Posted on 12/02/2006 8:18:10 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
(11/29/06 - KTRK/KATY, TX) - There's an awful lot of exciting news when you round the corner on Baker Road. One of two big yellow signs announces a new neighbor is coming soon.
"It's not an appropriate place to have a mosque or church," said resident Barbara Simpson.
It isn't going over real well.
"As a house of worship, they shouldn't be disturbing the peace and tranquility of 15 homes," said resident John Wetmore.
Neighbors tell us they're concerned about traffic and drainage and a little fear of the unknown. Some of the homeowners even offered to buy the land back for more than a million dollars. The K.I.A. doesn't seem very interested in the offers.
"We're not going anywhere," said Katy Islamic Association member Alvi Muzfar.
So it seems the community at the end of Baker Road has a pretty good fight. But this fight has gone much farther than many between two neighbors. You see in these fights, sometimes neighbors throw mud at one another. In this instance, they're wallowing in it.
Craig Baker owns pigs. He's the guy behind the second big yellow sign on Baker Road. That's the one announcing Friday night pig races.
"What does it matter, I can do whatever I want with my land right," asked landowner Craig Baker.
Sure can. But aren't pigs on the property line racing on a Friday night a little offensive to a Muslim neighbor?
"The meat of a pig is prohibited in the religion of Islam," said Katy Islamic Association member Youssof Allam. "It's looked upon as a dirty creature."
Yeah, there's that and also that Friday night is a Muslim holy day.
"That is definitely a slap in the face," said Allam..
Now before you go thinking Craig Baker is unfair, or full of hate, or somehow racist, hear him out.
Baker has long roots here. His family named the road and when the new neighbors moved in, he tells us, they asked him to move out.
"Basically that I should package up my family and my business and find a place elsewhere," said Baker. "That's ridiculous, they just bought the place one week prior and he's telling me I should think about leaving."
That new owners deny they ever said anything like that, but Baker isn't budging.
Baker admits the pigs are a message he is not leaving.
The 11-acre property is sandwiched between a pricey subdivision and Craig Baker's business.
K.I.A. eventually plans to build a mosque, a gym and a school there. There's no date for the groundbreaking ceremonies, or the first pig race.
(Copyright © 2006, KTRK-TV)
LOL!
Pig: an acronym which stands for
Pride
Integrity
Guts
(against islamomuzzies)
I wasn't allowed pigs in my subdivision but I found a way around that rule --- I joined 4-H.
thanks!!
That's gotta be a hazard. Unless you're towing a boat.
"One ought not to have so delicate a nose that he cannot bear the smell of a hog." - Thomas Benton's defense [William Aldreds Case, 77 Eng. Rep. 816 (1610).]
Join the club. Have heart, there are a lot of reasoning FReepers who still have both feet on the ground. You just have to let the loudmouth's blow steam. I look for the worst posts and see how long they stand until the mods remove them. They never last for long.
What bothers me is the immigration...where are all these muslims coming from? I don't remember ever seeing a mosque growing up....now they're all over the place. I wouldn't care about them at all, except for 911 and all the facts that have come out since then...like their stated goal to either convert us or kill us and to use our own tolerance and laws against us to accomplish this.
I don't feel that giving a Christian religious freedom and a Muslim religious freedom are going to get the same results since Muslims are so blatently militant - many of them just seem to think their religion is a license to kill. I'm not going quietly along with this.
I imagine most of these "Muslims" are black converts.
I guess you haven't been listening to Ibrahim Hooper, President of CAIR, who said their ultimate goal was to make America a Muslim nation. In Africa and Asia they did it by the sword. In North America they plan to do it by the lawyer.
Your posts are a bunch of hateful nonsense. We have many many moslem allies working with us worldwide. It's tiresome to explain again and again that Iraqis are fighting with us, Kuwait is an enormous American base, Pakistan is cooperating, even Libya gave up its nuke program, nations such as Egypt have long been controlling radical elements. The idea that we should fight all moslems and the whole moslem religion is too stupid to debate.
You want me to look you up when I "begin my roundup". If you or anyone else breaks the law, violates the peace, threatens people or property you will be arrested. It's not my "roundup", it's called the most basic laws that govern our society. So stop your loudmouth talk. First, violent rhetoric is not allowed on Free Republic. second, if you're planning to harm anyone or anything just say it so the police can pick you up.
You know it's sad that you kooks cite 50 bible verses to justify killing all the moslems, and you don't have any idea that you are being (nearly) as radical as a moslem terrorist. I say nearly because if you weren't all talk we'd have religious murders every day in this country. And please spare me the 50 bible verses that you think God wrote just to answer this post.
LOL. It's not that bad. These reservoirs are for flood control and they could be totally filled or totally empty at any given time. There are trees, vegetation and wildlife there. Baker Rd. makes a 90deg. turn due west just before it reaches the public land.
Well if most of these muslims are black coverts then things would be going according to their 20 year plan to take us over per this post:
Author sees Islam's 20-year plan for U.S. (Nightmare alert!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747647/posts
2. Wage a war of words using black leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and other visible religious personalities who promote Islam as the religion of African-Americans while insisting Christianity is for whites only. What they fail to tell African-Americans is that it was Arab Muslims who captured them and sold them as slaves. In fact, the Arabic word for black and slave is the same, ''Abed.''
Recommended reading if you haven't already....
"You want me to look you up when I "begin my roundup". If you or anyone else breaks the law, violates the peace, threatens people or property you will be arrested. It's not my "roundup", it's called the most basic laws that govern our society. So stop your loudmouth talk. First, violent rhetoric is not allowed on Free Republic. second, if you're planning to harm anyone or anything just say it so the police can pick you up."
We know, you want the police to do your bidding while you hide behind the shades like the scared Germans did during "the crytal night."
Here's a clue. We are talking about barbecues and pig races...that yea, might offend some muslims. If you are offended by rhetoric, barbecues, and pig races, then you might want to seek help for your pyschoses. Yea, that's plural because you may have more than one.
"So stop your loudmouth talk." I don't recall ever using caps.
Thanks for the ping!
You'll be singing that tune when a muezzin blares the amplified and five calls to prayer per day from a minaret built on the property next door to you?
These calls have an unintended consequence, they cause pigs to race.....
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