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'It Is Time You Realize This Is Not Acceptable:' Doctor Shares Story to Stop 'Islamophobia'
NBC Bay Area ^ | 9/28 | Jodi Hernandez

Posted on 09/28/2015 9:53:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A Bay Area doctor is sharing her painful story in hopes of stopping "Islamophobia."

Dr. Suzanne Barakat's story made national headlines earlier this year when her 23-year-old brother and two other people were gunned down in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She believes they were killed because they are Muslims.

On Monday, Barakat told her fellow doctors she sees signs of hate, even from patients, every day.

"My hope is this kind of thing never happens again to anyone and we can realize at the end of the day we're all human with the same ambitions, dreams and goals," Barakat said of her brother's death.

Deah Barakat, a dental student at the University of North Carolina, his wife, Yusor Muhammad, and his wife's sister were shot and killed allegedly by a neighbor back in February in what many consider a hate crime.

Dr. Barakat said racism and bias against Muslims, called Islamophobia, takes place even at an institution like San Francisco General.

"It is time you realize this is not acceptable," she said. "It's time people stand up for me."

The doctor said she's determined to change stereotypes in honor of her loved ones.

"I didn't feel they really left me a choice but to stand up and make voices heard and make sure their deaths didn't go in vain," Barakat said.


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1 posted on 09/28/2015 9:53:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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No one weeps when whites or Christians are killed by racist blacks or Muslims.


2 posted on 09/28/2015 9:55:48 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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and we can realize at the end of the day we're all human

Uh huh. Human is as human does, okay? Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'. Problem is, you already started somethin'.

3 posted on 09/28/2015 9:58:13 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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Ok it is terrible that a Muslim got killed for being a Muslim. But in the bigger picture, Muslims are slaughtering thousands because they are not Muslim. So it is a little bit difficult to paint this one all that sympathetically without 1000X more sympathy to the many many more victims in the other direction.


4 posted on 09/28/2015 9:59:57 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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Dr. Barakat said racism and bias against Muslims, called Islamophobia, takes place even at an institution like San Francisco General.

What race is Muslim?

5 posted on 09/28/2015 10:01:24 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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muslims are always the victims even when they are the perpetrators.
6 posted on 09/28/2015 10:01:30 PM PDT by RginTN
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If I remember correctly, the lunatic killed those two over complaints about a parking space, not because they were muslim.


7 posted on 09/28/2015 10:04:12 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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“we’re all human with the same ambitions, dreams and goals”

No we’re not. The American Dream and the Islamic dream are diametrically opposed to each other. Culturally, morally and spiritually incompatible. Witness Clockmed making his first trial run at bomb building vs oh, the Wright brothers or Henry Ford or Bill Gates, etc. Compare the puss pots of the ME (excepting Israel) with Europe or the US. NOT the same ambitions, dreams and goals! Not even close.


8 posted on 09/28/2015 10:04:31 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: VanShuyten

Yep, that is what I remember too.


9 posted on 09/28/2015 10:09:19 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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Barakat, Muslim Christianphobia gets Christians beheaded. Do you weep for them? Do you demand from your Imam to issue fatwas against Christianphobia? I doubt it, so stop your boohooing.
10 posted on 09/28/2015 10:13:21 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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What race is Muslim?

Top of the Human Evolutionary Chain, definitely what Hilter had in mind!


11 posted on 09/28/2015 10:14:19 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

They weren’t killed because they were Muslim, they were killed because they posed an existential threat to others, and every Muslim out there is an unknown quantity, the rest of us not knowing when they might go all Jihadist, for totally unpredictable reasons.

They do NOT have “the same ambitions, dreams and goals” as the rest of humanity, they are ALL afflicted with a madness that recognizes only the ultimate superiority of the words of a sun-crazed sand hermit suffering from the later stages of schizophrenic paranoia.

Abandon this madness and come over to the side of light, mercy and release from the bondage, that perhaps you do not recognize as the compulsory enslavement that it is. Christians, Buddhists, and even Hindus will accept your blessed personal epiphany, and embrace you as a fellow human being, if only you have the bravery to give up your twisted value system that despises the least breath of fresh air and illumination of your soul. Other Muslims may think it their duty to kill those who depart from Islam, but Islam is itself a dead end and trap.


12 posted on 09/28/2015 10:17:35 PM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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In every country where Islam came in I think in the future we will find civil wars where Muslims will have caused other to defend themselves and their countries against them.


13 posted on 09/28/2015 10:19:35 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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Muzzies should stop their infidelaphobia!


14 posted on 09/28/2015 10:23:26 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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STFU you muzzy Bitch.
15 posted on 09/28/2015 10:24:49 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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I have no sympathy for this doctor and other muslims. When they stop torturing and slaughtering Christians and Jews by the thousands, and take pity on others, then I might give a d*mn. Until then, they can all just die.


16 posted on 09/28/2015 10:27:20 PM PDT by roadcat
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And I believe that lunatic has lefty tendencies, as well.
17 posted on 09/28/2015 10:33:07 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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Islamophillia kills!


18 posted on 09/28/2015 10:34:38 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Stop flying jets into skyscrapers. Stop killing people for drawing mohammed. Stop with suicide bombs. Stop mutilating the genitals of young girls. Give up sharia. Stop raping young boys.

Then we’ll talk. -


19 posted on 09/28/2015 10:36:03 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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She should share her story with ISIS members. I’m sure they would be interested in hearing it.


20 posted on 09/28/2015 10:41:53 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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