GOP blogger arrested for harassing two female bloggers for wearing Muslim head scarves in public

[kpete]

GOP blogger arrested at Netroots Nation for allegedly harassing two female bloggers for wearing Muslim head scarves in public
This is a really outrageous story. But it has a happy ending. Not only did the jerk get arrested, but a group of women fought back in quite a unique manner.
http://www.americablog.com/2011/06/gop-blogger-arrested-at-netroots-nation.html

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Arrested St. Paul blogger charged with disorderly conduct
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio
June 20, 2011

St. Paul, Minn. — A St. Paul blogger faces misdemeanor charges after he allegedly harassed two Muslim women last week in downtown Minneapolis.

Minneapolis police say John Hugh Gilmore, 52, who writes a blog called Minnesota Conservatives, caused a scene Thursday night on Nicollet Mall. Sgt. Bill Palmer, a police spokesman, said Gilmore appeared to be drunk when he confronted the two women wearing the Muslim headscarf known as the hijab.

"Mr. Gilmore made some comments that he didn't believe the women should be in the United States, and that he thought that they were ruining America," Palmer said.

One of the women, University of Minnesota student Jamila Boudlali, said she's lived in Minnesota her entire life and has never been hassled about her religion.

the rest:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/06/20/blogger-arrested/

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Here's a related story

The women went to the conservative conference to talk to the right wingers http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1330045

[LeftinOH]

2. Not merely a drunken right-wing slob; he's also a lawyer:

John Hugh Gilmore

John Hugh Gilmore, Esq., graduated from St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., and received his JD from Catholic University, both with honors. Gilmore is active in local and national politics. He is a co-founder and blogger at www.minnesotaconservatives.org.

...and he has that big pink pasty-faced right-wing dude look ..like Jerome Corsi, Roger Ailes, Karl Rove, etc.
http://www.law.emory.edu/academics/conferences/overlap-of-legal-and-medical-ethics/speakers.html

[The Doctor.]

3. Typical misdirected RW coward.

Picks on women in public out of his ignorant and misplaced fears.

[sabrina 1]

4. It is sad how much hatred has been sewn towards

Muslims in this country over the past decade. Scary to see how easy it is to do, to any group.

I'm glad he was arrested.

There is nothing so dangerous as ignorance in action

[Ikonoklast]

5. Wonder if he tells the same thing to

conservative order Catholic nuns that essentially not only wear the hijab, but cover their entire bodies just short of them wearing a burqa.

If he's a Catholic, I'm fairly certain he's seen nuns wearing the habit.

Guess they shouldn't be doing that in America, either.

Fucking tool.