| | | quote | Originally posted by Hudini:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
I wonder if the Syrians are offended that the Statue of Liberty is not wearing a burqa?
And I don't see any reference to "give me people who want me dead (or pay a fine) if I don't follow their religion"
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Quick story... I was coming back from Home Depot (took the day off yesterday), and loaded up my old beat up Explorer that I use for hauling stuff back and forth to the home that I'm renovating. There's an immigration center (Federal office) right in the Home Depot plaza. As I was leaving... there were a bunch of people coming out into the parking lot with American flags and some documents. It was clear to me that these people had just been granted U.S. citizenship.
They were so incredibly happy. There were kids, parents, people of all kind... waving their little American flags they had just been given. People were taking pictures in front of the immigration building... and I'm just passing in front as I'm leaving Home Depot. It was such a wonderful sight to see people so proud to become part of something that I personally care so much about. I rolled down my window and said... "Congratulations!" and gave thumbs up. Everyone was so happy, and they smiled and gave thumbs up too. I finally had to roll my window up because I got a little choked up.
Anyway... then I saw it. Your "typical" Muslim family. The only one there of the group (we are in Texas after all). The man walking in front, looked like he could have basically cared less, expressionless. The two kids right behind the dad, and the mom wearing a full hijab walking behind all of them carrying everything. The dad, the kids, none of them were carrying the flag like everyone else was. The mom had the flags and she just stuffed them in her massive shoulder bag as she walked out. It was clear to me that it definitely didn't mean the same thing to them as it did to everyone else who had just been granted citizenship. Even the kids didn't seem to care. It was a very, very visual and sharp contrast to the excitement that everyone else had.
