arab muslims should be granted immediate acceptance and respect the instant their ship docks.
BTW. It would help a lot to leave the politics of her birth country behind her.
gravenimage says
+1
Westman says
Well said, the truth.
somehistory says
moslims don’t want to be “equal” to other humans. moslims want to be “equal” to God and have the rest of mankind bow down to them and serve them as if they are superior to all other humans.
moslims separate themselves because they believe they are superior and deserve extra attention, consideration, compensation, favors, etc. And they not only expect this, but demand it.
Whining and complaining are tools they use to get what they crave…worshipful attention. They aren’t just squeaky wheels looking for grease, they want to be the only wheels ever to get grease, and they down’t want to have to keep whining for it. Whine they will; but they want the attention even if they don’t whine.
And as for the “award-w .inning” aspect…that label means nothing in a time when the likes of ‘o’ is given the nobel prize for peace. The people and orgs giving out titles and awards these days have no true sense of right and wrong, nor the true value of things Such as Truth and morality, and integrity and honesty.
Many of us have learned to ignore the whining and demanding attention from the likes of her.
Maemae77 says
More of that victimhood charade to take people’s mind off that she follows the most diabolical and sinister political totalitarian ideology on the planet.
Imagine an ideology so bad that would require that much constant victimhood to appear to be a religion of peace.
ronyvo says
To answer your ‘question’, here it is NO. You should not and must not be equal equal citizen. Why? I tell you why.
“I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them. It is not ye who slew them; it was God.” Surah 8:13-17.
“Fight against those who believe not in Allah nor the last day nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and his messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth among the people of the scripture, until they pay jiziah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” Surah 9:29
“Fight them, until there is no persecution and the religion is God’s” Surah 193
“O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is on of them.” Surah 5:51 & 3:28
“Kill the mushrikeen (polytheists, Christians and non-Muslims), wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush”. Surah 9:5
Those are just as example. There are much more.
Besides you and yours (Muslims) got even more than citizens. Tell us what right you are missing and I tell you few that you got already for each ‘missing’ right.
gravenimage says
No one has the right to threaten others in a civilized nation.
FYI says
I am a non-muslim infidel.Will I ever be equal to a muslim according to the koran?
NO.
muslims are ‘the BEST community that hath been raised up for mankind’ {koran 3:110}
non-muslims are ‘the WORST of created beings’ {koran 98:6}
“Lo!Those who disbelieve,among the people of the Book and the idolaters,abide in hell fire.
They are the WORST OF CREATED BEINGS”
koran 98:6
That is, ALL non muslims:Jews and Christians{the people of the Book},mushrikun{‘polytheists’} and the murtadeen{ex muslim apostates}.ALL are classified as the ‘WORST of created beings’
Note the sheer hypocrisy of the muslima and the failure to get the Irony of her position:her koran and god has a discriminatory religious Apartheid system:
non-muslims are NOT equal to muslims according to the koran.
Lalami is a virtue signalling hypocrite as her koran /god/cult discriminates against non-muslims.
J Gramling says
America has at least two Muslim-Arabs in the U.S. Congress and had a Muslim President for 8 years – what else do you want?
gravenimage says
They want it all–all power for Muslims, and persecuted dhimmi status for Infidels.
Larry says
If she is a legal citizen then she is already “equal.” Furthermore, she is a privileged citizen. She has fame, awards and wealth. Boo-hoo, my heart bleeds for her because some people have been rude to her. Would she rather live under Sharia? I’m guessing no.
mortimer says
Laila Lalami is NOT EQUAL in Islamic society!
Muslim women are not considered equal to men or valued equally with men in Islamic society.
Doesn’t she admit that?
Women are servants in the eyes of Muslim men and should never have leadership roles.
CogitoErgoSum says
True. If she is a Muslim how can she believe in equality for all? According to the Koran woman are NOT the equals of men and Jews, Christians and other “infidels” are vile and filthy creatures who are NOT the equals of Muslims. However, such a way of thinking goes against the belief we Americans have that every citizen IS equal – not only under God but also under the laws of the land. Her god, the god of Islam, tells her that such a belief in equality should not and cannot be allowed to exist in the minds of men. According to the Koran Jews, Christians and other “infidels” are NOT the equals of Muslims and Muslims are to FIGHT all non-Muslims until they ACCEPT the belief that non-Muslims are NOT the equals of Muslims.
So this woman has a decision to make. Does she want to be a good American or a good Muslim? As things now stand she cannot be both. The current laws of the U.S. go against the will of her god and her religion requires that she fight to implement the will of her god. To be a good Muslim she must fight to CHANGE the U.S. Constitution so that Islam will become the official religion of the U.S. and she must fight to turn the U.S. into a country where liberty and equality is not for all but only for those who choose to be good Muslims. To be a good Muslim she must FIGHT until the laws of the land are changed so that then, and ONLY then, can she also be a good American – Jews, Christians and other “infidels” be damned.
Art says
Considering that you put Muslim and Arab before American, I would say “NO, you will NEVER be a citizen, go to one of those countries that you obvious prefer to America.”
Gork says
The problem with making a declaration that Lalami makes is that it cannot be refuted. She feels excluded, so it is up to someone to make her feel included? We cannot control how she FEELS. So anyone who tries to make her FEEL included is stuck asking her why she doesn’t feel included. At that point she can make up anything she wants to and we have to take this at face value.
Homey don’t play that.
She can pout in a corner for all I care. Bring your A-Game to the table and prove why you should be included. People will be getting in line to have you join in. Sit there and play games with people’s heads and, she can cry the blues for the rest of her life. IDGAF
OLD GUY says
Well i’am sorry she feels left out and not included. Just maybe her choice of religion that spews hate and violence against everyone who doesn’t join her ideology has a big part to play in her exclusion.