NY Subway Riders Angered by Jewish Holiday

Jew attacked by anti-Semite on NY Subway train for saying "Happy Hanukkah". The only person to step in to save him was a Muslim American.
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choggiesays...

this is no doubt the sentiment of most moderate Muslims everywhere whose religion and tradition is fair game for ass-raping by the herders, who have had race and religion baiting in their bag of sheep-herding tricks for centuries.....

9579says...

i just want to say the hassan deserves a medal
the anti-smetic bastards deserve to die
im jewish =o and i whouldint help a muslim
but the guy helped because his a good person

RhesusMonksays...

Safety alarms on NYC subways? lmao. That said, being born and raised in NYC to native NYC parents, I have to say that the ENTIRE WORLD doesn't have a F@ck!ng clue how awesome the people in this city are. You should all be very jealous.

vairetubesays...

Here's a problem that I've noticed: People don't know or care to know to the true definition of semitic. Please Google "define: semitic" or visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic

People who don't like Arab Muslims are anti-semitic, because it's about race, not religion. If you are of the Jewish faith, that doesn't make you of Semitic heritage and vice versa.

This phrase is such an enormous buzzword for Jewish victims only, it draws away from the Afro/Arab claim to the term, and ultimately blankets over the relevancy and cloaks history of the term with complete misuse and misconception. It is a dangerous trend to ignore ignorance.

If those people on the subway knew not everyone believes as they do, why not keep their ideas to themselves in a public forum? Or, at least be prepared for the consequences of being in public. Go start a secret society or get on internet forums or something, if you want to be truly protected in your speech.

...Unless, of course, your *idea* involves exemplfying a real *ideal*, like being good to your fellow man, like the Muslim did (based on his PARENT'S way of raising him, not necessarily his 'faith' but through that vehicle).. or defeating ignorance.

9058says...

I really like how vairetube brought up the semitic definition as wrong. I honestly didnt know it meant a wide range of people mainly in the middle eastern area including arabic speakers. I guess we are so ignorant about our own language that we have to keep making up words like "islamaphobic" to describe something that has already be described in Antisemitic because we cant have them sharing a word

oxdottirsays...

Varitube isn't actually right. If you read what Varitube referenced, the wikipedia article, you can see that while semitic is a term describing a region and the language, culture, and religions of that region, since the 19th century, anti-semitic means specifically anti-jewish (religion and culture). That's not the first word to mean something different in it's "opposite" than the intuitive, and it's not the first word coopted to fill a need.

A chauvanist, for instance, is not someone who is prejudiced against women. A chauvanist is someone who is strongly for *their* group: any group (and not just men).

So yeah, it's weird, and perhaps regrettable that semitic and anti-semitic don't mean opposite things, but that's the way the English language is, and trying to make anti-semitic make sense by correcting people who use it in it's original and more than century long sense is just wrong and pedantic.

bamdrewsays...

This is a weird bit of info but I learned from a recent National Geographic magazine that 2% of the US population is Jewish, and 0.2% of the world population is Jewish, something like 14.5 million people.

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