Worshippers who reacted to a man disrupting their prayer in Mestre, labeled 'Muslim invaders.'
The Texas State Board of Education voted 8 to 4 on September 4 to adopt social studies standards describing Muhammad as a brutal warrior, and on September 10 LauraLoomer wrote that "Texas is being Islamified before our eyes". On September 12, RadioGenoa posted footage from Mestre, in Italy, of a confrontation between Simone Carabella and a group of Muslim people, captioned: "Further footage of attack by Muslim invaders in Mestre on Simone Carabella." The caption labels the worshippers invaders and casts them as the attackers. The same day the account applied the label to people in central Lisbon. The post drew about 236,052 views.
Invaders says the people at prayer don't belong in Mestre, and Muslim says why. The word makes their religion the reason they are foreign, so a group of worshippers in an Italian town becomes a hostile force by virtue of praying. Whatever happened after the interruption, the label was fixed before it and has nothing to do with it.
The word attack settles it. The footage is captioned as an attack by the worshippers on the man who interrupted them, so the interruption of Muslim worship goes unnamed and the reaction to it becomes the offense. A fair-minded reader should see that the post decides who belongs in the town by religion and then reads the footage through that decision.
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"Further footage of attack by Muslim invaders in Mestre on Simone Carabella."
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