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I have found info from a better source: http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/352251-231966-bias-crime-targets-troutdale-homeowner but given how CNN is does have a big platform, I felt it important to point out that they are covering it.

I want no Muslim refugees as much as any patriot; however, just as when Sikhs get hurt, Bahaiis should not be getting crud from anyone. Bahaiism is persecuted by Iran and other Islamists; Bahaiis are one of the few pro-Israel groups in the ME outside Jews themselves and have their world HQ in Haifa, Israel, and Bahaii is truly a peaceful religion.

1 posted on 04/02/2017 8:12:14 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
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what I’m saying is that incidents like this make good faith skeptics of Islam, like us, look bad.


2 posted on 04/02/2017 8:12:52 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
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Because I believe everything CNN says.


3 posted on 04/02/2017 8:14:54 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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>> “The funny thing, I’m not Muslim,” Afshar told KPTV.

Oddly reassuring vandalism?


5 posted on 04/02/2017 8:31:29 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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There are Bahá’ís in prison in Iran just for being Baha’is. It’s sad that there are people in the United States that don’t know the difference. It’s as if Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany were attacked for being Nazis just they had a German last name.


7 posted on 04/02/2017 8:36:02 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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The Bhahai don’t like the Flintstones but, the Abu Dhabi do...


9 posted on 04/02/2017 9:00:24 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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I’m not familiar with Bahaiism. However, even if he were Muslim, this would be wrong. You do not show your disapproval of someone’s culture by breaking into their home and spraying ugly messages everywhere. No, no, no! All you do is provoke backlash and promote mutual distrust.

We can’t always control who our neighbors are before they even move in, in fact usually, we can’t. Give this person or this household a chance to assimilate. It takes very little effort to get most new neighbors to trust you, or at least feel less apprehensive in your presence.
I’m all for preserving our American culture, but before I knew I was American, I was a Christian, and I was raised to treat others as I would wish to be treated. Give this new neighbor the benefit of a doubt. He may be okay.


10 posted on 04/02/2017 9:02:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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Statistical analysis of all the “reported” hate crimes of this sort tends to make me believe this is fake news.
13 posted on 04/02/2017 9:28:55 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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Yeah, interesting thing is that Troutdale is basically a suburb of Portland, and while there is no shortage of freaks who might break into a house there, that area is hardly a place where you’ll find people doing massively politically incorrect things. That area is exactly the kind of place, though, where you’d get left-wingers doing false flag BS to get attention though


14 posted on 04/02/2017 9:43:33 PM PDT by fr_freak
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Probably another hoax.


16 posted on 04/02/2017 10:22:59 PM PDT by euram
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Deputies said they also found a note weighed down with seven bullets arranged in the shape of a cross.

Why do I detect a strong odor of progressofascist dirty tricks in this incident?!!!

17 posted on 04/02/2017 10:41:37 PM PDT by parisa
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Good to know. Thanks for posting this. I learned something new today and it’s only 1230 am. ;)

Obviously it’s never a good thing when someone gets their home broken into and busted up regardless of who they are or might be affiliated with. That just isn’t how decent people operate.

Sadly history is filled with just this kind of mean-spirited vandalism. Obviously if there was a known terrorist loving and helping Muslim living next door to me I’d want them gone from not only my neighborhood but our country or in prison. I still wouldn’t condone doing that kind of thing to their home. Heck; they would be within their rights to shoot someone dead for breaking in like that in AZ.


18 posted on 04/03/2017 12:32:27 AM PDT by Boomer (The modern day leftist dems are the party of criminally insane propagandists.)
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From what I have heard Bahai is a bunch of caca like Scientology, but none the less not terrorists.


22 posted on 04/03/2017 3:34:28 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Yeah, yeah, yeah,

Heard it all before.

Don’t give a rat’s a$$.


25 posted on 04/03/2017 4:05:23 AM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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We are supposed to think that Trump-supporting Islamophobes are responsible. It is far more likely that more recent “arrivals” from terrorist countries are the source of the problem. They bring their oppression and thirst for blood with them as they migrate around the world.


27 posted on 04/03/2017 4:21:28 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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Hoax


28 posted on 04/03/2017 4:23:56 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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Somewhere lies the truth, but it sure isn’t with CNN, the number one enemy of American Patriots and our president. This story, one out of 320 million people, is going viral thanks to the old media empire.


34 posted on 04/03/2017 6:32:50 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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