Groups call on Seminole Tax Collector Joel Greenberg to resign for 'Islamophobic' Facebook post

[Baitball Blogger]

A growing number of political organizations urged Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg to resign Monday, two days after he prompted an outcry with a controversial Facebook post critics said stoked anti-Muslim sentiment.

“He has violated the fair and impartiality that his office is supposed to have,” said Paul Truman, president of the Young Democrats of Seminole County. “It’s Islamophobic. We’re not tolerating it anymore. We don’t want him representing the citizens of Seminole County.”

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Greenberg touched off the controversy Saturday with a post he said he copied from Neal Boortz, a former Libertarian radio talk show host. That Boortz post on Twitter read: “Very simple question. Name just ONE society in the developed world that has benefited in ANY WAY from the introduction of more Muslims. Just one.”

Greenberg’s post was identical but he added, “Asking for a friend.”

Although he later deleted the post, Greenberg defended himself by saying that “I don’t care what religion people are” and that he had no reason to apologize because the question was not posed by him.

However, Greenberg continued to spar with people criticizing him.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/seminole/os-seminole-county-tax-collector-joel-greenberg-muslim-reaction-20180820-story.html

[dalton99a]

1. Clearly unfit for public office

[riversedge]

2. ...Greenberg also reposted another Boortz tweet on Monday saying: "There is no such thing as Islamop

Yes, resign. You are a dangerous idiot--like Trump!

.......Greenberg also reposted another Boortz tweet on Monday saying: “There is no such thing as Islamophobia. A phobia is an irrational or unreasonable fear. There’s no cancerphobia either. Same reason.”

At a news conference in front of the tax collector’s Lake Mary office, Imam Abdurrahman Sykes, president of the Islamic Society Leading American Muslims Peace Center, called Greenberg’s post divisive.

[Roland99]

3. Local news channel FB page comments on this are mind-numblingly ignorant

[Chickensoup]

4. Ignorance is not a point of view.

Here is a similarly stupid question.
Name one country that benefited
From atheist. Or one country that benefited
From Chile or Australians as a group.
Muslims like other religions
Are not a race of people. They come from
All over the world like Jews or Catholics
and many others