Armed '3%' militia fights against proposed mosque in tiny Georgia town

[SecularMotion]

Source: The Guardian

A Muslim congregation in central Georgia that wants to build a mosque faces opposition from an armed “3%” militia that has terrorized county officials and smeared the mosque as a training ground for the Islamic State.

The militia’s actions have forced the cancellation of a county meeting meant to discuss the application to build the mosque, a move commissioners blamed on “uncivil threats or intentions [that] must be taken seriously”.

Questioned by the Guardian, the county sheriff said investigations into the activities of the militia, which released a video in which the site of the proposed mosque appeared to be trespassed upon, had involved “limited conversations”.

Another officer asked the Guardian to forward any information it had on the militia’s leader.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/13/three-percent-militia-georgia-muslim-mosque-isis-doraville

[greymattermom]

1. Doraville?

That's not a tiny town, that's a stop on the Atlanta public transit system.

[tonyt53]

2. Last I heard, terroristic threatening was a crime here in the US.

[onehandle]

3. Coincidentally, did you know that 50% of the guns in America are owned by 3% of the people?

Why do we have to be terrorized by law and this marginal violent 'hobby?'

[7962]

5. So about 8 million people. Pretty big chunk of people

Wonder how many of those are licensed as dealers or collectors; they'd have plenty.
Probably about 75% of the folks I know own at least 2-3. Pistol, shotgun, rifle.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. If you know lots of people with 2 or 3, then that 3% have a huge number

because by definition, that 3% each own 33 times as many as the other 97%, and your friends would be in that 97%.

Here's a source for it: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/22/study-guns-owners-violence/90858752/

The 3% own 133 million - an average of 17 each.

[TeamPooka]

4. Sounds like a Christian Church has radicalized these men.

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. And we wonder why American Muslims become radicalized n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

10. I don't wonder, probably because that statement isn't true.

The vast majority of American Muslims are boring, run-of-the-mill, hard-working Joe al-Schmoes. The radicalized assholes, like the ones shooting up gay clubs, workplaces, and marathons, are no different than the "radicalized" white people of the Klan or neo-Nazis, that is to say, they are exceptions not "the rule". This is different in the Middle East, parts of Africa, and sections of Europe.

[Leontius]

12. No we don't.

[DBoon]

13. only if by radicalized

you mean consistently voting for liberal Democrats.

[Odin2005]

14. Send these domestic terrorists to Gitmo.