To the SOB who killed the man at my gas station

The BBQ Pit
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You lowlife scumbag. Who the hell do you think you are? God? You make me ashamed to live in this town. Did you think you would be a hero? Did you think that any American worthy of the name would applaude you? You don’t belong in this country.

Just because he wore a turbin. He was worth 100 of you, you pig!!!

I just came back from the gas station, and had to explain to my children how this could happen. You gave them another memory they didn’t need. You not only killed him, you made a lot of children (and adults) into emotional wrecks.

We barely knew him, but he was always kind to all the kids who came into his store. He was always helpful, kind and smiling. Now his family doesn’t have a father, a husband, an uncle. His brother is left to support and care for the whole family.

I am so angry that I could stomp you into a one inch square. But I won’t, because I , unlike you, am a human being. I am so hurt I can barely see to type, I can barely think.

I hope someday you realize exactly what it is you have done. You have taken a good man, a good neighbor, a good friend from this community. And for what? NOTHING BUT YOUR OWN STUPIDITY AND RACISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Goddamn it. Why must the assholes among us go out of their way to demonstrate so much of what’s wrong with this country?

It’s bad enough that they’re fucking with completely innocent Muslims, without assaulting Egyptian Copts and Indian Sikhs just because their inbred, eight-bit racist minds can’t draw a distinction between them.

Thanks, fuckers. Thanks for giving me another reason to be ashamed of my heritage. Thanks for giving the world another glaring example of this country’s failings.

And most of all, thanks for further reducing the ratio of decent, innocent human beings to small-minded, reactionary, unspeakably evil, and eminently-disposable shitheads like yourself.

Fuck. Just…fuck. :mad:

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Dammit, that’s just fucking sick.

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There’s really no moral distinction between scum like this and the terrorists whom they believe–in their twisted loathesome excuses for “minds”–they are “striking back against”. Either way, it’s murdering innocent people simply because of who they are–in one case, American citizens (or simply, people living and working in America), in the other, Americans who “look foreign”.

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I think what hurts the most about this is that I’m not surprised.

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Why the goddamn FUCK is it these assholes come crawling out from under the rocks at times like these? I am a passive, passive person…but I’m sitting here balling my fists up with rage at guys like the shitbrick junkyardangel posted about in my hometown (IIRC he’s also suspected of trying to cap a few more people who ‘looked like them ay-rabs’, and was shouting some horseshit about being a “patriot” when he was arrested).

There’s a wonderful little coffeehouse here, near the university, that I like to swing by and grab Italian sodas from now and then. It’s owned by a guy who’s friendly, funny, talkative, and genuinely likes his customers; he’s always had a kind word whenever I’ve talked to him. When he opened the store up 5 or 6 years ago, he decided to name the place after himself.

It’s called Osama’s.

Now, this is generally a fairly progressive college town - there’s hundreds upon hundreds of international students at the university, surprisingly large and thriving immigrant communities from practically every continent, mixed in with plenty of Midwestern neighborliness.

But guess what. We’ve got the same ignorant, narrow-minded, racist shitstains crawling out of their holes here too. Gutless bastards have left graffiti and other stuff at the cafe’s door; a friend went over there to raise money for the Red Cross, and reported that even-more-gutless cowards were regularly yelling epithets as they drove by. One woman called the newspaper wanting to buy an ad urging people to boycott him, because she’d heard a rumor that they were ‘dancing and singing’ after the attacks. :rolleyes: (The paper wisely refused.) Threats have been made to him, as they have to the local mosque and even random citizens and students with Arabic-sounding names.

This shit fills me with a rage and anger almost as great at what I felt at the initial attacks. Maybe it’s because I’ve been to the Arab world, visited the local mosque, and shop for stuff at the Middle Eastern grocery store, but I feel like it’s violating not only these innocent bystanders, but ME. And the rest of America too.

I only wish the WTC attack could have taken its victims from among the ranks of these ass-cretins, instead claiming hapless businessmen, tourists, and firefighters instead.

:mad:

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I have a good friend, who is a bit on the redneck side. When the attack happened, I talked to him on the phone and got the stereotypical venom about how we should wipe out all islamics, deport em all, put im camps like the internment camps in WWII etc. I realized he was upset, and tried to ignore the crap, but I kind of avoided calling him for a while because of this reason.

Tonight he calls to ask how my surgery went. We talk about the whole situation, and I mention how the whole terrorism thing goes against the Koran etc. He says you know, I confronted a few muslims about this, and they all said exactly the same thing, that these people couldnt really be muslim, because it goes against thier religion to do such a thing. Apparently he actually went up to people of middle eastern descent on the street and got in thier face, but get this… He listened to what they had to say and a realized that he was wrong.
It just gave me a bit of hope for people. Thats all.

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I found this on a newsgroup and think it applies to the lowlife described in the op.

That some people would do exactly that freaks me out. FFS, I felt nauseated when I read the OP. People that would kill someone based on their race or religion are terrorists themselves. They just kill one person at a time. Disgusting.

[sub]For people who wonder who Nasrudin is, He is a fictional Sufi Sage used, among others, by Robert Anton Wilson in his Sufi Parables.[/sub]

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I hope the murdering bastard gets life doing hard time.

We are pursuing Osama bin Laden and the Taleban because they are murdering criminals, not because of their religion. That their religion tells them to do this is between them and their God, but it is up to us to stop them from acting further.

To kill an Arab person here in America is not just cowardly, it’s ironic in the extreme because so many Arab people have come here to avoid terrorism. For this reason alone, the murderer’s sentence should be doubled.

As for the restaurant owner getting heckled, that’s so pathetic it’s ridiculous. But this killing is merely proof that sick bastards come from all corners of this earth.

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I am so ill by this sort of thing. I think it is one of the things that upsets me the most. At a time when we all need to draw closer together, we start doing this to our own citizens? Madness.

I grew up hearing my dad talk about how bad it was that we had internment camps in California, for Japanese Americans during WWII. He had a schoolmate who was taken to that camp. He knew how evil it was.

The parents of one of my friends were taken to these camps. It was so wrong.

I am glad my dad is not alive to see the same pattern start to develop again. It would upset him so much.

One thing I will say - bless Pres. Bush for speaking quite publicly about this issue today. He visited a Mosque. He spoke for quite a while on this issue, and said that taking our aggressions out on Muslim people would not be tolerated. He said that mothers who wear cover are afraid to leave their houses. He said “That’s not the America I know.” He read aloud from the Koran. Good for him. It’s a start.

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I don’t remember the rednecks turning on militias after Oklahoma City was revealed to be Timothy McVeigh’s work.

I don’t recall the English blaming the Pope for IRA bombings.

I do, however, remember the Indonesians killing local Chinese after the Indonesian economy collapsed, UAW workers attcking Koreans because Japanese cars were selling better than GM’s, Australians classifying Aboriginees as “fauna” for a century, Congress defining “negroes” as 3/5 of a man, Jews being blamed for what Romans did to Jesus, and Christians being arrested for doing charity work…in Afghanistan.

Anger is the opposite of reason. Ann Coulter is the opposite of journalism. Revenge is the opposite of justice. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, and most consider Jesus to be one of Allah’s prophets.

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They have caught the man who killed him.

I hope he spends the rest of his miserable existance in prison.

Last night I was so upset I couldn’t see straight. I went into the gas station and gave the man behind the counter (not the brother of the victim) some money to help with the funeral, ect. He said any money they collect will be sent to New York- they need it worse there. This is the kind of person the murdering pig took away from us. It did comfort me, some, to see a plastic grocery bag 3/4 full of money.

I wish I had known him better.

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I only skimmed this thread, and if this has already been touched on, forgive me.

The man that was killed was a Sikh. This weekend his family and other members of the Phoenix Sikh community were on the news and pointed out how decent the victim was and some of the basic tenents of Sikhism.

I’m livid that the ignorant racist fuckkernels have come out of the woodwork in the wake of the WTC slaughter. I’m even more livid that this particular fuckkernel couldn’t tell and didn’t even bother to consider that Sikhs exist and aren’t Arabs.

But what pisses me off, as a human being and as a Phoenician, is the fact that this fuckkernel was screaming, as he was dragged in cuffs by the police, “I am a patriot.”

As one who has always applied that term to myself, it made my skin crawl to hear that on the news.

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I am feeling ill, at this.

I want to cry, to scream, to yell out, NO MORE!!!

It’s one of the reasons I can’t wave a flag now. I just feel too sick at heart.

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This pisses me off to no end. Where did this happen?

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This is sick. It’s a time of crisis, and countless people have lost their lives. So what do these bastards do? They come out of their sanctuaries thinking they’re God’s gift to America, and on this Earth to punish whoever the fuck the think needs to be punished. Don’t they realize there has already been enough death? Enough suffering?

One of my friends knows someone who’s little brother of 10 YEARS OLD got beaten up because he just looked like he was from the Middle East.

In my sister’s Spanish class a girl got harassed by one incredibly ignorant dumbass. This idiot asked her if she was from Pakistan (because Pakistan has so much to do with the situation :rolleyes: I suppose she confused it with Afghanistan) and when this poor girl responded that she was actually from India, Ms. I’m too stupid to even know what I’m talking about says “Good. Because if you were from Pakistan we’d have to beat your ass!”

I can’t even begin to explain my detest towards these horrific actions. The way some people responded to this tragedy is deplorable, and I hope they end up in jail where they belong.

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Mesa, Arizona. A major suburb of Phoenix.

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Don’t wave it for what the country is.

Wave it for what you learned it should be, what you know it can be, what you hope it someday will be.

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Just remember, for every one of these asswipes that thinks it is OK to attack someone because they are wearing a turban, there are 10,000 people who want to kick that asswipe in the head and teach him a lesson about tolerance. Well, maybe not kick him in the head, but at least throw him into prison and taunt him severely.

The people at my church have been doing “Mosque Watch”, where people sign up in shifts to go out to local mosques and watch out for anyone who might want to throw a rock or whatever. I think it’s nice, and if any of you feel very strongly about this sort of thing, you may want to check and see if there is something like that going on in your community. I know it makes me feel better to help out in some small way. I heard a quotation once, and I don’t remember the source, about an “ocean of light covering over the ocean of darkness”, and every time we act to prevent these acts of hatred, we are part of that ocean of light.

I’m sorry if this sounds hokey, but right now it is so easy to become overwhelmed and upset at everything that is going on, that I think it’s important to remember that the vast, VAST majority of folks out there are good, decent people who would never, ever, ever commit acts of violence like the one described in the OP.

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We’re not the only nation possessing such microcephalic losers. It happens in Germany, it happens in England, it happens in South Africa, it happens in Borneo.

It shouldn’t happen at all.

But we’re not alone in having feculent pricks as part of our culture. It’s part of being in human society. We can, however, do our best to make sure that these incidents remain isolated, freakish things.

The memory of the victims of racism demands that we do nothing less.

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