One study concluded that white supremacists radicalized online grew by 600 percent since 2012 alone, outperforming the Islamic State.
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By Sanya Dhingra | December 4, 2017
Nationalism, nativism and xenophobia are having a rerun across the world. Donald Trump is only the vehicle of that anger. But his impact is not limited to the US. In every Western democracy, Trump has unleashed variations of himself.
Is Zia-ul-Haq’s Pakistan a mirror image of Donald Trump’s America?
Pakistan’s bloody political history unleashed by Zia-ul-Haq could have a lesson for Donald Trump’s America. “Trump is leading America down a dangerous path. My birth country of Pakistan offers an image of the consequences of the incitement of anti-Muslim hatred — and it isn’t pretty,” writes Qasim Rashid in the Washington Post.
“Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq executed a military coup to come to power. Among his first actions, Zia signed an executive order targeting Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya Muslim minority — to which we belonged — prescribing fines, arrest and even death should we dare practice our faith. Zia hijacked media to claim Ahmadis hated Pakistan. He called us a ‘cancer’ and accused us of spreading false information even as he shut down our mosques and schools.”
“Just as Zia refused to condemn right-wing Muslim extremism, the American president refuses to condemn right-wing white supremacy. One study concluded that white supremacists radicalized online grew by 600 percent since 2012 alone, outperforming the Islamic State. Just as Pakistani media remained silent on the persecution of Ahmadi Muslims, American media reports on terrorism done by Muslims at a rate of five times that of terrorism done by non-Muslims — while largely ignoring the epidemic threat of right-wing extremism.”
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