Small but fervent crowd backs Irving mayor’s stance on Islam

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Tom Fox/Staff Photographer
Demonstrators rally outside City Hall in support of Mayor Beth Van Duyne. “Most young people don’t know what the good America is,” organizer Valerie Villarreal said. “The mayor has given us a taste of that America again.”

Attendance at a rally Saturday to support Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne was a little on the low side. The mayor herself didn’t show up.

But the enthusiasm outside City Hall was abundant.

“Most young people don’t know what the good America is,” rally organizer Valerie Villarreal said. “The mayor has given us a taste of that America again, and we don’t want to let that go.”

Van Duyne has been a figure in the public debate over Islam and the treatment of Muslims since rumors of an illegal Shariah court at the Irving Islamic Center began spreading in January.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20151205-small-but-fervent-crowd-backs-irving-mayors-stance-on-islam.ece

[font color=330099]So after Thanksgiving last weekend there were hundreds at the mosque that rallied in support of the Muslims in cold, dreary conditions. Meanwhile, this weekend when the weather was more pleasant the crowd is small. I guess that everyone was at the mall shopping for Christmas?[/font]

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1. Bunch of WASPS waving Israeli flags and screaming about how awful Islam is

Ever seen something that is weird but somehow not actually strange?

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2. This Citizen Weeps For The Home State Now Destroyed By Gun Nuts And Fundamentalists

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3. Not much of a rally, if the picture

is accurate. Barely enough for a poker game.

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4. The article says

that the largest crowd that they had at any point was only 40 people. I attended family reunions with larger crowds than that.

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5. Yep. Forty folks ain't much of a

national movement.

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6. Hell, forty people isn't much of a bowel movement in Irving,

particularly when 13 of those are from a bikers club in McKinney.

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7. I'm getting the impression that the

citizens rallying in support of the mayor don't exactly see themselves as part of the global community.

I'm guessing quite a few of the forty are planning to vote for Trump or Cruz or one of the other horrific Republican candidates.

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8. I guess not everything is bigger in Texas. nt