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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 09:46 PM

7962 (11,841 posts)

Muslim family's encounter with Gwinnett (Atl) police goes viral

Source: Atlanta Journal

A Muslim family's interaction with Gwinnett police officers on Thanksgiving weekend has gone viral.

In a Facebook post, Georgia resident Zanub Rizvi wrote that she was driving her daughter and mother-in-law to a religious gathering when she was rear-ended.

All the police officers and paramedics that responded to the accident were white males, she said.

She said it was "obvious" from their dress that they were a Muslim family, but she was "surprised" by how they treated to her.

Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/muslim-familys-encounter-gwinnett-police-goes-vira/npcwX/

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Muslim family's encounter with Gwinnett (Atl) police goes viral (Original post)	7962	Dec 2015	OP
Wow, thats wonderful	liberalnarb	Dec 2015	#1
I thought the same thing. It is nice to be wrong sometimes!	7962	Dec 2015	#4
Thank you for posting this. n/t	Judi Lynn	Dec 2015	#2
Yes. I though, oh, no, but it was so nice to read.	Hortensis	Dec 2015	#18
Thank you......	slingsam	Dec 2015	#3
Good thing they weren't terrorists	Bernardo de La Paz	Dec 2015	#5
K & R !!!!	Thespian2	Dec 2015	#6
Good to know	greymattermom	Dec 2015	#7
Thats true, coming in at a whopping 0.6%!!	7962	Dec 2015	#13
The site I checked was 79% Christian, 1% Jewish, <1% Islam,	Hortensis	Dec 2015	#19
I meant to share this the other day. Gwinnett Co. is probably THE most diverse co in GA.	CurtEastPoint	Dec 2015	#8
This should be the norm and not a surprise	nadine_mn	Dec 2015	#9
Some people understand the importance of the Golden Rule.	alfredo	Dec 2015	#10
This is how it should be;	Hulk	Dec 2015	#11
What a pleasant surprise. I had assumed that this was a story about innocent Muslims	totodeinhere	Dec 2015	#12
That's great. But I am way too cynical to think that exceptions to the rule are not the rule	Feeling the Bern	Dec 2015	#14
It sounds like somebody got some good training.	Jack Rabbit	Dec 2015	#15
Awesome. Great job Gwinnett PD!	trillion	Dec 2015	#16
Treating people with respect really doesn't require a lot of effort.	marble falls	Dec 2015	#17
I was like #1 ... thinking here we go again. Am glad I read it.'	libdem4life	Dec 2015	#20
It goes to show that even in the deep south, not everyone listens to	WestSeattle2	Dec 2015	#21

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 09:56 PM

liberalnarb (4,532 posts)

1. Wow, thats wonderful

Not what I expected while reading the beginning. I thought that it couldn't end well. I am very happy to be proven wrong.

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 10:01 PM

7962 (11,841 posts)

4. I thought the same thing. It is nice to be wrong sometimes!

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 09:56 PM

Judi Lynn (158,811 posts)

2. Thank you for posting this. n/t

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Sun Dec 6, 2015, 12:40 PM

Hortensis (58,785 posts)

18. Yes. I though, oh, no, but it was so nice to read.

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 09:57 PM

slingsam (369 posts)

3. Thank you......

What a wonderful post.................

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 10:04 PM

Bernardo de La Paz (46,735 posts)

5. Good thing they weren't terrorists

By which I mean, good thing the first people on the scene were there to help and not white christian gun-toting terrorists.

(wink, gotcha)

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 10:07 PM

Thespian2 (2,741 posts)

6. K & R !!!!

Good to hear...I was born in Buford...

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 10:16 PM

greymattermom (5,731 posts)

7. Good to know

Actually Islam is the second most common religion in Georgia.

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Sun Dec 6, 2015, 12:39 AM

7962 (11,841 posts)

13. Thats true, coming in at a whopping 0.6%!!

Whats more surprising is the number of people claiming NO religion

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Sun Dec 6, 2015, 12:45 PM

Hortensis (58,785 posts)

19. The site I checked was 79% Christian, 1% Jewish, <1% Islam,

18% "none." And that last is surprisingly high, but then I live in a semirural county that's literally among the most conservative top 10 in the nation.

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 10:21 PM

CurtEastPoint (18,167 posts)

8. I meant to share this the other day. Gwinnett Co. is probably THE most diverse co in GA.

Good to know people are being well trained.

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 10:23 PM

nadine_mn (3,702 posts)

9. This should be the norm and not a surprise

That said, what a wonderful story. I am so glad they had a positive experience.

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 10:33 PM

alfredo (59,947 posts)

10. Some people understand the importance of the Golden Rule.

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 11:41 PM

Hulk (6,699 posts)

11. This is how it should be;

I'm so glad this is how it was. I know there are many good, decent police that are there to "serve and protect". Doing their job.

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 11:46 PM

totodeinhere (12,722 posts)

12. What a pleasant surprise. I had assumed that this was a story about innocent Muslims

being abused by white policemen.

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Sun Dec 6, 2015, 12:55 AM

Feeling the Bern (3,839 posts)

14. That's great. But I am way too cynical to think that exceptions to the rule are not the rule

For every one of these, we will see 100x more Islamophobia.

I live in an Islamic country in Asia. First thing my landlords (some of the sweetest people on the planet） asked me was if I thought they were the same as ISIS or Boko Haram. I said of course not. . .do you think I'm Ir'Gun?

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Sun Dec 6, 2015, 12:56 AM

Jack Rabbit (45,984 posts)

15. It sounds like somebody got some good training.

That's how it's supposed to work.

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Sun Dec 6, 2015, 01:41 AM

trillion (1,859 posts)

16. Awesome. Great job Gwinnett PD!

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Sun Dec 6, 2015, 10:00 AM

marble falls (52,858 posts)

17. Treating people with respect really doesn't require a lot of effort.

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Sun Dec 6, 2015, 01:22 PM

libdem4life (13,877 posts)

20. I was like #1 ... thinking here we go again. Am glad I read it.'

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Sun Dec 6, 2015, 02:48 PM

WestSeattle2 (1,730 posts)

21. It goes to show that even in the deep south, not everyone listens to

republican presidential candidates' hate mongering.

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