“It’s weird how politicians keep telling me I’m on the front line of fighting terrorism when I’m just trying to get through a sugar detox,” replied St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Aisha Sultan concerning Hillary’s remarks about Muslims. “I’m not being flippant about the role American Muslims should play about reporting anything dangerous they hear whether in a mosque or anywhere else. We all bear that responsibility. But I’ve never heard anyone talk like that. And, I don’t hear candidates telling white Americans to be on the front lines to fight school shootings,” Sultan continued.

XREF: Connects to broader discourse on how minority groups are asked to bear civic responsibility in ways majority groups are not — parallels critiques of being 'model minorities' or being told to condemn fringe elements of one's own community.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 711