...A crazed, and possibly drunk (click title to entry - thank you), 21-year old wingnut pulled a knife on a New York City cabbie and slashed him multiple times during evening rush hour on Wednesday after inquiring if he was a Muslim....
This is the kind of influence Palin has.
..."This should never have happened and hopefully won't happen again," (Mayor) Bloomberg said. "Hopefully, people will understand that we can have a discourse. That's what the First Amendment is all about. That's what America is all about."...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i5OdR6FH4zsmEVanHGR0y-jbOzngD9HRE2VO0
A RESPONSIBLE legislator or pundit that sincerely understands and CARES about the brevity of their words would never participate in hate mongering. This is what the Tea Party and the RNC calls leadership. I congratulate Mayor Bloomberg for the wisdom of his insight.
...The intense animosity toward Muslims driving this campaign extends far beyond Ground Zero, and manifests in all sorts of significant and dangerous ways. In June, The New York Times reported on a vicious opposition campaign against a proposed mosque in Staten Island. Earlier this month, Associated Press documented that "Muslims trying to build houses of worship in the nation's heartland, far from the heated fight in New York over plans for a mosque near ground zero, are running into opponents even more hostile and aggressive." And today, The Washington Post examines anti-mosque campaigns from communities around the nation and concludes that "the intense feelings driving that debate have surfaced in communities from California to Florida in recent months, raising questions about whether public attitudes toward Muslims have shifted."...
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/23/park51/index.html
Michael Enright (R) confers with his attorney Jason Martin during his arraignment in New York Photo: AP...George Pataki, a former New York governor, said that he was concerned about the increasingly inflamed atmosphere in the city following the "hate crime" attack.
Pataki is even justifying the hate crime as an attack aggrivated by the building of a Mosque. Never once does he take ownership of a 'big mouth' Palin that encourages the hate. Amazing. The HATE CRIME was aggrivated by those that are opposing the Mosque and not those seeking to include diversity in Lower Manhattan. Republicans will say anything and their 'poisoned pen media' will back them up.
When does the next Rawanda begin?
...Yesterday Mr Pataki said: "That's why the mosque, the cultural centre should not be built there." He said that those backing the project to build the Park51 [the Islamic centre] two blocks from the site of the September 11 attacks were "deliberately provoking emotions"....
This is the UNITED States of America. Like, what?
"He-ha, Georgie, Jr." via Facebook
ADL (Anti-Defamation League) disturbed by attack on Muslim taxi driver
August 26, 2010
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Anti-Defamation League called the stabbing of a Muslim New York City taxi driver a hate crime.
The ADL said Thursday that the stabbing, which took place Tuesday night, was particularly disturbing given the current controversy surrounding the Islamic center planned for near Ground Zero. The ADL has said that the center has a right to be built but that building it so close to Ground Zero would be insensitive to the families of 9/11 victims.
In Tuesday's incident, Michael Enright allegedly asked taxi driver Ahmed H. Sharif if he was Muslim, then made references to military checkpoints before stabbing him. Enright was charged Wednesday with attempted murder and assault as a hate crime.
“No person should ever be targeted because of their religion or ethnicity, and there is no justification for singling out Muslims,” Ron Meier, ADL's New York regional director, said in a statement. “It is especially disturbing that this attack occurred amid an atmosphere of elevated anti-Muslim sentiment surrounding the Ground Zero controversy. No matter the passions stirred up by an issue, resorting to anti-Muslim bigotry and violence is unacceptable.”
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/08/26/2740656/adl-calls-attack-on-muslim-taxi-driver-disturbing
