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Texas leaders denounce Tarrant GOP effort to remove Muslim from Republican post
Star-Telegram ^ | 11/30/18 | Anna M. Tinsley

Posted on 12/02/2018 11:02:09 AM PST by Simon Green

Two Texas officials are calling on Tarrant County Republicans to defeat an effort by some in their party to remove a Muslim from local GOP leadership.

At issue is a controversial effort that began months ago when a small group of local Republicans began pushing to remove Shahid Shafi, a Muslim, from the post of vice chairman.

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, who lived in Fort Worth before being elected to statewide office, was the first to weigh in on Friday.

“I urge the Tarrant County GOP to stop this attempt to remove a hardworking county party official based on religious beliefs,” Bush tweeted. “We must move towards a more inclusive Republican Party and stop tearing down our own if we are to keep Texas red.”

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus also posted a message on social media about the situation that has gained increased media attention.

“Some in the Tarrant County Republican Party want to remove a party officer because of his religious faith,” he wrote. “This effort is disgraceful and un-American, and Republicans in Tarrant County should defeat it handily.”

Those behind the move to oust Shafi, a surgeon and Southlake City Council member, say this is not about religion but whether Shafi is loyal to Islam and Islamic law or connected “to Islamic terror groups.”

The Star-Telegram reported earlier this week that the effort to remove Shafi has expanded and others now targeted include the party chair, Darl Easton; a precinct chair and area leader, Kelly Canon; and a precinct chair who is married to a Muslim, Lisa Grimaldi Abdulkareem.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
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To: tbw2
Purging people on ideological purity is bad for the right,

You mean like a Judge that is too Catholic?

41 posted on 12/02/2018 4:59:27 PM PST by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Simon Green

To be expected from the Bushite faction of the party.


42 posted on 12/02/2018 5:23:04 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Ancesthntr
I am SICK of RINOs, especially Texas RINOs - geez, if you can’t have actual conservatives in Texas, we are done.

So am I. The problem is, everyone knows you can't get elected to statewide office as a democrat in Texas. Therefore people who would in other states be democrat pretend to be republican instead.

43 posted on 12/02/2018 5:42:43 PM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: theoilpainter

The basic problem is, when you have a few mohommedans in a crowd, they can pretend to play well with others. Once you reach a critical mass of them, they explode.


44 posted on 12/02/2018 5:48:18 PM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: reaganaut1

You desperately need to read more about Islam.


45 posted on 12/02/2018 6:44:02 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: itsahoot

Absent ANY evidence, I don’t buy it.


46 posted on 12/02/2018 7:01:14 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: tbw2

#25. nice, reasoned reply to this issue. Let’s not tear ourselves apart. We have enough enemies on the Left trying to do that.

If the Doctor is qualified to serve in this post, let him do it in peace and respect.


47 posted on 12/02/2018 9:02:18 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: theoilpainter
I’m all for unlimited Muslim immigration. The streets will be a lot less crowded and a lot safer when women aren’t allowed to drive.
*ducks projectiles
48 posted on 12/03/2018 3:24:55 AM PST by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico)
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To: Impy
Absent ANY evidence, I don’t buy it.

What Islam Isn't

By Dr. Peter Hammond

FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, April 21, 2008

The following is adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat:
Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.

Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called 'religious rights.'

When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to ‘the reasonable' Muslim demands for their 'religious rights,' they also get the other components under the table. Here's how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

United States - Muslim 1.0%
Australia - Muslim 1.5%
Canada - Muslim 1.9%
China - Muslim 1%-2%
Italy - Muslim 1.5%
Norway - Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Denmark - Muslim 2%
Germany - Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom - Muslim 2.7%
Spain - Muslim 4%
Thailand - Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves - along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

France - Muslim 8%
Philippines - Muslim 5%
Sweden - Muslim 5%
Switzerland - Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands - Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago - Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris –car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).

Guyana - Muslim 10%
India - Muslim 13.4%
Israel - Muslim 16%
Kenya - Muslim 10%
Russia - Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:

Ethiopia - Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Bosnia - Muslim 40%
Chad - Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon - Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Albania - Muslim 70%
Malaysia - Muslim 60.4%
Qatar - Muslim 77.5%
Sudan - Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Bangladesh - Muslim 83%
Egypt - Muslim 90%
Gaza - Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia - Muslim 86.1%
Iran - Muslim 98%
Iraq - Muslim 97%
Jordan - Muslim 92%
Morocco - Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan - Muslim 97%
Palestine - Muslim 99%
Syria - Muslim 90%
Tajikistan - Muslim 90%
Turkey - Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates - Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' - the Islamic House of Peace - there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

Afghanistan - Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia - Muslim 100%
Somalia - Muslim 100%
Yemen - Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.
Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.
Leon Uris, 'The Haj'

It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.

49 posted on 12/03/2018 6:41:52 AM PST by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: itsahoot; reaganaut1; AuH2ORepublican

I said “evidence”.

Where in that 10 year old article is an audio recording of the dude in question praising the Muslim brotherhood, or a bank statement showing a donation to an Al Queda linked charity front? Hell, when did he even pressure grocery stores to sell “halal” food? GMAB.

Again absent *evidence*, I have to say some surgeon is not trying to take over America by infiltrating the Fort Worth GOP, I think possibly he’s just a decent Republican man. Some people are just Muslims cause their parents were, they don’t all attend secret world domination meetings. A Muslim dentist filled a cavity for me about a year ago, I’d bet money the dude wasn’t Taliban and doesn’t know a thing about Islamization plots. If your assertion is that every single professed Muslim in the world must be “in on” jihad/caliphate, I’m sorry the evidence does not bare that out. Certainly a good percentage are, but no where near 100.

Do his opponents on the party committee (one person? 2 people?) have any substantive reason to want him out? Has he made statements opposing the President or something?


50 posted on 12/03/2018 8:53:57 AM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Impy
Where in that 10 year old article is an audio recording of the dude in question praising the Muslim brotherhood, or a bank statement showing a donation to an Al Queda linked charity front? Hell, when did he even pressure grocery stores to sell “halal” food? GMAB.

None of those things need to have happened yet, I am merely stating they will. You can agree or not, but that 10 year old article is as accurate today as it was 10 years ago, whether you believe it or not is up to you.

51 posted on 12/03/2018 10:18:52 AM PST by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Carry me back

I’d start with getting them out of the military. That is even more insane that letting homos and trannnies serve. After you’ve weeded them out there, then get them out of government on the federal, state and local levels. Then the rest of them can either be deported if they are foreign-born, or convert or be domiciled in secure encampments if they are natives. Then you’ll have much less of a problem. This could take 30-100 years. We might not even have a country by then.


52 posted on 12/03/2018 10:29:39 AM PST by VietVet876
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