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•First when all the Jewish people in David’s town got fired and became poor David was confused why just Jews were fired. But then he comes to realize that it’s because the germans do not think that Jews are equal but he stays true to his religion and knows that everyone is equal.

•David and his family states that the germans “can do anything” and David knows that it’s not there religion that defines them to be able to do anything but that the government tells them.

•David’s father beats David badly in the book. So then David realizes that all people have some evil in them and it’s not just people who are after the Jewish. To come to this conclusion he realizes that when his father leaves to a labor camp and he misses him and still loves him.

•In the Ghetto were David lived he hear a rumor that the Germans ordered snow to be shoved into a Jews house because it’s was too dirty inside. But David had hope even in the most horrible people that they wouldn’t do that even after everything the germans did. He made sure to go see if it happened in person because he knew even though the Germans had such a bad reputation some might be diffrent.

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¨Beneath them were the Jews.¨ ¨´They must go; they had to be finish[ed] off,´ proclaimed Governor General Hans Frank, the new power in Poland.¨ Pg. 13. I choose this quote to show how mean the Germans and others were to the jews when they shouldn't treat the Jews that way because religion doesn't define you.

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¨Aryans will always be better off.¨ Pg. 122.
This is an anti example of something wrong that we need to change because our religion does not define you.

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¨There´s in people simply an urge to destroy, to kill, to murder and rage, and until mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, war will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and growth will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.¨ Pg. 154.

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¨Actually, they were ordinary teenagers-much like you, your brother, sister, or friends- seeking a reason why such extraordinarily terrible things were happening to them, their families and friends.¨  Pg. viii.

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Nazi swastika aimed at African-American students in Clarkston Junior High School.

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Usually, about one bias incident is reported per month in Michigan, reported by the community division of the state's Department of Civil Rights.

But less than a month after the Nov. 8 election, at least 65 such bias incidents have been reported in Michigan, a state official said Monday.

Speaking in Detroit at the monthly meeting of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, Agustin Arbulu, the executive director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, said there were 65 hate incidents reported between the election and last week, according to a division of the department.

On average, only about five to 10 such incidents are reported in an entire year recorded by that division.

"That's very concerning ... people being scared," Rasha Demashkieh, co-chair of the commission, said at the meeting, held at the Detroit center of the University of Michigan. "It is incumbent upon us to protect the civil rights of the most vulnerable."

Out of the 65 reported incidents targeting minorities, 36 of them were at K-12 schools or universities and colleges, Arbulu said.

Arbulu said that some people of color "feel very vulnerable" after the election. He encouraged victims to report any incidents.

"They should reach out to us," he said.

The data from the state Department on Civil Rights released Monday comes after a report last week from a national group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, showing that Michigan had the highest number of bias incidents reported in the Midwest and the sixth highest among all states during the 10 days after the election. The center said there were 40 reported hate incidents in Michigan in the 10 days after the election, many of them with suspects mentioning Donald Trump.

At a public meeting in Detroit on Dec. 5, 2016, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission discussed the spike in bias crimes in Michigan post-election. (Photo: Niraj Warikoo)

The report said many of the alleged incidents in Michigan were at schools, including white students chanting "build the wall" at Royal Oak Middle School to Latino students, Nazi swastika aimed at African-American students in Clarkston Junior High School, and white students blocking Latino students from entrances at Dewitt Junior High School.

At the Monday meeting, the commissioners also discussed the Flint water crisis, saying that children there may have suffered trauma. And they passed a motion a calling upon the state of Michigan to pay farm workers a minimum wage. This year, a state agency determined that it would not require that workers on small farms in Michigan be paid a minimum wage.

Created by Michigan's Constitution, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission is charged with investigating discrimination against residents because of race, religion, color, national origin, age, and marital status, among other categories.
Contact Niraj Warikoo: 313-223-4792 or nwarikoo@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @nwarikoo.
How to report hate or bias incidents

To file a complaint of a hate incident or to get assistance from the state, call 800-482-3604 or go to www.michigan.gov/MDCR and click on "File a Complaint." For questions, call 313-456-3700 or e-mail MDCRServiceCenter@michigan.gov.

To file a report with the Southern Poverty Law Center, go to www.splcenter.org/reporthate.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan said to call local police and "we ... encourage those who find themselves on the receiving end of a hate crime, or are a witness to a hate crime, to call either the FBI at 313-965-2323 or the U.S. Attorney's Office at 313-226-9151."

Welcoming Michigan has issued a guide with more resources and ideas for coping with hate crimes. Go to http://goo.gl/MIJpRx.

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Usually, about one bias incident is reported per month in Michigan, reported by the community division of the state's Department of Civil Rights. But less than a month after the Nov. 8 election, at least 65 such bias incidents have been reported in Michigan, a state official said Monday.

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In my school and community people bully others because of there clothes. When clothes do not define you either.

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A non-Muslim friend of mine tweeted: "This literally made me cry."

Another tweeted: "I Will Stand Up For Muslim Citizens Because I Want Help When The GOP Come For ME."

Shockingly, Trump told Yahoo News that he would consider requiring Muslim-Americans to register with a government database, or worse, mandating that they carry special identification cards that note their faith.

The reaction to this idea, fairly or unfairly, by many on social media, was to accuse Trump of wanting to mimic laws that Nazis had imposed on Jews, including requiring them to wear a gold Star of David on their clothes.

After Trump confirmed that he would set up a database for Muslim-Americans, an NBC reporter asked him point blank: "Is there a difference between requiring Muslims to register and Jews in Nazi Germany?" A clearly annoyed Trump at first refused to respond, but then told the reporter, "You tell me," and walked away.

Just so it's clear, Trump did not suggest that Muslim-Americans should be required to wear a symbol that would visibly identify them as Muslims, such as a gold crescent. (On the other hand, he did not rule it out.) But the Nazis do offer guidance on the practical impact of laws that target a religious minority. As The Holocaust Center notes on its website, the Nazi-era laws that required Jews to publicly identify their faith was "one of many psychological tactics aimed at isolating and dehumanizing the Jews of Europe, directly marking them as being different (i.e., inferior) to everyone else."

There's no doubt that making Muslims carry special religious identity cards or having to register with the government sends a clear message to other Americans that Muslims are different. That we, simply because of our faith, are less than fully American. I shudder to think where this may lead.

But Trump was not done in painting the hellish nightmare that awaits Muslims, and our country, if he's elected president. The GOP frontrunner explained that he was open to wholesale surveillance of Muslim-Americans and warrantless searches of mosques. He even praised past NYPD policies that spied on the New York City Muslim community as "great," despite the reality that this controversial program did not yield any leads or arrests. This means that under a Trump administration, Muslims would have fewer rights than other Americans simply because of our faith, which is no different than advocating for racial profiling of blacks or Latinos.

And Trump then doubled down on his recent proclamation that he was open to shutting down American mosques, noting he'd have "absolutely no choice" if "some bad things happen" in a mosque. Consequently, if two or three people in a mosque of say 500 did "bad things," the entire mosque would be shuttered. It would be as outrageous as closing down a mega church because two or three members firebombed an abortion clinic. Our system of justice punishes specific wrongdoers, not all who simply share the same faith or race of a criminal.

To be blunt, these ideas by Trump on how to deal with Muslims aren't original. They are very much akin to the ones anti-Muslim bigots have advocated in the past. Those people we can dismiss. But when the front-runner for a major political party starts parroting those alarming proposals, it's time that we all take notice.

Trump has shown us in this campaign that he has no qualms about stoking the flames of hatred for minorities in his quest for power. He has already done this to the Latino community with his despicable comments that Mexico is sending us "rapists" and other criminals.

So it's not surprising that Trump would use Muslim-bashing to score points because it plays well with GOP voters. In fact, a poll released earlier this week found that three-quarters of Republicans believe Islam is "at odds" with American values.

Regardless of why Trump is espousing these policies, his words must be bringing joy to ISIS. As I learned firsthand at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism earlier this year, ISIS hopes that Muslims in the West are demonized and discriminated against. Indeed, ISIS' operatives made that very point on social media after the Paris attack, expressing their hope that Muslims in Western countries would be victims of hate crimes.

Why? It's simple: ISIS hopes that when Muslims in the West are demonized, they will become alienated from the country in which they live. ISIS operatives believe then that their recruitment pitch that the West is at war with Islam will resonate more strongly. Consequently, ISIS is likely rooting for Trump's proposals to become law.

All of us want Americans to be safe from ISIS. But Trump's plan is both morally repugnant and ineffective. It doesn't make us safer, it simply demonizes Muslim-Americans and could help ISIS recruit. That's truly a losing combination for America.

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Donald Trump's horrifying words about Muslims (Opinion) - CNN

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A non-Muslim friend of mine tweeted: "This literally made me cry." Another tweeted: "I Will Stand Up For Muslim Citizens Because I Want Help When The GOP Come For ME." Shockingly, Trump told Yahoo News that he would consider requiring Muslim-Americans to register with a government database, or worse, mandating that they carry special identification cards that note their faith.

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Just because a few Muslims did something horrible doesn't mean they all should be blamed.

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Every time an act of terror or shooting occurs, Muslims closely watch the news with extreme trepidation praying that the suspect is not Muslim. This is not because these terrorists are likely to be Muslim but rather because in the instances where they happen to be, we see amplified mass media coverage and extreme unjustified hatred towards Muslims.

As a Muslim, I am tired of condemning terrorist attacks being carried out by inherently violent people who hijack my religion. I am tired of condemning these attacks to people who are calm and apathetic when Muslims are killed by these same radicalized terrorists.

I am tired of hearing the word "terrorist" not being used when the suspect in a terrorist attack is a non-Muslim. I am tired of the "mentally disabled" excuse being recycled when the suspect in a terrorist attack is a Caucasian. I am tired of seeing hundreds of terrorist attacks carried out by non-Muslims not get the same coverage of even a single terrorist attack where the suspect happens to be Muslim.

Above it all, I am tired of having to repeatedly say that Muslims are not terrorists. It is time we silence this Islamophobia with facts. My next five points will prove once and for all that Muslims are not terrorists:

1. Non-Muslims make up the majority of terrorists in the United States: According to the FBI, 94% of terrorist attacks carried out in the United States from 1980 to 2005 have been by non-Muslims. This means that an American terrorist suspect is over nine times more likely to be a non-Muslim than a Muslim. According to this same report, there were more Jewish acts of terrorism in the United States than Islamic, yet when was the last time we heard about the threat of Jewish terrorism in the media? For the same exact reasons that we cannot blame the entire religion of Judaism or Christianity for the violent actions of those carrying out crimes under the names of these religions, we have absolutely no justifiable grounds to blame Muslims for terrorism.

2. Non-Muslims make up the majority of terrorists in Europe: There have been over one thousand terrorist attacks in Europe in the past five years. Take a guess at what percent of those terrorists were Muslim. Wrong, now guess again. It's less than 2%.

3. Even if all terrorist attacks were carried out by Muslims, you still could not associate terrorism with Islam: There have been 140,000 terror attacks committed worldwide since 1970. Even if Muslims carried out all of these attacks (which is an absurd assumption given the fact mentioned in my first point), those terrorists would represent less than 0.00009 percent of all Muslims. To put things into perspective, this means that you are more likely to be struck by lightening in your lifetime than a Muslim is likely to commit a terrorist attack during that same timespan.

4. If all Muslims are terrorists, then all Muslims are peacemakers: The same statistical assumptions being used to falsely portray Muslims as violent people can be used more accurately to portray Muslims as peaceful people. If all Muslims are terrorists because a single digit percentage of terrorists happen to be Muslim, then all Muslims are peacemakers because 5 out of the past 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners (42 percent) have been Muslims.

5. If you are scared of Muslims then you should also be scared of household furniture and toddlers: A study carried out by the University of North Carolina showed that less than 0.0002% of Americans killed since 9/11 were killed by Muslims. (Ironically, this study was done in Chapel Hill: the same place where a Caucasian non-Muslim killed three innocent Muslims as the mainstream media brushed this terrorist attack off as a parking dispute). Based on these numbers, and those of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the average American is more likely to be crushed to death by their couch or television than they are to be killed by a Muslim. As a matter of fact, Americans were more likely to be killed by a toddler in 2013 than they were by a so-called "Muslim terrorist".

When a drunk driver causes a car accident, we never blame the car manufacturer for the violent actions of that driver. This is because we understand that we cannot blame an entire car company that produces millions of safe vehicles just because one of their cars was hijacked by a reckless person who used it to cause harm. So what right do we have to blame an entire religion of over 1.6 Billion peaceful people because of the actions of a relatively insignificant few?

I will not deny that terrorism is a real threat, it definitely is. However, it is extremely incorrect to associate the words "Muslim" and "terrorist" when literally all the facts implore you to do otherwise. The only way that we as Americans can defeat terrorism at home and across the world is by accurately targeting its root causes. There have been 355 mass shootings in the United States this year and falsely blaming Muslims for the San Bernardino shooting will do absolutely nothing to address this serious problem. It is time that we begin addressing terrorism on an educated and factual level.

As an American Muslim, I plead you all to deeply consider the facts mentioned here the next time you see a news headline about Muslims and terrorism. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that". We cannot allow the disparity in media coverage to blind us from the facts and turn us into hateful people, we are smarter than that.

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Muslims Are Not Terrorists: A Factual Look at Terrorism and Islam

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Every time an act of terror or shooting occurs, Muslims closely watch the news with extreme trepidation praying that the suspect is not Muslim.

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I came to America to be free not scared.

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by Jacob Boas.