What is this country made of?

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mogur

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When a man can grab a woman's hair covering, and think that he is exemplifying american values, what is this country coming to? Are we so politically incorrect that we can challenge other's rights to their religion? Is the Tea Party right? Are we all Christian and only Christian? Are we to suppress the right of religious expression? Can we in good conscienceness say that anyone of non-Christian faith cannot enter our country? Welcome to Donald's world. Not Ronald McDonald, but actually the Donald. Do you want anyone to be able to intimidate and threaten someone according to their religion? Well, welcome to the egoistic mega-capitalist. He wants you to have only one faith. His.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...hijab-pleads-guilty-to-religious-obstruction/
 
Establishment said:
Since when are all non-Christians Islamic?
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Well, that is one defense of the asshat. Maybe he thought she was Shike. Maybe he thought she was Buddist. Maybe he is just a prick, who thought that ripping her hajib off was the right thing to do. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. He is simply an all but Christian hater of religious symbolism. Do you really think that what he did is an AMERICAN thing to do? After all, this country certainly wasn't founded on religious freedom. Or was it?
 
mogur said:
Well, that is one defense of the asshat. Maybe he thought she was Shike. Maybe he thought she was Buddist. Maybe he is just a prick, who thought that ripping her hajib off was the right thing to do. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. He is simply an all but Christian hater of religious symbolism. Do you really think that what he did is an AMERICAN thing to do? After all, this country certainly wasn't founded on religious freedom. Or was it?
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I didn't see where the perp was Christian or acted on a Christian motivation. Did I miss it? The guy was being a jerk and should have felt the weight of the law.

Then there's this, to wit:

"According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports: Hate Crime Statistics, 2014, there were 1,140 victims of anti-religious hate crimes in the U.S. in 2014. “Of the 1,140 victims of anti-religious hate crimes: 56.8 percent [56.8%] were victims of crimes motivated by their offenders’ anti-Jewish bias.” That amounts to approximately 647.52 instances where Jewish individuals, businesses or institutions were targeted.

A mere “16.1 percent [16.1%] were victims of anti-Islamic (Muslim) bias,” amounting to approximately 183.54 instances where Muslim individuals, businesses or institutions were targeted.

In the U.S., Jews were targeted an astonishing 40.7 percent (40.7%) more than Muslims in the year 2014.

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael...nti-religious-hate-crimes-muslims-targeted-16

Contrary to liberal and CAIR mythology, Muslims aren't subject to systemic persecution in this country. No one is, actually lol. If any religious minority could make that case, at all, it would be the Jews. I don't have the energy for it, but it would be interesting to know what percentage of hate crimes against Jews are instigated by Muslims or left wing pro-Palestine zealots.
 
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Near the end of his Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Albuquerque, Gill Parker Payne decided he had to take action.

Seated a few rows in front of him was a woman he had never met before. She was wearing a religious headscarf, known as a hijab, which Payne recognized as a Muslim practice. He stood up, walked down the aisle and stopped next to her seat. Looking down at the woman, Payne instructed her to remove the covering.

“Take it off! This is America!” Payne, 37, later recalled saying. When she didn’t do it herself, Payne did: He grabbed the hijab from the back and pulled it all off. Violated, the woman, identified by the Justice Department only as K.A., quickly pulled the hijab back over her head.

On Friday, as part of a plea deal with the federal government, Payne pleaded guilty to obstructing the woman’s exercise of her religious beliefs. “Because I forcibly removed K.A.’s hijab, I admit that the United States can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that I intentionally obstructed K.A.’s free exercise of her religious beliefs,” he said in a written statement in the plea agreement.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/05/14/take-it-off-this-is-america-man-who-yanked-hijab-pleads-guilty-to-religious-obstruction/
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Well that's one asshole who doesn't understand what it means to be an American. Glad he got his just deserts.
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There are millions of Trump-loving bigots just like him. Most have never seen a Muslim in real life.

Some haters thought that Sikhs were Muslim, so they assaulted them. :palm:
 
mogur said:
Well, that is one defense of the asshat. Maybe he thought she was Shike. Maybe he thought she was Buddist. Maybe he is just a prick, who thought that ripping her hajib off was the right thing to do. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. He is simply an all but Christian hater of religious symbolism. Do you really think that what he did is an AMERICAN thing to do? After all, this country certainly wasn't founded on religious freedom. Or was it?
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Oh, he's certainly a colossal douchebag for behaving that way.
 
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Dr. Prabhjot Singh is a husband, a father, and a professor of medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He serves in prestigious positions, including director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health and vice chairman of medicine for population health at the Mount Sinai Health System. He co-founded the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign with the legendary Jeffrey Sachs, a leading force in the war on poverty.

As a Sikh, Singh also wears a turban and sports a long beard.

A group of about 20 men in Central Park saw Singh and his brother out for a walk and came to a single conclusion, which they shouted at the accomplished doctor and academic: "terrorist."

They attacked Singh and fractured his jaw – all because they apparently thought he was Muslim.


http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015-12-31/sikhs-become-a-casualty-of-anti-muslim-actions
 
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