Arab-American soldiers got called terrorists by fellow marines for showing compassion

Evidence

A few of his fellow marines didn’t take well to his sympathies. “Fuck those guys. Get rid of them all,” they would say, and then Sami would stop them and ask, “Do you really think we should just kill everybody here?” “Hell yeah, fuck them all!” they replied. Sami would just shake his head, and they would call him “terrorist.” With his friends, at least, there was none of this talk. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 234 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An Arab-American marine was branded a terrorist for showing compassion toward Iraqis — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 234; US counterinsurgency logic fused foreign and domestic Arabs into one terrorist threat; Muslim Americans bear collective guilt for unrelated Muslim terrorists — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 346 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• An Arab-American marine was branded a terrorist for showing compassion toward Iraqis #corroborates (0.98) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 234