Virginia Mosque Meeting Gets Ugly: ‘Every One of You Are Terrorists!’

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/virginia-mosque-meeting-gets-ugly-every-one-of-you-are-terrorists/

According to WUSA 9, speaker Samer Shalaby was presenting plans for a new mosque the local Muslim community intended to build on property it already owned. The current Islamic Center is too small, as the community has grown steadily in recent years.

That’s when two men in attendance at the public meeting shouted down Shalaby with claims that all Muslims were “evil” and “terrorists.” The speaker said he didn’t expect such hostility.

“It just kept getting worse and worse,” Shalaby said. “People were pointing fingers and waiving arms.”

The first man to make a scene called what Shalaby and local Muslims were doing “evil,” which attracted some positive attention from the crowd. That’s when the second man came forward.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Just like this.... ignorance.

[dembotoz]

2. is this how it starts?

always been fascinated by how germany transformed into the 3rd riech
the place did not go nazi overnight. there had to be a progression.
how does this happen?
are we seeing it now here?
up close and personal?

always wondered if there was a tipping point or was it like a frog in a frying pan full of water....just sit til you get cooked

[Binkie The Clown]

5. Read this book

They Thought They Were Free by Milton Meyer

Available online at https://archive.org/details/theythoughttheyw027497mbp as PDF, Kindle, plain text, etc...

Milton Sanford Mayer (August 24, 1908 – April 20, 1986), a journalist and educator, was best known for his long-running column in The Progressive magazine --Wikipedia

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

excerpt from University of Chicago Press Read the whole excerpt at the link. Better yet, read the whole book.

[Rose Siding]

3. Even dubya had the sense to pour water on this kind of rage

low bar, rejecting racist rage = sense, but there it is.

[yeoman6987]

4. Sarah palin is the root of it all

McCain was stupid not to fight for who he wanted for VP which was Lieberman but he let the GOP walk all over him. I wish he fought for him. They would have lost anyway but this whole tea party and hate would not be what it is today.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. Sad

[HughBeaumont]

7. WHY are they all the same?

Middle aged, grizzled, shaven head, furious all the time, conspicuously alcoholic, one mental snap away from going on a shooting spree . . . do the lights never go off in their heads that they're the exact American version of the fundamentalists they hate?

[MisterP]

12. they spend decades cultivating not letting the light go off in their heads; millions of

dollars have been invested not letting the light go off in their heads; millions of

[Darb]

8. Deja vu all over again.

Damn this is ugly. Makes me sad.

[get the red out]

9. Damn, a discussion about building plans

I wish people could be rational for a change. This kind of action is what is evil.

People have gone nuts!

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. I think that dude is on DU!

[cpwm17]

11. I bet those dumb asses supported the unprovoked war against Iraq.

They should look in the mirror.