{"id":145,"date":"2012-01-02T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefox.withemes.com\/square\/?p=145"},"modified":"2012-01-02T02:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T02:26:00","slug":"why-we-shouldnt-call-the-capital-rioters-terrorists-nyt-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betterfeels.org\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Why We Shouldn’t Call the Capital Rioters ‘Terrorists.’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Adama Bah was just 16 years old when FBI agents stormed her family\u2019s Harlem apartment in 2005 and arrested her, falsely accusing her of being a potential suicide bomber. She was held for six weeks in a youth detention facility before being released with no charges. This was post-9\/11 America, when ordinary Muslims were routinely targeted by laws intended to prosecute terrorists. In the video op-ed above, Bah argues that although we do need to combat white supremacist violence in America, creating new antiterror laws to do so \u2014 and expanding the War on Terror \u2014 will only backfire on innocent Black and brown people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adama Bah was just 16 years old when FBI agents stormed her family\u2019s Harlem apartment in 2005 and arrested her, falsely accusing her of being a potential suicide bomber. She was held for six weeks in a youth detention facility before being released with no charges. This was post-9\/11 America, when ordinary Muslims were routinely targeted by laws intended to prosecute terrorists. In the video op-ed above, Bah argues that although we do need to combat white supremacist violence in America, creating new antiterror laws to do so \u2014 and expanding the War on Terror \u2014 will only backfire on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13,15,23,25],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-format","tag-nytimes","tag-video","tag-youtube","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t