N.J. Republican apologizes for calling Chattanooga shooter ‘Muslim scum’

Washington Times ^ | 7/23/15 | Jessica Chasmar

[markomalley]

A New Jersey councilman apologized Wednesday after receiving criticism for a post he made on Facebook that called Chattanooga gunman Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez “Muslim scum.”

“Murdering bastard. Rot in hell Muslim scum,” Hamilton Councilman Ed Gore, a Republican, wrote hours after Abdulazeez shot and killed five U.S. military service members July 16, The Trentonian reported.

When someone responded by telling Mr. Gore not to hold back, he added, “Oh I never hold back on domestic terrorists.”

Imam Qareeb Bashir, president of the Islamic Council of Greater Trenton, said he was “appalled and really disappointed” in Mr. Gore’s comments.

[markomalley]

And then we have this:

[nickcarraway]

Gore? Inconvenient truth?

[ronnie raygun]

Here is an example of the GOP a##wipes that trump is bbq-ing.

[Yardstick]

Now that is how you do an apology.

[Tax-chick]

It sounds like something scared him badly in those 30 minutes.

[Covenantor]

Like a muslim scum imam from Trenton....

[Tax-chick]

Or more than one.

[samtheman]

1. See something
2. Say something
3. Apologize

The GOP way.

That’s why we like Trump.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Murdering Muslim scum falls tripping of the tongue.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

GroupOfPussies

[nonliberal]

This is why Trump is winning. He does not apologize.

[ArcadeQuarters]

He should be more sensitive to terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. They have such delicate feelings.

[muir_redwoods]

almost every time a politician tells the truth, an apology must follow.

[Timber Rattler]

Bet he got a nasty call from Christie.

[grania]

The guy only half-apologized, but the real-patriot response would've been to use it as a teaching moment about freedom of speech and why he WASN'T apologizing.

Trump has "The Art of the Deal". Most pols have "The Art of the Grovel".

[Tax-chick]

Possible.

[eartick]

He should have been apologizing for the gun control statement.

Not bowing down to the Muslim scum.

[windsorknot]

“I sincerely apologize for referring to the shooter as “Muslim scum”. It would have been more appropriate to say that he was a seventh-century Mohammedan POS.”

[BigEdLB]

SCUM is as SCUM does. Why apologize?

[lostboy61]

I’m so sorry you came to my country. I’m so sorry you don’t like my country. I’m so sorry you feel you have to kill my country’s citizens. I’m so sorry I’m not the same faith as you. I’m so sorry you are Muslim scum.