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Mahmoud Khalil, The Trump Administration, Right Wing Politics and the Ominously Chilling Attack on Freedom of Speech!
Anyone who has a beating heart and is astute enough should be conscious of the fact that debates over free speech, cultural appropriation, intolerance, and numerous other controversies covered by the umbrella term “cancel culture” have woven themselves firmly into the fabric of our current culture over the past few years.
By now, most Americans who are plugged into the media cycle are aware of the case of Mahmoud Khalil and his wife, Noor Abdalla, and how federal officers followed the couple into the lobby of their university-owned apartment building and stopped them. “The officer then proceeded to say ‘We are with the police; you have to come with us,’” Noor Abdalla said. “The officer told Mahmoud to give me the apartment keys and that I could go upstairs. When I refused, afraid to leave my husband, the officer stated, ‘I will arrest you, too.’ The officers later barricaded Mahmoud from me.” “This is the first arrest of many to come,” Donald Trump posted on Truth Social. “We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it.”