Anti-Muslim Incidents in the U.S. Follow the Death of Osama Bin Laden

[EFerrari]

By NANCY RAMSEY
May 6, 2011

When he announced the death of Osama bin Laden, President Obama acknowledged and echoed his predecessor, telling the nation, "I've made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam."

Not everybody listened. While the incidents are for the most part isolated, several public expressions of anti-Muslim sentiment have occurred around the country.

The Maine Muslim Community Center in Portland was vandalized, a wall spray-painted with the words "Osama today, Islam tomorow" and "Long live the West." The mosque serves a large Somali community in Portland.

A teacher was put on leave in Friendswood, Texas, after he reportedly asked a female student in his 9th grade algebra class if she was grieving over the death of her "uncle."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/osama-bin-ladens-death-anti-muslim-incidents-us/story?id=13540940&sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4dc444b6dcced95a,0

Seems like a good time to check in with neighbors to make sure they're okay.

[Taverner]

1. Aw fuck...I knew this shit was coming

Goddamn inbreds...

[Turbineguy]

2. Let's not pretend

everybody in the US is smart enough to attend MIT.

[EFerrari]

4. I don't think I understand that.

[Turbineguy]

6. It's a roundabout way of saying:

"Morons!"

[dkf]

3. Okay that is just sad.

We need to be able to turn the page and this does no good whatsoever. I've been hearing about the difference in our Muslim community vs Europe where radicalism is much worse than here. Our people have a sense of being American while the Brits for example don't feel that way.

Welcoming people is the key. Categorizing people is the problem.

[Jefferson23]

5. K&R n/t

[Judi Lynn]

7. Look how far we've not come. Lotsa technology, primitive spirits. K & R. Thank you, EFerrari. n/t

[classysassy]

8. Hate,fear and greed

will destroy us all if we don't shout down the haters,console the fearful and avoid the greedy.