{"id":738646,"date":"2021-09-10T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=738646"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:05:59","slug":"equity-office-marks-9-11-by-bemoaning-prejudice-against-muslims-with-play-in-which-american-muslims-cheer-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/equity-office-marks-9-11-by-bemoaning-prejudice-against-muslims-with-play-in-which-american-muslims-cheer-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity Office Marks 9\/11 By Bemoaning \u2018Prejudice\u2019 Against Muslims With Play In Which American Muslims Cheer Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fequity-office-marks-9-11-by-bemoaning-prejudice-against-muslims-with-play-in-which-american-muslims-cheer-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=738646&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1355005-911.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The diversity office of a Maryland county planned to commemorate 9\/11 by hosting a play that it said \u201cexplores themes like Islamophobia\u201d and \u201cexpose[s] the racial and ethnic prejudices\u201d against Muslims \u2014 in which the main Arab-American character admits he was \u201cproud\u201d when the Twin Towers fell, and another says America \u201cdeserved what it got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howard County was set to host the play on Saturday, the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 Americans. \u201cCounty Executive Calvin Ball will provide opening remarks,\u201d an announcement from the county executive and the Office of Human Rights &amp; Equity said. It&nbsp;advertised the play as exposing \u201cthe racial and ethnic prejudices that \u2018secretly persist in even the most progressive cultural circles\u2019 in a post-9\/11 America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They then deleted the announcement and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoCoOHRE\/photos\/a.372364193670973\/867324070841647\">\u201cpostponed\u201d<\/a> the play \u2014 \u201cDisgraced\u201d by Ayad Akhtar \u2014 due to \u201cunforeseen circumstances.\u201d They&nbsp;did not explain those circumstances, but if anyone in the Equity office had gotten around to <a href=\"https:\/\/literariness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Literariness.org-Disgraced-A-Play-by-Ayad-Akhtar-.pdf\">reading the play<\/a>, they would have found out that it actually mocks white liberals as naivete.<\/p>\n<p>In it, a white liberal woman named Emily lectures her Muslim-raised husband Amir that Islam does not actually encourage men to beat their wives, as he says it does. She also disagrees with a black woman for being conservative, then sleeps with her husband. When Amir finds out about the affair, he beats her with \u201cuncontrolled,\u201d \u201cbrutal\u201d violence.<\/p>\n<p>The play tells the story of Amir, a New York lawyer who says that his first crush was a Jewish girl, and that his mother spit in his face when she found out. Then he spit in the face of the girl. Amir later marries Emily, a housewife in the Upper East Side who fashions herself an aspiring artist who is enthralled with Islamic art.<\/p>\n<p>Amir says he can understand why airports would search Arabs before they get on a plane, while Emily says, \u201cI disagree. The next attack is coming from some white guy who\u2019s got a gun he shouldn\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They are joined for dinner by Jory, a black lawyer, and her husband Isaac, a Jewish art buyer. Jory says the full veil that some Muslim women wear is \u201cevil\u201d because \u201cyou erase a face, you erase individuality,\u201d and says she\u2019s more interested in \u201corder\u201d than \u201cjustice,\u201d saying when \u201cyou pull yourself out of the ghetto, you realize real soon order is where it\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily argues, \u201cMe. Justice. Always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with Issac, Amir says he was proud when 9\/11 happened, while Emily tries to convince herself it is not true:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>ISAAC: Did you feel pride on September Eleventh?<br \/>AMIR (With hesitation): If I\u2019m honest, yes.<br \/>EMILY: You don\u2019t really mean that, Amir.<br \/>AMIR: I was horrified by it, okay? Absolutely horrified.<br \/>JORY: Pride about what? About the towers coming down? About people getting killed?<br \/>AMIR: That we were finally winning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The law firm eventually makes Jory partner, a position Amir wanted, and Amir tells Jory, \u201cYou think you\u2019re the n\u2014er here? I\u2019m the n\u2014er!! Me!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Amir discovers that Emily slept with Isaac, he beats her, then is joined by his Islamic fundamentalist nephew, Abe.<\/p>\n<p>Abe has been questioned by the FBI after his friend berates a Starbucks barista and tells her America created Al-Qaeda \u2014 an assertion Abe agrees with \u2014 and that America \u201cdeserved what it got and what it was going to get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abe says when the FBI asked about his immigration status, he laughed at them, saying they\u2019re \u201cgoing into our community and looking for people whose immigration status is vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says if he gets deported, it \u201cwouldn\u2019t be the worst thing\u201d and that \u201cmaybe we never should have left. Maybe we never should have come to this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve conquered the world. We\u2019re gonna get it back. That\u2019s our destiny. It\u2019s in the Quran,\u201d he said. \u201cFor three hundred years they\u2019ve been taking our land, drawing new borders, replacing our laws, making us want to be like them. Look like them. Marry their women. They disgraced us. They disgraced us. And then they pretend they don\u2019t understand the rage we\u2019ve got?<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the play, Emily says she was \u201cna\u00efve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">counter-cultural<\/span>&nbsp;outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The diversity office of a Maryland county planned to commemorate 9\/11 by hosting a play that it said \u201cexplores themes like Islamophobia\u201d and \u201cexpose[s] the racial and ethnic prejudices\u201d against &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}