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'Please don’t be Muslim’: Fears of racial, ethnic profiling in the wake of Boston bombing
The Grio ^ | April 17, 2013 | Zaheer Ali

Posted on 04/19/2013 9:39:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

As the news broke of the explosions at the Boston Marathon on Monday, I thought how horrific and tragic it was that people trained all year for a race that ended for some in the loss of limbs or even death.

Just as my heart went out to the victims of such terrifying violence, my mind raced to thoughts of the perpetrator: “Please don’t be Muslim,” I muttered to myself, joining what seemed to be a global chorus of Muslims on social media, fearing the kinds of ethnic and religious profiling that could fuel calls for violent reprisals against entire communities.

Conservative commentator Erik Rush’s tweet declaring Muslims, “evil” and urging “Let’s kill them all,” certainly did nothing to assuage my fears.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bostonmarathon; radicalislam; tsarnaev
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1 posted on 04/19/2013 9:39:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Pardon me while I puke.


2 posted on 04/19/2013 9:42:04 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“’Please don’t be Muslim,’ I muttered to myself,”

And now that it was, when is the muslim ‘community’ going to stand and condemn jihad...and mean it...instead of making lame and fallacious excuses for it?


3 posted on 04/19/2013 9:46:43 PM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: Navy Patriot

What other than a Muslim in America would kill maime and terrorize a community other than Muslims!

When it happens no profiling is needed !
When did yuts from the Baptist community kill maime dismember terrorize your neighbors! Why didn’t they set a bomb off on their own block? Because they are all muzzies too!


4 posted on 04/19/2013 9:48:59 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh they so wanted it to be a tea party member....always remember....they do not want us to be political opponents they want to classify there own countrymen as enemies of the state.

This horrific attack was going to be used as...never let a crisis go to waste...it just didn’t go the way they wanted.


5 posted on 04/19/2013 9:50:02 PM PDT by Blackirish (Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Navy Patriot
Pardon me while I puke.

Hold it. Get in line. Me first.

6 posted on 04/19/2013 9:50:36 PM PDT by Lent
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To: MestaMachine

moozlums hate you...hate Free America...hate your freedom. moozlums directly and indirectly want you and your children dead.


7 posted on 04/19/2013 9:51:01 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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8 posted on 04/19/2013 9:51:38 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It just occured to me that Mohammedans will probably win converts over this, while not losing any people who are already Moslem.

Not a big number, nothing dramatic, but I think that there are people who respond to something like this by wanting to join these ‘underdogs’, these ‘outsiders’, these dedicated religious people who belong to a religion so different and upsetting to parents, and authority figures, and Christian family members.

It is along the lines of why American females who convert love to wear the costume, it makes them ‘special’, a kind of attention gaining martyr type deal, the ‘center of attention’.


9 posted on 04/19/2013 9:52:28 PM PDT by ansel12 (The lefts most effective position-I'm libertarian on social issues, but conservative on economics.)
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To: MestaMachine

Instead of muttering to himself, this guy needs to shout out to his fellow muslim breathren to no longer behave as savages and come into the 21st century.


10 posted on 04/19/2013 9:56:48 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
“Please don’t be Muslim,”

But it so often is. And most of what transpires immediately afterward is this sort of pity-party, poor little me nonsense couple with blaming everyone else for being skittish of Muslims.

It's old, tired, and pathetic.

11 posted on 04/19/2013 9:58:13 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Please be some white guys......Boo Hoo... snif sniff!


12 posted on 04/19/2013 9:58:53 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

But please, whatever you do, do NOT rush to judgement. Mmmmkayyyy?

Do I really need the /s?


13 posted on 04/19/2013 10:03:14 PM PDT by RedCell (Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
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To: The_Media_never_lie
He cannot talk against Jihad because they will want to kill him if he does!
Beside the fact that Islam is Satan's religion, it's useful idiot followers like him
who are to stupid to understand that it's a cult that deserves to die. The followers just
stand around and do nothing while their leaders call to kill everybody including other Muslims.
14 posted on 04/19/2013 10:04:57 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: MinorityRepublican

Chechen Muslims.


15 posted on 04/19/2013 10:07:52 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ogen hal

moozlums hate you...hate Free America...hate your freedom. moozlums directly and indirectly want you and your children dead.

Moozlums also committed this horrible crime which killed and maimed so many “real Americans”. All crimes such as this have been committed by moozlums, besides Waco. The government committed that. In Oklahoma, some stupid Americans were involved, but in the bigger picture, it was run by moozlums


16 posted on 04/19/2013 10:09:19 PM PDT by Wj33
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Just as my heart went out to the victims of such terrifying violence, my mind raced to thoughts of the perpetrator: “Please don’t be Muslim,” I muttered to myself, joining what seemed to be a global chorus of Muslims on social media, fearing the kinds of ethnic and religious profiling that could fuel calls for violent reprisals against entire communities.”
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He has that little confidence in his religion of peace and fellow Muslims that his first thought is the possibility of it being a Muslim terrorist? Sounds like Jesse Jackson on walking the streets at night. Maybe his problem isn’t those who he worries will judge, maybe his problem is his fellow Muslims?


17 posted on 04/19/2013 10:09:40 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Give them a taste of their own medicine. They play like they are innocent angels but how do they treat Christians and other religious minorities in their Muslim countries? Don’t these hypocrites know about the persecution that is going on in many countries? How do they talk about Christians in their mosques and around their kitchen tables? Besides they have not been living here for thousands of years as the Christians that they persecute in their own countries. If they do not like it here they can leave since it is not their culture and the longest most of them have been here is a generation. They still have ties to their home countries so why don’t they just leave.


18 posted on 04/19/2013 10:12:09 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: MinorityRepublican
But is was two Muslims.
Your prayers were answered with a resounding NO!

Will you openly denounce them as evil murderers now?

No? Nothing else need be said.

19 posted on 04/19/2013 10:13:35 PM PDT by sarasmom (The obvious takes longer to discover for the obtuse.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Please. The only groups terrorizing Muslims without provocation is other Muslims.


20 posted on 04/19/2013 10:14:01 PM PDT by Viennacon
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