[ponygirl]

About a year after 9/11, I had traveled several hours by air to visit my brother and see a big music festival. At the headliner event, I witnessed a musician take the stage and begin a diatribe against my country, my president, my religion, and on and on. The crowd cheered. I got up and walked out. I didn’t care how much money I had paid to be there, or the trouble I had gone through to do it. I wasn’t going to sit there and tolerate such BS. Just a short year prior, I had witnessed my co-workers fried on live television and then witnessed all the remembrances, candle-burning ceremonies, praying, and chants of “We will not forget.” What a crock. Less than a year later, they had forgotten.

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND why everyone in that crowd at the rodeo did not get up and walk out. I show horses. I know how expensive it is to prepare, to register, to travel, to stable at the event. I know how disappointing it would have been to someone’s kids to pull their show entries. But I would have done it, and the show manager would have seen the back of me with his/her ears ringing and gravel flying as I hauled my horses and my people the hell out of there.

It is my understanding (correct me if I’m wrong) that the imam was scheduled for a repeat performance on Monday, Feb. 2, which is “Military Appreciation Day.” Of all the ******* nerve! The FWSSR canceled the imam for that night, but has refused to issue an apology other than their disappointment at the rednecks misunderstanding their intentions and being so darned backwards and divisive.

This has GOT to stop while we still have a country left. Why are they infiltrating the rodeo of all places? Because the rodeo is as American as apple pie. If they can get a foot in the door there, IN TEXAS, OF ALL PLACES, the battle is halfway done. And from the looks of the comments at the DMN and the FB page, they knew they would get blowback and they were prepared. They are removing comments and if you didn’t know better, you’d think Texas was majority Muslim by now from the sound of it.

[roofgoat]

ponygirl, I have been telling folks here at FR that they need to stop with this false bravado “that stuff won’t happen here in rural XXXXX (pick a town)! The good ole boys won’t put up with that.”

The above is denial and naïve. America, even rural, is being infected with diversity, PC - whatever you want to call it. And NOBODY is standing up to it. Unfortunately, its easier to dismiss this as negative as opposed to factual observation.

Kids have been brainwashed for many years from schools and media and now men are a very different breed than they were in the past. I talk to younger men all over. Most are indifferent to what is happening right before their eyes. And many are just fine with things.

Have no idea realistically what can turn the tide.