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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump argued that it’s “absolutely ridiculous” that the Marines attacked in Tennessee were not allowed to carry guns and thus were “just sitting there as targets” on Thursday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel.

Tennessee is to Muslim refugees as New York is to Muslim hijacked planes. Chattanooga, the site of the latest Muslim terror attack against America, is a “preferred community” for resettlement along with Knoxville and Nashville. Nashville was designated a “Gateway City” for Iraqis. Hundreds of Somali Muslims were dumped in Shelbyville and the Murfreesboro Mega-Mosque became national news because of its terror ties.

Ironically, the sister of Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, the Chattanooga jihad mass murderer, whined about “anti-Muslim sentiments”. Now that’s rich. ‘Do you really know what Islam is?’ ” Abdulazeez said. “There’s this misconception that Islam is a violent religion. Muslims are actually peaceful.” Apparently her murderous brother voiced similar complaints.Her Facebook page is here (thanks to Pamela Hall) Muslim teens seek acceptance, understanding (Abdulazeez’s Sister from 2010)Chattanooga Times Free Press ^ | November 12, 2010 | By Michael Reed (thanks to Free Republic) … She’s among several Muslin teens voicing concerns over anti-Muslim sentiments they believe are rising as controversies surrounding...

More Ramadan ritual slaughter: four Marines were shot dead in cold blood Thursday in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and one police officer was wounded. The war is here. Any attack on a U.S. soldier is an attack on us. The Islamic State has called for attacks on military personnel in the US. An Islamic State supporter tweeted out “Chattanooga” just as the shootings were beginning. Clearly this was an Islamic State attack. Two military sites were attacked Thursday by an Islamic jihadi. The shooting attack began on the U.S. Naval Recruiting Center on Lee Highway in Chattanooga, and ended at the U.S....

The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the identity of the Chattanooga gunman who killed four Marines today as Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24. “The FBI’s Knoxville Field Office, along with the Chattanooga Police Department and other law enforcement partners, are working jointly to investigate today’s shootings at a military recruitment center and a reserve center in Chattanooga, Tennessee in which four individuals were killed and three injured,” the Bureau said in a statement. Abdulazeez, who first targeted a recruiting office in a strip mall, was also killed in a shootout with police outside of a Navy Reserve facility, where the four...

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez is the name of the Chattanooga shooting suspect, according to the latest reports by CBS. The Chattanooga Police Department identified the Chattanooga shooting suspect during an afternoon news conference related to the shooting incident. In a related report by the Inquisitr, multiple Chattanooga shootings have taken place, and some wonder if it was an act of terrorism. The Chattanooga shooter seemed to be targeting U.S. military recruitment centers, and at least two U.S. Marines were shot during the attack. Witnesses told police that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez went into the parking lot of a U.S. military recruitment center...

A Chattanooga shooting may be linked to ISIS, as a Twiter account connected to the Islamic terror group appears to have taken credit for the of bloodshed of Thursday’s deadly shooting.

Four Marines were killed today in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Marines were shot in a gun free zone. Four Marines killed inside a military office.

Two military centers attacked by unknown gunman WRCB reports the injured Chattanooga police officer is Dennis Pedigo. In response to the shooting today in Chattanooga, a prayer vigil is planned for 7:30 p.m. tonight at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church at 6314 East Brainerd Road. The #ChattanoogaShooting suspect is Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, CBS News reports. To recap: 8 shot, including shooter. 4 military victims killed. Shooter dead. 3 others injured This breaking news story is being continually updated as new information comes in.

(VIDEO-AT-LINK) The "active shooter situation" in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is over, police tweeted around 1:15 p.m. ET Thursday. Shootings were reported at a Navy Reserve center and a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, late Thursday morning. One officer is "down" in connection with the shootings, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke told reporters. He was not specific about the officer's condition. The U.S. Navy tweeted Thursday that a shooting happened at a Navy Reserve center on Amnicola Highway in Chattanooga, But a witness said she saw a shooting at a different location -- a building that houses military recruiting offices. Gina Mule,...

Authorities were investigating an "active shooter incident" Thursday at the Naval Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Fire Chief Randy Jackson said. "Horrific incident in our community," tweeted Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke. "We will release details as they are confirmed. Prayers to all those affected."

There has been an officer-involved shooting at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center on Amnicola Highway in Chattanooga. The location is near the Tennessee Riverpark. Early reports are that one Chattanooga police officer has been shot, according to Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke's office. There may be other victims

Republican Congresswoman Diane Black of Tennessee has joined the growing number of voices calling for Planned Parenthood to lose its taxpayer funding in light of a new undercover video showing a top official with the abortion giant discussing the sale of fetal body parts. Calling the news “almost too much to bear” and “incredibly revealing as to the true nature of the big abortion industry,” Black declared Planned Parenthood must not only be defunded but also investigated. “I am passionately pro-life but this latest discovery has taken us beyond the pro-life versus pro-abortion debate. This is about basic decency and...

Monday's protesters called 63-year-old Robert Doggart a terrorist. "Doggart is a terrorist, just like ISIS," a group of more than 80 American Muslims chanted outside federal court in Chattanooga. Doggart, who is white, pleaded not guilty at his Monday arraignment to one charge of solicitation to commit a civil rights violation. Authorities believe he spent months gathering weapons and plotting an assault on a small Muslim community self-named "Islamberg" just outside of Hancock, N.Y. Protesters traveled from Islamberg and from other states demanding that Doggart, a resident of Sequatchie County, Tenn., on Signal Mountain and a 2014 congressional candidate, be...

A Kingsport woman told police she was counterfeiting money because she read online that President Barack Obama made a new law allowing her to print her own money, according to a police report. Police were called to a local grocery store on Sunday night in regards to a complaint about counterfeit money. When the reporting officer arrived, he spoke with a gas station clerk who said that just prior to the officer's arrival, a white female had handed him a $5 bill, which he suspected to be counterfeit. The clerk handed the officer the bill and immediately recognized the bill...

Memphis, Tenn., city leaders unanimously voted on Tuesday night to exhume the body of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader who is buried in the city’s Health Sciences Park, and move him to a private cemetery, Fusion reports. According to the report, the City Council also voted to move his wife’s body from the park and to take down the statue of Forrest sitting on a horse that currently stands in the park. The action is just one of the more recent moves of city and state leaders pushing for the removal of Confederate...

Attorneys for 3 TN abortion centers argued this morning in federal district court that enforcement of the new state law mandating basic health and safety standards at abortion facilities would require “partial demolition” of their abortion facilities and a cost of “twenty to forty thousand dollars” at each location to bring their businesses up to standard. Pro-abortion lawyer Scott Tift urged federal judge Kevin Sharp to provide “protection from closing their business.” Tift claimed that the licensure statute could cause “irreparable harm” to abortion owners and called the pro-life law “disruptive, expensive and burdensome.” Meanwhile, attorneys from the TN Attorney...

Tennessee pro-lifers are confident that new state laws dealing with abortion clinics will be upheld in the court system eventually. During the legislative session, Tennessee lawmakers passed two pro-life bills. One called for licensing and inspections of abortion clinics and the second, about informed consent, ensures that women have information on abortion and its proven consequences and a 48-hour waiting period. Two abortion clinics have sued and a federal judge Kevin Sharp has blocked enforcement of the new law, says Stacy Dunn of Tennessee Right to Life. "Judge Sharp said that the enforcement of the law on July 1st would...

Senate Republicans concede they are not likely to have enough votes to overturn President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran unless they can swing a key Democratic voice against the accord. They’re setting their sights on Hillary Clinton, vowing to tie her to the deal in hopes of pressuring her to oppose it. GOP leaders need 67 votes to override Obama’s expected veto and keep sanctions on Iran in place. The administration has not yet announced an accord but lawmakers expect it to come soon. “It could be a good policy strategy. It’s not going to be hard to come up...

A man walking into a local abortion clinic is under arrest after protesters there said he pulled a gun on them. Bristol, Tennessee, police arrested Derrick Doss just before 10am Wednesday, outside the Bristol Women's Clinic on West State Street. Doss is charged with aggravated assault. Protesters said they approached him as he was walking into the office, and then he pulled a gun on them. Police officers said Doss told them he didn’t take the gun out of its holster, but he did get it from his vehicle because he felt threatened.