I Read this comment on another blog.
I have no way to verify it, but recognise a long time poster and have no reason to doubt the veracity.
I read it after I saw Matt Taibbi's new article.
This just needs to stop before there is a catastrophe on the steets of America.
Time for all decent people to say 'ENOUGH!'
The comment that so upset me............
I am absolutely enraged at this moment and had to come here to let loose a bit. A little background first, my cousin married a Muslim physician almost 30 years ago when it was very unusual to see a mixed marriage of this proportion. She was Catholic and converted to marry him. Their children were raised as Muslim and are still active in their Muslim community. My cousin's husband died in a car accident two years ago, however, two of his children also became cardiologists and continued the practice. Yesterday, her daughter was leaving the grocery store and was stopped by a man she didn't recognize and asked if she was Dr. __ daughter? She answered yes because she has had many people stop her and thank her for her father's care of their family members over the years. His funeral was standing room only with many beautiful tributes from his patients. They are from a fairly small town so everyone is well known. He told her to take her "filthy family full of murdering Muslims and get the hell out of town". He spit on her and her child who she was holding in her arms. It didn't stop there, there was hate mail waiting in her mail box with threats to their family. I am so heartbroken for them. They have never experienced anything like this over the years. My husband's cousin was accepted instantly from the day he started practicing although I think part of it was due to her family's history in the area. Now, her daughter is scared to leave her home. She kept her son home from kindergarten, won't let the kids go outside and can't stop crying. Her husband is in Afghanistan so she is going to move in with her Mother until he gets back.
Why did this happen now after years of never experiencing anything in the form of religious prejudice? I know why it happened--damn Palin, Gingrich, Beck and all the other idiots who are literally condemning all Muslims as murderers. This innocent young woman and her children are unable to stay in their home. Her brothers, who are cardiologists, actually considered arming themselves prior to leaving for work but decided against it as they felt they would be lowering themselves to their level. I am so upset for them. We've had a racially diverse family for years and would joke that the family reunion pics looked like a gathering of the United Nations.
Please remember to help get out the vote in November, we cannot go back in time due to fear tactics of the GOP!! If Democratic party members do not vote, we'll be stuck with the far right fringe for years to come. This incident has really hit home for me and made me realize just what they are doing throughout the country.
Matt Taibbi - Taibblog
In fact if you follow Fox News and the Limbaugh/Hannity afternoon radio crew, this summer’s blowout has almost seemed like an intentional echo of the notorious Radio Rwanda broadcasts "warning" Hutus that they were about to be attacked and killed by conspiring Tutsis, broadcasts that led to massacres of Tutsis by Hutus acting in "self-defense." A sample of some of the stuff we’ve seen and heard on the air this year:
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There’s nothing in the world more tired than a progressive blogger like me flipping out over the latest idiocies emanating from the Fox News crowd. But this summer’s media hate-fest is different than anything we’ve seen before. What we’re watching is a calculated campaign to demonize blacks, Mexicans, and gays and convince a plurality of economically-depressed white voters that they are under imminent legal and perhaps even physical attack by a conspiracy of leftist nonwhites. They’re telling these people that their government is illegitimate and criminal and unironically urging secession and revolution.
The Fox/Rush/Savage crowd in the last 18 months has taken the anti-Muslim fervor that launched a phony war in Iraq, carried George Bush to re-election, and pushed through the Patriot Act, and re-directed that anger at a domestic nonwhite enemy. In doing so they’ve achieved a perfect storm of political cross-purposes: they’ve almost completely succeeded in distracting the public from the real causes of their economic misfortune (i.e. Wall Street corruption), they’ve re-energized a Republican party that was devastated by eight years of Bush-era corruption and incompetence, and, as usual, they’ve made Rupert Murdoch a shitload of money.
It is a longish article, but well worth reading.
http://www.rollingstone.com/...
This has to stop.