A Muslim attorney hoping to unseat Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has been deluged with threats after posting a patriotic message on her Facebook page.
Deedra Abboud, a Phoenix attorney who’s running as a Democrat in the Senate race, has endured vitriol since announcing her campaign in the spring, but her recent post on religious tolerance prompted a wave of threatening messages, reported The Republic.
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Social media users attacked Abboud and made violent threats, some of which were printed in the newspaper.
“Nice try but your first love is Satan (AKA Allah) and your second love is to a litter box your ‘people’ come from,” said S. Jason Parr. “You are as American as Chinese checkers.”
“BAN ISLAM IN THE USA…WE HATE YOUR FILTHY DEATH CULT,” posted Chris Ruen.
“I bet you’ll be a BLAST with constituents,” wrote Tony Madden. source
Abboud, an attorney
and community activist, says she’ll handle the cringe-worthy comments
like she would any bully who confronted her on the political playground.
“We haven’t dealt with this really hateful rhetoric,” Abboud
said. “We as a society never dealt with it, and we’ve been operating
under a bogus bullying theory that if you ignore the bullies, they’ll go
away.”
Abboud isn’t ignoring it, but she’s not letting it get to
her either: “You’re going to win a match against a bully when you stay
strong.” Source
Abboud, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and who converted to Islam 19 years ago, is asked to go back... to somewhere. Michael Scozzari wrote “Vote to send them back to the sand pit, were (sic) these scumbag people belong!”
The attacks came in reaction to a post about her support for the separation of church and state:
"Almost 250 years ago a group of dreamers came together and sketched out
a revolutionary vision. No longer would they be shackled to the whims
of a distant government, nor bound to the religion of an idiosyncratic
king. They set out to forge their own futures, determine their own
destinies, and follow their own faith. In their infinite wisdom, the
Founding Fathers decreed that this nation would separate church and
state, and in doing so protect both institutions. Government would be
free from religious overreach, and religion would be free from
government interference."
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