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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome heartening information about the Muslim woman who was attacked near Boston
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What happened next made her feel better about Malden, a fast-changing city of 60,000 that now has the second-highest percentage of immigrants in Massachusetts.
She called the Malden police, at her husbands urging, and as she waited for them to arrive, workers at the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, where the play group was, came outside to protect the women.
The police arrived within minutes, soothed her and took her statement. Then the calls came: Mayor Gary Christenson called her at home, then Police Chief Kevin Molis phoned.
They were there within two minutes. They were so kind. They were so helpful, she said. The Malden police chief he called me two times.
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http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/18/malden-woman-attacked-man-accusing-muslims-marathon-bombings/goI1fmyQzBwjbt728pqqdK/story.html
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)in all the ugly, it is good to hear this, too.
cali
(114,904 posts)and kudos to the Mayor as well.
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)then we have very little hope for the future. This should be 'being our everyday self.' If we allow a handful of violent people, as well as a deeply messed up presidential administration (yes, the last one) convince us that an entire religion, replete with as many schisms as Christianity, perhaps more, is somehow out to get us, then we aren't worthy of the faith that the Constitution places in us.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)who we are.
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)with what you wrote. I wrote rather too quickly from a place of pent-up disgust at how pathetic and rotten such behavior is (attacking members of other religious or ethnic groups). I just don't understand it and probably never will.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Journeyman
(15,001 posts)and the darkness about us scurries and fades, depending on its form.
cali
(114,904 posts)now watch this thread sink like a stone.
Journeyman
(15,001 posts)and has risen almost to the top of the Greatest Page.
Guess there are more who see the positive than dwell on the negative.
marshall
(6,661 posts)When the bad is getting all the spotlight.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)One of my good college friends is a Dem State Senator out of Malden and a strong backer of civil rights. I am sure she will be backing her as well.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(8,998 posts)Every time I see an anti-Muslim rant on-line I get ill. It's like stoking the fire rather than putting it out.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)As far as I know, law enforcement has never refused to come to the aid and take a report or respond to a possible muslim (but definite foreigner) who had been assaulted.
SleeplessinSoCal
(8,998 posts)And for so many today, on-line life is all consuming. Especially when you feel you are isolated.
M Kitt
(208 posts)Sleepless, regarding Pat "In the Grave".
Don't think that eventuality is really necessary in the short term, but will be welcome when it arrives
Personally, I'd prefer that he instead simply shut up in the meanwhile. Being in his grave can wait for natural circumstances to take place
The summation of these comments is really encouraging, we Sectarians (I'm Agnostic, actually) have long since recognized that Fundamentalism is dangerous wherever it resides, Pat R. being a prime example.
Especially regarding Muslim intolerance, a situation largely brought about by 9-11, exploited by the Right WingNuts ever since.
All of that aside, notice that you seem to be sleepless in CA, where I'm currently not sleeping either. Nice place to be sleepless, good for us!
SleeplessinSoCal
(8,998 posts)Unless his intention is to outlive everyone, he's not long for this world. And why would he want to be here with all these people of different faiths when he can be up there in Heaven?
Sweet Dreams!
M Kitt
(208 posts)But even an agnostic like me, supposing I buy into that concept, can expect that "Heaven" ain't where Pat is headed
Thanks.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)going where he thinks he's going.
NealK
(1,791 posts)Stuart G
(38,365 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)What a horrible thing to go through. Boston is really hitting some high notes in the handling of all this.
I've never been, I think I'd like to see the city. Who was it that said if you want "antiquity" in America, aside from Native cultures, Boston is where it's at. I want to say Neil Gaimen.
eggplant
(3,893 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)brush
(53,475 posts)Wonder if this was a result of John King's irresponsible "bomber was dark-skinned/beware Muslims" reporting on CNN?
im proud to be a muslim
MsLeopard
(1,265 posts)K&R
MADem
(135,425 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)already occurring... It is great that the cop discusses this as being wrong... Because discrimination is wrong....
cali
(114,904 posts)It's about the response to this attack. Not that hard to understand. really.