The Muslim Question 2

– Originally published July 12th, 2008 –

If Zogby were a decent person, he would go after the Arab terrorists. Instead, he goes after patriotic Americans who use words to denounce those trying to make America fertile ground for Arab terror.

Zogby and his Arab American Institute (AAI) is in the business of silencing Americans who speak out. We at TMQ2 know this all too well (See: U.S. Arab Group Intimidates Google into Censoring THE MUSLIM QUESTION Blog).

In the case below, the AAI successfully put an American in prison for one year for sending a vituperative email. What’s America coming to?

Update: If he screws with us again, we may have to turn Jesse Jackson loose on his nuts.

Former U.S. diplomat gets year in prison for anti-Arab remarks

A retired U.S. diplomat was sentenced on Friday to one year in prison and fined $10,000 for sending racist, threatening messages to an Arab-American group, the Justice Department said.

The diplomat, Patrick Syring of Arlington, Virginia, sent abusive and intimidating e-mails and voice mails to employees of the Arab American Institute, a Washington group.

He was sentenced in federal court in the U.S. capital after pleading guilty to federal civil rights charges, the Justice Department said in a statement.

Among his comments in a series of e-mails, Syring wrote that “the only good Arab is a dead Arab.”

Of particular target was the institute’s president, James Zogby, “and his wicked Hezbollah brothers.”

“They will burn in hellfire on this earth and in the hereafter,” said Syring, 50, in an e-mail that was included in the indictment last year.

Syring was a U.S. diplomat in the Middle East and had worked more recently in the Human Resources division at the State Department.

“Threats of violent hate crimes have an impact far greater than the impact on the individual victim,” said Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.

“These are crimes against the fundamental ideals on which America was founded,” she added.

Syring, who retired from the State Department last year, was ordered to serve 100 hours of community service and have three years of post-release supervision, the Justice Department said.

“There is no room in our society for the intolerance of other races or national origins, particularly by those who hold positions within the government,” said Jeffrey Taylor, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

The State Department had no immediate comment, but when Syring retired last year, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said utterances such as those made by the ex-diplomat were unacceptable to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

-Reuters

Finally an ex-diplomat speaks his mind and for that he gets slammed. What’s the deal? Once on the State Department’s payroll, always on the State Department’s payroll? You’d think an ex-diplomat had a few rights too. By the State Department goes on treating him like an endentured employee. And the Department of Justice gives him a year in prison. Hah. And they call that justice!