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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts) Thu Sep 10, 2015, 08:53 PM Sep 2015

"Go back to your country, Bin Laden": Elderly Sikh man severely beaten

Police in Chicago’s Darien suburb said that they were investigating a possible hate crime after an elderly Sikh American was assaulted by a man, who referred to him as a “terrorist” and “Bin Laden.”

Just days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Inderjit Singh Mukker said that he was driving to the grocery store when a man repeatedly cut him off, according to The Hindu.

Mukker pulled over to the side of the road to let the man go around him. But instead, the man stopped, reached into Mukker’s car and began punching him. Mukker lost consciousness, and “suffered a fractured cheekbone and lacerations to his cheek,” a statement from the Sikh Coalition explained.

After being transported to the hospital, Mukker recalled that the man yelled “Terrorist, go back to your country, Bin Laden!” and other racial slurs.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/go-back-to-your-country-bin-laden-elderly-sikh-severely-beaten-ahead-of-911-anniversary/

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"Go back to your country, Bin Laden": Elderly Sikh man severely beaten (Original Post) Cheese Sandwich Sep 2015 OP

That's sick n/t JustAnotherGen Sep 2015 #1

Thank Trump malaise Sep 2015 #4

while the media cheers on trump and the hate he spreads JI7 Sep 2015 #2

My thought exactly Cheese Sandwich Sep 2015 #3

The fascists' are being encouraged by the mass media and their love affair with xenophobia....why Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #5

Because "Every businessman plays both sides." Shandris Sep 2015 #6

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)

1. That's sick n/t

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 09:05 PM

Sep 2015

malaise

(269,021 posts)

4. Thank Trump

Reply to JustAnotherGen (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 09:24 PM

Sep 2015

and those who profit from hate

JI7

(89,250 posts)

2. while the media cheers on trump and the hate he spreads

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 09:07 PM

Sep 2015

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

3. My thought exactly

Reply to JI7 (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 09:14 PM

Sep 2015

This is exactly the kind of thing Donald Trump's rhetoric leads to.

I mean it's barely even concealed at all.

Trump Supporter To Jorge Ramos: 'Get Out Of My Country'
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jorge-ramos-donald-trump-supporter

David Duke on Trump: He's 'the best of the lot'
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/25/politics/david-duke-donald-trump-immigration/

Whatever our bickering about the Democratic primary candidates it's so clear we have to stay united against the hate Republicans spew every day.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

5. The fascists' are being encouraged by the mass media and their love affair with xenophobia....why

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 09:33 PM

Sep 2015

do folks who recognize the evil of unregulated corporatism not believe the corporations owning America's unregulated free speech media are not the same?

Democratic candidates need to speak out boldy and loudly and courageously about the failure of the media no what that failure means to law and order.

Free speech was never meant to protect violent free hate speech, and now given free advertising.

Shandris

(3,447 posts)

6. Because "Every businessman plays both sides."

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #5)

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 09:48 PM

Sep 2015

The assumption is that our politicians are somehow unable to recognize this evil. That...is silly. Our politicians are many things, but true, actual stupidity is rare among them. There's calculated stupidity naturally, but another name for that is calculated evil (or stupidity as a disguise for evil, as this case is).

They're quite aware of what is happening. They're getting paid to allow it to happen. As one of the old mob bosses said, "Politicians are the cheapest of all servants to corrupt."

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