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Florida: Fired Muslim Sheriff’s Deputy fabricated claims that Deputies harassed him for being Muslim

Jul 11, 2017 1:41 pm By Robert Spencer

“Levitt argued Albakri was the one making jokes and said he didn’t complain about feeling uncomfortable until two years later.”

The harassment claim came two months before “deputies arrested him and accused him of staging a burglary the previous year to collect renter’s insurance.”

Maybe he saw that arrest coming, and thought the best defense was a good offense: a claim of victim status. It was a canny move at a time when “Islamophobia” is a massive concern all over the country, fanned by cynical and deceptive Muslim groups that recognize that victim status is political capital.

“Orange County deputies did not harass Muslim colleague, jury decides,” by David Harris and Gal Tziperman Lotan, Orlando Sentinel, July 10, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A group of Orange County deputies did not harass a fellow deputy because he is Muslim, a federal jury decided Monday.

Waleed Albakri had sued the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, where he worked from 2008 to 2014, alleging that co-workers called him a “terrorist,” among other derogatory terms, and started a criminal investigation against him because of his religion….

He was fired from the Sheriff’s Office in 2014 after being arrested on insurance-fraud charges, which prosecutors later dropped….

Levitt argued Albakri was the one making jokes and said he didn’t complain about feeling uncomfortable until two years later.

“Who’s the one making light of being Arab?” he asked the jury during his closing argument. “You shouldn’t dish it out if you can’t take it.”

But Albakri’s attorney said his client was just making the jokes to fit in. One time, he said, a co-worker checked him “for bombs” when he came to work.

“He didn’t welcome it,” attorney Peter Helwig said. “It made him feel very uncomfortable.”

Albakri filed an internal complaint with the Office of Professional Standards in August 2014, saying the Sheriff’s Office was a hostile workplace. He was working undercover in a drug and prostitution unit.

Two months later, deputies arrested him and accused him of staging a burglary the previous year to collect renter’s insurance, records show. Prosecutors eventually dropped the charges when Albakri went into a pretrial diversion program….

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  1. Guy Macher says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    You spell liar–MUSLIM.

  2. Barry says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 1:51 pm

    Isn’t that actually against the law? Defamation at the very least.

  3. somehistory says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 2:01 pm

    lying about the work environment, lying about a burglary. Par for the course for employed moslums who might rather just be suing than working for money.

    If he had a problem with his moslum status, he should have converted. Better all around than making *jokes* about it.

  4. Robert says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 2:26 pm

    He is his own worst enemy. He’s fallen into the trap his own religion has set — accusing non-Muslims of defaming Muslims/Islam is encouraged in Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 11, 2017 at 6:48 pm

      He is also *our* worst enemy–a vicious Muslim in a police uniform. Hard to imagine anything more dangerous.

      • Robert says

        Jul 11, 2017 at 7:00 pm

        The two points are not mutually exclusive.He is both *our* and *his* worst enemy.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 12, 2017 at 9:26 pm

          Robert, with all respect, I am more concerned about Muslims using the uniform to harm us than I am over Muslims allowing Islam to screw themselves up.

  5. John F says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 4:13 pm

    Islam: The Religion of death and destruction. That’s not defamation of a religion. It’s the truth.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 6:50 pm

    Florida: Fired Muslim Sheriff’s Deputy fabricated claims that Deputies harassed him for being Muslim
    ……………………….

    Unfortunately, this should surprise no one. Calumny and fake victimhood.

  7. Anti-jihad says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 7:57 pm

    Taqiyya.

  8. Oliver says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 10:17 pm

    Orange County is part of the greater Orlando area.

    Where the Muslim killed all thpse people in a gay club that, incidentally, was that night having a Hispanic music festival.

    He picked the wrong area to be in law enforcement.

  9. ItsReallyQuiteClear says

    Jul 11, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    This, the poster child for successful integration?

    It would seem that the Muslims are also missing a “nuance” of our language. It’s *integration*. Not *infiltration*.

  10. AugustWestx says

    Jul 12, 2017 at 8:22 am

    Facebook is a global corporation and it’s only obligation is to maximize shareholder value.
    Facebook does not have an obligation to protect free speech (or the US Constitution) except to the extent that doing so maximizes shareholder value.

    The fact that they have this much influence over speech in the US is a US anti trust matter in my opinion.

    They are simply too big and what we are seeing here is a monopoly abuse. Dissatisfied consumers should stop using it and anti trust regulators like the FTC should break Facebook up into smalller unrelated firms which have to compete against each other in a free market.

    The left likes monopolies because they consolidate power which the left can exploit – a reading of Ayn Rand illustrates this perfectly. Conservatives should focus on breaking monopolies up for the same reason.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 12, 2017 at 9:30 pm

      I’m not sure that Ayn Rand approved of the government forcing private companies to break up. We can use an alternative to Facebook, and let Facebook know why we are leaving.

  11. John A. Marre says

    Jul 12, 2017 at 8:56 am

    No Muslim should be a cop – their loyalty is not to this country or this country’s laws.

  12. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Jul 12, 2017 at 11:04 am

    ; Another predatory professional victim, trying to extort money, and unfortunately for him, I sincerely doubt the Florida gangs, and the ”Mafia”, are going to capitulate.

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