The next time someone complains to you about “union thugs,” show them this. It kind of puts the lie to the idea that there’s any moral equivalency between progressive demonstrators and angry, hateful right-wingers.
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This sickens me. Knowing the context of it does not make me feel any less sick. But the context is worth knowing. Here, from the Orange County Register, is why these fine patriots think they’re defending freedom by shrieking their bigotry at little kids:
Many in the crowd outside the event said they were concerned about past anti-American statements by the event’s two keynote speakers, Imam Siraj Wahhaj and Amir Abdel Malik Ali. Wahhaj is an imam at a mosque in Brooklyn. A U.S. attorney named him and 169 others as co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj was never charged and has denied involvement.
Malik Ali is a Bay Area Islamic activist who spoke at “Israeli Apartheid Week” at UC Irvine in 2010. There he said he supports Hezbollah, which the CIA labels a terrorist group.
Therefore, “one nation under God! Not Allah!”
Um, yeah, go back to Europe — twelfth-century Europe.
- David Quigg, 3/3/11
UPDATE (3/3/11, 7:04 pm): The end of this post never felt right to me. I know I was joking. Joking bitterly, granted. But joking. Still, this is a blog. Strangers will read it. They may take me literally. So while I’m not going to cover up that I wrote what I wrote, I’ll sleep better if I make it clear that any kind of “Go back to (insert non-U.S. locale here)!” is toxic to what I treasure about America. So stick around, you screaming bullies. This land is made for you and me.
