12-01-2015, 03:14 PM
(11-24-2015, 05:57 PM)fredtoast Wrote: That whole community had worked up a pretty big hatred of all things Muslim before this incident with the clock. I will bet that the people running the schools were on the same side as the Mayor and a majority of the citizens. They considered this boy and his family as a threat to their "American values" and treated him that way.
More fun in Irving. . . .
11-22-15
In the latest anti-Islamic incident to take place following the Paris attacks, demonstrators in Irving, Texas, protested on the sidewalk outside a mosque with guns, Islamophobic signs and American flags.
The dozen or so demonstrators referring to themselves as the Bureau of American Islamic Relations, or BAIR, gathered outside the Islamic Center of Irving on Saturday. One sign read "Stop the Islamization of America" and another, with arrows pointing at armed protesters dressed in military clothes and face masks, said "The solution to Islamic terrorism," local outlets reported.
"We are here protesting Syrian refugees coming to America, protesting the Islamization of America," BAIR spokesman David Wright told Fox 4 News. Wright, who was carrying a 12-gauge shotgun, told The Dallas Morning News that his weapon was mainly for self-defense but added, "We do want to show force. It would be ridiculous to protest Islam without defending ourselves."
And today I read that a white supremacist group, the Texas Rebel Knights, have planned a rally at the mosque on December 12.
The clock boy's family was lucky to get out of their while they could. There is a good chance someone is going to end up dead around there just for being (or looking like) a Muslim. We have all seen how much violence a "mob mentality" can produce when the people just have stuff to break up and throw around. Now imagine what could happen when they all have guns.
