MTG’s Ex-Husband Perry Greene Settles with Muslim Faculty College students He Harassed

Perry Greene, the ex-husband of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, has reached a settlement with three Muslim girls whom he verbally harassed in March.

On Monday, April 14, native information shops in Georgia reported that Greene paid $75,000 to the group of faculty college students, which they stated can be donated to their native mosque.

The incident that led to a settlement occurred on March 31, when the ladies had been praying in a mall parking construction in Alpharetta, Ga. Within the now-viral video, Perry will be seen driving a Tesla Cybertruck and pulling as much as the ladies.

“The place are you from? The place all y’all from?” Perry calls for, earlier than telling the ladies that they’re worshipping a “false god.“

“Y’all wanna do all types of loopy s—,” he continued, earlier than following the ladies together with his automotive as they walked towards the mall.

“It did really feel very lengthy within the second. Like, it simply wouldn’t cease,” stated one of many girls — whose full names haven’t been made public — whereas talking to Atlanta Information First. “Assault after assault, insult after insult. All of it was simply out of pure hate and his disgust of us, which I don’t perceive.”

4 days later, Greene reached out to the ladies’s attorneys and stated he wished to apologize. They met with him at their place of worship, the Masjid Jafar and Al-Rahmah Group Middle in Johns Creek, the place Greene attended a service and issued a public apology.

“I got here at this time simply to fulfill with the younger women that I used to be imply to and handled disrespectfully about their faith and about what they had been doing,” Perry stated in his assertion, per Channel 2 Motion Information. “I simply needed them to know that I humbly apologized to them as a result of nobody must be handled that means, and that’s not the proper means for us to deal with anyone.”

Whereas Alpharetta police condemned the incident, after reviewing the footage, they decided that Greene didn’t technically commit a criminal offense and thus won’t face any expenses. 

“The feedback made within the video circulating on the web are disgusting and don’t replicate the range and understanding that Alpharetta values,” police stated in a press release to Channel 2.

“Nevertheless, in our group all speech is protected — even the speech we could not agree with,” the assertion continued. “After totally watching the video, we’ve decided no crime was dedicated. And, whereas we don’t condone exercise like this, absent any new data coming ahead our investigation is closed, and no legal expenses can be made.”

The ladies — all of whom had been born and raised in Georgia — be aware that whereas they perceive the police division’s choice, the expertise has solely strengthened their resolve to follow their religion freely and publicly, per KBTX 3.

“That is our id, that is our religion. It doesn’t matter what anyone says to us, it doesn’t matter what bigot desires to inform us that we’ve a false God, we can be agency on our toes, no matter what anyone has stated about us,” one of many girls instructed the outlet.

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Greene filed for divorce from his congresswoman ex-wife in 2022 after 27 years of marriage, citing an “irretrievably damaged” relationship.