Surprise! Ground Zero mosque protestors are morons!

[Enrique]

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped

(...)

At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly surrounded two Egyptian men who were speaking Arabic
and were thought to be Muslims.

“Go home,” several shouted from the crowd.

“Get out,” others shouted.

In fact, the two men – Joseph Nassralla and Karam El Masry — were not Muslims at all. They turned out to be Egyptian Coptic Christians who work for a California-based Christian satellite TV station called “The Way.” Both said they had come to protest the mosque.

“I’m a Christian,” Nassralla shouted to the crowd, his eyes bulging and beads of sweat rolling down his face.

But it was no use. The protesters had become so angry at what they thought were Muslims that New York City police officers had to rush in and pull Nassralla and El Masry to safety.

(...)

[JackintheGreen]

1. You SAY "coptic christians"

they HEAR "Cobra Commander"

[MineralMan]

2. Y'all look like a Ayrab! You'd best git!

We don't cotton to your type here!

[arcadian]

3. Brown skin means honorary Muslim in the USA

[LuvNewcastle]

6. That's the truth.

I know an Egyptian guy who is Coptic Orthodox, and my Egyptian doctor is Catholic. What with all the crazy shit going on in the world today, I often worry about them.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Or Mexican in Arizona

[jobycom]

4. Concrete proof that it's about racism not religion. nt

[lpbk2713]

5. "Oh ....... Never mind."

I'm LMAO here.

These clowns are beyond ludicrous.

[Mugweed]

7. Unfortunately, they're also very dangerous.

Violence in the name of whatever excuse they can come up with is not beyond these types.

[pinboy3niner]

9. An Emily Litella moment--without the humor, fun and love

Thanks for the pic. :rofl:

R.I.P. Gilda

[Froward69]

8. No matter the acomplisments of all the missionaries

across the world...

The Only true Christians are White... at least to American religious fanatics.

[denverbill]

11. Wow. They come to promote religious bigotry and encounter racial bigotry instead.

Welcome to the American right-wing, assholes.

[xchrom]

12. yeah the cup sort of runneths over with irony there. nt

[Enrique]

14. lol

that's a pretty funny side of the story, I missed it until you pointed it out. :rofl:

[msanthrope]

23. Thank you for your post...it is lovely. n/t

[AnArmyVeteran]

13. The right wing would love to bring back lynch mobs...

[NNN0LHI]

15. They went down to kick some ass and almost got their own asses kicked

:rofl:

[fascisthunter]

16. see America... you are NOT religiously free to practice your faith

at least not according to bigoted extremist christians... ironic isn't it?

[pinboy3niner]

19. Now I get it--some faiths are more equal than others

Hmmm. Why does that sound familiar?

[fascisthunter]

20. yeeup

[KonaKane]

17. What a bunch of chuckleheads.

But on the other hand, they make a fantastic case against them, so I thank them for that.

[damntexdem]

18. Hey, c'mon, the important thing isn't religious intolerance -- it's racism.

Well, there's plenty of religious intolerance there, too -- and some of it is likely anti-Coptic-Christianity -- or, rather, anti-nonmainstream Christianity.

[fascisthunter]

21. bigotry of particular religion and race

what a pathetic bunch. There should be crowds of people telling these right wingers to shut the fuck up and go away already.

[pinboy3niner]

22. Maybe they should submit their "papers" to Teabag Central...

... to see if they pass all the required litmus tests. My God, they might even be harboring a *gasp* socilist!

[TheFarseer]

24. they needed to be holding

mis-spelled anti-muslim signs. Seriously though, I feel really bad for them.

[Posteritatis]

25. Wonder what the protestors' fans on DU would have to say about this... (nt)

[Odin2005]

26. Right-wing bigots are incapable of seperating culture and race.