Posted on 11/21/2009 7:18:55 AM PST by george76
An Illinois woman is charged with a hate crime for berating a Muslim woman about the Fort Hood shooting and then pulling at her headscarf. The charge could lead to three years in prison: justice or prosecutorial overkill?
In the days after the Ft. Hood shooting, mosques around the country bolstered their security in anticipation of a backlash from Americans angry about a Muslim man alleged to have killed American soldiers on their own turf.
Since then, only one alleged hate crime against Muslims has been directly tied to the Fort Hood rampage.
Two days after the rampage by an alleged lone wolf jihadist killed 13 in Texas, a Tinley Park, Ill., woman grumbled about the massacre and tugged the headscarf of a US-born Muslim woman, Amal Abusumayah, standing in line at a local grocery store.
Reaction was swift and, as prosecutors announced this week, serious: The alleged scarf-puller, Valerie Kenney, is charged with a hate crime, and she could face three years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted.
"Attacking our headscarf is essentially trampling on the pride that we hold so dear," Chicago CAIR's Amina Sharif told Medill Reports. "An attack on the hijab is an attack on dignity and faith of God."
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What’s with the use of the word “allegedly”??? The terrorist scum killed those soldiers. Yes, he isn’t convicted as yet, but he did kill them. Allegedly, my a**! Soon they’ll refer to the terrorist loser as “the gentleman who allegedly...”
I was in a bar with some friends a week ago, when one of their friends, a Muslim, commented on a commercial for the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game. “That’s a good way to teach all the little kids how fun it is to kill muslims. That’s what that game is about—killing muslims.” Etc.
This was an Aha! moment for me when I realized that muslims really are more loyal to Islam than anything else. Even when the muslim is a completely “American,” westernized, bacon-eating one.
I also realized we could be up you-know-what creek if they decide to go guerilla on us or something.
Typical PC BS. The woman will probably get more time than the murdering goat fornicator of Ft. Hood infamy.
It’s, at most, a disorderly conduct charge. Should be a butt chewing by the cops, and no more. End of story.
Don’t let that bother you too much. It’s a liability issue. They have to use those “hedge” terms or they can and will be sued. Defense attorneys can also use those stories in their defense if the stories didn’t use the hedge terms (couldn’t get a fair trial, blah blah blah).
You have every right to be angry when they use those hedge terms AFTER conviction, like with that scumbag murderer Mummy aBull myJar, or whatever his invented name is.
They probably have the guy on tape slaughtering our military. The kid gloves given to terrorists is amazing.
Doesn’t that lady know that the future commissariat cadre and allies of the Democrat party have to be treated with kid gloves?
She can’t be disrespecting muslim women by pulling off a headscarf.
As for a muslim killing thirteen American Soldiers, well, he was just a nut case.
/s/
IMHO
Just as the 60’s radicals and the stupid leftist youth of today who protest and commit other crimes as part of “civil disobedience,” we may end up seeing a lot more of this type of “civil disobedience.”
When the people believe they are being railroaded and suppressed — as Americans who believe in traditional American culture have been feeling since the onslaught of “multiculturalism” — that, like any other breakdown of “justice,” often leads to vigilantism.
With all DUE RESPECT, if these people love islam so much, why do they live here? Why did they come here? Right now they are outbreeding us 8 to 1.
Bull!
A headscarf by these cretin is homage to Satan.
woman grumbled about the massacre and tugged Alleged killer...presumed innocent until proved guilty despite a LOT of witnesses
But the scarf puller is convicted immediately in the press.
No bias there...nosiree.
What about the muslim who yanked the cross necklace off the neck of a customer at a mall kiosk? You didn’t hear hate crime for that. We need to fight all this with equal and opposite litigation at every point. That’s what they want? That’s what they get. Sometimes I wish I had become a lawyer...
“They are outbreeding us 8 to 1”
That’s the idea.
Why else do they go to live in the strangest, most unlikely places in the world to live? Places where the culture is the exact opposite of theirs? They are moving everywhere and populating the planet and infecting it with their sick cult.
In what way was the "tugged on" woman related to Fort Hood? Give me a break. Some comments are really dim.
Now, the ridiculous "hate crime" charge and the subversive CAIR goons are a different story.
The love the life and money, economy and freedoms that the infidels social system created that Islam could never create. Its those things that created the strong America of yesterday.
Show me one advancement Islam has given modern man. Show me one invention the third world masters have made to make their lives better.
Since the beginning of time, the advancements Sheik Ibn Hussein osamaObama speaks of are ones they inherited when they overran other cultures. They were the creation and sweat of someone else, not Islam.
Islam has failed its people at creating societal goods.
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