Posted on 07/03/2021 6:14:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
“No threats were made, but these men should be considered armed and dangerous.”
Should be?
Honest. The wimpiness running this country is the worst problem
“I bet they’re all FBI guys who can’t read a map”
Contractors provide total deniability. Badged officers/agents are very risky.
Are these make believe Moors Islamist?
It doesn’t really matter for it has been declared by the highest authority “white supremacists” are the greatest terrorist threat the US faces.
These are the guys who trespass and occupy 'empty' homes after changing the locks.
They were probably just going from Wakefield to Wokefield.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3973090/posts
This Brit paper describes them as “Moors” or at least, having Moroccan flag.
Probably Karen witnessed a 4th of July parade.
Let’s not jump to conclu….aaannnd it’s Moslems.
From Wikipedia:
The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.
The Moors initially were the indigenous Maghrebine Berbers. The name was later also applied to Arabs and Arabized Iberians.
Moors are not a distinct or self-defined people. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica observed that the term had “no real ethnological value.”
Europeans of the Middle Ages and the early modern period variously applied the name to Arabs, North African Berbers, as well as Muslim Europeans.
The term has also been used in Europe in a broader, somewhat derogatory sense to refer to Muslims in general, especially those of Arab or Berber descent, whether living in Spain or North Africa.
During the colonial era, the Portuguese introduced the names “Ceylon Moors” and “Indian Moors” in South Asia and Sri Lanka, and the Bengali Muslims were also called Moors.
In the Philippines, the longstanding Muslim community, which predates the arrival of the Spanish, now self-identifies as the “Moro people”, an exonym introduced by Spanish colonizers due to their Muslim faith.
In 711, troops mostly formed by Moors from northern Africa led the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. The Iberian peninsula then came to be known in Classical Arabic as al-Andalus, which at its peak included most of Septimania and modern-day Spain and Portugal. In 827, the Moors occupied Mazara on Sicily, developing it as a port. They eventually went on to consolidate the rest of the island.
Differences in religion and culture led to a centuries-long conflict with the Christian kingdoms of Europe, which tried to reclaim control of Muslim areas; this conflict was referred to as the Reconquista. In 1224 the Muslims were expelled from Sicily to the settlement of Lucera, which was destroyed by European Christians in 1300.
The fall of Granada in 1492 marked the end of Muslim rule in Spain, although a Muslim minority persisted until their expulsion in 1609.
By this headline, I was actually expecting some nutty white or just plain conservative “militia” type, because it’s MA….they would feel more under threat constantly.
Then Isaw the newer thread from Britain. More open and honest.
(BTW, indeed if any conservative type group actually tried an insurrection…it will be in a so-called blue state. That is where the bitterness is highest for conservatives.)
if obama had a son
“Mostly Peaceful”
What was the point of these guys arming themselves, and HEAVILY, if they were going to run away?
More likely Mohammed rather than Othello.
They have a great roast beef restaurant in Wakefield, Billy’s, some say to die for.
Ok, come on, someone, post the Seinfeld reference pix.
It’s moops.
Sounds like they caught a load of Antifa or BLM goons. What is the difference between what they are looking for and Antifa or BLM???
Eleven special people arrested. They’ll make bail if needed in time to save 16 cents on their 4th of July bomb-making cookout.
My first though was “Well.. who acts like the law doesn’t apply to them?”
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