Banning Christians

  

It is very difficult to tell what the motivation is Abdullah H. Hammoud is in his recent banning of a Christian from his meeting.

It is possible that Hammoud is auditioning to become the new world leader of Hamas and can’t tell the difference between a Christian and Jew.

Or Hammoud may be aching for the glory days of Islam when the Christian Crusades unraveled in the Middle East many long centuries ago.

But clearly the mayor the mayor forgot which country he is elected to and forgets that tolerating descent is what he gets paid for, to listen to his constituents whether he likes them or not.

 To be fair to the Muslim mayor it could be worse he could actually be in Gaza working against the Jews and Christians there

In the United States, there are certain constraints although when you look at what happened to Charlie Kirk, you begin to think maybe mayors like Hammoud would do away with them in order to silence people who have opinions other than their own.

You have to love a country in which people of all faiths can embrace each other in civility, although it may not be wise to allow the mayor access to a rifle of any kind or for that matter, anything thing sharp like an Arabian sword.

Hammoud, however, has decided he is the arbiter of right and wrong, good and evil and is decided that this Christian doesn't deserve to have a voice in his community, thus exposing his own prejudices when it comes to opinions spouted by Christian and Jews – not a bit leap from Nazi Germany which also denied these people a voice.

The worst part is that Hammoud is likely to get reelected since he seems to reflect ill feelings by many of his constituents, who wish not to tolerate people seen as inferior.

Does Hammoud’s dictate go beyond just public meetings, but all of the community events? Will the mayor set up separate bathrooms for Christians and water fountains and will he make Christians sit on the back of buses.

Will Hammoud ban Christians and maybe jews from local lunch counters?

And what other rights will this good mayor curtail in order to uphold his position of power This is not to say he should tolerate misbehavior at the council meetings but certainly he gets paid to hear the complaints and obviously doesn't want to hear it from anybody other than his own group of narrow-minded people

At the end of the day, we are seeing these Petty dictators popping up all over the country, little tyrants who have forgotten why they came to the United States in the first place and what freedom means in regard to other people besides themselves.

Someone needs to wake Hammoud up and remind him where he is or buy him a one-way ticket to Gaza where his kind of behavior is tolerated.

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