“Combating Islamophobia” Biden’s Latest Show to Purify the US Government.
The analytical news outlet reported that on December 12, the White House released a “strategy guide” to combat Islamophobia and anti-Arab hatred. More than a year after the US-backed Gaza genocide, the guide is the latest violent action by the White House against Arab and Muslim communities.
The report begins with Joe Biden’s statement in response to the beheading of Wadia al-Fayoum, a six-year-old Palestinian-American Muslim boy, by his landlord. The document then compares the current climate in the United States to the post-9/11 era, when Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians were targeted, echoing Biden’s condemnation of violence against these communities while downplaying the government’s role in marginalizing the issue.
However, Biden highlighted one specific example of state violence: Donald Trump’s Muslim ban. He then boasts that he lifted the misguided travel ban on his first day in office. What Biden ignores, however, is that his June executive order restricted the flow of asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border.
Middle East Eye states: This White House strategy guide is merely the latest in a series of superficial and largely symbolic engagements by the Biden administration with Muslim communities.
Elsewhere in the report, referring to Biden’s slogan in the text about realizing “freedom and opportunity for all in the United States,” it states: Such claims are false given the historical and enduring legacy of genocide, marginalization, exclusion, and brutality of this colonial state. But the cruel part of this mythmaking is that, despite this blatant lie, it still works today.
The report of this analytical base emphasizes that Biden’s statement in the document about the need to stand up to anti-Muslim hatred in a free and just country is a prime example of this fallacy. Such claims not only minimize government violence against many of the same groups it claims to protect from hate crimes but also seek to mislead and appease targeted communities by convincing them that the government is interested in their safety and well-being.
In a section of the report titled “Symbolic Moves,” it is clear: that U.S. Muslims do not need a Muslim liaison in the White House. They need an end to government violence against them.