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S.F. doctor whose brother was slain decries anti-Muslim hostility
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | March 7, 2015 | Hamed Aleaziz

Posted on 03/08/2015 8:57:32 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Dr. Suzanne Barakat was writing a prescription for one of her patients at San Francisco General Hospital when her phone lit up with text messages from friends sending condolences.

It was Feb. 10 and Barakat, 27, was in her first year of family medicine residency. She ignored the first text, thinking it was either a mistake or a reference to family members in war-torn Syria.

“I just put my head back to work,” she said. But then Barakat noticed that one of the texts mentioned her 23-year-old brother, Deah Barakat, a dental student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

At that point, she recalled in an interview this week, she still didn’t know Deah had been slain — gunned down, along with his wife and her sister, in a shocking burst of violence that would touch off a nationwide discussion over how Muslims are treated in America.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Syria; US: California; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: california; chapelhill; deahbarakat; hamedaleaziz; idontcair; neighborsquabble; northcarolina; pravdamedia; sanfrancisco; suzannebarakat; syria
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According to Obama it was just a "bunch of folks" arguing over a parking place.
1 posted on 03/08/2015 8:57:32 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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It’s hard for me to feel sorry for Deah Barakat, the brother, who apparently was very much supportive of violent Muslim jihad.

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/02/12/well-well-looks-like-one-of-the-so-called-innocent-muslim-students-who-was-gunned-down-had-some-very-pro-islamic-terrorism-leanings-himself/


2 posted on 03/08/2015 9:00:05 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: artichokegrower

touch off a nationwide discussion over how Muslims are treated in America.

Gee, and here I thought we weren’t supposed to stereotype or generalize or “blame a group for the actions of a few”

What gives?


3 posted on 03/08/2015 9:00:41 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Stop calling the plagiarist "Dr." KIng . . .)
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To: artichokegrower

So what?


4 posted on 03/08/2015 9:02:04 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Wash, rinse, dry, put away.)
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To: artichokegrower
Correction: A maddened left wing Rachel Maddow bot goes ballistic over a dispute over a parking spot ... and the MSM spends the next week talking to itself about how Muslims are disrespected.

Round up the MSM, pop them into a time machine, and they would be sitting around in Rome in the early 5th century obsessing on not offending the self-esteem of the Huns.

5 posted on 03/08/2015 9:07:30 AM PDT by sphinx
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Reminds me. I’ve got to get a new air filter for the lawn mower.


6 posted on 03/08/2015 9:08:23 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: artichokegrower
Cry me a river.

Boo-fricking-hoo.


7 posted on 03/08/2015 9:13:50 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: artichokegrower

Seriously, who cares about prejudicial attitudes towards these people or even their deaths? Islam is a cult of death. It exists, and its main tenet, is to take over the world by killing those in its way. It cannot co-exist with Liberty and Freedom, or for that matter prosperity. It must be eliminated like the Nazi scourge of the 20th century. It is very simple, we kill them, or they kill us.


8 posted on 03/08/2015 9:15:39 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: artichokegrower
MUSLIMS HAVE NO RIGHTS

Rights are reciprocal. Muslims have no rights because they recognize no rights.

ISIS engages in the same activities that the scumbag so-called prophet Mohammed engaged in and demanded of his followers.

And it’s true that not all majority-Muslim countries are quite so violent as ISIS. Still, there is no Muslim-majority country that recognizes basic human rights, particularly the rights of women.

When they start allowing Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues to be built in Mecca, and when they allow the establishment of restaurants that sell southern American barbecue, I’ll be willing to consider whether Muslims have rights.

Until then, forget it. If they want their rights recognized, the first thing they need to do is to renounce Islam and stop being Muslims.

9 posted on 03/08/2015 9:16:43 AM PDT by Maceman
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Man who killed, burned ex-girlfriend's father, sister gets death http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-man-who-killed-burned-exgirlfriends-father-sister-gets-death-20150305-story.html When she broke up with him, Murtaza blamed her parents, who had disapproved of the relationship because the family members were devout Hindus and Murtaza was Muslim, according to prosecutors.
Nothing to look at here folks, move along, go back to your homes.
10 posted on 03/08/2015 9:16:43 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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Perhaps people in the US would be more friendly towards Muslims if Muslims were a little more tolerant...


11 posted on 03/08/2015 9:20:16 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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Deah had been active serving the community, handing out dental supplies and food to the homeless in Durham, N.C. He had been planning to travel to Turkey to help care for Syrian refugees.....In the words of Tommy Chong, “Uhhhh, YAAAw.”


12 posted on 03/08/2015 9:31:25 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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Dr. Suzanne if that is your name.

1. There was no national conversation, well there is but it’s in secret and its not going the way you think.

2. You should call the family of the woman in Oklahoma who had her head chopped off at work. You can commiserate on your shared American experience.

3. You should honor your Palestinian loving brother by taking your skills to Syria the way he wanted to. But you won’t,Will you. You’ll stay here join cair and criticize us. Ingrate.


13 posted on 03/08/2015 9:32:16 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: artichokegrower

Next time remember there are other parking places.


14 posted on 03/08/2015 9:33:27 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: econjack

Every man in orange in this picture is in paradise with Jesus. Every man in black will burn in hell for ever.


15 posted on 03/08/2015 9:34:24 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: Travis McGee
A radical muslim wants to cut your head off. A moderate muslim wants a radical muslim to cut hour head off.

(Someone other than me posted it here on FR)

16 posted on 03/08/2015 9:40:27 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Maceman

“Rights are reciprocal.”
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Where is THIS in the Constitution. You can’t just make stuff up.


17 posted on 03/08/2015 9:40:34 AM PDT by Regal
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To: artichokegrower

They haven’t seen anti-muslim hostility yet.

When we commence playing cowboys and muslims there will be no mistaking it.


18 posted on 03/08/2015 9:46:49 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (GOP-RIP 3/3/2015 Suicide By Betrayal)
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To: artichokegrower

I’m tired of the anti Western Civ drivel from the muzzies.


19 posted on 03/08/2015 9:48:03 AM PDT by Paladin2
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My care meter for them is...well not really registering.

Muslims are locusts that will devour the host ever so slowly, using the hosts own laws against him.

Anybody ever mention the Anti-Christian hostility in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan?

Guess that doesn’t count.


20 posted on 03/08/2015 9:51:19 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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