Posted on 01/29/2007 8:15:58 AM PST by johnqueuepublic
January 26, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - CAIR, the Saudi funded Wahhabist pressure group is trying to whip up what appears at first blush to be an intra-student body dust-up at a Southern college, into a federal hate crime prosecution.
On early Sunday morning January 21, 2007 members of the Guilford College [a Quaker institution located in Greensboro, NC] football team including Christopher Barnette, Michael Robert Six and Michael Bates were involved in a confrontation with three foreign-born students from Israel's West Bank - Farris Khader, Omar Awartani and Osama Sabbah.
The football players have since been charged with aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation and are free on $2,000 bail each.
Reports of the event vary.
The three alleged victims of the incident claim that with no provocation, they were attacked by members of the Guilford football team simply because of their ethnicity. They maintain that during the incident they were subjected to racial epithets.
However other accounts of the fracas differ markedly, alleging that the foreign students precipitated the fight, with at least one of them attacking first, using his belt as a weapon.
(Excerpt) Read more at pipelinenews.org ...
For a "shorthand" regarding this controversy think Duke lacrosse...
An important story, imho.
"The football players have since been charged with aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation and are free on $2,000 bail each."
Let me guess which three those were.
A warning to all lighter skinned fellows. Just walk away, you can't win.
Two white and one black guy. The black guy was on some hotlists for the NFL.
Guilford will try REALLY hard to keep this from going to trial. There are some ugly racial ramifications from this.
I'll see your two white guys a and a black guy who play for a Quaker football team and RAISE you three pi$$ed-off Palestinians.
It's like multi-cultural poker or something. :-/
Two of the accused are African Americans, which goes to show how the emphasis has shifted, now Blacks are lumped with Caucasians assuming Pale's are the complainants.
The key here, the subtext of this story is the nature of the Rammalah Friends school, why are the Quakers associating with a school that is a hate factory?
Well that is very true, usually because the good guys refuse to push back, succeeding articles will present the case in more acute detail.
Yep, there is definitely a hierarchy to victim status. One of the wonders of multi-culturalism. I suspect you are right about the Palis. Just doing what they do. Attacking and then claiming to be victims.
"The key here, the subtext of this story is the nature of the Rammalah Friends school, why are the Quakers associating with a school that is a hate factory?"
Because leftist radicals are drawn to the historic pacifism of Quaker belief, and have coopted it to add a western, religious veneer of authority and respectability to their destructive hatred of everything western. I'm honestly beginning to think that the whole thing was deliberately staged by the so-called Palestinian students at the behest of groups such as CAIR, inspired by the situation at Duke.
You might be right regarding the staged nature of the event.
Also about the Quaker/lefty alliance, I can't imagine the Quakers tolerating the type of over the top attitudes in the Ramallah school if the students had been Jewish.
Can you imagine them acceding to Jewish kids saying that the Pales were evil racists bent upon Israel's destruction and that suicide bombing was an appropriate response?
Don't think so.
"Pro-Palestinian" glosses over a great deal that would be rightly called anti-Semitism in any other context.
Agreed, the same situation that we find with the term "neo-con" which simply means Zionist Jew or a sympathizer.
Besides there is no nation called Palestine, never has been.
It's the West Bank of ISRAEL and if the Pales dont like it well they can take it up the the management....
“The physical evidence will clearly show who the aggressors were in this incident,” said Six.
Criminal charges so far come from warrants filed in the Magistrate’s office by the three Palestinian students. Six claims when the parents of the football players went to file their own charges of assault, they said the Magistrate told them no.
“We are deeply saddened by the inadequate portrayal by their school,” said Six. “Those who sensationalized this story will be rightly embarrassed.”
They have now charged a 6th player; a wide receiver from Albermarle.
If the 6 turn out to be mostly African American, this will get ugly.
I noted on an earlier thread that one of the original three football players charged in this "incident" was from Reidsville, NC. I live just down the road from Reidsville. This is real farm country and you see the core belief system that is usually associated with that environment, but I've not seen any evidence of inate bigotry - I have seen evidence that the black community is very integrated.
I'd be willing to bet that the "victims" were more than a little provacative in this case.
The 'attackers' race is identified as 'football player'.
That is because the facts don't fit the media template. Of the now six charged, three are white and three are African American.
Profile page of one of the alleged victums
"i can get annoyed really quick if i dont do the talkin, so up spot lights and ill be the center of attention.and no i aint white...im better."
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:jFGOxm49DkgJ:www.modelmayhem.com/member.php%3Fid%3D177218+Osama+Sabbah&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=13
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