Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.
“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.
With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.
William Katz over at Urgent Agenda accurately notes:
How chic, how stylish, how adolescent.
Further along in the article...
...when her father saw her new online moniker, he was incredulous.
“He actually thought I was going to convert to Islam,” Ms. Nordling said.
Worse, Mr. Nordling, she has joined Husseinism. For which there is no known cure.
In the interest of Science, can you tell us when she first lost the ability to reason and think logically??
But you may take solace that it is nothing you have done, but resides in the family genes.
Ms. Nordling’s uncle liked the idea so much that he joined the same Facebook group that she had
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