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[Raza Mehkeri]

On the Death of Shaima Alawadi and the hate-fest across America

It sickens me to write this, to report on the latest manifestation of the hate that has enveloped my country and spread out across the world like a giant oil spill, but the death of Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi woman and mother of five, is a moral obscenity – a crime for which the War Party must take responsibility.

Last Wednesday, in the quiet San Diego suburb of El Cajon, California, the teenage daughter of Shaima Alawadi returned home to find her mother drowning in a pool of blood. There were signs of forced entry at the back of the house. Someone had broken in and beaten her mother nearly to death with a tire iron.
Next to her body was a note: “Go back to your own country, you terrorist.”
A similar note had been found tacked to the family’s door a few weeks earlier, but Shaima had dismissed it as a kid’s prank.

This kind of hate is nothing new for San Diego. In 2010, a plan to build a mosque in nearby Temecula resulted in a series of protest demonstrations by local nut-jobs. A woman in a hijab was hauled off a Southwest Airlines flight in at San Diego airport in 2011 by TSA agents, and told the captain didn’t “feel comfortable” with her on the flight: this was around the same time braying demagogue Peter King (R-New York) was holding hearings on the “Muslim fifth column in America.” Last year, a similar “go back to where you came from” message was delivered by someone who repeatedly punched a Muslim cab driver, who had been observed praying. See here, here, and here for more evidence of the climate of hate darkening the otherwise sunny skies of this California redoubt of bigotry and military families.
If you want some idea of what’s going on in Southern California, these days, take a look at this video of a demonstration in Yorba Linda,



where an inter-religious charity event for the homeless was surrounded by hundreds of screeching banshees, screaming their hatred of Muslims. And lest you think this is just a fringe phenomenon, note that no less than three elected officials addressed this hate-fest: congressmen Ed Royce and Gary Miller, and Villa Park councilwoman Debra Pauly – all three of them Republicans, naturally.

As children and women in hijabs walk with quiet dignity into the charity venue, the crowd unleashes its fury of hate: “Go home, go home, go home!” they yell. Is it a coincidence that this is the very same message in the note from Shaima’s killer?
I’m betting on the latter, but I’m open to being surprised.
From : AntiWar

[stopstaaron]

What happened was terrible. Let me offer a suggestion though to all of the emigrated Muslims.. drop the phony religion. I realize you then would become an apostate and probably be in danger by some of your more radical fellow Muslims but you're not endearing yourselves to the nation you immigrated to when you walk around like you're still in Iraq.

[Michael Hardner]

What happened was terrible. Let me offer a suggestion though to all of the emigrated Muslims.. drop the phony religion.

You're blaming the victims here for exercising their rights to free religion it seems to me.

Pretty vile stuff, stopstaaron.

[stopstaaron]

You're blaming the victims here for exercising their rights to free religion it seems to me.

Pretty vile stuff, stopstaaron.

Not exactly. I think it is well known by now that Muslims are having a hard time being accepted into the western world. They expect to be treated differently than everybody else and that is because of their religion. In the U.S Christianity is a bit under attack (I admit that much). When Christians see Muslims getting free reign to practice their religion by praying in the middle of the street during rush hour ..but they can't call Christmas "Christmas" but instead it is Xmas.. well you can clearly see where the resentment is coming from.

[American Woman]

This same post is all over the internet:

On the Death of Shaima Alawadi Murdered by a decade of militarist demagoguery by Justin Raimondo, March 26, 2012

[Jack Weber]

So...We have an "I'm OK/You're OK" leftist spammer...

No wonder he/she had no interest in my question on the other thread...There wasn't an answer to be had...

[Michael Hardner]

Not exactly. I think it is well known by now that Muslims are having a hard time being accepted into the western world. They expect to be treated differently than everybody else and that is because of their religion.

Really just a flat-out generalization and expression of a prejudice. There's no way to prove that.

In the U.S Christianity is a bit under attack (I admit that much). When Christians see Muslims getting free reign to practice their religion by praying in the middle of the street during rush hour ..but they can't call Christmas "Christmas" but instead it is Xmas.. well you can clearly see where the resentment is coming from.

Resentment comes from people who have personal problems that they project onto others. The "No Christmas" myth pretty much tells me what you're all about.

[stopstaaron]

Michael, I am anti religion... and that includes Islam

Thought that was clear

Why should I respect Islam?! Give me one good reason.. name one good thing Islam has done
for this world

Edited by stopstaaron, 04 April 2012 - 08:13 PM.

[stopstaaron]

It is so typical and ridiculous how upset liberals get when you criticize muslims

guess what libs.. if it were up to muslims you wouldn't exist.. everything you support would not exist
human rights would not exist

time to open up your eyes

I will not be tolerant to religious zealots

Edited by stopstaaron, 04 April 2012 - 08:23 PM.

[Michael Hardner]

You're not anti-religion, your statements prove that you're prejudiced towards certain groups.

I'm not upset, it's just that these viewpoints are so obtuse that they're not worth bandwidth. At a certain point, there's nothing to say on this topic and the posts just become more trolling.

[stopstaaron]

You're not anti-religion, your statements prove that you're prejudiced towards certain groups.

I'm not upset, it's just that these viewpoints are so obtuse that they're not worth bandwidth. At a certain point, there's nothing to say on this topic and the posts just become more trolling.

I'm not anti religion?! Michael .. ask anyone on here they will tell you I hate religion

[stopstaaron]

Since you think you know me so well Michael

http://www.mapleleaf...ndpost&p=780768

[American Woman]

On the Death of Shaima Alawadi and the hate-fest across America

It sickens me to write this, to report on the latest manifestation of the hate that has enveloped my country and spread out across the world like a giant oil spill, but the death of Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi woman and mother of five, is a moral obscenity – a crime for which the War Party must take responsibility.

Last Wednesday, in the quiet San Diego suburb of El Cajon, California, the teenage daughter of Shaima Alawadi returned home to find her mother drowning in a pool of blood. There were signs of forced entry at the back of the house. Someone had broken in and beaten her mother nearly to death with a tire iron.
Next to her body was a note: "Go back to your own country, you terrorist."
A similar note had been found tacked to the family's door a few weeks earlier, but Shaima had dismissed it as a kid's prank.

An update: The husband is being held for the murder. http://news.yahoo.co...-213224429.html

The husband of an Iraqi-American woman whose beating death initially appeared to be a hate crime was arrested on suspicion of murder in what police described Friday as an act of domestic violence.

[Argus]

An update: The husband is being held for the murder. http://news.yahoo.co...-213224429.html

The husband of an Iraqi-American woman whose beating death initially appeared to be a hate crime was arrested on suspicion of murder in what police described Friday as an act of domestic violence.

You know, it's funny, but that's exactly what I was thinking. I've never heard of a similar incident, and it just sounded too pat to me. Who breaks into a house to kill a mother at home because she's Muslim? If you really are a crazed anti-Muslim wouldn't you attack someone at a mosque or something, or at least, some public, notable Muslim figure? I thought it would turn out to be a family thing and it was.

[Bonam]

Not unexpected.