Posted on 10/01/2014 1:35:37 PM PDT by artichokegrower
My relative, May Araim, 68, was killed by a bullet last month while she and other family members were returning to Atlanta after a day of sightseeing in Helen, Ga.
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“Every American Muslim should defend this country and its values.”
Every American Muslim should defend this country and its values. Americans value the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. Therefore, American Muslims should defend the 2nd Amendment.
If you follow some links in the comments, you discover this “hate crime” was actually a negligent discharge. Some moron shot himself in the hand and her across the street.
Other stories say that the shooting was accidental and that the shooter accidentally discharged the weapon striking himself in the hand and the bullet then struck the woman who just was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/victim-of-helen-shooting-was-new-citizen-good-woma/ng42P/
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/victim-of-helen-shooting-was-visiting-before-trip-/ng425/
White County has made an arrest and has charged the shooter with involuntary manslaughter. In all the articles I found, her cousin, Omar Araim is the one who keeps bringing up hijab as a possible reason for the shooting.
The solution to the problem does not involve setting impossible requirements. That one would be impossible even if firearms did not exist at all.
Here’s my solution:
Teach people gun safety in High School.
“Covering their hair is not imposed on Muslim women. It is their choice.”
Yeah right, tell that to the Morality Police.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/jun/19/iran-morality-police-patrol
On Sunday, 195 members of the Iranian parliament signed a letter warning moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to get serious about confronting women failing to properly observe modest Islamic covering - or hijab - or else, the letter reads, Iranian society will face “irreversible consequences” from a western cultural onslaught seeking to “change the Iranian people’s way of life vis-à-vis hijab and chastity.”
I do recall a story of a woman using her hair to dry Someone’s feet tho...
I don't suppose she can point to a single instance where she or anyone in her family called for gun control in that s***hole she came from, or for dealing effectively with the rampant xenophobia of Muslims.
I didn’t know your relative. But ... how do I put this ... I don’t give a tin sh_t. Try to take my guns (if I still had any after that unfortunate series of canoe accidents) and muslimes will get a volume discount at the mortuary.
Google search shows it was an accidental discharge that injured the carrier as well.
“they would be crapping their pants at their hypocrisy”
No they wouldn’t, they would embrace it. I see this demonstrated regularly.
Muslim woman’s shooting death raises questions about gun rights
No it doesn’t.
Not for even one millisecond.
No. But if you want a civil war keep pushing that.
I can’t believe the idiot who wrote this is a professor. He’s all over the map and it makes no sense. I think he’s trying to say that his relative was killed because she was a Muslim wearing a hajib. He’s speculating based on prejudices about Americans. She was probably killed as part of a robbery or other crime gone bad. This idiot needs to shut up and be happy he’s in America and not getting forced into the ISIS army or his throat slit for being the wrong kind of Muslim in his home country.
It's much worse than that. See posts #22, #23, #24, #25 and #26. The author couldn't possibly be unaware of those facts.
The left will be crushed in a civil war.
“American Muslims are an integral part of American society...”
No, they’re not. “Integral” equates to “essential,” in that something cannot function properly without it.
The U.S. — hell, the entire planet! — can function quite nicely without islam.
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