Teen atheist Jessica Ahlquist is still the target of vitriol and death threats regarding her nonbelief in deities and the highly publicized removal of her high school's illegal prayer banner. It appears that people in her community, and nationwide, have mouths so full of sour grapes that some of them are willing to mail handwritten death threats to the teenage girl. Isn't that despicable? Well police in Rhode Island are currently investigating precisely that kind of incident regarding the young lady and her haters.
Hey, if you have a problem with atheism that's fine, but when it comes down to threatening the life of a 16 or 17 year old girl, you're crossing the line. Someone sent Jessica Ahlquist a handwritten letter saying that the cops weren't going to protect her forever. Along with that statement read an ominous warning: " We will get you."
It's absolutely disgusting that people are behaving in this manner over the young atheist teen simply because she wanted the United States Constitution to be upheld and respected by her high school. A judge sided with her and ordered the prayer banner to be removed from Cranston High School West, and that's really all there needs to be said about it. Prayer in school is also plainly illegal. So why are these simpletons choosing to target a teenager?
Hopefully, the police are successful in their investigation and whomever is responsible for this is charged stiffly. To be honest, what this person is doing should be considered a terroristic threat based on religious views which is pretty much a hate crime, right? Threatening the life of a teenage girl because she is atheist and because she wants her country's laws respected is simply hateful.
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Comments: 9 ( 1 removed by Chelsea Hoffman )
Jessica, get a guard dog and look into home alarm systems and take these threats seriously. I would sue if anyone is singled out, too for emotional distress.
This shows how the Constitution is respected and how primitive are some religious people.
Crazies are crazies regardless, and you'd have to be crazy to send handwritten death threats to a minor. Yeesh. Regardless of whether it's a ticked off religious fanatic or an atheist that's angry...over what? I could see maybe someone hating her for getting nearly 50 Grand ... I could actually see that happening too.
In other words, who could be the atheist, young enough as to hand-write such a letter, hating such a pretty girl ...
IMO, someone who would like to be friend with her and tries to justify his/her inability to approach her or someone who just did a joke as it may happen at this age mainly towards somebody who "have it all" (look and intelligence).
At the least if I remember my own times we had such behavior despite a segregation based on sex: we could not talk, even for class matters, to the other sex (I was not in America (North) then). However we have to consider that teenagers keep looking for their own limits and therefore sometimes act in such a way to overpass them on one hand expecting to fail on the other hand.
While my personal address wasn't printed, my name was. Fortunately my name is so common all letters were sent to the newspaper. The were then forwarded to me except for the ones directly threatening the paper for printing "this vile piece of trash."
As you probably suspect they were all neither anonymous or used fake names. SO much for the courage of their convictions.