Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

What if someone did this to Maajid or Ayaan? Clipped out their words, then played them in such a fashion to elicit an emotional response. In fact, we know that's happened and its egregious and likely increases their security concerns. Except this time, its the President sharing.

Very fair point, but the difference between Ayaan/Maajid and Ilhan is the difference between intellectual honesty and manipulative ulterior motives

“difference between Ayaan/Maajid, & Ilhan is the difference between intellectual honesty & manipulative ulterior motives” If that’s what you believe, then you’re already on side. For it is precisely *this difference* that should prevent us from stooping to endorse such agitprop

When I say “I agree with Sarah” I base it on my reading of her thread, which is & reserves her right to be *critical* of Ilhan. As am I &always have been. But dishonest criticism is unhelpful (that’s subjective. So I’m expressing my subjective opinion here,in agreeing with Sarah)

I think dishonest criticisms are unhelpful too, but I disagree w Sarsour, AOC and Rashida Tlaib when they say that criticism of Ilhan=Racism, Islamophobia, incitement to violence etc. That’s the same tactic they use to shut down criticism of Islam. Thats what’s actually dangerous

Yep. But there’s no contradiction there Yasmine. Both overall thoughts (yours and Sarah’s) can be true. And I believe they are.

Sarah agreed w Sarsour’s tweet and you agreed w Sarah...and I disagree w all three of you. It’s never dangerous to criticize a politician. This is not Saudi Arabia or Egypt under Mubarak. What’s dangerous is agreeing w an Islamist that says criticism is dangerous.

I never said, and neither did Sarsour in the tweet I shared, that "it is dangerous to criticize" period. I was, and am, specifically referring to that video. I'm baffled, Yasmine, that you believe I could think this, *considering that I criticized her in that very thread*.