I am lead to believe, an incident occurred in a supermarket
recently, when the following was witnessed:
A Muslim woman dressed in a Burkha (A black gown & face mask)
was standing with her shopping in a queue at the checkout.
When it was her turn to be served, and as she reached the
cashier, she made a loud remark about the Australian Flag
lapel pin, which the female cashier was wearing on her blouse.
The cashier reached up and touched the pin and said, "Yes, I
always wear it proudly. My son serves abroad with the
forces and I wear it for him".
The Muslim woman then asked the cashier when she was going to
stop bombing and killing her countrymen explaining that
she was Iraqi.
At that point, an elderly Gentleman standing in the queue
stepped forward, and interrupted with a calm and gentle
voice, and said to the Iraqi woman:
"Excuse me, but hundreds of thousands of Australian men and
women, just like this ladies son have fought and sacrificed their
lives so that people just like YOU can stand here, in Australia,
which is MY country and allow you to blatantly accuse an innocent
check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen".
"It is my belief that if you were allowed to be as outspoken as
that in Iraq, which you claim to be YOUR country, then we wouldn't
need to be fighting there today". "However - now that you have
learned how to speak out and criticise the Australian people who have
afforded you the protection of MY country, I will gladly pay the cost
of a ticket to help you pay your way back to Iraq ".
"When you get there, and if you manage to survive for being as
outspoken as what you are here in Australia, then you should be able
to help straighten out the mess which YOUR Iraqi countrymen have got
you into in the first place, which appears to be the reason that you
have come to MY country to avoid."
Sadly scenes like that happen here in America too, too often it's someone wanting to blame others fro all of the evil and corruption they fled on anyone other than their own people.
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Sadly scenes like that happen here in America too, too often it's someone wanting to blame others fro all of the evil and corruption they fled on anyone other than their own people.
If you can find a copy of Joe Greene's book Homecoming: When the Troops Came Home from Vietnam, read it. The loudmouthed and obnoxious are always with us. The woman in the burqa is simply the latest incarnation of the breed.
However, the story of the obnoxious Muslim in the queue in Australia does have a bit of urban myth feel to me. Can anyone pin it down to a definite place and date and location?
The people should applaud. The Iraqi lady chose to come to Australia and then to make such statements I feel sure that several of the people would have been glad to help buy her a ticket back to Iraq.
Good post Irish.
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Mate dont even get me started on those disrespectful muslims. Muslim only schools in our country that Australians cant attend, that shake a stick at a ukalele fella, and the constant preaching of hate against OUR country and the people who are in it, they cry to be treated equally and then get about in that dress and mask (fancy that in a climate like ours) and talk jibberish instead of english. If they want to be treated like equals then they should act like equals. And to top it off that sniveling fool Kevin Rudd goes and gives them so many millions of dollars to upgrade security at their muslim only schools, razor wire, full time bloody security guards, big high walls, because them and their other rival nutcases were threatening to blow each other up. That is rediculous. What is this country coming to?
I am proud to be an Australian, If they (or anyone else) came here to this country and were willing to live and work as equals, and be true blue Aussies then i would be proud to have them, but all these muslims teach and preach hate against us, our country, and everything we stand for and beleive in, they seperate themselves from us and society and actively choose not to take part or live as our equals. Its plain and simple they should not be alloud here.
However, the story of the obnoxious Muslim in the queue in Australia does have a bit of urban myth feel to me. Can anyone pin it down to a definite place and date and location?
Im pretty sure its an old email,but to say its an urban myth without living here is silly.How would you know?There are plenty of out spoken muslims here.And i have to say i agree with nathan 123 post totally.
I heard about a little incident at a demonstration during the Vietnam War, where a demonstrator was about to set fire to an American flag. A WW2 vet walked over and asked the guy to do him a favor, and the guy said "what"? The vet asked, "Before you set fire to the flag I fought for, could you please wrap yourself in it first?"
Just like that Jap Admiral said after bombing Pearl Harbor were a sleeping gaint.
The muslims better hope they never ever wake us up, it would be disastarious to them. Especialy on our soil !!!
Im pretty sure its an old email,but to say its an urban myth without living here is silly.How would you know?There are plenty of out spoken muslims here.And i have to say i agree with nathan 123 post totally.
Irish, Im not saying it's an urban myth. I am saying that it feels more like a parable or wish-fulfillment on the part of mainstream Aussies - Americans, too.
I live within commuting distance of New York City. Every now and then you will see a Muslim walking the streets in Muslim dress, just as you'll see Hasidic Jews in their 'uniform' of black suit, black hat, white shirt with collar buttoned and no tie, a beard and with a tallis tucked under the shirt; Indian women in saris (and occasionally Indian men in those pyjama-looking outfits with a vest on top, especially in summer); and Sikhs with their elaborate turbans.
The only ones who get dirty looks and muttered comments are the Muslims. The reason?
While the others keep to themselves to some extent for religious reasons, they do interact with the rest of the New York community and don't treat us as infidels who will soil them if they come into contact with us. The others don't have religious leaders preaching America is the Great Satan hellbent on destroying their religion and way of life. In short, the other non-Christian communities do not treat the dominant culture as if it is the enemy.
We have a tradition of religious freedom in America, guaranteed in the First Amendment of our Constitution. We've had evil preachers here before - Father Coughlin in the late 1930s and Elijah Muhammad spring to mind. But never before have we had nests of religious isolationists incubating hatred, in some cases giving active aid and comfort to the enemy and advocating overthrow of our government before. A backlash is brewing, and I am afraid sooner or later there will be sectarian riots.
15 years back in Crown Heights there was rioting between Hadisic Jews and blacks, triggered by a Hasidic limo driver in a Lubavitcher procession accidentally hitting two black children in a horrible traffic accident and killing one of them. Now part of that was due to the grossly ineffective response by the Mayor (who was black), but more was due to misperceptions on both sides. Since then, the Lubavitch Hasidim and the black community in Corwn Heights have made peace.
Would this happen in the case of the Muslim extremists and the community at large? I simply don't know. I do know it won't happen without the Muslims waking up, smelling the coffee and realizing that by and large Americans are decent people and not infidel bastards to be converted or exterminated - extremist branches of Islam allow no other choices. Amazing what they can justify by quoting the Koran and the Legislations out of context.
But to return to the original thrust here, I'd like to see something, say a newspaper article or a news report, with the who, what, where, when and why of this story documented, the way Greene did in Homecoming for the supposedly apocryphal urban legend of American servicemen and servicewomen being spit upon by their fellow citizens when they returned from Vietnam. That story turned out not to be a fairy tale. Such things did happen. Not often, and not everywhere; but spitting, verbal abuse and disdainful treatment of those who served by some who did not has been incontrovertibly documented.
In Greene's book, the veterans who were spit on tell what happened to them in their own words. I simply want to see something similar before I take a story I would very much like to believe really happened to a twit who really deserved it as the gospel truth, that's all.
