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Maha HilalCounterPunch |
Seeking safety from state institutions that enact anti-Muslim violence is a contradictory strategy.
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“Emergency laws” create legal frameworks and blueprints that only strengthen the ability of the state to enact violence.
The US legal system has proved insufficient to protect human and civil rights in the face of Trump’s attacks.
Twenty-four years into the global “war on terror,” we need rituals of public mourning to acknowledge its many victims.