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Good for you! I'm glad that you told them. I'm 100% Middle Eastern, (Christian), and my wife's family is 100% Jewish. My family lived through the Turkish genocide. My grandfather lost his first wife and two kids in the genocide. There's this loopy woman at our church that told me with all seriousness that she's afraid of me because I look like Saddam. Two weeks ago, I was talking to these people that I'd just met, and she walks up, and proceeds to ask me if I've blown up any planes lately. She also wanted to know where my sheet was. (Please don't blame Christians for stupidity; I'm NOT saying that you're doing that). I just give this woman a 's)wide birth and figure that she's a nut job! (Worse yet, I think that she's in her late 60's, early 70's).
BTW, welcome to the group.
Hey Bubba,
Thanks, its nice to be here.
I have to admit, I found myself saying "WHAT?!?" out loud a few times when I read your post. Man, talk about IGNORANCE. The thing is, I agree with you and I don't blame Christians for stupidity, I blame stupidity itself. People need to learn to think for themselves, rather than have guys like Glenn Beck do it for them. Its a good thing that I wasn't present during the 'blowing up planes' and 'where's your sheet' comments, as I would have let that woman have it with both barrels for saying such a thing.
I'm not saying I'm perfect, far from it, I make mistakes all the time. As a matter of fact the last time I made a mistake was when I thought I was WRONG.
In all seriousness though, what was she thinking? I'm going out on a limb and assuming she
was thinking, just not about the right things.
It seems that people are still easily influenced by the media and pundits like "Faux News" which depresses me on a daily basis.
Oh well, like I always say: "Hug an a**hole today, because if it weren't for them we wouldn't know who all the cool people are!"
BTW, you do NOT look like Saddam Hussein. A bald Omar Sharif maybe, but definitely not Saddam
What bothers me when people say things like that is that its based on an irrational fear brought on by media oversaturation. Again if I had been there I would have said something like "Oh yeah? Well I'm afraid of
you because you look like Phyllis Diller!"