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Yes, Free Palestine…From Hamas
The enemy of your enemy isn’t always your friend.
September 15th, 2001. After telling friends he’s going to “kill the ragheads responsible for September 11,” Frank Roque shoots and kills Balbir Singh Sodhi, a gas station owner in Mesa, Arizona. Despite being Sikh, Sodhi became the first of over 1700 victims of anti-Muslim hate crimes following the attacks.
And quite right too. If he didn’t want to be murdered, he shouldn’t have flown those planes into the Twin Towers.
March 13th, 2020. Abraham Choi is standing in a bathroom in Penn Station when a man starts spitting and coughing on him. “You Chinese f*ck,” the man says. “All of you should die, and all of you have the Chinese virus.”
Given that Choi is Korean American, not Chinese, he claimed to be more shocked than angry. But I’m not sure what he expected. If he didn’t want to be assaulted, he shouldn’t have invented COVID.
October 15th, 2023. Eight days after the October 7th terror attacks, six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume is stabbed to death by his 71-year-old landlord, Joseph Czuba. Czuba, who attended Wadea’s birthday party just a few weeks before, stabbed him 26 times while shouting, “You Muslims must die.”
