Twenty-year-old Hisham Awartani paralyzed from the chest down after a bullet lodged in his spine, his family say
One of the three college students of Palestinian descent who were shot in Vermont last month is paralyzed from the chest down after a bullet lodged in his spine, the student’s family said.
Hisham Awartani, a 20-year-old student at Brown University who grew up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was walking with two friends near the University of Vermont campus in Burlington on 25 November when, police say, 48-year-old Jason Eaton shot them with a handgun in a suspected hate crime. Eaton has pleaded not guilty.
Muslims are absolutely not free to express their culture and, if they are Arabs, language in many places in the U.S. Sure, they don’t get shot. They do get called terrorists. And harassed. It’s not even just Muslims. Sikhs get called terrorists because they wear turbans and ignorant racists fucks think that’s what Arabs wear or something. I hate to tell you this, but large swathes of the American people don’t like foreigners or minorities. They’re called Trump voters.
This is not true. I lived in one of the most conservative cities in the US for many years, and the Middle Eastern and African immigrants openly spoke whatever their native language is. They avoided it only in the typical circumstances, when other speakers weren’t around. This is not an actual concern for immigrants.
As for the level of xenophobia, it’s true a lot of people don’t like foreigners, but you are overstating the level of open opposition. Just like how a lot of people don’t like Trump supporters and even personally feel them to be fascists, but claiming that Trump supporters are not free to express their opinions is completely false.