February 20, 2008
Missoula is not ‘Racist’ or 'Anti-Muslim'
After reading Jessica Mayrer’s incredibly obtuse letter ("Gays and Muslims both face discrimination") in the Feb. 14 issue of the Kaimin, I almost passed out from laughing so damn hard. But then I came to my senses and realized that this person is actually running the Kaimin’s editorial department, and my emotions changed from laughter to sadness and fright.
The insinuation that Maha Nassar faced anything close to “anti-Muslim sentiment” here in Missoula should insult the hell out of everybody who calls Missoula home. Because of people like Ms. Mayrer and Ms. Nassar, everything that Muslims or homosexuals get denied to them is because of ‘racism’ or ‘homophobia.’ The American liberal hypocrite has now given us a world where, should you decide to hire the most qualified person for the job who happens to be white, over a lesser-qualified person who happens to be black, Muslim or perhaps homosexual, then you are ‘evil’, ‘racist’, ‘homophobic’, ‘anti-Muslim’ etc. It really is a fascinatingly simple method that has been used by liberals for decades now. ‘Don’t agree with us? Then you’re a racist/homophobe/woman-hater!’
I was hoping that Ms. Nassar or Ms. Mayrer would be interested in explaining to all of us here in ‘anti-Muslim’ Missoula why virtually every Islamic country on planet Earth brutally oppresses women, homosexuals, Jews and Christians? I searched the internet for 3 hours looking for some published opinion by Mayrer or Nassar against the oppression against gays, women, Jews and Christians in the Muslim world...I couldn’t find one word.
“Gays aren’t the only ones being beat up because of who they are.” That also is an incredible statement since, as a responsible, objective journalist, Ms. Mayrer should have used to term “alleged” somewhere in that sentence since nobody has proven that the two incidents (foot bridge and Public library) even occurred. Shiite Muslims slaughter Sunni Muslims (and vice-versa) strictly because of ‘who they are’, isn’t that correct Ms. Mayrer? In fact, over 95% of all murders in all Muslim countries over the last 100 years have been Muslims killing other Muslims (and yes, that includes Iraq) simply because of ‘who they are.’
How about the fact that homosexuals are publicly executed (as are women for the incredible ‘crime’ of wearing tennis shoes) in Muslim countries because of ‘who they are’, right Ms. Mayrer? But you just simply ignore all that don’t you? It doesn’t ‘fit’ with your liberal viewpoints and opinions, does it? Only Caucasian, Republican, heterosexual American males can be racist, homophobic and oppressive, isn’t that right, Ms. Mayrer?
But here’s the best part of this letter. I hereby right now personally invite you, Ms. Mayrer to spend a year in Saudi Arabia as a citizen (not as a ‘visiting student’ or a ‘tourist’). At my expense I will send you there and we will see how well, as a woman, you are accepted. We will see how your journalism career goes over there (women are barely allowed to speak in public in Saudi Arabia, let alone allowed to work as journalists). We will see how well you, as a woman, do in the field of ‘equality’ for homosexuals in the world of Islam. We will see what happens to you, again as a woman, when you show one square inch of your skin in public. Maybe you can get lucky and see one of the over 200 PUBLIC executions (usually by beheading) of women that happens every year in Saudi Arabia because of “who they are"(and liberals call the American justice system ‘brutal’). Usually their ‘crime’ is either being caught driving a car, or perhaps the felonious activity of wearing a pair of pants!
So how about that, Ms. Mayrer? Would you care to take a look at some REAL oppression and brutality and racism and sexism? Then maybe, just maybe, you will realize as a liberal just how damn good EVERYBODY (including queers, as you called them, and Muslims like Ms. Nassar) has it here in America.
Dan Shevlin
Missoula resident
