Posted on 03/07/2016 2:47:10 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
Most people want to know: Have I turned into a "Jesus nut" after leaving Connecticut for Texas five years ago? Not really - but I have some keener observations about US culture, sharpened by living in Texas. Skip the rest if you don't have an open mind.
Most of the comments on this forum about refugees going home out of disgust with the West are amusing, esp from my perspective of being an American with a college education, successful career & loving, stable family. All of these things are granted by God through his means and a lifetime of hard work and good parenting.
In the five years since I've moved to Texas, I've encountered more real live Muslims here in Texas than anywhere else in my life, including other states during widespread US travel, and abroad. Most are polite. There are some who truly came here to escape the hellholes and not change America except to offer their considerable (mainly US-educated) talents. More than half of the rest are clueless. The rest, though, truly would like to replace our laws with Sharia law. (Irving, Texas islamic legal council and and clockboy court case in point.) So far, we've only reached the Fifth Point of Departure in the 20-year MB plan to completely subsume America's culture; reference http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/687.pdf
The permissive elements of our culture, like it or not, totally encourage being non-Christian in almost every way. Many observant Muslims are as horrified as Christians at the (illegal) changes that America has made to normalize many of the things both Christians & Islam consider to be sinful by the book. But that's where we diverge. We can use the 10th amendment to get our whole country off the hook for those immoral and unconstitutional laws that are passed out of human frailties and corruption. It's inevitable, isn't it?
Back to our regularly scheduled programming. It's about the refugee invasion. Would I house the refugees from the middle east & other islamic countries? No way. There is a huge culture gap here - it's not about inequality at all, it's about culture fed by religious belief, plain & simple. We live in the greatest nation in the world BECAUSE of our religion & our Constitution. Islamic refugees with no clear ideas about Western culture or capitalistic ideals need to stay where they are and work to fix their own countries, not pollute other nations with Sharia. And we need to stop changing our culture and inviting people in who refuse to assimilate peacefully and renounce imposition of Sharia over US law. It starts right there and Irving, Texas won. Let's not throw that away.
I’ve voted in the Texas primary already - and looking forward to the 2016 election at least at this point.
I’m told each and every day here at TX is perfect; and that I live in a hellhole. Although I only know one muslim.
Your link leads to garbage.
Your post is nonsensical.
Drink bleach. Lots of bleach.
No surprise there, given that Texas now has more Muslims per capita than all but 4 states. Wouldn't surprise me at all of the Hussein regime intentionally settled them there.
We're very fortunate to have you here, Huma.
Well, my husband and I lived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for five years. He was an engineer and MOST necessary over there. I lived and worked with 100% Muslims.
Believe it or not, there were actually NICE people there. I started going to DAILY MASS over there, thanks to my Muslim boss.
The KSA doesn't allow priests, ministers or vicars into their country but we Christians INSISTED on them. So, TYPICAL of the Saudis, they RENAMED them calling ALL the priests, vicars and reverends "SPECIAL TEACHERS."
I still attend daily Mass, the habit I acquired in Saudi Arabia, thanks to my MUSLIM boss.
People who hate this country should live in Bangladesh for an hour, or Egypt for an hour...or any pit hole south of our border for an hour. They will be BEGGING to be allowed to return to our "hellhole" country.
They are INGRATES!
We have become burka central in metro Atlanta. Its just too much. I’m voting Trump in the hopes he can get rid of at least some of them.
Keep scrolling down...
In all my years in NYC, I’ve never seen a burka. I’ve seen head scarves on occasion but even then it’s rare. I have seen silly African-American women in their ridiculous Nation of Islam garb - sort of a combo of a nun’s habit and a janitor’s uniform. Hope it remains that way!
The situation is getting way out of hand. Shouldn’t surprise anyone, considering this....
Federal Data: U.S. Annually Admits Quarter Of A Million Muslim Migrants: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/14/federal-data-u-s-annually-admits-quarter-of-a-million-muslim-migrants/
A quarter mil. per year for a long time now, completely under the news radar.
U.S. Muslim population estimates range from 3 mil. to 12 mil. Considering the above data, I’m inclined to believe 12 mil+
With a very few exceptions, children and their parents seek to assimilate, not so much for grandma and grandpa. Our kids go to school together, play athletics together, play in the band together. I also see more and more Indians at our Catholic church. Middle school boys of all ethnicities get it: young ladies dig football players, it's Texas...lol.
They're lovely people, though we joke about their poor driving ability. Christmas lights go up a month early, it's a tradition for Indians in November.
We're planning on moving in a few years, primarily to lock in the gains on the value of our home, and to move closer to the HS. The congestion is getting bad, due to nearby commercial development.
What's the moral to my rambling? Where the vast majority of the population seeks to assimilate, the problems are minimal. I think our mayor, Beth van Duyne, did us a favor by throwing down a marker about sharia law. The radicals have decided to look elsewhere, and Republicans still outvote Democrats by 5 or 6 to 1.
I’m talking burka babes where just the eyes show.
I’ve only seen that in London. That’s awful.
No Muslims here in “Mayberry”, and plenty of insulation between here and the big city.
Really?? Why?? Looks to me like a document in Arabic and its translation into English. What makes it "garbage"?
Well, I would say that Texas "is" one heck of a lot better than New York. (I have family in New York, though most of them have moved out. Dad left the Army after WWII in Louisiana, so I was lucky enough NOT to have been raised in NY, though we visited often.....enough for me to know that I never wanted to live there). I look forward to retiring in Texas.
A link should lead to an article.
Perhaps a bunch of Arabic is an article to you, Masoud.
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