Reader defends the Muslim race by Peter Burrows 1017/23 elburropete@gmail.com 

Last Friday, October 13, I posted in the online newspaper The Grant County Beat a link to my article, “Would the world be better off with no Jews or no Muslims?” This was an update to a 3/8/2022 article and was prompted by the recent Hamas attack on Israel.  

There was only one reader response, an email addressed to both myself and the editor of The Grant County Beat.  If it had been addressed only to myself, I wouldn’t be sharing it. Since it was also addressed to the editor, I assume the writer had no expectation of privacy and in fact may have wanted her letter to be published in the Beat.  (I have deleted her phone number. I doubt she wanted THAT public.)

For reasons that should be obvious, the editor decided not to post the reader’s opinions. I don’t have any such inhibitions and I think a hard-hitting criticism of my work might be enjoyed by many of you. First, you may want to read what so infuriated her:  

https://wordpress.com/post/silvercityburro.com/1149

Email from Shannon Salcedo, 10/13/23 

“It is the Muslims who are the worst of people and the Jews who are the best of people. I think it’s time the world recognized those facts.”  

This was thee most UNHINGED racist article I EVER read in my life, and Peter Burrows and the Editor have embarrassed the entire SW region of NM for having the gall to post this ignorant pile of manure. I would suggest to Mr. Burrows to get our of his dirty-poverty stricken-drug addled-government corrupt-County and meet other people. Sh*t, meet people who practice other religions bc he literally cherry picked a bag of sh*t and developed an article to demonize an entire race of people, and the editor green-lighted it. This Article of Idiocy makes me SOO happy I moved out of Grant County, and left the church, and only visit 3x a year bc these people are dumb and feed on ignorance.  

Mr. Burrows reeks of arrogance, privilege and hate in this article, and fails to realize he is a dinosaur on the verge of extinction. So, let me help fix this terrible headline for Mr. Burrows: 

“It is the Boomers who are the worst of people and the Gen-Z’rs who are the best of people. I think it’s time the world recognized those facts.” 

I plan on sharing this article with my 18yo daughter and all of her friends in Denver, just to remind them all how important it is to vote. People like Mr. Burrows are the type who will gladly deny a U.S. Tax Paying Citizen of any civil rights bc he’s white and privileged and has a nice pension. His writings are atrocious.  

Boomers like Mr. Burrows are the greatest threat to democracy and the environment, and his article continues to prove my valid point. “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin,” – Sen. John McCain and the only difference between Libertarians’ and Republicans is weed. 

To The Editor: If you need content writers, please contact me, I can help you. I’m currently working on —– (Deleted: Two paragraphs of suggested local topics the Beat should have articles about.) 

You don’t need to post racist hate filled articles on your site like this one. There’s tons of material to work with in Grant Co. for a great article. Just talk to the people. That’s what I did when I was in Bayard in late Sept. early Oct. and I have a world of content to write about. You need to put Mr. Burrows terrible content in a place NO ONE can find on your web-page. And keep it there. Sincerely, Shannon Salcedo C: (—) — —-E: shannon.salcedo@yahoo.com  

Here is my email response to Ms. Salcedo and the Beat editor: I would like to thank Shannon Salcedo for a thoughtful, reasoned and fact-filled analysis of my article. I especially wish to thank Salcedo for apparently assuming that Islam is a race. Most people don’t know that, and I think people of the Lutheran race and, especially, people of the Catholic race should take note of that insight. 

Shannon Salcedo then sent another email to myself and the Beat editor, although I don’t think it was a response to my email to her: 

You know, I should’ve calmed down before emailing you about your Article of Ignorance that I had read, but I was SO shocked. I’m used to seeing this kind if trash on Reddit or The Daily Caller. Rush Limbaugh would be proud of you, and he was a disgusting pig. 

Religion is cancer.  

Those who demonize groups of people over a Religion that is not the preferred by “Christians” are worse than a stage 4 colon cancer.  

Your Facebook page is dumpster fire of MAGA-chud talking points: 

1. Demonize minorities (you REALLY don’t like black people, OR Hispanics, Democrat voters, women, etc.)  

2. Climate denier (AZ and NM will run dry in 15yrs, CO river is toast) 

3. Obsessed w MSNBC headlines  

4. No minorities in your “FRIENDS” group. ALL whites. And old.  

You deserve to house and support every drug addicted baby born in Grant County; eat diesel exhaust and drink Bayard water for the rest of your days. My daughter and her generation will tell the next ones of how YOUR generation tried to kill them all w ignorance and greed, all so you could help Big Oil frack your back yard so you can run your a/c when its 150⁰ in June.  
Shannon Salcedo C: (—) — —- E: shannon.salcedo@yahoo.com 

Here is my response, which Ms. Salcedo has not yet answered.   

The religion you are defending commands – commands — the death penalty for gays, adulterers, apostates, and anybody who doesn’t convert to the religion of Islam or refuses to be ruled by the religion of Islam.  It also allows husbands to beat their wives, fathers to kill their children with no penalty, and lots of other sweet stuff like that. 

Are you defending Islam because you think it is a race? Islam is no more race than Christianity is a race, and Islam, like Christianity, has adherents who represent all the races of the world.  

You should learn something about Islam before you defend it. Maybe you could buy a Koran and read it. (I recommend the Mawdudi translation.) If you know HOW to read the Koran it will save you a lot of time.  Here’s a 20-minute guide, Intro to Summary: https://wordpress.com/post/silvercityburro.com/749 

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