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The San Diego County Human Relations Commission has come face-to-face with the inherent contradictions of the leftist worldview, and it isn’t pretty. Ordinarily a placid platform for leftist platitudes and a sleepy mechanism for virtue-signaling, the Commission is now in an uproar and may not even survive. Three commissioners have resigned, and there is talk of junking the whole thing and starting over. This is the sort of thing that happens when leftism meets reality.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Friday that “A commissioner’s recent antisemitic comments have prompted a rash of resignations from the San Diego County Human Relations Commission, along with growing calls for overhauling the body.” The antisemitic commissioner was Khaliq Raufi, a Muslim migrant from Afghanistan. After his antisemitic remarks caused a furor, he resigned, but the brouhaha continues, and now District Attorney Summer Stephan and County Sheriff Kelly Martinez have resigned from the commission as well.
Raufi, who arrived in the U.S. from Afghanistan in 1992 and later aided U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, touched off the controversy back on July 18. During a meeting of the Commission, he asserted, according to the Times of San Diego, that he read “a few verses” of “the book of Jews,” and found that lo and behold, “it states go kill Palestinians.” He also “claimed this is currently taught in synagogues.”
The assembled gaggle of unthinking, knee-jerk Leftists were appalled. One exclaimed, “Are you serious?,” although anyone who knew anything about what Islam teaches about Jews would have known that Raufi may never have been more serious in his life. Raufi’s words were duly reported, this being the California SSR, as a “hate incident,” via the state’s new CA vs. Hate hotline. And now he has resigned.
It is unclear why Stephan and Martinez resigned as well. Stephan said that Raufi’s remarks were “disparaging and dehumanizing” and added, “It has turned out that my role as a commissioner places me in a position that is contradictory with the oath I swore to carry out. For me, my duty as District Attorney to protect everyone from hate and crime is paramount.” That’s great, but what was the point of doing this after Raufi resigned? Stephan was behaving as if his statements had been made official commission policy.
Martinez likewise oddly stated, “I cannot continue to be a part of a commission that does not uphold the high ideals of which it was enacted. The direction of this commission has shed light on hostilities that are being displayed in a way that I do not find appropriate and therefore, [I] find it best to remain neutral until the commission can mitigate their personal beliefs in a way that can allow space for acceptance of each other’s differences while elevating positive contributions to the community.” Yet with Raufi gone, why did she still see a problem on the commission?
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Bexarkat says
In the words of the great philosopher Jerome Horwitz, * “N-yuk, n-yuk, n-yuk!”
* a/k/a Curly Howard
Oren says
Because not supporting a Jew hater is a crime according to the left, unless he is a white supremacist. Muslims and blacks cant be racist, which is usually censored, but what if its not censored, what do you say? I resign. In G-d I trust.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
San Diego used to be one of the couple of bright spots of urban California – other than Orange County, that defied the (D) trend of LA and SF. Unfortunately, a lot of that has been diluted by its groveling to muslims in the process of trying to win them over to the (R) side
tgusa says
Orange County has always been a better place to live than SD or LA. It is a tiny island of better sandwiched between the much larger Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. You used to see work traffic going out of OC in to the other counties but now because of the growth you see work traffic going from those counties in to OC.
Kepha says
Well, if the “Palestinians” are the same as the ancient Canaanites, the holy book of Jews (and Christians) commanded the Israelites under Moses and Joshua to exterminate them. It also warned that if the Israelites followed the same abominable practices as the Canaanites, they, too, would be spewed out of the land. As we read the Old Testament, we see the Israelites heeded not and ended up, at II Kings 25, gave us history written by the losers (i.e., the Covenantal Curses came to pass).
The USA is currently learning, the hard way, the following life lessons:
1. “Religion” may be helpful, but it depends on which one.
2. Diversity and change are not necessarily beneficial.
3. Minority status does not automatically confer moral virtue.
4. Immigration laws are there to both bring in desirables and keep out undesirables..
5. The discomfort of some is one of the prices we pay for the First Amendment.
6. Rights commissions need to be abolished, and the task of determining the meaning of the Bill of Rights to be returned to the courts.
7. Leftism is self-destructive.
Khaliq Raufi has every right to think what he will of the Jews. But, if he wants to get violent against them, he must pay the consequences–jail, deportation, or even execution, depending on the severity of the crime.
Kepha says
Re the command to Moses and Joshua, it’s moot now. We no longer have Canaanites and Amorites. Nor does the land between the Jordan and Med hold any continuing redemptive significance.
somehistory says
I agree.
PRCS says
Informative post. Thanks.
somehistory says
From reading the comments of the sheriff and the da, it seems the “commission” was made up of fools. The mozlum quit after being called out; so why was it necessary for the other two to do so? As if they thought it wrong for him to be called on his claim and made to resign.