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| Man Mocks Muslim Candidate at His Home |
| 2006-08-14 |
| A Muslim candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates was targeted by a protester who held a sign reading "Islam sucks" and wore a T-shirt with the slogan, "This mind is an Allah-free zone." Montgomery County police warned the protester, Timothy Truett, after the Saturday incident that he would be subject to arrest on trespassing charges if he steps onto Saqib Ali's property in the next year. Truett, 46, of Montgomery Village, sat in a folding chair on the cul-de-sac outside Ali's Gaithersburg home, which doubles as his campaign office. Ali took several pictures but refused to speak to Truett. "It was basically an experiment," Truett said Sunday. "I had heard that Muslims were generally intolerant of views other than their own, and so I thought I would put it to the test. I wanted to see what would happen." He hoped Ali would talk to him, but Ali said nothing. "We steadfastly refused to engage him in conversation," Ali said. "We took a lot of photographs, and he got agitated after a while because we weren't answering him." Truett got up to leave, and Ali followed Truett to his car and took pictures of his license tags. Truett phoned Ali's office after he left, but Ali hung up on him. Truett had made an earlier phone call to Ali's office in which he asked if Ali was a Muslim and made derogatory remarks about Islam to Ali's campaign manager. Truett said he did not think the sign or the T-shirt expressed a message of hate. "It's an opinion," he said. "I don't think there's anything intrinsically hateful about it." But Ali said he was "insulted" by the slogans and contacted police. He did not get the impression that Truett wanted to start a constructive dialogue. "We don't waste our time talking to people who hate us," Ali said. Ali, a Democrat, would become the first Muslim member of the House of Delegates if elected. He has not made his religion a major tenet of his campaign. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #8 Not karma Anon. Future Darwin Award nominee to me. When you look at this "big picture" you see how open/tolerant we really are here in the U.S. Even after killing 3,000 of our fellow 'mericans, there was only a handful of "retaliation" attacks. From what I remember, only 1 or 2 killed (one being a Seikh killed cause they thought he was Muslim). But, try to pull that crap in their countries and look what ya get. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-08-14 13:19 |
| #7 I had to give a lesson to an imbecile on religious and ethnic courtesy, not out of any respect for him, but not wanting for those he despised to get arrested for kicking seven bells out of him. At first he was sneering at a local convenience store clerk for being a Moslem. I advised him not to do this first and foremost because the clerk was a Sikh. Only secondary was the fact that the clerk would probably kick his ass just for calling him a Moslem. So this rocket scientist turned his animosity to some owners of a different convenience store, who were indeed Moslems. Afghan Pushtuns with barrel chests and the zeitgeist of Apache Indians. Damn, son. Why don't you go into a biker bar next, give some gorilla a "wet willy" then yell out "Harley bikers are homos!"? Maybe it's a karma thing. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-08-14 11:48 |
| #6 It would have been better to make posterboards with quotes from US islamic leaders (Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.). Or quotes from islamic literature found in US mosques (http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/pdfdocs/FINAL%20FINAL.pdf). Makes for much better TV news. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-08-14 09:45 |
| #5 Wait now. As far as we know Mr. Ali is a law-abiding citizen. Rather than ask him of his opinion of Israel (irrelevant, he's running to be a state representative), why not get his financial disclosure statements and see if he's been donating to the Widows Ammunition Fund in some way? If he's clean, then leave him alone. And vote Republican in the fall, of course. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-08-14 09:26 |
| #4 He's a shoe-in. Dems are clueless. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-08-14 09:00 |
| #3 As I mentioned late last evening, returing to D.C. via Atlanta yesterday. I saw a huddle of TSA employees shucking and jiving near the Delta Airlines check-in counter. One was a African American female in full TSA garb, badge, etc. The only thing that set her apart from her colleagues was her black muzzie head scarf. I feel so PROTECTED! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-08-14 07:40 |
| #2 I wonder if some reporter will ask Mr. Ali if he thinks of Israel, but then reporters don't like to ask tough probing questions of Democrats. More likely they will ask what color his car is or where he went to school and avoid the religious aspect. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-08-14 07:28 |
| #1 I am curious as to enforceability of the hate laws on behalf of Muslims, who are the worst haters in history. That said, the protest is a juvenile waste of time. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-14 04:23 |