Posted on 09/22/2002 10:42:31 PM PDT by kattracks
A black man doesn't go into a white cowboy bar and yell out, "Where's the white women?"
A white man doesn't go into a Detroit R&B club and yell out, "Get it on Homey."
And three people of Arab decent shouldn't walk into a diner and suggest they are terrorists. If these three had wanted to have a private conversation they could have spoken in their original language. No, they wanted to bait the redneck lady.
They are lucky they are still alive... She did the right thing.
WWED? (What would Eunice Do?)
It is wise to be circumspect with your speech around people who are preparing your food.
Did you read the quote from her son? Apparently not, which means you you have no standing to complain about inaccurcies. As for the skullcap/headdress issue which you seem to think is so important, I saw two photographs of the trio. In one of them the heavily bearded man was sitting in the center wearing a full turban(?) of the sort that is wrapped in such a way that it has a V in the front. In another photo (apparently from a TV appearance) I saw him wearing a skullcap, like an oversize yarmulke. Neither one, in my opinion, should be enough to send American citizens into a panic.
As for Freepers being fair objective observers of the passing scene, I only wish that all of them were. After it was reported that the one car did NOT blow through the toll gate without paying the charge, some people here were clearly disappointed. They wanted the Muslims to be guilty of something, even if it wasn't terrorism. If that's not bigotry, I don't know what else you call it. We certainly label it bigotry when people treat blacks and jews that way.
During WW II, people stood on roofs, to watch for enemy plans. They were to alert the proper people, if they saw any. They were also supposed to report any suspicious activities and conversations. THey did so, without any childish worry about their " losing their freedonm ". Why is this situation different ? Why can't some posters see and understand that it is unwise and unsafe to assume that what they ( or others ) might see and / or hear is just a joke ?
And we wonder why the Muslim communities haven't reported what they know about sleeper cells ? If people here, don't care, I guess they shouldn't either. It's not, after all, as though Muslims didn't DIE at the murderous hands of terrorists, on 9/ 11.
I wish someone would pay me something but that begs the larger question--how much is the KKK paying you?
The nurse has an over-excitable imagination or can't tell joking from reality. The real bigots are the ones (including some here on free republic) who want to throw all Muslims out of America and nuke Baghdad.
I'm not going to get into the issue of Japanese American internment...however, can you image if this had been Dec 8th, 1941, in a hamburger joint anywhere in America, and these had been three Japanese American's making a joke?
When you think about it, the situation isn't much different.
Well, lots of people care, given that her son was the voice of common sense and furthermore he was right.
, she did the right thing, had it been me, I would have pulled out a baseball bat and held the three slimeballs at bay waiting for the cops to come.
I'm sure you would have. And that's the problem with some of people here on Free Republic--they hate everyone who's not like them.
I never saw the bearded jerk wear a turban. I saw his picture in several different newspapers ( i don't read only one ), as well as on T.V. and posted pictures on FR. It is, as I said, NO crime to stare at someone. Since Mrs. Stone has Palestinian relatives, I doubt that she was fixated on the headgear.
Apparently, you don't know many facts about this incident, you don't have any idea what I reply to you now, nor what I have been writing for four years, all over FR, but you love to make blanket statements, impugn people ( so that YOU might then look good ? ), and enjoy making things up.
Just a factoid, which might give you some pause, dear... the kind of turban, that you so vivedly described, is ONLY worn by Seiks. It is part of their religious apparel. It is significantly different from what OBL and the Taliban wear. it is NOTHING, whatsoever, like Arabs wear. The ONLY man, who woore headcovering, was the ARAB . The Pakisanis wore NO head covering and since all three are Muslims, they wouldn't be caught dead, wearing such a thing.
Wanna try again, oh factually ill informed and delusional person ?
Now we all know what your problem is; you hate everyone who doesn't think ( and I use that word loosely )exactly as you do! Thanks for sharing. :-)
According to the Christian Science Monitor, her son was a lot more dubious than that, saying "Oh Mama, they're just messing with you."
It is, as I said, NO crime to stare at someone.
And it's also no crime to say whatever you want to other people at your table in a public coffee shop. If Bin Laden turns us into a nation of informers because of 9-11, he's done far more damage to us than he ever dreamed.
What I hate is people who don't think at all, as for instance when people here call for killing all Arabs or nuking Bahgdad.
I just get tired of people here posting messages calling for all Muslims to be killed or expelled or to "nuke Baghdad" (which seems insane given than the president's stated purpose is to free Iraqis from Hussein, not incinerate them with him.)
It's not false to say that her son told his mother, "Oh, mama, they're just messing with you." And I don't know how brave you have to be to inform on someone after they left the restaurant.
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