Armed protesters stalk peaceful Muslims at Texas mosque: We want to show force
Source: raw story
Armed protesters stalk peaceful Muslims at Texas mosque: We want to show force
Bethania Palma Markus
21 Nov 2015 at 20:34 ET
..........The group, calling itself the Bureau of American Islamic Relations, stationed itself outside the Islamic Center of Irving carrying signs with messages like, Stop the Islamization of America, .................
The groups leader told the News they were upset because they had heard rumors of a Sharia court at the mosque and the prospect of letting Syrian refugees in. They also claimed members of the local Muslim community had made death threats against Irvings mayor, Beth Van Duyne, earlier this year. The News found no evidence that this claim was true.
When asked by the News why his group was armed, organizer David Wright said the weapons were mostly for self protection, but then added, But Im not going to lie. We do want to show force. Were not sitting ducks.
He then added,We dont want people to think were out to kill people or shoot people. It would be ridiculous to protest Islam without defending ourselves.
The town of Irving gained notoriety earlier this year when police arrested a Muslim school boy who had made a clock at home and brought it to school, accusing him of making a hoax bomb.....................
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/armed-protesters-stalk-peaceful-muslims-at-texas-mosque-we-want-to-show-force/
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)I read stories like this and think how do folks like this leave the house every day when they're so terrified of most of the world.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Is this "brave, patriotic" guy ashamed of who/what he is?
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Thread winner!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Hiding your face with your finger 'at the ready'...PUT THE WEAPON DOWN CHILD YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED.
KG
(28,751 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)Daesh more?
IMO, it isn't the Muslims in this scenario.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)This is what we get when we allow FOX News on the air. These people need to be stomped out.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I think he wants to look like those French cops shown on TV who went after the ISIS terrorists.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)I'm a Buddhist, and I sometimes go to Irving to attend meditation retreats there. Irving is very multi-cultural. There's a huge Hindi temple and a Sikh temple, and Asian and Hispanic markets. And of course, my own Tibetan Buddhist temple. It's close to DFW airport, which I'm told is why it's so multi-cultural. Very working-class neighborhood with lots of home pride of ownership. Yards and homes in good shape and well cared for. I don't live there. I live way out in rural east Texas. So a 3 hr drive to get to my Tibetan Buddhist center. Most of the people there are just regular folks raising families. These wing-nuts are frightened and ignorant. They don't know any better. They don't understand that the Muslems in Irving are much like everyone else. They want to live happy, peaceful lives and be free of suffering, worry, and needless hardships. It must be very difficult and confusing for not-well-educated white folks to see their town turning into a multicultural enclave. How much envy, fear, and resentment must swirl around in their brains. The greatest monsters are the ones that we create in our very own minds. This story saddens me greatly.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Um - I grew up in a hunting household and live in one now. Dad was a former Army Officer husband is a foremen tactical sharp shooter in the Italian Marines.
Neither of these men would pick up a gun and brandish unless the intent was to kill.
From my upbringing and life now as a gun owning household - they are liars.
All I know is - if you are holding it is your intent to kill.
That's what I know and and know to be true.
SereneG
(31 posts)lastlib
(23,248 posts)these idiots need to be bitch-slapped with a wet weasel.
concreteblue
(626 posts)"bitch-slapped with a wet weasel"
Instead of demanding that you buy me a new keyboard, I will just ask if it is ok if I use this.
lastlib
(23,248 posts)(but I'm having second thoughts about abusing our friends in the Mustelidae family this way.)
sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Looks just like one of the ISIS terrorists they are 'combating' in their tantrum of xenophobia.
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)IS must love these guys!
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Let them have a chance to use those guns they so bravely display.
These are the type of people that only go after women children and old people the type that run and hide when somebody else that can defend there selves shows up. The kind of bad ass you see in the movies that cries and begs when he's cornered. They'd shit there pants if put in a situation like a war.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)So, what did happen to "innocent until proven guilty"?
Fox News needs to go away, it's friggin' dangerous to our society.
mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)dem in texas
(2,674 posts)The DMN reported about the these 24 gun toting protesters at the mosque over in Irving. They also reported about the 24 individuals protesting against Gov. Abbott's ban on letting Syrian refugees into Texas. Since it was the same number of people protesting in each group and they are protesting at opposite ends of public opinion, you would think the stores should have side by side coverage. Not so, the Irving incident is on the front page of the Sunday paper, while the pro-refugee protest is buried on the back pages.
There is a whole back story about what is going on in Irving. The mayor of Irving, Betsy Price, a tea party darling with big ambitions, claimed incorrectly that the Muslims in Irving were trying to impose Sharia law on the courts there. She went on to say that she was threatened by some Muslims who went so far as to say they wanted to kill her. The DMN did say that the story about her being threatened is not true, even though she tells this tale at every political event she attends. She is all about getting her name out so she can move to higher office in the strange world of Texas Republican politics and she and her group are playing the local news like a violin.
Shame on the Dallas Morning News for such lopsided reporting. Shame on the national media for only picking up the story about the red-neck gun freaks.
dhill926
(16,346 posts)pothos
(154 posts)what if this was two dozen armed muslims "protesting" at a christian church. not only would fox news have 24 hour coverage but the national guard would be called in.
Jeb Bartlet
(141 posts)just never ceases to amaze. As soon as you think they couldn't be a bigger bunch of racist xenophobic sick morons they go and double down.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)Camo? Check.
Mask? Check.
Rifle? Check.
"We don't want to lie. Our purpose is to threaten and intimidate. But we don't want to kill anybody, unless they want to make an issue of that."
--imm
ananda
(28,866 posts)Looks like it's widened to include Irving.