Posted on 08/09/2005 10:17:46 AM PDT by Crackingham
A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on law enforcement authorities to treat an assault this morning on a Virginia Muslim woman as a hate crime.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported that a 23-year-old Muslim woman, who is 8 months pregnant and wears and Islamic head scarf, said she was out for her morning walk in Arlington, Va., when three white men in a pick-up truck began screaming anti-Muslim and racist slurs at her. According to the victim, the men shouted, "You terrorist b- tch, go back to your country. . .You n-gger b-tch." (The woman is African-American.)
The truck drove away and then returned as the woman continued on her walk. One of the men, who was wearing military-style clothing, allegedly got out of the vehicle and began shoving the woman and preventing her from moving away. During the assault, he shouted, "You terrorist b-tch. . . We're going to kick you're a- s. . . you're nothing." The other men then called the attacker back to the truck and it sped off.
"We believe these types of incidents are the direct result of the growing level of virulent anti-Muslim rhetoric Americans are exposed to on the Internet, in newspaper editorial pages and on radio talk shows," said CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. "Our nation's political and religious leaders must begin to challenge Islamophobic hate-mongers."
I call BS....
Where's the police report?
Speaking as a woman, I totally agree. We should ban Islam is this country. Wouldn't bother me a bit.
"If it were a Christian woman in the story and she was being harrassed by muslims. I'm sure that the people here would not be asking for the same standard of evidence before showing a modicum of human concern over the issue."
That is because most Christians, unlike most Muslims of the CAIR ilk, deserve the benefit of the doubt. CAIR has been shown over and over to be a pack of liars and a terrorist front group. I wouldn't believe Ibrahim Hooper if he told me the sky is blue; I would double check.
I just hope the lynch mob can tell the difference between a Muslim and a Sikh. Anyone who has been on the road lately will note the number of turbaned, bearded Sikhs doing long haul trucking.
If this were a Christian woman in the story, there would be no story. The "story" is that a known Islamic terrorist supporting group (CAIR) is claiming that some stereotypical rednecks were nasty to a Muslim woman. Since the Koran teaches that Muslims are supposed to lie to Infidels if it gains them an advantage (like, say, distracting everyone from the fact that they support terrorists) many of us think the whole incident is pure fiction.
While I agree that no man who deserves the title should ever think about harming a pregnant woman in any way shape or form, I also do not believe the story for a second.
Yeah... Isn't it against Sharai law for a woman to be alone outside the house? Isn't she supposed to be with her husband or male relative at all times?
The rest of your post is straight out of the formulary, and is every bit as predictable as CAIR's stuff.
I am a woman- and I see it as cause and effect.
Live by the death-cult, identify with the death-cult, suffer with the death-cult.
I don't think this incident is true either- simply because any man THAT angry wouldn't have stopped at words. She would have been physically attacked.
But I don't see race or sex- I see ISLAM-and Islam is my enemy.
im highly skeptical of this report
That's an incredibly broad brush. Whatever the crimes of other Muslims, we should treat individual Muslims like anyone else living in this country. If a Muslim lives peacefully in America and violates none of our laws and supports no terrorist groups, why would you boycott his business?
funny, no word of it in the local press here in DC.
hmmmm.................
Doesn't pass the smell test.
BUT, if any man treated any woman, pregnant or not, mooslime or not, in such a manner in my presence, then that "man" and I would have a problem.
Hmm… One person shoved and called a name. No witnesses. Good think CAIR’s on top of this!
So what? They are welcome to leave. My copy of the constitution must be missing the part about the right not to be offended or the right to be welcome.
In this country, we don't believe in guilt-by-association. If this woman (assuming she exists) has committed any crimes, by all means arrest her. However, her choice of clothing is really not anyone else's business.
Were Nazi sympathizers during WW2 naive and stupid enough to expect smiles and cheery 'Good Morning's' if they wore a huge swastika on the streets of America?
AFAIK, we are not fighting a war against Islam. The President himself has said as much.
I jusy hope we don't ever have lynch mobs in this country.
Which would make you a bigot, I'm afraid, and certainly at odds with the time-honored American focus on individual rights and individual responsibilities.
This is not to deny the obvious fact that our terrorist enemies are almost uniformly Islamic. But to make the leap that all Muslims are therefore terrorists is not even close to justifiable. Sorry, but I'd rather leave that form of bigotry to folks like David Duke.
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