Tahera Ahmad had the unbridled temerity on a United Airlines flight to ask for an unopened can of Diet Soda. She was advised the unopened can could be used as a weapon and the flight attendant would not give her one even though an unopened can of beer had just been given to a man near her.
She asked others if they had seen what had just happened and one said, "You Muslim, shut the fuck up." (CNN: Muslim chaplain claims discrimination on United flight)
Tahera Ahmad, surely a face to strike terror into anyone.
Picture from CNN
This is what Pamela Geller, the GOP, and people like them have wrought. It's not so different during McCarthy's Communist witch hunt in the 50's except the irony is the ways of Communism against which McCarthy wanted to defend America (e.g. excessive state surveillance, heavy-handed police state tactics, etc) are all now in effect here and Russia watches with amusement as if to say, "See it was never us trying to do it to you. Great job you did it to yourselves, tho."
The answer to dissent in the 50's was to put you on the black list. These days they just make you an outcast but, either way, it comes out the same.
Blood isn't thicker than water as politicians know their urine destroys either one. I've seen it happen ... many times.
America does have courageous people ... but most of them are firefighters ... and Tahera Ahmad who braves what Pamela Geller sows every time she leaves her home.
CNN:
Ahmad was recognized at the White House last year "as a leading Muslim female in the United States" during Women's History Month, according to Northwestern University. She had previously attended a Ramadan dinner hosted by President Barack Obama.
She asked others if they had seen what had just happened and one said, "You Muslim, shut the fuck up." (CNN: Muslim chaplain claims discrimination on United flight)
Tahera Ahmad, surely a face to strike terror into anyone.
This is what Pamela Geller, the GOP, and people like them have wrought. It's not so different during McCarthy's Communist witch hunt in the 50's except the irony is the ways of Communism against which McCarthy wanted to defend America (e.g. excessive state surveillance, heavy-handed police state tactics, etc) are all now in effect here and Russia watches with amusement as if to say, "See it was never us trying to do it to you. Great job you did it to yourselves, tho."
The answer to dissent in the 50's was to put you on the black list. These days they just make you an outcast but, either way, it comes out the same.
Blood isn't thicker than water as politicians know their urine destroys either one. I've seen it happen ... many times.
America does have courageous people ... but most of them are firefighters ... and Tahera Ahmad who braves what Pamela Geller sows every time she leaves her home.
CNN:
Ahmad was recognized at the White House last year "as a leading Muslim female in the United States" during Women's History Month, according to Northwestern University. She had previously attended a Ramadan dinner hosted by President Barack Obama.
The pilot and the flight attendant apologized before she left the flight but that doesn't do anything to change what happened at thirty thousand feet.
Why is it almost always innocents who take the brunt of America's cowardly and despicable fears.
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