So I go to lunch yesterday, got a hankering for BBQ so I head to Dickies.
I place my order, go up to the cashier, a 20's something gal with the typical "a tackle box exploded in my face" piercings and I pay for my meal.
Meh, so what?
I have on my "Free Colorado" T shirt, you know the black shirt with the AR figure in the state colors with Free Colorado on it. My jacket is open so you can see a bit of it but not the full thing.
"Fishhook" asks me "What's that on your shirt?"
I open my coat and say "Free Colorado".
She then says "Well what's that mean? Kill all the Muslims?"
WTF?
I tell her "No, it signifies support of the recalls of the bought and paid for politicians that crammed unjust and unconstitutional laws down the throats of their constituents, and the recalls were successful."
I said no more and went and ate my lunch.

As I sat there I wondered a few things.....
What would make her make such an accusation?
Does she have any idea how Muslims treat their women?
Does she have any concept of not being taught an education?
Not being allowed to have a job?
Not being allowed to leave the house and if she did, being accompanied by a male family member and being covered from head to toe in black, only her eyes showing?
Of having her genitals mutilated at a young age?
Being forced into marriage to one she does not know?
How merely questioning/backtalking a male could get her beaten severely or possibly buried up to her neck and stoned to death?

No, she has no idea.

And they call us ignorant.


I called the store manager today and advised him of the occurrence, he seemed as appalled as I did.