Charming story from the Florida Sun-Sentinel:

Orlando tour-bus driver fired over Muslim jokes

A bus driver was fired after a Muslim couple complained that he insulted members of their religion over the loudspeaker.

The driver, whose name was not released, was fired Thursday after Hilal Isler of upstate New York said she and her husband, Volkan Isler, were offended. The Turkish-American couple say he launched into a monologue after they boarded the I-Ride Trolley bus March 5.

Hilal Isler said he greeted passengers, told a blonde joke and then one about Muslims.

"And now they're telling us we're supposed to be nice to these Muslim terrorists who are trying to kill us all,'' Hilal Isler recalled him saying. "Here in America, we call them 'rag-heads' or 'towelheads,' but that's not right. What they wear on their heads is more like a sheet. We should be calling them sheetheads.''

The passengers broke into laughter, Isler recounted.

The couple approached the driver.

"We're Turkish; we're Middle Eastern," she told him. "Can you appreciate how badly this makes us feel?"

"How would you feel if these sorts of things were said about you?" her husband asked.

According to Hilal Isler, the driver said he wouldn't mind -- responding in a voice that mimicked her husband's Turkish accent....

After that obnoxious encounter, the couple went on to Sea World and -- oops, this was a strategic error -- Mrs. Isler said they were dismayed by a rah-rah patriotic display on the screen at the Shamu stadium:

The scene irked her. "We are not at a military rally," she said.

"Maybe they don't want us here," she said. "We won't be back."

(Yeah, I might have gotten cranky about that, too, if I'd had a bus trip like theirs. Or even if I hadn't -- I'm not a big fan of schlocky patriotic overkill.)

Remarkably, about half the posters commenting on this at Free Republic think the driver went over the line. The people at the Sun-Sentinel's own comment thread, on the other hand, are significantly scarier:

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya. Frankly, we don't need (and don't want) more Muslim tourists. This couple should feel lucky they even received US tourist visas. Go back to Turkey you clowns. I don't go to Turkey and complain if a bus driver makes stupid Christian jokes. And supporting our troops is not a "military rally". It is appreciating their sacrifices so Muslim idiots like you can enjoy places like Sea World in peace.

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good, dont come back, our nation is at war right now with people of muslim background who want to kill us. if mr. and mrs. isler dont like what they see at sea world then perhaps they should pack their bags and go back to turkey. i am so sick of foreigners comming to the united states and complaining, ALL GO HOME IF YOU DONT LIKE IT! and i'm sure the bus driver got a new job the next day!

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... incidentally, turkey is a backwards country and they sacrifice camels on the tarmac of their airport.

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He just spoke the truth about the muslims, sorry, this is one group who is dangerous and will die in the name of "allah" with no regrets..constant head choppings, flying planes into buildings, setting off bombs..nothing peaceful about islam, sorry about that. You can protest that you are a religion of peace all you want..those of us who keep up on you guys know the real truth..if you want to know more or keep up with the muslims for yourself, go to the following:

www.littlegreenfootballs.com

www.jihadwatch.org

then you can really see how non-offensive and peaceful these people really are (not)

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Could have been worse, camel f'rs, sand m&*keys.

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muslims tend to be a smelly group of people. i think its all the curry and schwarma they eat. either that or they dont bathe regularly. they smell camel-like.

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...Get all of your muslim friends and family together now and get on a plane to Saudi Arabia so you will never have to be offended by free speech again. With any luck at all your plane will crash into a crowded Mosque before landing. Praise be to Allah!!

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The bus driver should be hailed as a hero.... Go back to Turkey and s...t in your pants and wipe with the hand you eat with like the rest of those animals!

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yO MOHAMMED, GLAD TO SEE YOU HAD TIME FROM YOUR PEDOPHILIA AND OTHER ACTIVITY TO WRITE IN.... TRUTH IS THERE IS NO MODERATE MUSLIM ANYTHING; ISLAM HAS NOT BEEN HIJACKED; IT IS THE EVIL OF OUR TIME. LET'S NOT LEAVE IT FOR OUR CHILDREN, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT THE WORTHIEST GENERATION. SECRET GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS SHOW THE P/C MOVEMENT IS FUNDED BY ISLAMISTS.

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May a camel sheet in your hats.

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HEY PHILLY DILLY BILLY!! DID ANYONE TELL YOU YOU SMELLED LIKE CAMEL SH**!! GO PUT THE SHEET BACK ON YOUR HEAD AND JUMP ON A PLANE TO MUSLIM LAND ...GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!!

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How can you tell when a Muslim reaches manhood? He takes the diaper off of his butt and puts it on his head.

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Turkey is a filthy, backwards country. I would never step foot in the smelly place. ugh.

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it seems like all these people want to do is complain and play victim. They should shut their stupid turkish mouths and go ride a camel back to their smelly, filthy country.

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It is a fact that not all muslims are bomb throwing terrorists.It is also a fact that nearly all bomb bomb throwing terrorists are muslim.The fact that you can find one or two terrorists that were not muslim means nothing next to the thousands of terrorists that are muslim.

I'm so proud to be an American right now, aren't you?