This is a claim not yet proven. But if it’s true, it’s pretty awful …
Sgt. 1st Class Naida Hosan is not a Muslim — she’s a Catholic. But her name sounded Islamic to fellow U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and they would taunt her, calling her “Sgt. Hussein” and asking what God she prayed to.
So before deploying to Afghanistan last year for her second war tour, she legally changed her name — to Nadia Christian Nova.
This did not solve her problems.
Instead, matters escalated. Nova complained to her superiors about constant anti-Muslim slurs and jokes. She says they responded with a series of reprisals intended to drive her out of the Army, leading her to consider suicide.
Read the rest here.
A few days ago we flagged to your attention that at their convention over the weekend, the NRA asked one of its vendors to take down one of their ‘zombie’ firing range manequins because it was obviously designed to look like President Obama. (The maker also wasn’t shy about admitting the target practice dummies were designed to look like Obama.) And then it turned out that Discovery Channel had used the Obama dummies to pour bullets into during one of their shoot’em up documentaries. We finally heard back from the Discovery Channel folks today. They say they don’t see any resemblance. Don’t know what the problem is.
A Social Security Administration study predicts that the Senate immigration reform bill will improve Social Security’s finances.
After this morning’s fallout, the Heritage Foundation has been compelled to take the web and essentially say, we’re totally not racist.
I’m sure they’ve stipulated that “we believe that every person is created equal” before but I don’t think in this context.
TPM Reader MC on the seemingly unsinkable career of racist junk science …
The Jason Richwine/Heritage Foundation immigration study’s broad implications about the aptitude of Hispanic immigrants to become productive US citizens really touched a nerve with me. I strongly suspect I am not alone on the reasons why and I think this is an important point in the discussion of this controversy, because it suggests that the political reverberations may go much deeper than just playing badly on Univision.
Both sides had their say about last year’s attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, and they both agreed on one thing: the other side is playing politics.
Yep, that’s actually the headline. Story here.
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne (R) pleads no contest in hit-and-run accident he caused while his alleged mistress was in the car with him.