TPM: Hijab-Wearing ‘Flash Mob’ Invades RightOnline

Hijab-Wearing ‘Flash Mob’ Invades RightOnline

(TPM) Evan McMorris-Santoro | June 18, 2011

MINNEAPOLIS — A group of around ten women in Muslim headscarves crashed the RightOnline conference for about ten minutes Saturday, protesting what they said was an incident targeting Muslim women Thursday night.

The event was the latest spark kicked up by the proximity of Netroots Nation and RightOnline. The two conferences are blocks apart — RightOnline is being held in a hotel many Netrootsers are staying in — and interaction between the progressives at Netroots and the conservatives at RightOnline has been inevitable.

A spokesperson for the group of women told TPM they weren’t sure of the identity of the man responsible for the Thursday incident — when two hijab-wearing women were followed by a man with a cell phone camera who reportedly asked them why they were dressed the way they were “in America” — but rumors that the incident involved an employee of conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart were rampant at Netroots.

It was partially a confrontation over those rumors that caused the Breitbart kerfuffle at Netroots Friday.

The women who arrived at RightOnline were Netroots attendees, and were accompanied by blogger Joe Aravosis and gay rights advocate/provocateur Dan Choi.

The spokesperson for the “flash mob,” Allison Nevitt, told TPM that there was a larger message to their protest beyond the Thursday incident, which Nevitt said had been reported to Minneapolis police.

“The point was mostly that Muslim women are an equal part of this nation, and that we have an equal right to exist here,” Nevitt said.

Following that, Nevitt and the rest of the flash mobbers were escorted out of RightOnline by hotel security.

Bob Beers: Loonwatch Writers Brains are “Mushy”

No Head

Bob Beers, a garden-variety Islamophobe who writes for the racist right-wing rag, known as theCanada Free Press, wrote a while ago that the brains of LoonWatch writers have gone to “mush” because we are too progressive. (If anything, our brains have gone to mush because we have to read the crap that Islamophobes spew daily.)

If you are scratching your head and wondering who the hell Bob Beers is, I don’t blame you. He is mostly a no-body who we did a piece on (Bob Beers: How about we bomb Mecca) a few months ago to highlight the obsession on the part of many maniacal Islamophobes and Muslim haters with destroying Mecca and Medina. It is something we call the nuclear card.

We exposed his ridiculous logic and moved on. Beers obviously read what we wrote and had this to say,

Too Dumb to believe Liberalism Works

There is a site called “Loon Watch”. On it, I and a great many other conservative writers, some as lofty as Glen Beck (whose research is always impeccable by the way) are called out as being somewhat less than rational because of our “non-progressive” views. The example they use for me is where I suggested that America use “the threat of”, not the actual act of, nuking of Mecca to forestall any further terrorist attacks against our citizens and cities. It seems that the progressives don’t like the idea of our government standing up for its people in the face of the threats of fundamental Islam. Loon Watch is yet another example of how mushy a so-called progressive brain can become.

As lofty as Glen Beck? Whose “research” is always impeccable? Is he joking? Seriously, I hope he is joking. This kind of sick, excessive and unseemly jocking of wing-nut Conservo-stars in the hopes of getting noticed is pathetic.

Beers proves himself to be as cowardly and slim of conviction as most right-wingers. He now claims he only wanted to “threaten” to destroy Mecca. A distinction without a difference in my book, but the truth is he dreams of the destruction of Muslim holy places. This is what he wrote,

If I were President this is what I would tell the Saudis, If one more terrorist incident happens in the US by any sect of your religion, even if you didn’t order it, say goodbye to your temple. Do you think there would be a few orders sent out to the training camps?

Well, at least I can dream.

A sicko, wouldn’t you agree? Oh well, maybe now Beers will receive an audience with his idol Glenn Beck or maybe even…hold your breathe… Rush Limbaugh!