Spread of Hate Crimes Has Lawmakers Seeking Harsher Penalties
Source: MSN/NY Times
The anonymous email arrived on a Saturday afternoon, its message jumbled, misspelled, in capital letters. It was not addressed to a specific individual at the Birmingham Islamic Society. Rather, its hateful message was directed at African-Americans, Mexicans and Muslims in general.
Three words stood out: run or die.
About 10 miles away, the telephones on the campus of the Levite Jewish Community Center rang four times in six weeks with bomb threats, the third call resulting in the evacuation of children just after morning prayer at the day school.
The interfaith threats were enough to prompt the introduction of a bill in the Legislature expanding Alabamas hate crime law to include threats against religious institutions and schools.
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kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)iluvtennis
(19,861 posts)...with the Muslim ban, with calling Mexicans criminals and rapists, with grab'em by the pu**y remarks, with mocking the disabled, with asking blacks "what do you have to lose", etc., etc.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)and everyone else has gotten way too uppity over the years and we need to be put back in our place through force
Diversity bothers some people. The notion that people like me are born in America and have all the legal rights of any other US citizen really enrages a certain type of person. They would love to repeal the 14th and 15th amendments.
So, Obama as president and minorities in cabinet positions brought out a lot of long simmering feelings of hatred. Trump dumped fuel on the fire and it is boiling over.
Just my speculation that if Hillary had been president for the last 8 years, we would see an increase in misogynist violence as they put uppity feminists back in their place to make America great again before the 19th amendment.
salin
(48,955 posts)deplorable, unamerican acts. Follows the sentiments tweeted and expressed in rallies of the President.