"War on Christmas" takes a disturbing turn - Group attacked for saying "Happy Chanukah"...

[ck4829]

Instead of "Merry Christmas."

"Maria Parsheva said she and her boyfriend, Walter Adler, also 23, are half-Jewish and were celebrating Chanukah at a Manhattan bar with Angelica Krischanvich, 21, and Nick Rosenbaum.

They carried a menorah and dreidels as they boarded the Qtrain at Canal St. bound for Brooklyn, Parsheva said.

On the train, they said Jirovec, Babajko and their friends loudly yelled "Merry Christmas" - and became infuriated when Krischanvich responded, "Happy Chanukah."

"(One woman said,) 'You can't say that, we are Catholic,'" said Krischanvich, a Hunter College student who is not Jewish. "That's when two guys stood up and showed us their Jesus tattoos," she said. "They started yelling at us and telling us we have no savior."

"I started to yell back when one of them spat in my face," Krischanvich said. "I didn't let it bother me, and I told him, 'Jesus turned the other cheek,' and that is when the fight started."

Parsheva said one of her attackers pulled a knife and smiled wickedly as he waved it near her face.

A good Samaritan tried to break up the fight and was injured. Adler yanked the train's emergency break, and cops made the arrests at the DeKalb Ave. station."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2007/12/12/2007-12-12_hatecrime_talk_is_ridiculous_says_one_of-1.html

[demnan]

1. Yeah that's what Jesus would have done

threatened someone who said Happy Chanukah!

[cosmik debris]

2. Is it any wonder some people fear Christians? n/t

[YOY]

3. They're lucky there was a person acting like christ there

The guy who tried to break it up.

Of course he gets called a "good samritan" instead of a "peace maker".

[chelsea0011]

4. O'Reilly's World is full of hate.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. The good samaritan turned out to be a beautiful young man from Bangladesh, a Muslim.

I saw him and the story on the news last night. He was the only one that went to help.

[Karenina]

8. Hassan Askari

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3099019&mesg_id=3099019

[cornermouse]

6. I went to your link.

They look like a bunch of psychos.

[underpants]

7. Jesus tattoos

[Squatch]

9. "I didn't let it bother me"..."and that is when the fight started"

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