(\u201cDeSantis declares Muslim civil rights group a terrorist organization,\u201d Dec. 9).<\/a><\/p>\nCAIR Florida, which I see as no different from the NAACP, got an American teenager from Palm Bay returned to his family after being imprisoned in Israel for eight long months without charges. CAIR Florida has also cared for a family whose Tampa son, an ice cream shop owner, was brutally beaten to death; the organization is demanding justice for this young man after his assailants were questioned and released.<\/p>\n
Not long ago a Muslim-American family was eating at an outdoor caf\u00e9 in Sarasota when a man screamed obscenities and threats at them. When the family was not given a police report, CAIR Florida got it for them, and learned that the police said the man who attacked the family was a Black man from Jacksonville, when evidence showed the alleged attacker was a white businessman from Sarasota who hated Muslims.<\/p>\n
Do any of these efforts by CAIR Florida smack of terrorism? But there is terrorism in this story. DeSantis has opened Florida\u2019s door to Israeli businesses, including a drone factory in Tampa turning out 9,000 deadly weapons each month. DeSantis is creating fear and anger toward Muslims and Arab-Americans who are our doctors, our attorneys, our businessmen, who love our country, and love their religion of peace, justice, compassion and mercy. Now they are at the mercy of a merciless governor.<\/p>\n
Dan Callaghan New Port Richey<\/p>\n
Leaders attacking women\u2019s rights<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s rights and our right to determine how we manage our health care continues to be challenged. The attorneys general of Florida and Texas filed a lawsuit targeting abortion drugs. In my opinion, the issue for both men isn\u2019t abortion, it\u2019s women.<\/p>\n
If one were to take the time to read Project 2025, it is very clear that the objective is to align all federal agencies with \u201cpro-life\u201d policies, establishing abortion as not being health care. Furthermore, the document promotes the \u201ctradwife\u201d \u2014 traditional wife \u2014 which emphasizes female subservience to her husband, prioritizing bearing children over career building.<\/p>\n
If you think \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d was fiction, think again. Margaret Atwood saw what was coming and created a tale set in a dystopian future where women are nothing more than baby machines.<\/p>\n
If we allow this to continue, birth control will be next.<\/p>\n
Violet Irminger Mount Dora<\/p>\n
Why punish all immigrants?<\/p>\n
A National Guard service member patrolling Washington, D.C., was recently killed by a man from Afghanistan \u2014 someone who was in the United States because he had helped American forces during our longest war. He didn\u2019t kill because of politics; he killed because he was a disturbed individual.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration\u2019s knee-jerk response was to halt immigration from what the president called \u201cthird world countries.\u201d That\u2019s only a slight improvement from \u201cs\u2014hole countries,\u201d a term he used in his first term and again recently.<\/p>\n
I have a friend here on an asylum visa from one of those so-called countries. He works hard, obeys the law, pays taxes and supports his family \u2014 everything we say we value in Americans.<\/p>\n
I understand the impulse to act after tragedy. But we need a scalpel, not a meat cleaver. Punishing thousands of innocent people is not policy \u2014 it\u2019s panic. And it\u2019s un-American.<\/p>\n
George Devitt Maitland<\/p>\n
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