Now that we know Omar Mateen killed all those people because the NRA told him it was the only way to stop being gay, we can get back to making excuses for any other bad thing a Muslim ever does.
Frank Heinz and Brian Scott, NBC DFW:
A man is jailed on a charge of terroristic threat Wednesday after threatening to impose the death penalty on several people who refused to take copies of the Quran, Denton police say.
Peshwaz Azad Waise, 28, was arrested just after 8 a.m. outside of the Denton County Courthouse after several run-ins with police…
Wednesday morning, police said Waise went into the Texas Health Presbyterian Denton Center for Women at 207 North Bonnie Brae and insisted those inside take the Quran from him and to give it to the Chaplin “or die.” According to his arrest affidavit, Waise also told an employee that the hospital would “go down…”
Waise was next spotted at the Denton County Courthouse… Waise told deputies he was “the king” and that he became agitated as he was escorted out of the building and detained. Police said it was then that Waise told the deputies detaining him, “I’m imposing the death penalty.”
He later told the deputies that “anybody who touches me is going to bleed,” according to police.
Wow. Where to start? Well, first things first: This happened in Texas.
Texas.
Yeeeee-haw! Them good ol’ boys figgered they’d wrangle thurselfs a raghead, I guess. Yessireebob, that lil’ brown feller with the funny name musta been up to no good, huh, bumpkins? I hope you shot your six-guns in the air and hollered some, boys, whilst ya showed him who’s boss.
Rednecks. #smdh
As those of us in the civilized world recall, Texas is also where Clock Kid was so brutally oppressed. Coincidence?
Listen up, Texans, because here’s a word that might be too big for you: metaphor. It means that something is a figure of speech and isn’t supposed to be taken literally. For example, when somebody says, “It wouldn’t kill you to read the Quran,” that doesn’t mean he’s literally going to kill you if you don’t read the Quran. Duh! Use your brains, you hillbillies.
And did Waise really say the hospital would “go down”? Or did he say that he went down to the hospital? The latter seems more likely. As for calling himself “the king,” I don’t see any problem with a young man having a healthy self-image. Especially when he’s been forced to live in our society, where Muslims are treated so horribly.
The stuff about “death penalty” and “touch me and you’ll bleed” is, once again, metaphor. It’s called having a sense of humor, people. Lighten up.
I hope this young man sues the hospital, the police, the city of Denton, the state of Texas, and the United States of America. I hope he gets invited to the White House. I hope he drives all those dumb teabaggers insane with Islamophobia. I hope he humiliates them. Sooner or later, they need to learn:
If you see something, say nothing.
(Hat tip: Ed Driscoll)