Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, “Unity drives victory.”
That slogan, touted by the governor on press releases, placards, lanyards and even the elephant he procured to march through the convention hall, became a rallying cry for the state’s leaders and party nominees heading into November. If fractured, they warned, the party could lose the state to Democrats and their U.S. Senate nominee, Austin state Rep. James Talarico.
But in spite of that warning, members were willing to lose the support of Muslim conservatives.
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Hussein attended a panel from the Judeo-Christian Caucus moderated by Dr. Rick Scarborough, a former Southern Baptist pastor and the president of Recover America, an organization to engage ministers and pastors in politics.
Speakers told the audience that immigrants who don’t believe in Judeo-Christian values will erode those values and create problems for America. Scarborough accused Muslims of lying to win political power.
“You’re going to find Muslims that aren’t being antagonistic or mean, at least not publicly. But I’ll guarantee, if they get power, they’ll cut your head off as believers of Christ,” he said.
Hussein sounds like a dumbass.
Well yea, he’s a fucking republican
I have a hard time wrapping my mind around how stupid some people are
Radical Muslims have a lot in common with conservatives.
The commonality is how much they believe in the fervor of their religion and hate you for yours.
If you read osama bin ladens 911 manifesto you can see that conservatives adopted every last one of his beliefs except for the anti-ursury stuff.
They share many of the same hatreds but not always the same goals…
Halabi, a teacher, declined to say how she would vote in November, but said that she is a Republican and always votes.
They’re still voting. Are you?
What a fucking idiot. The GOP has been brazenly anti Muslim for almost 30 years, they’ve always been xenophobic.
But you see he thinks he is one of the good ones. Surely he will be accepted as the in group.
They’re just house slaves vs the field slaves to the republicans. Just as disposable, but somehow they think they aren’t viewed the same.
Literally what carried them to popularity after 9/11 was they siezed the chance to make the public irrationally terrified of an (all things considered) benign and innocuous minority. Their whole platform FOR THE ENTIRE 21ST CENTURY has been, “Fuck anybody who isn’t us, and that goes double for Muslims.”
In what should be a surprise to absolutely nobody…
Did he just sleep through years of, “Barack HUSSEIN Obama”? The fuck, bro, they put a stank on your name like that one canned fish that should be opened underwater.
Surströmming out here catching strays.
This is genuinely fucking hilarious
“They rejected me, called me racist slurs, and demand I get out of their country before… but surely this time, THIS TIME, they’ll accept me!”
“Unity drives victory.”
Yeah, they like unity, not diversity.
Uniformity.
first party cleansing… more will follow: blacks, asians anyone looking different and once that has been dealt with anyone who deviates one iota from party line… where did we see that? Oh right Nazi, USSR, China… funny thing their biggest scare is “communism” yet they follow the same playbook
I suggest they start having weekly struggle sessions.
leopards ate my sajjadah
My neighborhood has a lot of Bhutani and Nepali immigrants and when I was canvassing last year a surprising number of houses had the older generation as Republicans and the younger generation as Democrats.
Seems like a lot of people don’t recognize that they aren’t “in on it” until it’s too late.
It was just weird to me. I’m wondering how someone with limited English would make that kind of decision. What were their criteria? What did they base it on?
At the end of the day I blamed it on what I blame everything on: Reagan. These were Boomer age folks who remember the gilded 80s in US pop culture.
But I would love to explore it more deeply. Is being conservative common with immigrant parents?
I’m wondering how someone with limited English would make that kind of decision. What were their criteria? What did they base it on?
“Family values”, opposing abortion, limiting women’s rights…
You know. Conservative.
All the boomers I knew and grew up around, including my parents, fucking hated Ronnie Raygun with a white-hot hatred.
My boomer parents were the same.
We had an exceptional experience.
At the end of the day I blamed it on what I blame everything on: Reagan. These were Boomer age folks who remember the gilded 80s in US pop culture.
Don’t forget Marget Thatcher and the rest of 80s Conservative Ghouls.
They shoulda took the hint from how the log cabin republicans were treated.
They were on the other side with the others mocking the log cabin republicans.
“They came for the gays, but I didn’t stand up because I wasn’t gay and I didn’t like them either because my shitty bigoted Islam and their shitty bigoted Christianity told us to hate the gays, so it was okay, but the bigotry against ME is where I draw the line”
Leopards and faces.
I mean, really, do these guys not understand just what the Republican party truly is? Same for the conservative “movement”?
I think some of them are sincerely misunderstanding what the word “conservative” means in modern America.
It’s too bad “neo-con” didn’t stick.
There is ‘ein volk’ and Muslims are not in it.
Hey - I know Rick Scarborough.
He’s a bastard.
