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Muslims in Texas Walk a Fine Line After Garland Shooting
nytimes ^ | May 6, 2015 | MANNY FERNANDEZ and LAURIE GOODSTEINMAY

Posted on 05/06/2015 2:56:00 PM PDT by PROCON

GARLAND, Tex. — When Muslim leaders in the Dallas area learned in February that a provocative New York blogger named Pamela Geller had rented space for an exhibition of cartoons and caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad featuring speakers known for vitriol against Islam, they decided to ignore her.

They were well acquainted with Ms. Geller’s methods and figured that there was no point protesting and giving her free publicity.

“We don’t want to be falling for her tactics,” Alia Salem, the executive director of the Dallas and Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said to her colleagues. “She’s trying to bait the Muslim community.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islamofascism; texas
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To: PROCON
The NY Times in full outrage mode in support of Islamic terrorism. It isn't any surprise. What's in it for them is speech control over political opponents, and they think they're close.

People like Pamela Geller, they are fringe elements. They won’t be able to sustain themselves for too long, because what they are selling is lies.

It seems to me that two idiot terrorists validated everything Geller claimed and more. That's the real reason for the outrage - she called them terrorists and they proved it for her.

41 posted on 05/06/2015 3:28:32 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Moonman62

I haven’t heard anyone notice that the Obama has been silent on what is unquestionably (if failed) a terrorist attack.


42 posted on 05/06/2015 3:29:43 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Hillary:polarizing/calculating/disingenuous/insincere/ambitious/inevitable/entitled/overconfident/se)
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To: rrrod

Here Here! That was some DAMN FINE shooting on the part of that security guard. Damn fine. Texas fine. One Texan fired on, he knocked leather and dropped two critters dead. Damn! That’s how they do it in The Lone Star State.


43 posted on 05/06/2015 3:30:08 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: re_nortex

Agree completely.


44 posted on 05/06/2015 3:30:58 PM PDT by QuisCustodiet1776 (Live free or die.)
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To: meyer
I think that's pretty much standard procedure in Texas anyway, isn't it?

I dunno. I live in Washington State where they point and blame.

45 posted on 05/06/2015 3:31:52 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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To: Moonman62
Is anybody else exhausted from all the Muslim leaders denouncing the attempted terrorist attack?

Good point!

46 posted on 05/06/2015 3:33:08 PM PDT by Canedawg (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.- George Orwell)
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To: GraceG

These squirrels are easy to bait because they are so f****** STOOPID!!!


47 posted on 05/06/2015 3:38:24 PM PDT by Baltimore ken (Baltimore Ken)
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To: PROCON

I was surprised that the following comment was #2 in the NYT.

Gioia99
Virginia 4 hours ago

that’s correct: Free speech is not (necessarily) responsible speech. But the First Amendment to the Constitution protects heresy, protects blasphemy, protects all manner of insults that would make you angry as all get out. It’s not ‘hate speech’ to insult someone. This isn’t a close call. Making fun of religion is fare game under the Constitution. So is a lot of other truly obnoxious speech. If there is something to “American exceptionalism” .. this is most definitely it.


48 posted on 05/06/2015 3:42:50 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: PROCON

Then maybe they should rise up against these yahoos committing crimes in the name of their religion.


49 posted on 05/06/2015 3:52:11 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: dragonblustar; Gamecock; Larry Lucido

Chalk-outline guy is the best job on the Police Force.


50 posted on 05/06/2015 3:56:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: PROCON

Why is it that whenever Mooslims do something bad the press pretends Mooslims are the victims?


51 posted on 05/06/2015 3:56:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: PROCON

The fine line they need to walk is in Saudi Arabia.


52 posted on 05/06/2015 3:58:29 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Cruz-ing to January 20, 2017!)
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To: PROCON

They should all walk the fine line all the way back to Mudhutistan.


53 posted on 05/06/2015 3:59:44 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: PROCON

If you DO NOT understand the One Worlders’ plan to turn America into just another third world hellhole, watch — and share — this 4 minute video! If you’re too disconnected, disinterested or have drunk too much of the insane multiculturalism/tolerance/diversity Kool-Aid to help to halt this process and have children, please leave a letter behind for them apologizing and consider cremation lest they be tempted to dig you up in order to spit in your face for failing to preserve the birthright WE understood to be ours and for which scores of millions died to defend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PzT8vEvYPg&feature=em-subs_digest


54 posted on 05/06/2015 4:01:42 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Dick Bachert

If said children are not too busy worshiping God to engage in any such vain nonsense... they are part of the problem too, not part of the solution.


55 posted on 05/06/2015 4:03:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: PROCON
There is no reason we should hear ANYTHING from Bloomberg or the Bitchy Moms Demanding Disarmament in a post-Garland world.

In fact, all laws restricting gun ownership or carry should be repealed IMMEDIATELY in emergency legislative sessions across the land.

Every citizen should be armed and ready for an attack by ANY Muslim, because any Muslim who believes the Koran is a potential jihadi, and anyone who says different is deceived.

56 posted on 05/06/2015 4:05:04 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: PROCON

They better walk a straight line. For their own protection.


57 posted on 05/06/2015 4:06:58 PM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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To: PROCON
I don't give a shyte about muslimes in Texas or anywhere else for that matter. I salute Pam Geller for having the guts to defy these savages and not only draw their pedophile tin god but lampoon him to boot.

The argument against Christianity is that it is an oppressive, patriarchal, superstitious relic of the Dark Ages. That justifies its continued condemnation amongst the favored elite. But if those terms describe Christianity, how much more do they apply to islime?

Sauce for the goose has become sauce for the gander. Choke on it.

58 posted on 05/06/2015 4:07:26 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: PROCON

It is clear that muslims, like communists, are on their best behavior when they are afraid.


59 posted on 05/06/2015 4:07:31 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: PROCON
“People like Pamela Geller, they are fringe elements. They won’t be able to sustain themselves for too long, because what they are selling is lies.”

Name one lie.

Pamela Geller knows what she is talking about.

She is probably more knowledgeable about Islam, the Koran, Sharia, and the history of muslim violence and atrocities than 95% of the muslims in the world.

Anyone I have seen who tries to debate her on her beliefs and statements about Islam gets steamrollered by the facts.


60 posted on 05/06/2015 4:07:59 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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