Little Green Footballs

Monday, December 10, 2007

Summer of Hate

From San Francisco -- that über-tolerant, patchouli-drenched, Birkenstock-shod, Che-Guevara-T-shirt- and kaffiyeh-clad multicultural hellhole the lizards love to hate -- comes news that a Pakistani family has been forced out of public housing due to anti-Muslim harassment an entirely understandable reaction on the part of patriotic Americans to a vicious act of jihad that had occurred almost four years earlier.

A family of Pakistani immigrants living in San Francisco public housing was improperly denied an emergency transfer to another apartment after someone broke into their home, desecrated their Quran, defaced their passports and shredded their traditional clothing, according to a federal court lawsuit.

After the August 2005 incident - which took place during a time of intensified anti-Muslim sentiment in the country and while the San Francisco Housing Authority was under court order to better protect tenants from hate-motivated crimes - agency officials ruled that the break-in at Ashan Khan's apartment was a simple burglary and didn't qualify the family for an emergency apartment transfer, the family says.

According to the suit, which was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Housing Authority officials also were slow to secure their apartment in the Potrero Terrace/Annex project after the incident to protect the Khans against future break-ins.

"I was really upset," said Khan, explaining - with the help of a translator - that he and his family were harassed from the time they moved in to the Potrero Hill housing development, first by neighbors who accused the Khans of being terrorists, then by threatening graffiti painted next to their front door depicting a man dressed like Khan with a gun to his head.

Something tells us "Zombietime" won't be posting a snarky photo essay about this incident anytime soon.

(Make sure you check out the comments, too, if you're interested in a complete and utter debunking of Charles' assertions that only left-wing opinions are allowed at the SFGate comments page.)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did anyone at LGF said "an entirely understandable reaction on the part of patriotic Americans to a vicious act of jihad that had occurred almost four years earlier." ?? or is that your assumption of patriotic Americans?

I believe there is free speech, free media, due process and court system that can return the rights to these victims of hate crimes, yet their counter parts in pakistan, and other islamic countries lack any due process, free speech or fair access to fair courts. but wait that does not matter for "bush is dictator" folks.

Anonymous said...

What it is it with wingers responding only to what the voices in their head are saying to them, rather than the actual points made before them?

Just curious.

The Anti-Wahhabi said...

"I believe there is free speech, free media, due process and court system that can return the rights to these victims of hate crimes, yet their counter parts in pakistan, and other islamic countries lack any due process, free speech or fair access to fair courts. but wait that does not matter for "bush is dictator" folks."

So I guess if a Chinese immigrant is the victim of a hate crime, I suppose some will say that in China minorites are treated like dirt, utilizing that logic.

Two wrongs do not make it right.

Anonymous said...

" yet their counter parts in pakistan, and other islamic countries lack any due process, free speech or fair access to fair courts. but wait that does not matter for "bush is dictator" folks."

Tu quoque never works. The US talks a big game and says it is a force of good. That means it must play a better game than Pakistan or Iran, for example.

If the US wants to cede its moral high ground further then sure, it can ignore the human rights of non-christians because that would mirror nastier countries. But then its rhetoric will become emptier still, and since it has proven that its military and the manner with which it is deployed has faults, weaknesses and limitations it might be a good idea for America to make its words matter more.

Anonymous said...

The home break-in was probably a fake hate crime. They happen all the time. A guy spray painted anti-muslim propaganda all over his store in Everett WA recently and after the cops started looking into it, gathering evidence. he admitted doing it himself. Same goes for hate crimes against gay, and other groups. The media loves to report the "crime" and never talks about the fact that beneath the surface a lot of this is perpetrated intentionally by the supposed victim. It also reminds me of the effort now to smear Ron Paul as somehow part of a conspiracy of "white power movement". You have GOT to be kidding me Americans are so naive. This is the only country in the world where you can find extreme diversity in nearly every community, like nothing else anywhere, and in my 40 years I've never met one "white power" person and even if I did, they represent a threat to nobody. Carry on thinking that America is full of devilish koran burners if you want, but it's a garbage theory.