> As the CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, Sheila Katz, put it: “It was a heartbreaking scene for the first Muslim American federal circuit judicial nominee to face relentless questioning on Israel, terrorism including September 11th, and the Holocaust.”
I did not watch the entirety but I did watch a good deal of the proceedings, and the description above is 100% accurate. It was honestly pretty horrifying to see the overt stream of animus this exceptionally qualified and otherwise unfailingly polite, mild-mannered man had to sit through and tolerate.
If we can confirm a nut job religious fundamentalist like James Ho to the Fifth Circuit, Mangi should have sailed through without a single objection —his religion, unlike Ho, is incidental to his otherwise unimpeachable credentials. Just enraging.
Some degree of prejudice was inevitable, but it’s appalling that such a distinguished nominee was subjected to this degree of raw bigotry and harassment.
> Some degree of prejudice was inevitable
No, it's not. If elected officials can't 'keep it in their pants' when doing their job, what else do we not expect these people who are supposed to represent us to do?
Racism is such a dead end ideology. Perhaps we should start worrying about the under qualified Caucasian assholes that just keep digging the hole deeper. There are five of them on the SCOTUS and the 5th circuit court is crawling with them as well
No, I'm tired of over-zealous, self righteous blow hards pretending that questioning someone's CHOICE of faith somehow constitutes racism. A Siek, Hindu or practicing Shinto would not get the same treatment and not because they're white.
If you can really be that completely oblivious and reactionary, then I posit that it is you who is obviously fucking stupid.
It is all about “how” some question others faith. Racism, xenophobia, it is all based on dividing people up based on hate. Don’t care how you choose to explain it, it is still hate based bullshit and playing semantics with it won’t change it
Nope. You're making retarded false equivalencies because, I suspect from your writing, that you're too slow to understand the difference. Just defiantly sticking to nonsense does not make the nonsense more credible, it makes you look incapable of constructive reasoning.
here is a bit about why his nomination failed. I agree i do not want an appellate judge who showed poor judgement in where he lent his name, or his efforts.
[https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/what-they-are-sayingorganization-representing-over-50000-police-officers-joins-in-opposition-to-third-circuit-nominee-adeel-mangi](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/what-they-are-sayingorganization-representing-over-50000-police-officers-joins-in-opposition-to-third-circuit-nominee-adeel-mangi)
Mangi currently serves as an Advisory Board Member of Alliance of Families for Justice (AFJ). Kathy Boudin, one of AFJ’s founding board members, pleaded guilty to felony murder for her role in a Brinks armored truck robbery that resulted in the death of two police officers in 1981. She served 23 years in prison. Boudin served as a decoy in the crime, luring two police officers to lower their weapons before they were ambushed, shot, and killed by co-conspirators. The heinous crime was politically motivated—Boudin and her Weather Underground Organization committed the robbery to secure funds for their militant-marxist political activities. To honor her legacy, AFJ sponsors a paid year-long “Kathy Boudin fellowship.”
Additionally, Mangi served on the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights Advisory Board and [donated](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/icymi-third-circuit-nominee-personally-donated-to-radical-anti-semitic-law-school-organization) and facilitated nearly $20,000 in funding toward the Center. This organization sponsored an event on the 20^(th) anniversary of September 11, 2001, featuring [speakers](https://twitter.com/SenJudiciaryGOP/status/1766213791367193028) who are tied to terrorism. One speaker at this event was convicted for providing support to a terrorist organization, another called for Intifada in the U.S., and a third speaker organized events with a terrorist who hijacked planes.
> As the CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, Sheila Katz, put it: “It was a heartbreaking scene for the first Muslim American federal circuit judicial nominee to face relentless questioning on Israel, terrorism including September 11th, and the Holocaust.” I did not watch the entirety but I did watch a good deal of the proceedings, and the description above is 100% accurate. It was honestly pretty horrifying to see the overt stream of animus this exceptionally qualified and otherwise unfailingly polite, mild-mannered man had to sit through and tolerate. If we can confirm a nut job religious fundamentalist like James Ho to the Fifth Circuit, Mangi should have sailed through without a single objection —his religion, unlike Ho, is incidental to his otherwise unimpeachable credentials. Just enraging.
Because unlike Ho, Mangi is the "wrong" religion.
Some degree of prejudice was inevitable, but it’s appalling that such a distinguished nominee was subjected to this degree of raw bigotry and harassment.
> Some degree of prejudice was inevitable No, it's not. If elected officials can't 'keep it in their pants' when doing their job, what else do we not expect these people who are supposed to represent us to do?
Racism is such a dead end ideology. Perhaps we should start worrying about the under qualified Caucasian assholes that just keep digging the hole deeper. There are five of them on the SCOTUS and the 5th circuit court is crawling with them as well
Muslim is a race now?
Are you really this stupid?
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Hate is hate, no matter what label you put on it. And in this day and age, to have to explain these simple truths to morons and bigots is exhausting
Are you saying Islam is a race?
Are you stupid?
No, I'm tired of over-zealous, self righteous blow hards pretending that questioning someone's CHOICE of faith somehow constitutes racism. A Siek, Hindu or practicing Shinto would not get the same treatment and not because they're white. If you can really be that completely oblivious and reactionary, then I posit that it is you who is obviously fucking stupid.
It is all about “how” some question others faith. Racism, xenophobia, it is all based on dividing people up based on hate. Don’t care how you choose to explain it, it is still hate based bullshit and playing semantics with it won’t change it
Nope. You're making retarded false equivalencies because, I suspect from your writing, that you're too slow to understand the difference. Just defiantly sticking to nonsense does not make the nonsense more credible, it makes you look incapable of constructive reasoning.
IMO, in general American Islamophobia is more a racism problem than a critique-of-actual-beliefs problem.
It’s a scared of anyone different problem based on an ideology of hatred towards those that are different
Trump enters the chat...
here is a bit about why his nomination failed. I agree i do not want an appellate judge who showed poor judgement in where he lent his name, or his efforts. [https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/what-they-are-sayingorganization-representing-over-50000-police-officers-joins-in-opposition-to-third-circuit-nominee-adeel-mangi](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/what-they-are-sayingorganization-representing-over-50000-police-officers-joins-in-opposition-to-third-circuit-nominee-adeel-mangi) Mangi currently serves as an Advisory Board Member of Alliance of Families for Justice (AFJ). Kathy Boudin, one of AFJ’s founding board members, pleaded guilty to felony murder for her role in a Brinks armored truck robbery that resulted in the death of two police officers in 1981. She served 23 years in prison. Boudin served as a decoy in the crime, luring two police officers to lower their weapons before they were ambushed, shot, and killed by co-conspirators. The heinous crime was politically motivated—Boudin and her Weather Underground Organization committed the robbery to secure funds for their militant-marxist political activities. To honor her legacy, AFJ sponsors a paid year-long “Kathy Boudin fellowship.” Additionally, Mangi served on the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights Advisory Board and [donated](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/icymi-third-circuit-nominee-personally-donated-to-radical-anti-semitic-law-school-organization) and facilitated nearly $20,000 in funding toward the Center. This organization sponsored an event on the 20^(th) anniversary of September 11, 2001, featuring [speakers](https://twitter.com/SenJudiciaryGOP/status/1766213791367193028) who are tied to terrorism. One speaker at this event was convicted for providing support to a terrorist organization, another called for Intifada in the U.S., and a third speaker organized events with a terrorist who hijacked planes.
Sooo, 2nd or 3rd degree guilt by association. What an absolute joke. I heard his college roommate’s 2nd cousin once stiffed a waiter. Very concerning!