In a peak of anti-Islam rhetoric and hate speech in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election, imagine a pill that could cure “blind intolerance, unthinking bigotry,” and even “irrational fear of Muslims.”
Though it may seem trivial at the first glance, imagining a medical solution to a deeply rooted problem has given a Muslim advocacy group the idea to launch a “satirical public awareness campaign to challenge growing Islamophobia in America.”
The initiative aims to empower those who seek to challenge Islamophobia in the United States by providing them with satire and humor as a tool.
“US Presidential Election Year Scapegoating” is another illness the “multi-symptom relief for chronic Islamophobia” offers to treat.
Called Islamophobin, the tablets “may result in peaceful coexistence” in the wake of hate speech against Muslims, Hispanics, African Americans, and women as accentuated by the rise of real estate tycoon Donald…