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Rocknrule

(5,697 posts)
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 01:11 PM Sep 2016

2 Muslim women, babies attacked in alleged hate crime in New York

Source: CNN

A woman yelling anti-Muslim sentiment allegedly attacked two Muslim women as they pushed their children in strollers in New York, authorities said.

Emirjeta Xhelili, 32, allegedly tried to rip the hijab from the women's heads during the attack in Brooklyn on Thursday.

She struck the women in the face and body, and repeatedly shouted, "this is the United States of America, you're not supposed to be different from us," court documents allege.

Xhelili allegedly told the women, "get the (expletive) out of America (expletive), you don't belong here."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/10/us/brooklyn-muslim-women-attacked/index.html



3 guesses who this woman supports for president
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2 Muslim women, babies attacked in alleged hate crime in New York (Original Post) Rocknrule Sep 2016 OP
"This is the United States of America, you're not supposed to be different from us" Rocknrule Sep 2016 #1
"Emirjeta Xhelili" doesn't sound very WASPish. Odin2005 Sep 2016 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author kestrel91316 Sep 2016 #8
She's a trump supporter who calls herself Mary Magdalene. bunnies Sep 2016 #3
Damn, I had pictured her as an ugly, disgusting old woman with all that hate. Ligyron Sep 2016 #12
Same here. bunnies Sep 2016 #13
She's pretty twisted inside. Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #17
And yet these people are mad for Clinton calling them Chicago1980 Sep 2016 #4
She's an immigrant from Albania Tempest Sep 2016 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author kestrel91316 Sep 2016 #6
Seems a little genetic ck4829 Sep 2016 #19
Emirjeta Xhelili, eh? Else You Are Mad Sep 2016 #7
LOL - blueseas Sep 2016 #20
"this is the United States of America, you're not supposed to be different from us!" yuiyoshida Sep 2016 #9
One of many Deplorables. NBachers Sep 2016 #10
A piece of EuroTrash. DinahMoeHum Sep 2016 #11
Trump Has Normalized This Behavior McKim Sep 2016 #14
I'm curious how she is being viewed by Trump supporters and others on the right... PersonNumber503602 Sep 2016 #15
A RWer on Discussionist called it "hardly a hate crime - just a response to provocation" muriel_volestrangler Sep 2016 #16
Funny world they've created for themselves. Too bad they've imposed it on everyone else. n/t Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #18
Figures. I can probably guess who said that too. PersonNumber503602 Sep 2016 #23
This person is a deplorable Politicub Sep 2016 #21
she even shares Trump's hostility toward babies Enrique Sep 2016 #22

Rocknrule

(5,697 posts)
1. "This is the United States of America, you're not supposed to be different from us"
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 01:12 PM
Sep 2016

The motto of Trump supporters everywhere

Response to Odin2005 (Reply #2)

Ligyron

(7,639 posts)
12. Damn, I had pictured her as an ugly, disgusting old woman with all that hate.
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 05:12 PM
Sep 2016

Her face contorted with anger. She's actually rather attractive.

Chicago1980

(1,968 posts)
4. And yet these people are mad for Clinton calling them
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 01:49 PM
Sep 2016

A 'Basket Full of Deplorables'.

She hit the nail on the head with that description.

Tempest

(14,591 posts)
5. She's an immigrant from Albania
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 02:07 PM
Sep 2016

She's not even native born.

Her FB page is the ramblings of a psychopathic lunatic.

Response to Tempest (Reply #5)

ck4829

(35,091 posts)
19. Seems a little genetic
Sun Sep 11, 2016, 07:51 AM
Sep 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy

Emirjeta Xhelili is from Albania, Albania has a high Muslim population (60%)
Emirjeta Xhelili attacked these women, but because of her origin, she might be Muslim

X is from the US, the US has a high Christian population (70%)
And let's make X represent Adam Lanza, Jason Dalton, Dylann Roof, Craig Hicks, and Steven Dale Green

What can we say about the second group then?

Else You Are Mad

(3,040 posts)
7. Emirjeta Xhelili, eh?
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 02:13 PM
Sep 2016

She must be one of the Xhelili family from Massachusetts that came over on the Mayflower.

yuiyoshida

(41,861 posts)
9. "this is the United States of America, you're not supposed to be different from us!"
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 03:31 PM
Sep 2016

Yeah, this is the POISON that Trump, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have sewn, all come to harvest.

McKim

(2,412 posts)
14. Trump Has Normalized This Behavior
Sun Sep 11, 2016, 12:55 AM
Sep 2016

Trump has normalized this kind of talk and behavior. That is why he is so dangerous for America. His loose, inflammatory and racist talk has encouraged this. Shame on the news media for fawning on his every ugly word! They have made a God out of this little man.

PersonNumber503602

(1,134 posts)
15. I'm curious how she is being viewed by Trump supporters and others on the right...
Sun Sep 11, 2016, 03:09 AM
Sep 2016

Is she being embraced as a hero, or are they trying to distant her? I should go investigate to find out. I always find it interesting to observe people's reactions.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
16. A RWer on Discussionist called it "hardly a hate crime - just a response to provocation"
Sun Sep 11, 2016, 05:04 AM
Sep 2016

(they didn't reply when someone asked what they though the 'provocation' was), and another claimed that what she said didn't matter, only the physical touching was wrong.

So I'd sum it up as 'making excuses'.

PersonNumber503602

(1,134 posts)
23. Figures. I can probably guess who said that too.
Sun Sep 11, 2016, 07:24 PM
Sep 2016

I don't know why I didn't think of going there to see. I rarely engage with the more knuckle-dragging types there.

*Edit*

Hah! I was right about the "hardly a hate crime" comment. Exactly who I thought would say that. He's the same person who said he'd disown his daughter if she dated a non-white guy.

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