Anti-Mosque Mob Turns On Black Union Carpenter

[wcast]

It's really getting out of control. Little Green Footballs has a video of a black man walking through the crowd at an anti-mosque rally. They automatically assume he is a Muslim and confront him, with one guy trying to fight him. One of the organizers steps in, but you can hear a man in the crowd saying,"This will be on CNN, I bet he voted for Obama." Guy turned out to be a carpenter who works down there.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37006_Video-_Anti-Mosque_Mob_Turns_On_Black_Union_Carpenter

[baldguy]

1. "Muslim" is just another word for "Ni**er"

[rucky]

3. I was about to ask if they thought all black people were Muslim

but this makes more sense (as much sense that can be made when you try to climb into their minds).

[Sea Witch]

6. Bingo

[Xenotime]

10. My thoughts exactly.

[pampango]

2. So anyone who is not white is now the "enemy"? Makes you wonder what "America" means to the

anti-mosque crowd. (We want our country back?)

[GodlessBiker]

14. Scary. In tough times, the "us/them" mentality, which may be buried deep in our brain stem ...

(or something), really surfaces.

[pinboy3niner]

4. K&R

[klook]

5. And it's not even a mosque

This reminds me so much of the Twilight Zone episode The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.

[cilla4progress]

7. What really strikes me

is how the RWers are all about symbols, over substance. The most obvious example in this context is all those Republican votes recently against funding for health care for the 9/11 first responders...while fighting this non-mosque tooth and nail. Why don't their followers see this? Is this the "dog whistle" we hear about? What is the psychology behind this? Is this something typically engaged in by tyrants and despots (can the regimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, shed any light on this?).

I have a lovely SIL who is a right-wing fundie Xtian. We have some similar values: we are family-centered, we both got rid of our TV sets, we love to garden and live simple, less materialistic lives. She is not to my knowledge a racial bigot per se --although she IS virulently homophobic -- she sponsors a child in Africa, was loving and accepting to my Afghan exchange student last year. SHE LOVES SARAH PALIN. Can she not see through her? I canNOT make sense of this!

Thanks -- hope my rant didn't digress too far...

[Steely_Dan]

8. I Know What You Mean...

You have probably already heard of the famous 20+ year study that went as follows:

Twenty something years ago a study was started by going to a kindergarden class where all of the students were psychologically inventoried. You know...they determined who were the introverts, extroverts...etc. etc. Twenty years later they found these students and inventoried them again. One of the questions dealt with their political affiliation. As it turns out, the children who were more insecure, more fearful and less open to change turned out to be Republicans. The ones that were more open to change, more expressive and took more risks turned out to be Democrats. This could tie into some of what we are seeing now.

The study of course, is far more in depth than what I have written here.

-P

[cilla4progress]

13. So the symbols simplify things for them?

Remove the shades of gray and interpretation? It's in the discerning, the evaluating, where the confusion and independent thinking come in, I guess. I do believe the Palin followers are brainwashed...

I had the disquieting opportunity a few years back to sit in on a fundie church service (believe it or not, in a Presbyterian church; in my rural redneck town, even Presbyterians are evangelicals!). As a born and raised Unitarian / humanist /agnostic, I was shattered by the experience! There was even a drop-down screen at the front, where the congregation stood and read and repeated what was written there. Eerie. The "minister" (who looked and talked like a game show host!), decried liberal religion as the root of all evil (I was certain he was speaking to me). I held tightly onto my daughter and told her, no matter HOW hungry she was, no WAY was she to take the bread of communion...supposedly Christ's body. It was a deal with the DEVIL!

I had this stark image of Jesus coming into that church in his ragged dress, long greasy hair, and just shaking his head. This is NOT what he was talking about, couldn't be further from his message. I'm sure if he had, they would have kicked him out of there, right off.

[MattBaggins]

9. Remember Liberals... Don't you DARE call these fine Americans biogts or racists

These assholes are a modern day Sturmabteilung in the making.

[gratuitous]

12. Yeah, just because they're 99% white

And target anyone who isn't, hardly makes them bigots.

Yeah, these people are nauseating, and they're being egged on by the popular media, who all seem to have developed amnesia about mob mentalities fueled by xenophobia. When the inevitable Very Bad Thing happens, they'll report on that, too. And in the aftermath, they'll wonder where the triggerman or the fuse-setter got such a horrid idea, and thought that violence was the way to deal with his problems. We'll be back with more on the Very Bad Thing after this word from today's Army.

[Metric System]

11. When will the media actually expose this for what it really is- pure hatred and bigotry?!?

[uppityperson]

15. I just found this quote paraphrased, people behind 9/11 are same as behind mosque

Opponents want the centre to be moved further from the site where more than 2,700 people were killed in the September 11 terror attacks. Steve Ayling, a 40-year-old plumber from Brooklyn, told AP: "They should put it in the Middle East." The people behind the mosque project were "the same people who took down the twin towers", he said.

But Dr Ali Akram, a 39-year-old doctor also from Brooklyn, said that scores of Muslims died in the twin towers. Opponents of the centre were "un-American," he said. "They teach their children about the freedom of religion in America - but they don't practice what they preach."

The plan by a New York developer to build the centre and mosque about two blocks from the former World Trade Center site has been attacked by prominent Republican politicians and conservative pundits.

President Barack Obama has come under fire over his defence of the developer's right to build a mosque a few blocks from Ground Zero.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11054868

[Vehl]

16. shows the true color of the so called "mosque opponents"....

basically most of them are racists as well as religious fundies.

[no limit]

17. My memory must be jacked, I though Little Green Footballs was Michelle Malkin's out fit.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

18. I's somebody else's site. Apparently the owner of this website said that the right

wing had gotten way too crazy for him. So he disassociated himself from many of these people and seems to have toned down the anti muslim rhetoric.

[Hannah Bell]

19. they're nazis, v. 2.