Man who stabbed Muslim cabbie worked w/ a global peace org.

[thundley4]

Green_Lantern   (1000+ posts)           Thu Aug-26-10 03:34 PM
Original message
Man who stabbed Muslim cabbie worked w/ a global peace org.
   
This is weird.

One of the first facts to emerge about Michael Enright, also on his Facebook page, is his affiliation with Intersections International, a non-profit organization that promotes global peace and reconciliation — and that had recently endorsed the Islamic center at Ground Zero. “He was a good guy,” Sara Reef, a program director for the group, told The Journal. “He got along with my colleagues.”


I wonder if this is PTSD related...he did just come from a warzone where the "enemy" are Middle Eastern.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9021730

Many DUmmies are echoing the PTSD theory now that he's a known lefty. However there is one DUmmie that is ordering his pizza.

Glassunion   (1000+ posts)           Thu Aug-26-10 05:12 PM
Response to Original message
8. Wait a second...
   
I saw no less than 5 posts and about 10 blogs yesterday about how this guy was a right-wing, tea-bagging, racist, etc...

How come now it's all PTSD now that it's out that he had ties to left leaning organizations? What was "natural" to a Republican is now a "disease" to a Liberal?

Just calling it like I see it, sometimes the bigot is in the mirror.

You can just hear the "Alert Buttons" being hit on repeatedly.

Glassunion   (1000+ posts)           Thu Aug-26-10 05:55 PM
Response to Reply #10
18. Ok. Not the point I was making.
   
So, we are supposed to be on him like white on rice as a racist repuke, but if he turns out to be a liberal, it is a mental disorder.

Because... All racists are Republicans and all Republicans are racist. A Democrat could never be a racist, and no racist could ever be a Democrat.

My point was that in reading posts on this very site, this guy was immediately labeled a Republican, a Tea Bagger, etc... Because of his actions, he could have never, ever, even remotely been a part of the left wing.

Uncle Joe   (1000+ posts)           Thu Aug-26-10 05:28 PM
Response to Reply #8
11. It makes no difference whether he was right wing, tea bagging racist or a liberal in either case
   
FOX "News'" spewing fear and hatred is a major contributor.

1. If he's a right wing, tea-bagging racist, then being directly exposed to FOX "News" hate and fear based propaganda can be blamed.

2. If he's a liberal, peace maker having spent time in Afghanistan or any war zone, there would be no motivation to commit such a fear/hate based violent act unless he was suffering from PTSD and the general fear/hate atmosphere either initiated or magnified by Fox propaganda would still be a contributing factor.

Wow, that is some real spinning going on there.

pintobean   (991 posts)           Thu Aug-26-10 05:46 PM
Response to Reply #12
14. The consensus here at DU
   
would say that the victim is a bigot.

<snip>
Mr. Sharif, who lives in Jamaica, Queens, with his wife and four children, came to the United States about 25 years ago and was a cook before becoming a cabdriver 15 years ago. He said nothing of this nature had happened to him before. Recently, some passengers asked him about the center planned near ground zero, he recalled, and he replied that he was against it, that there was no need to put it there.
<snip>

Ouch.  That's the gist of the thread so far.

[JohnnyReb]

ZEBCO wishes they made a spinning reel that worked that well.

[AllosaursRus]

They just can't get it thru their thick skulls that the right rarely uses violence to make a point.

Typical!

[true_blood]

Liberalism = The mental disorder!

[Karin]

I rowed over and read the thread.  Glass Union continued to make some sense, and Uncle Joe continued to hold tight and fast to his spinning, insane views.  Fox incites people to murder!!!!!!11!!!!  Even subliminally!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!111

It's maddening, I tell you. 

[Ballygrl]

All I seem to get from a lot of these "violence" type threads over at DU are blaming conservatives for the violence then the truth comes out and the ones perpetrating the violence are in fact progressives. So whose head is becoming unhinged?