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This may be one of Hasan Piker’s most ridiculous takes yet.Piker says remembering 9/11 is being “weaponized” to make Muslims and Muslim candidates look bad, calling it a “permission structure for Islamophobia.”No, it isn’t.September 11 is remembered because nearly 3,000 innocent people were murdered in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. Families lost husbands, wives, sons, daughters, fathers and mothers. Americans watched people jump from burning buildings because the alternative was even worse.Remembering that horror is not racism. It is history.The people most likely to buy Piker’s argument are those too young to remember what happened that morning, or ideological leftists who seemingly view almost every uncomfortable historical fact through the lens of oppression and victimhood.There is also an important distinction Piker conveniently ignores. Criticizing the rhetoric, ideology or political positions of individual Muslim politicians is not the same thing as attacking Muslims as a group.People like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Abdul El-Sayed and Piker should be judged by what they themselves say and advocate. When Americans object to attacks on Israel, hostility toward longstanding American institutions, socialist politics or rhetoric they believe undermines the country, that criticism belongs to the individual making those arguments.Their religion should not shield them from political criticism, and their religion should not be used to condemn millions of other Muslims either.That is how a free society works.Piker seems to want something very different. He wants criticism of certain politicians and activists transformed into an accusation of bigotry. Once you accept that premise, legitimate debate becomes almost impossible because disagreement itself becomes evidence of prejudice.And calling the remembrance of September 11 “racist” is especially grotesque.Americans have every right to remember what happened, honor those who died, recognize the ideology behind the attack, and demand that political candidates of every religion explain exactly what they believe about America and its institutions.That is not Islamophobia.That is citizenship.Do you think the Democratic Party has adopted Piker's views as their own?Source: Podcast / Grabien video