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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don’t understand why people make dumb decisions that get them bullied or, in this case, shot.
These three kids were walking down the street speaking Arabic and wearing that scarf not even two months after the attack. I mean, what did they think could happen when antagonizing people? It’s like a black guy wearing gang colors to KKK meeting. Or a Democrat-emblazoned campaign bus driving down the highways in Texas. Or a Jewish man wearing the yarmulke and walking into a Nazi rally AFTER Kristallnacht.
If you don’t want people to do stupid things that attack you, then don’t do things that put yourself in front of them and inflame them. As President Bush’s press secretary advised after 9/11, know enough to watch what you do, watch what you say. People are emotional and will lash out; you don’t want to be the target when that happens.[/quote]

I really hope we are not going back to the days where you have to be so careful about what you say/do/wear in public out of fear that someone will take it the wrong way.

My 8 year old son started asking me questions about the Gaza-Israel war while we were walking into the grocery store last month since I had just been listening to the news on the car radio. I later had a talk with him about how we only discuss this at home because I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea.

In college my sister was talking about the Iraq war with a classmate in the library. She later got pulled into the Deans office because someone overheard her and didn't like what she was saying. This was at a small college in West VA. Once when traveling my husband was complaining about the long wait time at the airport. He got pulled aside by agents at the airport and questioned for two hours. To this day if both my husband and I are out and we are preforming our Muslim prayers, we stagger our prayers, so one prays while the other keeps an eye out. We became almost paranoid about how other people view us.[/quote]

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