Sacramento Area Mosque Targeted With Toxic Pig

**TennesseeRain** · 1st September 2010 10:34 AM

SACRAMENTO —
An area mosque has been drawn into the debate over a religious center near ground zero in New York City. A plastic pig was put in that mosque's mailbox, toxic messages were scribbled across it.

Islamic leadership in our area isn't saying exactly where that mosque is, for fear that they could be targeted further.

"No Mosque in NYC," "Remember 9-11," and "Mo-Ham-ed" were the messages on the mosque. The pig is intended to be particularly offensive because followers of Islam are prohibited from eating pork.

Sacramento Area Mosque Targeted With Toxic Pig - KTXL

Wait! There's more:

Sikh store clerk attacked, called al-Qaida

SEATTLE, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A 35-year-old Seattle man has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly attacking a convenience store clerk he accused of being "al-Qaida," prosecutors said.
Brock Stainbrook faces charges of fourth-degree assault and malicious harassment under Washington state's hate crime law in the alleged Aug. 24 attack, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Tuesday.
Sikh store clerk attacked, called al-Qaida - UPI.com

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You didn't think I was finished, did you?

Teenagers Charged in Harassment at Mosque

A group of teenagers in western New York has been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults during evening prayers for Ramadan, sideswiping a worshiper with a vehicle and firing a shotgun outside, the authorities said Tuesday.
The teenagers were cornered by members of the mosque, who held them for the police. They were charged with disrupting a religious service, a misdemeanor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/ny...ml?_r=2&src=mv

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I don't know about you, but I just can't get that Lee Greenwood song, "Proud to be an American" out of my head.

**TennesseeRain** · 1st September 2010 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by Twister

Dispigable..

Definitely - and not honorable, either. I thought my days of being ashamed to be an American were over on January 20, 2009. I was wrong. This is not honoring the victims of 9/11 - this is a disgrace.

**Divine Wind** · 1st September 2010 12:25 PM

America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.

.....in perspective, there's always a few nut jobs running around with their straitjackets. A few on even on this forum!

**TennesseeRain** · 1st September 2010 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Twister

I've seen it coming for quite a while. The hate speech against Muslims has been building for over a decade. Where else could this have gone? It won't change overnight, but I do think we have made some positive steps in the right direction. At least one can take comfort in that.

I think that George Bush was successful in keeping the lid on the looney right when he was in office because they couldn't be disrespectful to their fearless leader, but now that he is gone, all bets are off.

**Macduff** · 1st September 2010 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by TennesseeRain

I think that George Bush was successful in keeping the lid on the looney right when he was in office because they couldn't be disrespectful to their fearless leader, but now that he is gone, all bets are off.

I know I felt liberated.

**Blueneck** · 1st September 2010 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by TennesseeRain

I think that George Bush was successful in keeping the lid on the looney right when he was in office because they couldn't be disrespectful to their fearless leader, but now that he is gone, all bets are off.

That's what I think. Their contempt for Obama has given them what they feel is justification for behaving like complete assholes. I know when George Bush was re-elected - I was stunned and heartbroken and spent a lot of the next four years gritting my teeth but I certainly didn't take it out innocent people just because someone I loathed who was in charge.

I put up with 8 years of that ^^^ and I survived without losing my dignity. Conservatives can too.

This country still belongs to everyone, people need to stop taking their anger out on those who don't deserve it.

Our government policies haven't changed one damn bit regarding the rights of Muslims or illegal immigrants or any other minority group since Obama has become president, but for some reason a certain portion of the population (who I suspect watches Fox a lot) seem to think that Obama has inspired some sort of uprising of all non-white people and they will "take over" if they aren't put in their place.

No good can come of this kind of thinking. Please stop shitting in your own yard.

**Morgan** · 1st September 2010 06:10 PM

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Fuck it. I'm going to Canada.

**Divine Wind** · 1st September 2010 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by TennesseeRain

I think that George Bush was successful in keeping the lid on the looney right when he was in office because they couldn't be disrespectful to their fearless leader, but now that he is gone, all bets are off.

The RWNJs have also distanced themselves from President Bush by tossing him under a bus and claiming he wasn't a true Conservative.

**GrumpyOM** · 1st September 2010 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by Divine Wind

The RWNJs have also distanced themselves from President Bush by tossing him under a bus and claiming he wasn't a true Conservative.

What do you call him with his expansion of government and big time spending, and I'm talking bailouts as well as war spending. That sure as hell isn't representative of a conservative. RWNJ, my ass.

**Divine Wind** · 1st September 2010 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by GrumpyOM

What do you call him with his expansion of government and big time spending, and I'm talking bailouts as well as war spending. That sure as hell isn't representative of a conservative. RWNJ, my ass.

Then why didn't the "true Consevatives" at the time stop him instead of spending all their time dumping on the Dixie Chicks?