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'What good are your thoughts and prayers when they don't even keep the pews safe?' AOC
Daily Mail UK ^ | March 15, 2019 | Dianne Apen-sadler

Posted on 03/15/2019 7:43:10 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

'What good are your thoughts and prayers when they don't even keep the pews safe?' AOC is widely condemned for New Zealand mosque massacre post - and then insists she was referring to the NRA

New York congresswoman shared clip of Jacinda Ardern speaking about tragedy

Referencing U.S. shootings in places of worship, asked what good are prayers

Later clarified her comments were criticizing NRA, rather than prime minister

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been criticized after she appeared to slam New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern for offering 'thoughts & prayers' to the victims of today's massacre.

Sharing a clip of Ardern speaking about the deadly terror attack, she asked: 'What good are your thoughts & prayers when they don't even keep the pews safe?'

The New York congresswoman also said she did not need to 'imagine being told your house of faith isn't safe anymore' because it had happened so many times before.

She then referenced the 2015 Charleston church shooting, in which nine people were killed, the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack, where eleven died, and the 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting where 26 lost their lives.

Although she later clarified that she was criticizing the National Rifle Association rather than Ardern, her comments were widely condemned.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aoc; brentontarrant; christchurchshooting
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To: FlingWingFlyer

New Zealand is out there somewhere close to Puerto Rico so she might have thought it was the 51st state.


61 posted on 03/15/2019 8:54:05 AM PDT by atc23
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To: DungeonMaster

Hell is full of people like her.

I can’t even fathom living an hour with the deranged mind of a maniac like her.


62 posted on 03/15/2019 8:55:01 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: COUNTrecount

If thoughts and prayers have no value, then we have erased our humanity.


63 posted on 03/15/2019 8:57:09 AM PDT by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Listen, bitch ... my “house of faith” isn’t safe ... that’s why I’m armed.


64 posted on 03/15/2019 8:57:09 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Tench_Coxe
"Do mosques have pews?..."

..... That is what I found curious about AOC's comments. She is not even aware of Islamic Worship.

.... The fact is that the "Pews" will never be safe in Mosques ..... Because Mosques never have seats or pews like churches, the reason being that when Muslims pray they move around. Standing, bowing, kneeling, and touching the forehead to the floor etc.

65 posted on 03/15/2019 9:11:25 AM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: COUNTrecount
Godless leftists like this twit are the ones too stupid to realize that doing things God's way is the only way to have a free, prosperous and relatively safe society. This country managed to be that for almost 200 years.

Remove God from public schools and public life, embrace degeneracy, godless socialism and import the Muslim cancer and the quality of life will erode.

66 posted on 03/15/2019 9:15:38 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: DungeonMaster

Shouldn’t it be Persian rugs, rather than pews?


67 posted on 03/15/2019 9:16:21 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Campion

Since the perp is Australian, he obviously didnt fly down to NZ with those guns so he bought them in New Zealand, since guns are so heavily regulated over there, how was he able to get so many without detection?


68 posted on 03/15/2019 9:27:21 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: DungeonMaster

She had to think of some other reason for her words as someone must have told her that muslims don’t SIT IN PEWS....


69 posted on 03/15/2019 9:44:32 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: COUNTrecount

I have never seen any pews or seats in pics of the inside of a mosque.

They kneel on prayer rugs, IIRC.

AOC is dumber than my fence posts.


70 posted on 03/15/2019 10:23:19 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: COUNTrecount

ALL

The Brains Behind AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1h5iv6sECGU


71 posted on 03/15/2019 11:22:27 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: COUNTrecount

72 posted on 03/15/2019 1:01:40 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: atc23

She’s an island “expert”. Puerto Rico, New Zealand, Gilligan’s Island, etc.


73 posted on 03/15/2019 3:32:20 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

You forgot Long Island City.


74 posted on 03/15/2019 3:34:35 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks COUNTrecount.

75 posted on 03/15/2019 11:02:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (this tagline space is now available)
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