This is a heartening tale. The Babylon restaurant in Lowell, Massachusetts had a large rock put through its window in what was thought to be a 'hate crime'. The restaurant is owned by an Iraqi and serves Iraqi food. An organisation called Veterans for Peace immediately arranged an 'eat in' to support the restaurant and booked it out twice (see vid) in a prominent show of support.
The dickhead who threw the rock was quickly apprehended and denied that the attack was racially motivated, but then he probably would given that jail terms for hate crimes in the US are considerably steeper than those for stupid acts of vandalism.
Either way, it's good to see that the majority of Americans are intelligent human beings with a well-balanced moral compass who have little in common with the sort of arseholes who piss on dead Taliban.
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