From WUSA-9 (Washington DC)
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (WUSA9) — Fear and hatred of Muslims was on public display in Spotsylvania County at a meeting concerning the building of a new mosque.
At least two men went on racist rants, shouting down the speaker and calling all Muslims terrorists.
The local Islamic community has outgrown the building and is proposing to build a mosque nearby on property they own. But at Tuesday night’s presentations, things turned ugly fast.
That’s when two men in attendance at the public meeting shouted down Shalaby with claims that all Muslims were “evil” and “terrorists.” The speaker said he didn’t expect such hostility.
“It just kept getting worse and worse,” Shalaby said. “People were pointing fingers and waiving arms.”
The first man to make a scene called what Shalaby and local Muslims were doing “evil,” which attracted some positive attention from the crowd. That’s when the second man came forward.
“I’ll do everything in my power to make sure that does not happen. We don’t want it because you are terrorists. Every one of you are terrorists. I don’t care what you say,” he said. “You can smile at me. You can say whatever you want, but every Muslim is a terrorist.”
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