Posted on 05/15/2016 8:30:10 AM PDT by Trump20162020
A 37-year-old man has admitted in court that he ripped off a woman's hijab on board a flight in the US after screaming "Take it off! This is America!".
Gill Parker Payne of Gastonia, from North Carolina, pleaded guilty in a New Mexico federal court to a misdemeanour hate crime charge of using force to intentionally obstruct the woman's free exercise of her religious beliefs.
Seated a few rows in front of him was a woman he had never met before. She was wearing a hijab, which Payne recognised as a Muslim practice.
He stood up, walked down the aisle and stopped next to her seat. Looking down at the woman, Payne instructed her to remove the covering, the Washington Post reported.
"Take it off! This is America!" Payne was quoted as telling the woman. When she did not do it herself, Payne grabbed the hijab from the back and pulled it all off.
(Excerpt) Read more at khaleejtimes.com ...
A Western woman without a hijab in Mooslim-land would be beheaded.
Just saying.
Give him a medal.
I agree. We as a country need to shun this crap.
This is just plain wrong. Now if he had bitch-slapped her.......
Would he have snatched the wig from the head of an Orthodox Jewish woman? Both are following religious laws to conceal their hair at the behest of a Semitic God.
Unless it breaks your leg or picks your pocket ...
Maybe when Jews start flying planes into US buildings, there may be a moral equivalence. That said, he shouldn’t have done this. She’ll probably get invited to the White House, and will become a poster child for supposed islamophobia.
Thanks for sharing, newbie.
There is no moral equivalence there. I disapprove of both customs for different reasons. That being said, both customs enjoy the same protections and both deserve to not have some self-righteous rando with an attitude problem invading their personal space and ripping their hair coverings off.
Assault. Hope he gets jail for this. Especially on an airplane. You do not touch someone else on an airplane much less assault them.
Oh, and the guy is a coward. Of course he would attack a woman. I very much doubt he would attack another man.
Really? You're exactly what's wrong with this country. He pulled a damn scarf off her head, he didn't hit her.
You probably sided with Michelle Fields too, right?
Old news, anonymous c. Although I applaud the action. Islam is a false “religion” and anyone attempting to abide by its schariya “laws” should be exposed for the evilness they worship.
I hope he put chewing gum in her hair too. :b
It was assault. Look it up.
I don’t applaud someone attacking another person unless in self defense ... sort of that rule of law thingy. I know that is annoying to some.
You probably beat your wife, right?
Not the brightest bulb.
Maybe he should have discussed the disgusting and despicable religious practice of female genital mutilation within earshot.
I would have liked to hear her defense of that practice.
GMTA. Logging off now. Gramps Quiche Lorrainne is being an azz and I’m not in a mood to tolerate it today even less so than usual.
Cheers, mate.
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