Posted on 02/26/2008 9:16:48 PM PST by penelopesire
"The Sept. 11 attacks, the Iraq war and suicide bombings worldwide have changed not only the way we live but the way we look at those around us, especially Muslims. "Islamophobia" has entered the American vernacular, and the anti-Muslim attitudes and prejudice it describes remain common.
Content Special Section: What Would You Do?But what if you witnessed "Islamophobia" in action and saw someone being victimized because of someone else's prejudices? What would you do?
ABC's production crew outfitted The Czech Stop, a bustling roadside bakery north of Waco, Texas, with hidden cameras and two actors. One played a female customer wearing a traditional Muslim head scarf, or hijab. The other acted as a sales clerk who refused to serve her and spouted common anti-Muslim and anti-Arab slurs."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Here’s the LGF link:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=29064_ABC_News_Stages_Islamophobia_Event&only
Where is her male relative? She must be flogged!
Thanks. I tried to post it, but it did not link.
You’re welcome.
I always carry my Islamometer with me so I can easily spot the fakes.
I have turned away people looking for work that appear islamic and will keep on doing so, and whenever if possible will not do business with any.
Man that’s a great bakery. I assume they cooperated with this and now I can never go there again?
Why don’t they do a piece where the Mahometan slowly saws off an infidel’s head with a rusty dagger?
Or how about one where the imam is giving a sermon to kill all the Jews and enslave all the Christians at the local mosque?
Or maybe they should gauge peoples’ reactions to watching a Mahometan man burning one of his daughters alive for removing the head scarf or wearing “western” clothes.
Whaddya think?
Just in time for Obama’s ‘dress-up’ dust up too....(eye roll)
It is a good bakery if it the one I am thinking about. They make great kolaches.
That’s the one. Halfway between Dallas and Austin.
A bit off topic, but very fair and balanced:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1963607/posts?page=1188#1188
Post no. 1188
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1963607/posts?page=1193#1193
Post no. 1193
No...they can’t do that! It’s not to CAIR’s liking! It would be Islamophobic!
Doesn’t this crap make you sick!
Her face wasn’t covered. Her forearms were bare. ABC will probably win some sort of award for this garbage.
The first link is a little reassuring but the other link is more common unfortunately.
> Doesn’t this crap make you sick!
Very much so.
How long do you think they can keep it up before the people figure out that they really, REALLY want to kill us all, steal everything we have and turn the United States into a backwater hellhole like the West Bank or the Gaza strip.
Why would a Muslim go to the Czech Stop? To buy some pigs in a blanket and kolaches? “Bustling” doesn’t even begin to describe how busy that place is 24 hours a day 365 days a year. It would be a pretty tempting target for a terrorist, because there are always long lines, and the owners are such tightwads that they won’t expand ther facilities. With the traffic that comes into their shop they could justify expanding to facilities that would take up a whole city block with a 16 or 24 pump gas station instead of the cramped facitlity with maybe 8 pumps that are difficult to get into and out of.
Meanwhile the media denigrates Christians whenever the opportunity arises. Mitt Romney’s candidacy was questions by the MSM because he’s a Mormon. Every year at Christmas and Easter we have another expose how Jesus may never have really existed. The entire anti-abortion movment is forever mentioned along with the handful of violent opponents who’ve vandalized clinics or stalked abortionists and it is cited as examples of Christian terrorism.
Phobias are where you look for them. Just like Imperialism is where you want to look for it. Islamic imperialism seeks to establish Islamic Law as the law of the land with all followers bowing to the Mecca of the faith 5 times every day. That’s some empire.
But no, WE are the imperialists for being lowly kufir in the “muslim lands”. Lands that weren’t always muslim.
OPINION:
Actually, most Muslims are NOT terrorists, but most of the terrorists (that come to the public’s attention) are Muslims.
“Meanwhile the media denigrates Christians whenever the opportunity arises.”
BIG DITTO.
Walt Disney, a man who produced Education For Death The Making Of A Nazi and Victory Through Air Power, as well as Der Fuhrer’s Face, would be disgusted at what his corporate empire fuels today.
That statement is correct, but how many Muslims who aren’t terrorists support terrorists either actively or passively? We really don’t know.
Did you read this part:
“The number of anti-Islamic hate crime incidents in the United States has more than quadrupled from 28 incidents in 2000 to 156 incidents in 2006, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most recent figures.”
Wonder how they are defining ‘hate crimes’?
Those establishing mulsim wash basins and prayer rooms at US airports and universities aren’t terrorists but they are establishing a special concern for muslim articles of faith on public property. The same thing the ACLU has fought against Christians over for 50 years.
I understand.
You are preaching to the choir.
The number of anti-semitic protests in our nation’s capital and on university grounds has likewise increased.
The antiwar movement is decidedly PRO-Palestinian War. There are also those who publicly declare their support for the Iraqi “insurgents”.
“We really don’t know.”
I agree.
True. I don’t hate Muslims.....I hate ABC....LOL
156 incidents? In a country this size?
That is NOTHING.
I don’t hate either.
OPINION:
Political Correctness and tolerance of political correctness is a culture killer.
Basically, that is the problem (with society in general) in a nutshell.
Is it STRICTLY a bakery? NO kolaches with sausage inside? No smoked sausage? No stuffed pork chops in a glass case?
Everything halal?
From your link (Thanks)
“During 2006, 12,620 law enforcement agencies participated in the UCR Program’s hate crime data collection. Agencies provided 1 to 12 months of data about bias-motivated crime, and of those agencies, 2,105 (16.7 percent) reported 7,722 incidents.”
7,722 ‘incidents’...but all CAIR can come up with is 156!!
This is ridiculous!! Going back to see if any were reported in Waco and then it’s off to bed.
Islamophobia in the heartland!! Wow, I must have missed all the ABC specials on the zillions of people who enjoy jihadist snuff films of infidels having their heads sawed off..... I must have missed all the ABC specials on every terrorist mass-slaughter in dozens of countries around the world..... I must have missed all the “big topic” ABC specials because of course any objective journalists would be far more concerned with exposing and stopping mass murderers than with beating up on fictional bakery employees and the general public for incivility.
Good night penelopesire.
Rest well.
There is nothing tolerant about Islam. Islam distingushes between muslim and non-muslim under law. Non-muslims have fewer rights and protections.
When the captial nation of Islam decides to permit the open practice of faiths other than Islam, I might warm up to the “ism”.
Would ABC have sent Axis Sally to report on the Bund getting turned away from a Jewish deli in 1939 Chicago?
They have sausage. I guess she didn’t order the sausage kolache though. It’s also a Shell gas station. Used to be a great place to stop.
After being attacked by Muslims, the first reaction of certain people was to worry about how the Muslims are feeling.
Check out their article Four Common Misconceptions About Muslims if you really want to gag.
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/WhatWouldYouDo/story?id=4339516&page=1
see my post 33. There were over 7000 reported ‘Hate Crimes’ in the US in 2006....and only 156 were against Muslims!
“There is nothing tolerant about Islam.”
OPINION:
I agree weegee.
Have a good evening.
ZERO HATE CRIMES REPORTED IN WACO IN 2006!
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/table14tx.html
Why would ABC choose to do this in a place that had never even reported a hate crime?
I gotta head to bed. Thanks all for the posts. Catch up in the morning.
Doesn’t ABC have experience with hiding explosive devices when doing undercover stories? They should have given her a suicide belt, walk in and scream “Allah Akhbar” and rip her robe open exposing the suicide belt.
Now THAT would be fun to watch.
That’s not Islamophobia.
That’s just flat out meanness!
I’m an Islamophobic and I approved this message.
“True. I don’t hate Muslims.....I hate ABC....LOL”
Who does like ABC?
And a few years down the pike, when Islam has a stronger foothold in that area, that young woman will be in real danger.
Her image has been seen by the strict Muslim Islamoterrorists and they will punish her in due time.
ABC has numbered her days.
You’re welcome.
Good night.
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