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The false dichotomy between Islam and Islamism is what gave America an elected senator like Abdul Al-Sayyid and a congressman like Hamawy. When you separate Islam from Islamism, you tell the American public that Islam is good but Islamism is bad. And to prevent someone like Abdul Al-Sayyid from being elected, you first need to prove that he is an Islamist. How do you prove that? Well, you need to connect him to the Muslim Brotherhood. But so what? He can simply make fun of the accusation and say, “Yes, I have a brother who is Muslim, and he and I have a brotherhood.” The American public would laugh and dismiss the accusation as Islamophobia. However, if the American political class had told the truth from the beginning, that Islam itself is a dangerous political ideology, then any Muslim running for public office would be treated with suspicion until proven otherwise. In that case, when the American public saw someone like Abdul, who is Muslim, and learned about his alleged connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, they would need little convincing that such a man should never get anywhere near the Capitol. Sadly, the American political class did exactly the opposite. It has whitewashed Islam since 9/11, granted it more privileges than any other religion, and embraced the hoax of Islamophobia. And now, 25 years later, you have to prove that a Muslim candidate is an Islamist, a distinction so abstract that proving it is nearly impossible. Otherwise, he is dismissed as just another Muslim, which supposedly means nothing, and eventually gets elected.
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