Mosques vandalised as US states reject Syria refugees

Suspected hate crimes targeting Muslims
carried out as anti-Islam rhetoric swells in the
US following Paris attacks.

More than 4.2 million Syrians have fled their
country as the civil war continues [Santi
Palacios/AP]
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daniellarruso
What's up ma Muslims? Here is
Allah! I just hacked this user to pass
a message to you:
Starting from now alcohol is totally
allowed!!!!
Let's get CRAZEEEEE!!!
Bushman73779293
let's separate the world in to two.
Muslim and infidels. or should I say
Muslim and west. no excuse.
Siavash Keyhan
I have a better Idea lets
finish what the great fuhrer
started and the wind will
stop blowing
Horatius Heretic
20 min ago you
wrote:
OK lads thats it for
my hasbara whipping
of the day, I leave
the rest to the able
hands of other
fellow thinkers
Still here. What
happened? Even the
ho cancelled?
2Truthreal
Have to separate the Shia as
well.
helper
F uck Americunt Crusaders!
Horatius Heretic
Who's paying your welfare
Helper? Just curious.
helper
I'm self employed, I
higher out your mum
for the homeless.
helper
*hire
Lad Pal
LOL. "Self
employed". Another
Muslim oxymoron
John
You're right. It is a
Crusade..... It 's a different
kind of Crusade
though.....you get to
slaughter yourselves....
helper
We should bring
back Baibars I to
wipe your collective
a sses.
John
never heard of him
or it......we'll be sure
to drone him/it
though.....
2Truthreal
Did you read my lovely
comment about Islam/Quran
down below you might enjoy
it.
MillerNmiller27
The world needs natural fertiliser. I
propose we grind up the Muslims and
put them on our fields.
helper
Don't worry we can use your
mother's sh it.
Siavash Keyhan
I think Hitler had the best
solution for you ssssssssss
John
It's true.....there are some restless
Americans out there....have no
fear.....just keep your guns cleaned,
and loaded ....and remember...unload
between the eyes after you hear
Allahu.....don't wait for the Akbar.....
helper
I unloaded inside your
mum's p*ssy many years
ago and that's how you were
born.
John
sorry.....i"m not
covered in hair and I
don't smell like
camel pi$$$......
Anonymous
Open up a BBQ joint near a mosque
,make sure to only serve pork and
smoke it outdoors 24 hours a day!
John
Sounds like there's a lot of people
with Whiteboyphobia out there.... an
Eiffel tower spray painted? drive by
shootings? this is the US after
all......
Steve
Good, burn the Mosque's to the
ground and drive all Muslim's out of
the West.
Siavash Keyhan
Wonder what Steve sounds
like in an oven hush me baby
Attila Matyas
https://
www.youtube.com/
watch?
v=W130l1uoTY0
helper
I burned your mother's p*ssy
down yesterday bud.
Lad Pal
Islamic civil rights. Oxymoron....
Stephen
So what is the Muslim 'dead by
Islamophobia backlash ' body count
up to since 9/11 in the West? Is it
nonzero yet?
justrevolting
in israel alone?
you are in denial again.
Siavash Keyhan
OK lads thats it for my hasbara
whipping of the day, I leave the rest
to the able hands of other fellow
thinkers
justrevolting
fellow is a big word.
Charmaine Reddy
fellow thinkers or key board
jihadists
Siavash Keyhan
What ever makes
you happy dear,
standing up or lying
down soap will come
out the other end
Anonymous
Time to bend over to Allah?
charles martel
more like A ss lifting
toward Allah ( P iss
be on him ) and his
P edo messenger
justrevolting
payed trolls have three topics. sp.
grammar and their obsession with
meds.
they are to stupid to understand a
post by a foreigner,
so they want us all to speak the
simplest english so they become
equals.
Anonymous
Translation::
WAAAAAAAAAA!
Siavash Keyhan
Ok here's another one was there
different flavors of soap like lux and
palmolive and so on
Kaminoyona
Does it feel good when you
bend over to Allah and he
sticks his little dogdick
inside of your rear end?
justrevolting
so now you know why they
deny there were plenty of
ashes in dresden.
and ask saddam how he
liked the results of his
projections.
Cody1mill
At least get
grammarly.com it's
free goods sake.
justrevolting
well i dont like MO and seems the
hasbara got his nerves easily..
but he has a point that it is
perplexing to read that people in usia
have a habit of threatening the
execution of masses of others.
Horatius Heretic
In English?
justrevolting
go away payed troll.
most boring twit
Cody1mill
English por favor?
justrevolting
that can't think does
not mean others
have to stop
thinking in the same
way you do.
Kaminoyona
English not your first
language?
Horatius Heretic
Not even his third I
guess
Siavash Keyhan
Here is a question how many bars of
soap did the German army make
from the ovens
justrevolting
here is an answer, people like
you are the reason no one
will know the answer.
Kaminoyona
Enough to keep their Muslim
allies happy?
justrevolting
just as totally
unfunny,
quite the same.
AdultSupervisor
You seem to be an expert on
that soap Slavash. Do you
have some? Have you used it
to wash with? Is it your
favorite thing?
Horatius Heretic
Please ignore!
justrevolting
well o gree this
childish monster you
should not leave
near children should
be ignored ... :)
unfortunately that is
not what screen
name 1000 of payed
troll X means here.
John
The hurtful reaction to Muslims as a
result of the terrorist attack in Paris
is not unexpected. It is based on
fear of the other. It is the dark side
of our human nature. However it is
not beyond our ability to control it.
Facts and reason are the antidote to
the ignorance that feeds it. Before
you make comments think! Get
some facts and use your reason. A
good dose of compassion would help
as well.
Most people are not fanatics by
nature. They can be driven to follow
fanatics by fear. My great fear is
that is going to happen in countries
with Muslim populations. The vast
majority of Muslims are not fanatics
but if we keep treating them as such
some of them will become what we
fear.
Time for a reality check. Ignorance
is not bliss.
justrevolting
it is nice of you to vow for a
decent conversation.
the stretch of your words
however (at least for me)
still confronting.
so dont go feeling to all
fuzzy and selfrighteous about
it.
and to be fair a decent rant
can also clear things up a
lot.
Kaminoyona
If only 20% of all Muslims
support extremism, that
means that there are over
300 million threats.
I think the number is more
like 30%.
Cody1mill
It's lower then that
just remove Shia
sects that don't
really participate in
this kind of
behavior.
Anonymous
Oh yes they do, Say
hello to Hezbollah,
Cody....
Horatius Heretic
The vast majority of Muslims
are not fanatics but if we
keep treating them as such
some of them will become
what we fear.
The vast majority of
Muslims, lets say 98%, is still
silent about Daesh and
other terrorists, apart from
the millions of supporters.
Outside of lalaland that
doesn't  foster trust and
confidence
justrevolting
lalalamd is your own
place very much.
muslims 10 years
ago showed no
support worth
mention,
but the alienation
(through people like
you)
is changing the
scales.
but i shouldnt talk
to a payed troll.
Horatius Heretic
@Justrevolting
Are you drunk again?
AdultSupervisor
There are two kinds of
Muslims John. First of all,
there are the Jihadists who
want to cut off your head
because you are an
unbeliever. Secondly, there
are the moderate Muslims
who want the Jihadists to
cut off your head because
you are an unbeliever.
Kaminoyona
There is an old
Arabic saying, "First
the Jews".
Who do you think is
next?
Horatius Heretic
Please ignore Michael O_O_O_Orland.
Such a boring imbecile
Siavash Keyhan
Please ignore this Hasbara
shekel squad his kind is only
good for one thing SOAP
Kaminoyona
The only people who
call others "hasbara"
are themselves
Jihadi.
Siavash Keyhan
The Muslim hate comments come
directly from Tel Aviv, the shekel
squad is at it again, I say we start
the ovens and get the Job done this
time, better safe than sorry
Horatius Heretic
I see, first cheap Arab
melodrama and then Da Joos
and ovens and Hitler.
Classy!!
Siavash Keyhan
Dont you just love it
though your kind
always goes bizerk
with ovens
Marininlina
Flagged.
Siavash Keyhan
my bad its in ovens
Abdir13
get the Ovens ready. you will
be the one to taste it first
mercilessly.
Siavash Keyhan
I knew you were the
shekel squad, you
are so easy
justrevolting
true it is in ovens.
not even the shekel squad
abets or advocates inhumane
deeds of cruelty on a
genocidal scale.
well most them don't all the
time.
Charmaine Reddy
deport all the muslims to
guantanamo, let thim implement
sharia there and others can live in
peace
Michael Oorland
you one of them cowpisss
drinkers, and monkey
worshippers??? O_O
Charmaine Reddy
arent you that
paedophile/
womaniser
worshipper?
Kaminoyona
Why do you
suckjihadidick?
Siavash Keyhan
Start the ovens and finish
the Job that the great leader
started
Marininlina
once again flagged.
Abby Mandangan
people like you is the
destroyer of
peace...swamped by
abomination can think of
any better
2Truthreal
Unfortunately the Muslim/Islamic
society has always been an extremely
racist society, with any real progress
being relatively at zero percent. It
hasn't change since the Quran was
created except some splits regarding
the Shia sect, it gave the Sunnis a
reason to start killing Shia it can be
considered infighting. It has become
more popular, especially among the
younger people to hate Americans,
Blacks, or Asians anyone who is
Christian hindui Buddhist or Jewish,
and it is becoming more popular to
hang Gays or anyone because of
sharia law are becoming acceptable
by most Islamic/Muslims. So almost
all the haters have to hate are Jews
Christians Buddhist Hindus in a vain
attempt to bolster their flagging self-
esteem Islamic ideals. This is
reflected in their Pro Islam rants.
And of course the liberals and
political correct whose careers
depend on pandering to Muslims/
Islamic for there funding most
ignorant play on their fears,
prejudices, and insecurities or blame
others who attempt to prove them
wrong.
Michael Oorland
you're an irrelevant
inbreeding hillbilly trailer park
thrash, noboby gives a sh*
it about your fe*cal matter
discharged from the an*us
of a large bovine O_O
2Truthreal
Putin is going to find
you're cave now that
he knows you blew
up a airliner.
Michael Oorland
I live in Moscow you
stupid FRUITCAKE!!
I am with Putin!
O_O
Michael Oorland
Putin will be THe
Man to FU CK your
sh*tty country O_O
Kaminoyona
Putin the mob boss?
Is that why you
suckjihadidick?
2Truthreal
Don't worry I am
alerting the Moscow
authorities to look
out for a Islamic
turd. Didn't you hear
what Putin said he
wants global fight
force to strike you
scum down.
Michael Oorland
Putin THE MAN!
My HERO will kick
some yankee doodle
assss soon! O_O
Michael Oorland
you're a stupid
monkeybrained fu c
ck ing id iot, ..... go
boy go play in your
trailer park with the
other trash O_O
AdultSupervisor
Michael - You're
such a class act
with your erudite
highbrow and
sophisticated classy
style :-)
Marininlina
Don't speak to the
foul creature named
Michael just flag it.
Siavash Keyhan
thats what you said before
you dropped the A bomb and
blinded a 100.000 refugees
Siavash Keyhan
Japanese
Anonymous
I love Arab drama
queens. More
please!
2Truthreal
youre an idiot who
never read a history
book. Over one
million Japanese
saved because if the
Bomb not including
hundred of
thousands American
lives by the way I
think they rather not
be enslvaed by
Soviet Union or
annexed.
AdultSupervisor
The only good
President the
American Democrats
have elected in 100
years was Harry
Truman, and his
best decision was to
drop the A Bomb.
Michael Oorland
a monkey brained
FRUITCAKE calling
someone else an
idiot O_O O_O O_O
how stupid are you
inbreeding
hillbillys??????
AdultSupervisor
Really an outstanding post.
Thanks for putting it up here.
Suitable for framing.
Anonymous
Facts only.
ikaka2026
Don't blame refuges. One of there
kids can be A Great USA president in
future. J. Trump is personally for you
" isn't Germany, Austria and France
that great to take all refuges pouring
into their countries from the country
bombed by USA as well
Kaminoyona
We are not blaming the
refugees,we just dont want
them.
Plenty of room for them in
Muslim nations.
Michael Oorland
inbreeding hillbilly
bigot O_O
Siavash Keyhan
So stop making
them you war
mongering troll, or
we will bury you
once and for all
ikaka2026
Syrian's did not
want anybody in
their country as well.
It looks like all
countries without
nuclear weapon and
with oil under threat
of invasion...
David Schelldorf
The US has t been avoiding
bombing any civilians in this
long syrian war started by
Assad. I think the Syrians
and Muslims in general are
doing a good job of killing
each other. If half of the
able bodied men fleeing Syria
would stay and fight maybe
the terrorists and Assads
forces would not have so
much control. At least the
Kurds and the Jews fight
Horatius Heretic
Im in Europe so I don't know, but is
this the time that unemployed
Muslim misfits in the US&Canada
come out of their beds? Geez....
Siavash Keyhan
Is this the time the Hasbara
shekel squad comes to write
hate comments and get paid
in shekels
Kaminoyona
What else have your
Hamas masters told
you to post?
Michael Oorland
stupid hillbilly trailer park nation
O_O
2Truthreal
Putin going to find you
Islamic rat get ready for
firing squad.
Michael Oorland
you're an irrelevant
monkey-brained
hillbilly ..... go out
and play in your
trailer park, you
piece of fe cal
matter O_O
AdultSupervisor
OK genius, please explain the
benefits to be derived from
admitting Muslims to any
western country.
Lee Oates
Improve the gene
pool of inbred,
ignorant right-wing
rednecks like
yourself?
Cody1mill
Don't speak about
others gene pools
when yours is just
as low.
Angela Percival
To be fair, only about 27% of
Americans fit that
description. Which is quite a
lot, to be sure. There is
money to be made off of
fear and sensationalism in
the media and the gullible
seem incapable of the
requisite critical thinking
skills needed to understand
world events, science, etc.
Kaminoyona
How many refugees are the
Russians taking?
Chig Walla
Congratulations America: you just
demonstrated that, despite your
military might, ISIL has beaten you.
Land of the free and home of the
'brave'...not so much.
It's ironic that it's the French you
often make fun of as cowards who
are the ones refusing to give in to
the fear.
2Truthreal
Chig walla is a ISIS LOSER.
Michael Oorland
you looking in the
mirror, little monkey-
brained LOSER?????
O_O
Marininlina
Flagging so exciting.
Cory Gudwin
Beaten us?
there hasn't been a major
terror attack on US soil in
more than 14 years
Michael Oorland
yes, time for some
new 'landscaping'
changes to The
Rotten Apple! O_O
AdultSupervisor
What makes you think fear is
in play here? Seems more
like 'common sense' to me.
Tabib Asnan
Wow.the IS and Americans have a lot
in common.at least the IS can say
America threw the first punch.silly
pawns in a Zionist game.i doubt any
IS member is as violently vocal as a
Zionist,hasbara troll,American zealot
or antireligious Darwinist.this world
needs to hear this:fear your Lord!do
good and abstain from evil.dont
kill,steal,cheat,hate,lie.its basics.
2Truthreal
Boohoo no one cares it's
alright if only Muslims
vandalize sanctuaries of
worship we all know what
you did to churches or Hindi
temples.
Michael Oorland
irrelevant brainless
monkey with nothing
to contribute! go do
your sister, you
inbreeding hillbilly
O_O
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Several mosques have been vandalised and a
number of suspected hate crimes targeting
Muslims carried out after dozens of United
States governors announced they would not
accept Syrian refugees in their states.
The Council on American Islamic Relations
(CAIR), a civil rights organisation, said on
Monday that it has documented recent
"vandalism, threats and hate [incidents]"
in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, Kentucky,
Virginia, Nebraska, Tennessee, Ohio and New
York, among other states.
The wave of incidents follows declarations by
at least 27 state governors - 26 from the right-
wing Republican party and a Democrat - saying
they will block Syrian refugees, citing last
Friday's deadly attacks in Paris, claimed by the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
group.

In one incident, officials at the Islamic Centre in
Omaha, Nebraska, said that an image of the
Eiffel Tower was spray-painted on the wall of a
local mosque overnight on Monday, CAIR said.
In Pflugerville, Texas, worshippers arrived at
their local mosque on Monday morning to
find faeces smeared on the door and a torn-up
copy of the Quran on the doorstep.
The Islamic Centre of St Petersburg, Florida,
received threatening voicemails just hours after
news of the Paris attacks broke.
The caller said that they have "a militia that is
going to come down to your Islamic Society of
Pinellas County and firebomb you and shoot
whoever is there in the head".
According to CAIR, another Florida mosque,
the location of which has not been made
public, received similar threats. A caller vowed
to “bomb” the mosque and “shoot people at
will”.
In Portland, Oregon, protesters gathered
outside a local and taunted worshippers as
they arrived for prayer. They called members of
the local Ahmadiyya Muslim community
“cowards” and told them they are “going to
hell”.
On Tuesday, an Uber driver in Charlotte, North
Carolina, said he was punched and
threatened with death by a passenger who
mistook him as Muslim, according to local
media.
And a Muslim family in Orlando, Florida, said
their family home was shot at by an unknown
assailant on Monday. Speaking to local media
, the Elmasri family and their neighbours
said they were targeted because of their faith.
'Clear uptick in anti-Islam rhetoric'
Corey Saylor, spokesperson at CAIR, told Al
Jazeera on Tuesday that the governors' refusal
to accept Syrian refugees has encouraged
Islamophobic sentiment.
"It gives people a license to put into action the
uglier things they may be thinking" about
Muslims, he said.
"After any incident like the Paris attack, we see
a clear uptick in anti-Islam rhetoric."

The Syrian uprising started in March 2011 and
quickly devolved into a full-scale civil war. More
than 250,000 people have been killed
throughout the conflict, according to United
Nations estimates.
More than 4.2 million Syrians have become
refugees, while about 7.6 million are internally
displaced within the country's borders.
"Closing the doors on people fleeing war zones
is not a message that America should send to
the world," Saylor said. "Rather than values, the
[governors] are projecting fear."
Some legislators called for US President Barack
Obama's administration to accept Christian
refugees and reject Muslims.
Saylor says such calls are misinformed because
" ISIL's number one victims are Muslims."

Human rights groups have slammed the
governors' anti-refugee measures.
While governors are not able to ban Syrian
refugees from residing in their states, they can
suspend cooperation between state
programmes and the federal government.
The federal government is the sole authority for
refugee resettlement. But states can cut their
own funding to local refugee programmes,
placing the full weight the financial burden on
the federal government.
"That can make it more difficult," Angelita
Baeyens, programmes director for the Robert F
Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights,
told Al Jazeera. "But it also sends a message
of extreme intolerance and Islamophobia."
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said on
Monday that the US should not allow any
Syrian refugees, including orphaned children.
"I don't think orphans under five are being, you
know, should be admitted into the United
States at this point," Christie said.

Baeyens said that Christie's comments and
others like it "create a climate of fear and
suspicion".
"In the face of the worst refugee crisis in recent
history, this rhetoric is really appalling," she
added. "It is collective hysteria."
Presidential candidates have also chimed in.
Writing on Twitter , Republican Donald
Trump claimed that "some" Syrian refugees
may be ISIL members.
Refugees from Syria are now pouring into
our great country. Who knows who they are
- some could be ISIS. Is our president
insane?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
November 17, 2015
Mike Huckabee, presidential candidate and
former Arkansas governor, made similar anti-
refugee comments during an interview with Fox
News on Monday.
"Can you imagine bringing in a bunch of Syrian
refugees who've lived in the desert their whole
lives that are suddenly thrown into an English
speaking community? Where it's maybe in
Minnesota where it is 20 degrees below zero

According to CAIR, Trump and Huckabee are
among more than a dozen presidential
hopefuls for the 2016 elections who have
employed Islamophobic rhetoric during their
campaigns.
While only 1,500 Syrians have been resettled in
the US to date, the Obama administration
announced earlier this year that 10,000 more
will be accepted throughout a one-year span.
Speaking of the governors' declarations, Human
Rights Watch said Syrian refugees were being
used as a "scapegoat".
"Resettled refugees from Syria have fled
persecution and violence, and undergone
rigorous security screening by the US
government," Alison Parker, codirector of HRW's
US programme, said in a statement .
"The governors' announcements amount to
fear-mongering attempts to block Syrians from
joining the generous religious groups and
communities who step forward to welcome
them."