Strike 2
Hidden amongst valid concerns about communal identity and fear due to Islamophobia, is Zohran's support for the Holy Land 5.
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As-salaam ʿalaykum
As-salaam ʿalaykum
As-salaam ʿalaykumVerse 1:
Thinking of my fui [aunt], her hijab on her head
What will she face? What will be done and said?
Fear
Fear
It never ends
A glance, a word, who knows what it will portend
She doesn’t walk outside, doesn’t ride the train,
‘Cause she’s terrified of the coming pain
From the words, looks, grabs, and shoves, man
She knows not who to trust and
She lives at home
Work
In the car
The fear grows inside her
Only feels safe when andar [inside]
Fresh air across the boundary Understand this, then you understand me
Thoughts never far from the safety of my family
With all of us now cast as the enemy
By whose homeland? In the name of whose security?Chorus:
Salaam
Salaam
(I-I-I-I)
Salaam
Call up my baba
Call up my mama
Call up my boys, say Verse 2:
Salaam to you, don’t get in your car
We’ll stand with you, that’s who we are
If register’s true, we’ll be right there
I’ll be Muslim too, I’ll share your fear
But to be honest, he is not America This whole ban, it is not who we are
We hold our freedoms oh so very dear
We will never let this happen here
God damn, whose man is this though?
With insufficient history of all my people
The lists even have month-old babies ID’d as terrorists
All a flight risk now, we suspicious
And I’m feeling just so done with this
President and all his precedents Saying,
Assalam aleikum
Me llamo Zohran
Raised in and by this city, and I am Muslim
My love to the Holy Land 5, you better look ‘em up
Made it through N SEERS, yaar, ain’t that enough?
Chorus
Ain’t that enough?
Ain’t that enough?
Ain’t that enough? No ban, no wall, say build it up, we’ll make it fall
No ban, no wall, say build it up, we’ll make it fall We’ll close bodegas, park the cabs
No halal food in your hands
We’ll close bodegas, park the cabs
No halal food in your lands
In your land, in your land
No halal food in your lands Ain’t that enough?
Ain’t that enough?
Ain’t that enough?
Holy Land 5?
The Hamas Networks in America: A Short History
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU10/20240515/117305/HHRG-118-JU10-20240515-SD001.pdf / page 11
Faced with two conflicting needs, the participants opted for a two-pronged approach that differentiated between its internal and external strategy. Within the Muslim community, agreed the participants, Committee should maintain its support for Hamas undeterred, engaging in various activities to aid the organization. “In the coming stage, the most important thing we can provide,” said one speaker, “is to support Jihad in Palestine. I believe it is the only way if we want to bring the goals of the [Oslo peace] accord to fail.”26 Fundraising among local Muslim communities was immediately identified as one of the key activities the group should have engaged in. The newly created Holy Land Foundation, in fact, was to collect funds for Hamas while giving the impression that it was destining them to orphans and needy children. “We give the Islamists $100,000 and we give others 5,000,” stated Abu Baker, outlining how HLF could maintain the semblance of being a charitable organization and avoid scrutiny from authorities. HLF, he argued, needed to “maintain a balance,” avoiding attracting attention while “stay[ing] on its legal track as far as charitable projects are concerned without going after a sentiment which could harm the Foundation legally.”27 Using these expedients, argue U.S. authorities, HLF officials collected and funneled to Hamas more than 12 million dollars until the charity was shut down in December 2001.28 At the same time, argued meeting participants, the Committee should have engaged in an extensive effort to educate the American Muslim community, convincing them that the peace accords harmed the Palestinians and that Hamas was the only force worth supporting.