[Illbay]

We keep hearing about this "fear of oppression" that these people say they have, but I have seen little evidence of it.

Oh, sure, there may be some isolated instance where some redneck with beer for courage may have hassled someone who spoke with an accent and had a dark complexion, but that sort of thing is going to happen from time to time.

But there is not "oppression," official or otherwise, that any of these people can point to. I have seen where ACLU and other such orgs have tried to document "hate crimes" against Muslims, but all they seem to be able to come up with are things like Muslim women asked to remove their headscarves to be searched at an airport entry.

I'm tired of hearing all the whining from the potentially "oppressed." I suggest that if they want a better definition of "oppression of Muslims," they look at what has happened to the Shi'ites and Kurds in Iraq. THAT'S oppression.

[Clemenza]

Oh, sure, there may be some isolated instance where some redneck with beer for courage may have hassled someone who spoke with an accent and had a dark complexion, but that sort of thing is going to happen from time to time.

Yeah, and those yokels usually get a law-abiding Sikh instead of a Muslim.