Don’t Muslims ever get sick of playing the victim? God, I am so sick of their whining, lies, denial, etc, etc...
Angela Smontes-Vivas says one of three teenagers who approached at a traffic light in Freeport, Illinois, the night of June 26 simply asked her for a light. But another began kicking her car, and when she got out to confront them, the youths attacked her, pummeling her face with their fists and tearing off her hijab as they attached a string of expletives to the word "Muslim" and recited every bigot’s mantra - "Go back to your country!" The young age of her assailants - the oldest, a girl of just 18, has been charged with battery - should surprise no one.
| On the other hand, the bitch was charged with battery, which implies that the cops took the incident seriously. And they didn't cut anybody's head off. |
The anti-Muslim prejudice that has saturated the mainstream American cultural and political discourse since Sept. 11, 2001, is enough to make any red-blooded, cable TV-addicted American teen want to pick a fight with his or her neighborhood Muslim.
| I must have missed that. Mostly I see a stream of treacle when our domestic Muslims are mentioned, except for when they're caught heading off or returning from jihad. |
The ordeal of 32-year-old Smontes-Vivas - a recent convert to Islam - represents only one side of America’s encounter with Muslims, who have become Islam’s reluctant ambassadors in the United States. Two weeks before the attack in Freeport, nearly a hundred Jews, Christians and Muslims braved the summer rain to march in solidarity through Park Slope, Brooklyn, from Kolot Chayeinu Synagogue to Baitul Jannah Mosque. The interfaith Children of Abraham Peace Walk represented America’s open hand rather than its closed fist.
| It's a good example of the stream of treacle I was talking about... |
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