Surreal
November 16, 2015, 8:14pm
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Here’s Broomstick’s latest:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18861765&postcount=50
Because in my neighborhood a local restaurant owner, a man who had engaged in extensive fund raising for those injured by 9/11, and the families of those killed, who proudly displayed an American flag every day of the year, who had been a US citizen for 30 years and raised his family here, was gunned down in cold blood in 2002 for the “crime” of being a Muslim. Shot dead in his restaurant, in front of his family, by a bigot.
Granted the plural of anecdote is not data, but your assertion that no such thing happened is negated by the death of someone I knew for several years. Not to mention all the well documented other reports of the same. I still miss the man, who had built a halal restaurant to serve the local Muslim community but who also took equal pains to make everyone feel welcome there. I’m happy to say his sons carry on his legacy, but they still miss their father every day.
Somehow this story of a flag-waiving Muslim man who was gunned down in cold blood in front of his family by a bigot must not have been important enough to make the headlines, so I guess we’ll have to take her word for it.