Posted on 02/23/2012 6:47:29 PM PST by Shimmer1
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. – It almost sounds like the makings of a joke: an atheist, a Muslim and the Mechanicsburg Halloween parade. But non-believers aren’t laughing about an attack and insist what’s really frightening is the way a district judge ruled on it.
The Atheists of Central Pennsylvania decided to walk in the Mechanicsburg Halloween parade. There was a zombie Pope and a zombie Muhammed. On YouTube, you can catch a scary moment. It’s dark and distorted, but a Muslim man comes off the curb extremely offended at Muhammed being depicted in this way.
“He grabbed me, choked me from the back, and spun me around to try to get my sign off that was wrapped around my neck,” said Ernie Perce, who donned the costume.
The Muslim man and Perce both called police to report a crime. Both kept walking, and a few blocks down found Sgt. Brian Curtis. He talked to both and came to this conclusion.
“Mr. Perce has the right to do what he did that evening, and the defendant in this case was wrong in confronting him,” he said.
Talaag Elbayomy was charged with harassment, but District Judge Mark Martin threw it out after criticizing Perce, the victim, and even calling him a “doofus.” The audio is also on YouTube.
Martin, who has done several tours of duty in the Middle East, said Perce would be put to death in those societies for his crime, but Perce wonders why that’s relevant in this country.
“He let a man who is Muslim, because of his preference of his culture and his way of life, walk free from an attack,” Perce said.
It's relevant because we are going sharia .....after we go green
Zombie Mohammad? Typecasting...
Newt will fix this. Vote Newt!
New Case Law: Sudden Jihad Syndrome defense.
God Save America!
Pennsylvania Ping.
The judge is no doofus. He simply knows to whom he can give offense and to whom he dare not.
The the SHTF, judges better hide. There’s a price to be paid for what they’ve done to our society.
Don’t forget to add the fuse!!
IMO.. if ya don't like our America.. get the hell out! Find your own. You ain't going to make this America an Islamic "republic."
Islamist “movement” — there’s a joke in there somewhere.
There IS a fuse. It is just a little out of this head shot.
Kinda depends on your perspective...
The judge had his own ax to grind and clearly should not be a judge in the American legal system with his expressed beliefs. That said, the athiests were picking a fight, hoping to get a response either from a Muslim or a Catholic (there was a zombie pope). Reminds one of the Westboro Baptists. The video showed the victim was getting in people’s faces. If you go out looking for a fight, you are likely to get one.
The judge should resign if he is that weak.
I have become such a nativist xenophobe because of events like this. What good is it for us and our posterity to have a Muslim named Talaag Elbayomy in our country?
None.
None at all.
I don’t care if he drives a cab superlatively well or makes great falafel or is a pretty good surgeon. He’s a net negative.
And this offensive, costume-wearing, Muhammed-mocking probable yahoo Perce has a better grasp of legal principles and may well be a better patriot than this fool of a judge who served in the military.
Maybe we have to become yahoos to save ourselves.
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I can see one of the pigs in the drawing, where are the other three?
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