Posted on 03/26/2019 2:50:14 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The first female Muslim member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives said Tuesday she was offended by a colleague's decision to open a voting session with a prayer a day earlier that "at the name of Jesus every knee will bow."
Democratic Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell of Philadelphia said she felt the remarks by Rep. Stephanie Borowicz shortly before Johnson-Harrell took the oath of office on Monday used her religion against her.
"I thought that for the most part, the entire invocation was offensive," Johnson-Harrell told reporters, noting that her own religion respects Jesus. "But to use Jesus as a weapon is not OK."
Borowicz, a Republican and associate pastor's wife who was elected to represent a rural central Pennsylvania district in November, also thanked President Donald Trump during the Monday invocation for standing behind Israel.
Johnson-Harrell said she respects everyone's right to praise the president, but "we cannot weaponize what's going on with Israel and Palestine."
Prayer should not be among the things that Republicans and Democrats fight about, she said.
"It was directly a political statement, and I think we need to be very, very clear that everybody in this House matters, whether they're Christian, Muslim or Jew, and that we cannot use these issues to tear each other down," Johnson-Harrell said. "And not only that, it was made during my swearing in."
Johnson-Harrell won a special election earlier this month to fill a seat vacated by the resignation of Democratic Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown, who had been re-elected in November after being convicted of bribery.
Her swearing-in drew 55 guests, a majority of them Muslim. A Muslim prayer was said from the House dais during the ceremony.
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Drive muslims from our land or they will enslave us.
It’s their religious obligation to do so.
You voted for this doughnut, now eat it.
Mooselimbs are perpetually butthurt.
“You eat it, they’re paying for it!”
Gunny Ermey (Full Metal Jacket)
OK. So, shut up!
Serious attitude problem.
A real friendly, open sort of look on her. /S
She looks like an angry would-be warrior.
Just like the ComDems.
See my tag line.
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“Diversity” to the left means censoring any POV that its members disagrees with.
And once again the perpetually offended are offended.
Of course Islamists don’t want to hear the name of Jesus. It is in his name that demons are cast out and made powerless.
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn. And BTW, show me Palestine on a map.
And of course, she would NOT see the hypocrisy.
Hatred personified. I don’t believe America ran out of American politicians and all we have left are America-hating Muzzies.
Convert ?
Muslims are instructed to invade/conquer/suppress/enslave or tax Christians and other non-Islamic peoples.
They’re working very hard to do it, thanks in major part to all the SELLOUT TRAITORS in the Ruling Elites of UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Canada, New Zealand, etc.
We could, if we wished, import/let in almost any other group of people.. from anywhere else in the world....and they mostly would be peaceful and try to succeed/assimilate in our countries.
There is really only one large group of people in the world today that are so dangerous... and, guess what, we’re getting them....by the millions... in our “civilized western countries”
We need to repatriate/export them NOW! (And build the wall...since Mexican drug gangsters are also coming in freely...they’re not nearly as dangerous as the Islamists but they’ll still kill you if they think you are in their way...)
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