Photo that went viral is a big headache for storeShop's closure on 9/11 isn't a terror link, Muslim owner says
By MOISES MENDOZA
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
July 8, 2010, 10:51PM
Sajid Master wants the phone calls and angry letters to stop. He wants people to quit coming into Perfume Planet in west Houston to yell at his workers. He'd especially like folks to stop castigating his landlord.
Nearly a year after the Internet painted Master as an Al Qaida sympathizer, outrage toward the store at the Harwin Central Mart shows no sign of waning.
"They've threatened to kill me; sometimes they're cursing when they call," a resigned Master said Thursday in his shop.
Houston Chronicles-Photo that went viral is a big headache for store=================================================================
Here are the comments left. It is like reading DU. I think worse than DU.
moleradical wrote:
Hate to break it to you all but this story nor any other that doesn't fit your preconceived notions of the world are not part of some vast conspiracy to make conservatives look bad.
The truth is that the only ones that are that concerned about how they are perceived are the ones with this complaint.
Get over yourselves, this is not a story about you or conservative America, rather it is a story about how many take false information and reach false conclusions without taking the time to learn any facts because these falsehoods fit their paradigm more closely than reality does.
7/9/2010 6:07:51 PM
Leftists like spreading misinformation and do it all the time. What's the difference, moron?
icegator wrote:
Jerko, you are taking a most simplistic argumentative example and twisting it into a pretzel. Let me use a different example:
a Catholic person, family, organization... take you pick decides to celebrate some historic event on April 19th. pick one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_19
Does the world get all in a tizzy because They are celebrating on the day "The Catholics bombed the government building in OK City? "The Catholics" didn't bomb OK City. A CATHOLIC performed this terrorist act! Imagine if now somehow all Catholics were considered implicit in this act? ....
Islam didn't carry out the terrorist acts of 9/11 and their actions should not be weighed differently because they are Islamic. If the store owner had posted a sign stating he was closed to observe 9/11; this would have been disingenuous, misleading, false, a lie. You prefer he be so tasteless as to lie like this about something you hold so dear? Do you own a retail business? Probably not... in any case, do you take off for 9/11 to commemorate the victims? unlikely... Yet you hold him to a higher standard? He must step lightly so not to offend you?
Ignorance abounds. The Oklahoma City Bombing was committed by an Agnostic. Timothy McVeigh even admitted he was one!
akti wrote:
Good! Perfume World is lucky to be doing business in a non-Islamic country. If the shoe were on the other feet, that is, if they were a non-Muslim, doing business in an Islamic country - they would be have been dead by now! In India, which is not an Islamic country yet, in the state of kerala - which has a large Muslim population, terrorists chopped off the right hand of a Christian cleric, for having 'defamed' the Prophet. And, there is almost no protest from fellow Muslims, unlike here in Houston.
7/9/2010 5:16:43 AM
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Right on. Too bad you got too many negative votes. Stupidity really abounds.
colinjay wrote:
You silly conservatives are whining like liberals now. "Boo-hoo, I got my feelings hurt because he wanted to celebrate an annual religious holiday that happens to fall on 9/11". Ignorant drivel like this is what actually gives power to what the terrorists did on 9/11/2001. If we are to be a country that supports entrepreneurship and religious freedom, how does persecuting Mr. Master help at all? He doesn't need to apologize for 9/11 any more than a Christian needs to apologize for the OKC bombing.
7/9/2010 6:12:24 AM
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How about you stupid moronic leftist freak? You leftists are truly the enablers of Jihadists. I went over it, Christians were NOT BEHIND the OKC Bombing. Repeat! Christians were NOT BEHIND the OKC Bombing. Stupid is REALLY STRONG in this ****tard.
roundabout wrote:
I've gotten in an argument with someone over this photograph before (because they forwarded it to me and it took 30 seconds on Snopes to find it.) It makes me insane. I despise knee-jerk hatred and stupidity.
7/9/2010 6:29:27 AM
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Knee-jerk hatred and stupidity is common among the left.
SayHeyKid wrote:
Good thing all the reasonable people are here in one place. It's not really worth bragging that we're all smarter than the average bear. Not every person who reacts foolishly is stupid or ignorant or a knee-jerk (liberal/conservative/_________). We shouldn't be so smug because it could happen to us too. Self-satisfied smugness is no better than passionate overreaction.
7/9/2010 7:31:38 AM
I see a lot of stupid and ignorant morons like you.
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