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Michigan: Lansing mayors September 11 Ramadan celebration rescheduled
Creepin Sharia ^ | 8/26/15

Posted on 08/26/2015 9:26:12 PM PDT by Impala64ssa


Notice how big and bold they made the new date? In blood red font. The cities of Lansing and East Lansing announce that the 9th annual Ramadan Unity Dinner, co-hosted by Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and East Lansing Mayor Nathan Triplett, will be rescheduled to Friday, September 18, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lansing Center in downtown Lansing.After due deliberation, the event organizers have decided that the community’s remembrance of the tragic events of 9-11 and the celebration of diversity and inclusion embodied in the Ramadan Unity Dinner should be held at separate times.All tickets purchased for the original event date will be honored for the rescheduled date. The party was originally scheduled on the anniversary of September 11 as we posted and asked, “Where are the citizens of Lansing?”

Meanwhile, a local hospital sponsoring the event tried to bully a protesting group out of using its name and logo, according to an email thread obtained by BizPac Review on Monday. (With the dinner being rescheduled, it wasn’t clear if the protests would still be held.) In the first email to Lansing-based Sparrow Health Systems, protesters promised to make sure the hospital’s sponsorship of the event was well publicized – complete with replicas of the World Trade Center decorated with Sparrow “iconography,” and grisly scenes of the human cost of the 9/11 attacks. Thank you for sponsoring the Ramadan unity dinner on September 11th. We will be attending, myself and 14 other friends with tickets we have bought, just to see how things go. We are right now designing our art project to be displayed in the public space outside of the venue. Right now our idea is to make replications of the Twin Towers with Sparrow health iconography on the sides of the building. We might even have little jumpers who jump out of the building has it is burning falling into the sparrow health facilities. It should be fun for all. Again, thank you very much for sponsoring the Ramadan unity dinner on September 11th. In response, Sparrow’s Diversity/Inclusion Community Advocate Lori Adams Simon wrote the protester and ordered the group not to use the company’s imagery in any way. (Adams referred questions Monday to Sparrow’s marketing department, which did not return a call.) My name is Lori Adams Simon and I am the Diversity/Inclusion Community Advocate for Sparrow Health System. Sparrow’s Marketing team received your email below in regard to The City of Lansing Ramadan Dinner. Please note: Under NO circumstances can you use the Sparrow logo or any Sparrow “iconography” for other purposes including this art project. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you for your time and consideration! The protesters were having none of it. Under the fair use doctrine for protests as defined by Supreme Court cases, we will use your logos in our protest. You cannot stop us by any kind of prior restraint. If you try to take us to court the judge there will let you know that we have the right to use your logo in protest of your sponsorship. Your logo will be on one of the twin towers that we will have being hit by one of the other sponsor’s planes. You wanted to sponsor a 911 Ramadan dinner. That was your choice. Now you’re going to live with it. At least they’ll be able to “live with it. That’s something thousands of Americans couldn’t do on Sept. 11, 2001.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Michigan; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911anniversary; cair; democrats; islam; islamicimperialism; jihad; lansing; michigan; muslims; rmmadan; sharia; timingissuspicious; waronterror
I wish I had a cushy job like Lori Adams, a "diversity/inclusion community advocate". Nice work if you can get it. Let's see if the hospital administrators and the mayor learned a valuable lesson about sleeping with dogs...
1 posted on 08/26/2015 9:26:12 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Hey muzzies! Get out of America! This is NOT your country!


2 posted on 08/26/2015 9:31:29 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Impala64ssa
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3 posted on 08/26/2015 9:36:13 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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You go Sparrow Health Systems! Don't you kow-tow to those damn citizens threatening to exercise their God-given right to freedom of speech!

Next thing you know they'll be flying jetliners into skyscrapers!

Oh. Wait.

4 posted on 08/26/2015 9:41:15 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: re_nortex

Hey muzzies! Get out of America! This is NOT your country!

Oh, yes it is! Just ask boner and mcconell and McCain and Graham.


5 posted on 08/26/2015 9:49:44 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Good it was rescheduled....but what the hell with being tone deaf concerning 9/11 in the first place?

This isnt just another day for many of us....

Vote them out.

6 posted on 08/26/2015 10:27:14 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Impala64ssa

“Ramadan is expected to begin on or around June 18, 2015 and will finish on or around July 16, 2015.”

It’s over already. What’s going on?


7 posted on 08/26/2015 10:46:32 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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To: Impala64ssa

How nice of them. This should not be held at all! Kick the towelheads out.


8 posted on 08/27/2015 4:29:49 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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Should have been rescheduled to when Hell freezes over.


9 posted on 08/27/2015 4:32:12 AM PDT by fredhead (Join the Navy and see the world.....77% of which is covered in water.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Thank God that scumbag (in the original sense) Virg Bernero didn’t even come close in the governor’s race.


10 posted on 08/27/2015 5:33:30 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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