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Posted on 06/15/2014 12:56:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
Muslim Reporter Describes Being Ridiculed At The Texas GOP Convention Republican chairman: 'Would the state party ever condone that? Absolutely not.' By Jason Sickles
The GOP gathering first attracted national attention by fast-tracking a new platform that includes endorsing “reparative therapy” for gays. Some of the more moderate Republicans in attendance had hoped to address the matter, but the anti-gay topic was never allowed to come up for debate.
Now, a reporter who was covering the convention says she was targeted and taunted because of her Muslim headdress.
Heba Said, a senior at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the opinion editor of the school paper, The Shorthorn. The 22-year-old said she applied for media credentials and attended the convention hoping to share with her readers what it was like to sit in on panel discussions with delegates.
Instead, Said writes, “I discovered a cult-like hatred that is simply disgusting.” From her report:
As I walked through the halls, people stopped in their tracks and frowned and shook their heads at me. Panelists threw the word “Islamist” around as if it were perfectly OK, and one man even asked if I felt alone at a meeting. I was referred to as “you people” and “y’all Muslims” more times than I can count. The worst part was the way delegates looked at me, as if I were something to fear when I approached them.
“I did not observe any of this," said Steve Munisteri, Texas GOP chairman. “I never heard a single anti-Muslim statement, and I never saw any anti-Muslim activity.”
Munisteri said to Yahoo News in an interview that this year's meeting drew 10,000 participants, and that everyone was expected to "treat their fellow delegates and guests with respect and civility.”
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No doubt she wrote this piece before the convention
Maybe she was there as a liberal? That’s what the black legislators ‘heard’ the Tea Party folks say in DC, even though they never said it.
You would think a reporter would provide some evidence.
“Yahoo News” is a oxymoron.
This sounds like the typical “dirty trick”. The left will do anything to trash conservatives and stay in power.
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Her Tribal Headdress ?
I do not believe her.
Nearly all complaints like this, turn out to be lies.
Wow!
10,000+ comments at Yahoo on an article < 24 hrs old.
and most of them ain’t giving this gal much love
Sue her for libel.
She said:
"It is not news that Republicans don’t seem to like Muslims."
"It is no wonder that Republicans are so easily associated with Anti-Islam sentiments, the instigation of Islamophobia and outright hatred toward Muslims."
"My heart palpitated with the unnerved feeling I had just from the thought of attending a Republican convention as a veiled Muslim woman."
If I feel I have too many brain cells, I go to Yahoo for a few minutes. I can actually hear my brain cells commit suicide as I scan the headlines on Yahoo.
This is awful. Those people should be beheaded.
Well at least she didn’t get 100 lashes or stoned to death which is what would have happened in the Mideast if a Christian walked down the street with a bible.
No offense to Miss Said but if I see one lone Muslim in a sea of people I might be suspicious too. Looks like a liberal hit piece to bash Texas Republicans. It’s from Yahoo after all. The liberals want Texas’ electoral votes badly. They know if they can get them it’s the ballgame and they will have a virtual lock on the presidency for quite awhile, so the liberal assault will be in full force. How Texas goes, so goes the country......down the drain if the Lone Star state goes to the darkside.
from a FB page with the same name, maybe her maybe not, but if so, it looks like it only wears the thing on it's head when it wants too...
“I could feel their eyes raping me, before their eyes tied me up with ropes and dragged me behind their pickup trucks, while their eyes screamed ‘make her eat pork’! And their eyes did much, much worse than that. It helped that I could read their minds, and interpret what they were thinking as code for anti-Muslim hatred.”
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