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Showing posts with label Arizona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arizona. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Hypocrisy Video Of the Day From CAIR- Slam AZ TV Host For Refusing Somali Cabbie

The Council on American-Islamic Relations' YouTube channel posted an audio recording of Arizona radio host Lisa Benson discussing "The Myth of Islamophobia" with some guests.

This is what CAIR titled the video: Islamophobia Watch: Arizona Radio Host Lisa Benson Requests Non-Somali Taxi Driver At Airport with the following blurb:

Right-wing radio host Lisa Benson interviewed Rabbi Jonathan Hausman and Jerry Gordon on April 20, 2014, about "The Myth of Islamophobia." During that interview, Benson admitted she requested a non-Somali taxi driver at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Neither guest questioned whether such a bigoted request was appropriate.
Benson's "Board of Advisors" includes notorious Islamophobes such as Nonie Darwish, Steven Emerson and John Guandolo.

Bigoted? She had no problems with being driven by what she thought was a Southern Sudanese driver. It turns out he was actually Northern Sudanese (Muslim), and as soon as she was sequestered in the back of his cab wound up telling her that he was going to drive her to the police and sue her for discrimination.

Benson is a Jewish woman who wears a Star of David, yes, she was worried about driving with a Somali Muslim. And she had every right to choose not to hire a Somali cabbie. After all, Somali cab drivers at the Minneapolis/St Paul International have refused service to passengers carrying alcohol or seeing-eye dogs.

Typical Muslim hypocrisy.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

AZ Wife Runs Over Husband For Not Voting- Blamed Him For Obama Win

Initially, I chuckled when I read that a pregnant Arizona woman had run over her husband with her SUV because he had not voted, and blaming him for Barack Obama's win; that is, until I delved further into the story. This is tragic on so many levels.

No, she wasn't on drugs and she wasn't drunk, but 28-year-old Holly Solomon got so angry during an argument with her 36-year-old husband Daniel, when she discovered he had not voted, that she chased him around a Mesa parking lot in her Jeep. When he finally made a run for it, she rammed into him pinning him under the car.

She was convinced her family would suffer under four more years with Obama.  And they probably will, but now her husband is in critical condition, and she is in jail for aggravated assault and domestic violence.

This election angered many people. It was one of the nastiest, most divisive, polarizing  campaigns I can remember.  Before Obama's re-election I witnessed how angry liberals can get. It became extremely vicious during that period of time when everyone thought Mitt Romney had a good chance of winning. But Obama won, and their anger and venom turned to joy. Naturally, our excitement turned to anger and disappointment. Because, yes, we were now faced with four more years of what many of us believe could be the death knell of this great country of ours.

If Holly's family is not doing well, she probably saw her husband not voting as a betrayal. It doesn't excuse what she did, and she obviously has some anger management issues she's going to want to deal with, but it's just tragic.

Ironic, that a president who had promised hope and change, bi-partisanship, and to bring everyone together has managed to create the polar opposite.