
You can hear the crowd in unison as Muslim families walk from their cars to a fundraising dinner in Yorba Linda, California: “Go back home! Go back home!” Boos rain down in the manner of a rowdy football game, but instead of professional athletes, the targets are young children and their parents.
The proceeds from the dinner will benefit women’s shelters, homeless, and hunger in the US.
That message, however, is lost on several hundred protesters hailing from a mix of local conservative and Tea Party groups.
After gathering footage of the February 13 taunting, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights group, released a video documenting the incident (see below). I encourage you to watch the clip in its entirety:
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