Farida Haque
Dec 12, 2023

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What are Hamas types?

You fell into the stereotyping trap.

White supremacist types?
Christian fundamentalist types?
Taliban types?
Mossad types?
IDF types?

I like that you’re like a goodwill ambassador. People are people.
I like that you recognize, like many of us, that Arabs are Semitic too, a term expropriated by paranoid types. I believe they’re called Zionists?

I’m someone who’s been patronized by white Americans to the point of - you’re a brown Muslim but you’re ok- not a Taliban type! Where did you learn to speak excellent English? I was a hirsute troglodyte before the west civilized me.

Thank you, fellow Americans. You make miss Liberty proud.

I won’t be allowed inside Israel as a Pakistani American. I’d love to ride a taxi in Tel Aviv dressed in my Muslim garb!

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Farida Haque
Farida Haque

Written by Farida Haque

Multimedia artist, writer, poet. “I could not have painted myself happy without painting myself sad first…” faridahaque@gmail.com

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